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Nuh Fikri SOYSAL, Professor of Music, Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University, Sate Conservatory, Taşlıçiftlik Yerleşkesi, PK:60100 Tokat Turkey.
His teaching philosophy
He is sensitive to students' backgrounds and goals in his courses and seminars. He aims to establish a connection with their personal experiences. He believes in a flexible teaching style. Every student can develop the ability to listen to and understand a piece of music, regardless of background. Every student is unique, and there is no one-size-fits-all teaching style.Some of his publications related the following topics:
• The Literary Meanings of Turkish folk music,• An analysis of the art aspect of Turkish folk music,
• Education of unmetered folk songs is one of the issues waiting to be developed methodologically in Turkish music,
• Notation of gazel in art music, kaside in religious music, and unmetered folk songs in folk music,
• Recommendations of Ahmedoğlu Şükrullah Çelebi, one of the music theorists of the 15th century, on voice health in the thirtieth and thirty-first chapters of his work "Edvar-ı Musiki",
• Determining the factors affecting the music preference,
• Early childhood music education
• Course books for Turkish folk music solfeggio lessons and publications on many other subjects.
• The single entitled "Kalktı Göç Eyledi Avşar Elleri," an artistic performance album, was released on digital music markets.
Research Summary Page:
https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp
https://www.gop.edu.tr/AkademikOzgecmis/1136/nuh-fikri-soysal
An artistic single album, (2020), Kalktı göç eyledi Avşar elleri, https://open.spotify.com/artist/4sqKTCy7oOOdy1Xt1VI5ZD
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpn70jc9vZQGdKquqhCvwcw
Rast Musicology Journal: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/rastmd/issue/57350
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0000-0003-3807-0154
Türkiye
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Nuh Fikri SOYSAL, Professor of Music, Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University, Sate Conservatory, Taşlıçiftlik Yerleşkesi, PK:60100 Tokat Turkey.
His teaching philosophy
He is sensitive to students' backgrounds and goals in his courses and seminars. He aims to establish a connection with their personal experiences. He believes in a flexible teaching style. Every student can develop the ability to listen to and understand a piece of music, regardless of background. Every student is unique, and there is no one-size-fits-all teaching style.Some of his publications related the following topics:
• The Literary Meanings of Turkish folk music,• An analysis of the art aspect of Turkish folk music,
• Education of unmetered folk songs is one of the issues waiting to be developed methodologically in Turkish music,
• Notation of gazel in art music, kaside in religious music, and unmetered folk songs in folk music,
• Recommendations of Ahmedoğlu Şükrullah Çelebi, one of the music theorists of the 15th century, on voice health in the thirtieth and thirty-first chapters of his work "Edvar-ı Musiki",
• Determining the factors affecting the music preference,
• Early childhood music education
• Course books for Turkish folk music solfeggio lessons and publications on many other subjects.
• The single entitled "Kalktı Göç Eyledi Avşar Elleri," an artistic performance album, was released on digital music markets.
Research Summary Page:
https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp
https://www.gop.edu.tr/AkademikOzgecmis/1136/nuh-fikri-soysal
An artistic single album, (2020), Kalktı göç eyledi Avşar elleri, https://open.spotify.com/artist/4sqKTCy7oOOdy1Xt1VI5ZD
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpn70jc9vZQGdKquqhCvwcw
Rast Musicology Journal: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/rastmd/issue/57350
0000-0002-9696-6605
Türkiye
Web
International Editorial Board
Scholar, media maker, performer, mentor and conceptualist. Inaugural Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Multimodal cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist with regional expertise in Turkey and the Northwest Amazon in Colombia. His research interests include theories of listening, media archives, contemporary healing arts, mimesis, and modalities of inscription. His work dialogues with contemporary debates about decoloniality, visual and sound/music cultures, and indigenous analytics of the person, space, magic, and technology. His multimodal work has been published in academic journals; exhibited at film festivals, art galleries, and academic conferences internationally; and distributed among local communities in indigenous languages.
He served as board member of the Society for Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), and he is an active member of the Center for Research and Collaboration in the Indigenous Americas (CRACIA), the Substantial Motion Research Network (SMRN), and an alumnus of the Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA at Penn). Apart from his academic career, he is a performer of Turkish Sufi Music, facilitator of a music therapy protocol, and pursues Arabic calligraphy and Ney reed-flute training under Turkish instructors.
International Advisory Board
Education
Ph. D. in Central Asian Literature (Uzbek and Chaghatay) from Columbia University, 1980. Dissertation: The Uzbek Oral Epic: Documentation of Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bards (1980).
B.A in Oriental Languages from City College of New York (1970).
Research Fellowships and Other Awards
Magowan Family Foundation (2017-18): “Interviews on the Klezmer Music of Moldova” (with Christina Crowder).
Westphalian Wilhelms University (WWU) Fellowship (February 2016): “Compositions of Tanburi Isak Fresco According to the Oldest Hamparsum Manuscripts.”
NYU AD Research Enhancement Fund (September 2014-August 2015): “Klezmer Music of Moldova.”
NYU AD Research Enhancement Fund (August 2011-December 2013): “History and Memory in the Traditional Moldovan Wedding Table Song (Cîntec de Masa), ca. 1840-1960.”
The Magowan Family Foundation, (2008, 2007, 2002-2004); Beit Shalom Aleichem, (2003); Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, (2001-2002): “Klezmer: Music, History and Memory.”
The Littauer Foundation, (2000): “The Klezmer Materials of Jeremiah Hescheles.
National Endowment for the Humanities, (1998-99): “The Indian Style in Ottoman Poetry.”
U.S. Department of Education, (1990-92): “Advanced Turkish Teaching Materials.” IREX, (1988, 1989, 1990, 1991): “The Uzbek Oral Epic.”
National Endowment for the Humanities, (1985-87): Annotated Translation of “The Book of the Science of Music According to the Alphabetic Notation” by Prince Demetrius Cantemir (1673-1723).
American Research Institute in Turkey, (1984): “The Philosophy of Music in Ottoman Turkey.”
Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, (1984): “Music and Zikr of the Sunni Tarikats of Istanbul.”
_______ (1983): “The Ottoman Lyric Form Murabba.’”
National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Research Institute in Turkey, (1983):”The Position of Traditional Art Music in Nineteenth Century Turkey.”
National Endowment for the Arts, (1978-1979): “Jewish Instrumental Folk Music.”
Employment
New York University Abu-Dhabi, Professor of Music (2009-2012), Visiting Professor of Music (2013--2016), Senior Research Fellow (2017-2019).
New York University, Department of Performance Studies, Part-Time Visiting Professor (fall 2008).
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (Rubin Academy), Instructor, Jazz and Interdisciplinary Department, (spring 2008-spring 2010).
Bar Ilan University, Music Department (Tel-Aviv), Part-time Associate Professor, (2004-2009).
Center for the Classical Music and Dance of the Orient, Jerusalem, lecturer, (2001-2007).
Yiddish Institute of Tel-Aviv (Beit Shalom Aleichem), lecturer, (2002-2003).
Artistic Director for Jewish and Related Music Programming, 92nd Street Y,( 2004-2007).
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Jewish Music Research Center, Fellow, (2002-present).
Visiting Professor, Bar Ilan University, Department of Musicology, (2001).
Visiting Professor, New York University, Music Department, (2000).
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Coordinator for Turkish and Turkic Programs, (1986—1998).
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Princeton University, (1985).
Princeton University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Assistant Professor, (1981-1984).
Recent Research Projects
Board Member of the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO) project, sponsored by the Deutsches Forschungs Gemeinschaft, under the direction of Prof. Ralf Martin Jager, Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster (2015-2026).
Languages
Spoken: Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh.
Research: Ottoman, Chaghatay, Persian, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, Uighur, German, French, Romanian.
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Bhavana Pradyumna is an accomplished Carnatic Musician and a Bharata Natyam Dancer. She is the founder President of Carnatic Conservatory of Paris, France (CCParis), an internationally recognised organisation promoting Indian Music and Dance. Having a Masters degree in Carnatic Music from the University of Madras, she has worked as an artist affiliate and Director for Indian music Ensemble at the Emory University Atlanta, USA from 2011 to 2014. She has introduced for the very first time Indian Carnatic music Veena and odissi dance at Jean weiner Conservatoire, Bobigny. The 9 year course provides Diploma from the Ministry of Culture, Government of France.
She works closely with the Indian Embassy in France and UNESCO through the permanent Delegation of India organising conferences and programs.
She is the author of revolutionary learning book for children called Children's Carnatic released globally on Amazon, Google in 3 International languages English, Spanish, French and Indian languages Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. Her project Bhagavad-Gita doodles is recognized by Embassies of India in France, Finland and Estonia releasing the videos weekly in their social media channels.
She has rendered many concerts in the last 18 years in India, USA, Europe and Africa being an All India Radio artist, Bhavana also provides Vocal support to Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi and Mohiniyattam Arangetrams and programs.
Bhavana has worked to design courses and Credit certification programs with institutions like SVYASA and Sivananda to promote Indian music. www.bhavanapradyumna.net
Few of her other publications are Approach to Music: The Indian way volume 1 and 2 in French and English, Raga & Yoga
She is awarded the Youth icon by the SIWAA and global achievers award 2020, Bharath Gaurav puraskar 2021
Scholar, media maker, performer, mentor and conceptualist. Inaugural Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Multimodal cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist with regional expertise in Turkey and the Northwest Amazon in Colombia. His research interests include theories of listening, media archives, contemporary healing arts, mimesis, and modalities of inscription. His work dialogues with contemporary debates about decoloniality, visual and sound/music cultures, and indigenous analytics of the person, space, magic, and technology. His multimodal work has been published in academic journals; exhibited at film festivals, art galleries, and academic conferences internationally; and distributed among local communities in indigenous languages.
He served as board member of the Society for Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), and he is an active member of the Center for Research and Collaboration in the Indigenous Americas (CRACIA), the Substantial Motion Research Network (SMRN), and an alumnus of the Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA at Penn). Apart from his academic career, he is a performer of Turkish Sufi Music, facilitator of a music therapy protocol, and pursues Arabic calligraphy and Ney reed-flute training under Turkish instructors.
