YARA SALAHIDDEEN
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CV

Qualifications

2018 - Present

DPhil Candidate
Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University
 
2015- 2017
MMus Ethnomusicology
Pioneers of Change: The Case of Munira al-Mahdiyya
SOAS, University of London

Awards

2020 British Forum of Ethnomusicology Fieldwork Prize.

2018 Ertegun House Scholarship


Work/Internships

2018 – 2019
Singing Instructor
Department of Music, SOAS, University of London
Mentoring 2nd year Music undegraduates specialising in Arabic music

2017 – 2018
Senior Teaching Fellow
Department of Music, SOAS, University of London
Teaching 'Music Performance’ module to Music firs year undergraduates
                                           
2015 – 2016         
Music Editor, SOAS Radio

2009 – Present                      
Soloist
Arab ensemble Oxford Maqam, www.oxfordmaqam.com
 
Projects

2016 – 2017                           

Music Producer
Documentary: ‘England Times Palestine’, Directed by Professor Caroline Rooney
 
2016 – 2016                  
Artist in Residence
Led a summer of workshops, training over 800 Ark Academy students in Arabic vocal form muwashshah culminating in a gala performance at the Barbican Centre, London.

Conferences and Talks

2020

Presenter, 'Cultural Politics of Tarab', Ertegun Seminar series, Oxford

2017                        
Co-presenter, ‘The Oxford Maqam Project’, Postcolonial Seminar Series
English Department, University of Kent

2017                          
Roundtable Panellist, ‘Egypt’s Living Heritage: Community Engagement in Recreating the Past’
Makan Egyptian Centre for Culture and Arts, Cairo

2016                    
Roundtable Chair, ‘Recording with a Phonograph’
Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum, City University, London

2016                      
Panellist, ‘Recording with a Phonograph’
Uludağ Üniversitesi Devlet Konservatuvarı, Bursa, Turkey
 
2014                    
Panellist, ‘The Oxford Maqam Project’
SHRQ: Symposium on Middle Eastern Culture, Prague, Czech Republic

2013                              
Panellist, Pre-concert talk, Operetta Majnun Layla,
City University London
 
2012                        
Performer, ‘Music and Cultural Texture’
Karadeniz Technical University State Conservatory's 1st International Music Studies Symposium, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey
 
2010                             
Performer, British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference
St John’s College, University of Oxford
 

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