Macedonian Musical Fusions Today: Folk, Jazz, Brass, and More

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Balkan Music Ensemble Speaker Series presents:

Macedonian Musical Fusions Today: Folk, Jazz, Brass, and More

Dr. Dave Wilson, New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī, Victoria University of Wellington

RSVP and request Zoom link: josephalpar@bennington.edu

Dave Wilson is a musician, composer, and ethnomusicologist. He has worked in jazz, commercial music, and film music as a performer, arranger, and composer, with work including compositions for chamber, orchestral, big band, and small jazz ensembles. His interests as a scholar include how music and sound relate to nationalism, belonging, social change, intangible cultural heritage, the construction of social space, and the nature of scenes. He is co-author, with Timothy Rice, of the music appreciation textbook Gateways to Understanding Music (Routledge, 2019), and his writing has also appeared in Music & Politics, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Commoning Ethnography, Arts, Ethnomusicology Review, and Journal of World Popular Music. Wilson is lecturer in the Music Studies program at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music, where his teaching primarily focuses on histories, cultures, and practices related to jazz and improvisation.

For more information, please visit his Website.