Engaging with Arabic Choral Music
2012-10-15
John D. Perkins
Though Arabic choral music has a long history in the Arab world, the non-Arab world is just beginning to engage with the genre.[1] I wish to open a discussion about t…Read More →
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