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