Faculty - Music
DR. EMMA ZEVIK
Adjunct Faculty
Room 410 Old Falaki
+20 2 797 6808
ezevik@aucegypt.edu
EmmaZevik.blogspot.com
Emma Zevik is a composer, filmmaker and educator whose creative works -- music, masks, and poetry -- have been enjoyed by audiences around the world -- from Boston to Beijing -- including a full-length program of her original works at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City. Performances and presentations of her work include venues across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
She was Visiting Professor, Music Composition and Musicology, at Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China, 1995-97. She is currently a member of the Creative Arts faculty at Lesley University and has taught at the graduate level across the U.S. and in Israel. Recipient of numerous awards and grants, she was a Music Composition Fellow at the Millay Arts Colony, where she completed compositions incorporating her first study of Egyptian music.
Most recently, she completed a fellowship at the Creativity Center at Northwood University. She established the Boston-based Circle of Creative Arts Inc. in 1984; as director of this nonprofit arts organization, her programs present interdisciplinary performances, mixed media, and installations combining music, art, poetry, and dance.
Active in music research, Dr. Zevik was awarded a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to complete music fieldwork in Sichuan with the Qiang people. She is now completing a 13-part series of documentary films detailing the struggles and challenges facing this "first ancestor" tribe in western China. Her first documentary film, Sichuan Street Songs, was screened at festivals in Toronto, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
Dr. Zevik was awarded a Ph.D. in 1992 and is a guest lecturer at numerous institutions, including the University of Washington, Wellesley College, Wells College, and SUNY New Paltz. She has presented her research in international conferences in such places as Hanoi (Vietnam), Tampere (Finland), Toulouse (France) and Nova Scotia (Canada). Among her publications are articles in Asian Anthropology (Hong Kong), Chinese Journal Music Research (Leiden), Shaman Journal (Budpest), and the ABC-CLIO Encyclopedia of Shamanism (California).
In 2000, Dr. Zevik was appointed Research Affiliate at Harvard University's Asia Center with the Fairbanks Center for East Asian Research.
