John D. Perkins, Author at The IFCM Magazine

John D. Perkins

is a graduate of the University of Arizona (D.M.A. choral conducting), Temple University (M.M. choral conducting), and Westminster Choir College of Rider University (B.M. Theory and Composition). Currently, as an Assistant Professor of music at the American University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, he conducts choirs, and teaches choral conducting, choral literature, music theory, and collaborative musicology courses. In 2010 Perkins founded the Arabic choir Nassim al Saba, and started to arrange Arabic choral music for it. Perkins’s new orchestral arrangement of Lili Boulanger’s Psaume 130, Du fond de l’abîme and Arabic choral arrangements have been premiered in the U.S.A, Middle East and Southeast Asia. Email: jperkins@aus.edu

Begegnung mit Arabischer Chormusik

By: John D. Perkins

On: October 15, 2012

In: Choral World News

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von John D. Perkins

Obwohl die arabische Chormusik auf eine lange Geschichte in der arabischen Welt zurückblicken kann, beginnt die nicht-arabische Welt erst jetzt, sich mit ihr auseinander zu setzen Read More →