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

Comprendre la Musique Chorale Arabe

By: John D. Perkins

On: October 15, 2012

In: Choral World News

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par John D. Perkins

Bien que la musique chorale arabe ait une longue histoire dans le monde arabe, le monde non-arabe commence seulement à découvrir ce genre.[1] J’aimerais lancer un déba…Read More →