CV/Resume

Dr. CHRISTOPHER G. BAKRIGES

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AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

Jazz (musicianship, theory, arranging, history, ensemble, performance), piano, M.I.D.I.

World Music, Ethnomusicology (transcription, analysis, field/lab methods, area studies)

American and non-Western Music History, Modernism, Traditional, Ethnic and Popular Music

EDUCATION

Ph.D. | Musicology/Ethnomusicology. York University, Toronto, Ontario - June 2001

M.A. | World Music Program/Ethnomusicology. Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT - May 1995

M.A. | International Politics and Economics. University of Detroit, Detroit, MI - May 1984

B.A. | Honors College, University of Detroit - May 1980

ADDITIONAL STUDIES

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Band Director's Academy, New York, NY- |  06/11             

Big Band Rehearsal Techniques

Institute on Pedagogies of World Music Theories, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO - | 07/10                                                                               

Workshops in musical practices of Greater Mexico & Native North American; the Akan of Ghana, nnwonkoro repertoire; batucada-type samba idioms; rhythmic cycles in Java & India; Middle Eastern modal systems; classical music & dance of North India

Thomas A. Dorsey Gospel Institute, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA- |  08/07
Classes in Conducting Gospel Choirs, Accompanying, Music Theory, & Vocal- Technique

Teacher Training Track, International Association of Jazz Educators, Manhattan, KS- |  01/01
Jazz in America: The National Jazz Curriculum, University of Southern-California

College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York |  08/92-05/93
Courses in orchestration, arranging, improvisation, big band, & studio sound- recording

University of Massachusetts, Jazz in July Program. Amherst, Massachusetts- |  07/90, 07/91
Studies with Billy Taylor, Fred Tillis, Max Roach and Victor Gaskin

Manhattan School of Music. New York, New York |  06/89-08/89
Studies with Harold Danko and Jaki Byard

Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont |  08/84-05/87
Coursework with Joel Chadabe in computer music

State University of New York @ Albany, New York |  08/85-05/87
Graduate work in international relations at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs