The moral patronage of the Musiké Project is entrusted to
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Musiké International Advisory Scientific & Cultural Board
Meeting in the Cave is part of the Spanda’s Musiké project for conserving and disseminating the ethnomusicological heritage under the patronage of M° Arvo Pärt, with a high-level international scientific and cultural Advisory Board. The project is aligned with the UNESCO – ICH programme to safeguard the intangible cultural heritage.
The ethnomusicological line of Musiké is informed and guaranteed by a high-level scientific and Cultural Advisory Board composed of influential international exponents of the cultural and academic world. Current members of the Board are:
Laurent Aubert – Director, Ateliers d’Ethnomusicologie; Curator, Dept. of Ethnomusicology, Musée d’Ethnographie, Geneva, Switzerland.
Gregory Barz – Associate Professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, and Religion, Vanderbilt University, USA.
Joep Bor – Director Codarts Research, Rotterdam Conservatory of Music, The Netherlands; Professor, University of Leiden, Netherlands.
Massimo Bray – General Director Treccani, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome, Italy; Cofounder of the international music festival Notte della Taranta, Salento, Italy.
Chartwell Dutiro – Composer, musician, singer and ethnomusicologist. Founder and artistic director of Mhararano Mbira Academy, Totnes Devon, UK.
Kudsi Ergüner – Musician, composer, Paris, France.
Scheherazade Hassan – Research Associate, Dept. of Music at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK; Chairperson, Study Group for the Music of the Arab World, ITCH.
Keith Howard – Director, AHRB Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance, Dept. of Music at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK.
Nazir A. Jairazbhoy* – Professor Emeritus, Ethnomusicology Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
Kaoru Kakizakai – Musician, Lecturer at the Tokyo College of Music; President of the International Shakuhachi Kenshu-kan Chichi School and Nerima School, Tokyo, Japan.
James Kippen – Head of Dept. of Ethnomusicology, University of Toronto, Canada.
Ton Koopman – Conductor, musicologist, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Peter L. Manuel – Professor of Ethnomusicology, John Jay College and The Graduate Centre, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA.
Bruno Nettl* – Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, School of Music, University of Illinois, USA.
J.H. Kwabena Nketia – Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Accra; Professor of Music, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
Jordi Savall – Musician, conductor and composer, Bellaterra, Spain.
John M. Schechter – Professor Emeritus of Music, University of California, Santa Cruz, (UCSC), USA.
Tran Quang Hai – Musician, composer; Director, Dept. of Ethnomusicology, Musée de l’Homie, Paris, France.
Sarah Weiss – Associate Professor of Music, Yale University, New Haven, USA.
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