Music Department Staff
Head of Department
Professor Richard Widdess
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Undergraduate Tutor
Postgraduate Tutor
Research Tutor
Lucy Durán
Lecturer in African Music
Music of the Manding Cultural area; the development of popular music in post-independent Africa; the interconnections between African and Caribbean music; Afro-Latin Caribbean music. Also teaches in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa. - Tel: 020 7898 4374
- Email: ld@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 596
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 3-5pm
Nick Gray
Lecturer in the Music of South East Asia
Music of South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali, especially music for the Balinese shadowplay, composition, improvisation, analysis, music and religion
- Tel: 020 7898 4686
- Email: ng18@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 505
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11am-1pm
Rachel Harris
Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology; musics of China and Central Asia, especially Uyghur; recorded music; music and ritual, music, identity and politics - Tel: 020 7898 4513
- Email: rh@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 513
- On Sabbatical:Research Leave 2012-13
Keith Howard
Professor of Music
Keith Howard is an ethnomusicologist, musicologist and anthropologist. He is particularly interested in how people use and talk about music, and his work explores music and religion, composition, education, preservation and sustainability, commodification and commercialisation, traditions, and musical futures.
He is the author or editor of 16 books and more than 100 articles. He founded the SOASIS CD and DVD label and was founder and licensee of OpenAir Radio. He writes primarily about the music and culture of Korea, though he has also researched and published on the music of Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Siberia, Thailand, and Siberia. - Tel: 020 7898 4687
- Email: kh@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 515
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11am-12pm, Fridays 2-3pm
Angela Impey
Lecturer in Ethnomusicology
Music of southern Africa and the African Horn (Sudan); advocacy ethnomusicology; sound/music, memory and place; forced migration, cultural mapping and borderland identities; human rights and development. - Tel: 020 7898 4433
- Email: ai6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 518
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Wednesdays 3-5pm
Ilana Webster-Kogen
Post-doctoral Fellow in Jewish Music
Ethiopian music; Music in Israel/Palestine; Biblical cantillation; migration and nationalism; music and gender.
- Tel: 020 7898 4243
- Email: iw4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 512
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11am-1pm
D Richard Widdess
Professor of Musicology
Head of Department
North Indian art-music; history of music in South Asia; Newar music; music theory and analysis - Tel: 020 7898 4685
- Email: rw4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 507
- Office Hours: Mondays 5:30-6:30pm / Thursdays 5-6pm
Abigail Wood
Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music
Jewish Music, especially contemporary Yiddish song and klezmer; the sounds of urban Jerusalem; music among minority and immigrant communities in Israel; music and religion; urban and internet-based fieldwork. - Tel: 020 7898 4243
- Email: aw48@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 512
- Office Hours: On leave 2011-2013
Owen Wright
Research Professor of Musicology of the Middle East
Music of the Islamic Middle East; historical musicology - Tel: 020 7898 4334
- Email: ow@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 503
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11am-1pm
Administrators
Musical Instrument Curators
Teaching Fellows
Carlos Chirinos
Senior Teaching Fellow
Studio Manager, SOAS Radio
Radio in Africa, Communication for Development, Music and Media industries. - Tel: 020 7898 4984
- Email: carlos@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 545
- Office Hours: By appointment, please email
Kadialy Kouyate
Senior Teaching Fellow
Kadialy Kouyate comes from a very large African musical family of dialis, who are well known in Mandinka history. Since 2005 he has been teaching the Kora to undergraduate and postgraduate students at SOAS.
- Email: kk55@soas.ac.uk
Nami Morris
Senior Teaching Fellow
Samulnori - "The Play of Four Things"
Nami received her Samulnori training from Korea's legendary percussionist, Kim Duk Soo, from a very young age. In addition to convening the course at SOAS, she teaches a weekly Samulnori class at Robinson College Cambridge.
- Email: nm60@soas.ac.uk
Research Associates
Scheherazade Hassan
Research Associate
Ethnomusicology, Music of Iraq, The Iraqi maqam, Music in the Arab World - Email: sh88@soas.ac.uk
David W Hughes
Research Associate
Ethnomusicology; music of East Asia especially Japan; Japanese folk and theatre music; music and linguistics; Indonesian gamelan and Javanese street music - Email: dh6@soas.ac.uk
Stephen Jones
Research Associate
Music of China, specifically Northern ritual and folk music, instrumental ensembles; music and politics.
- Email: sj15@soas.ac.uk
Trevor Wiggins
Research Associate
Ethnomusicology, Music Education, Performance, West Africa.
- Email: tw23@soas.ac.uk
