MEMBERSHIPS

The College Music Society (CMS)
Jazz Education Network (JEN)
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)
European Jazz Research Network, Prague Conservatory of Music, Czech Republic
Arabic Music Network
International Society of Improvised Music (ISIM)
International Jazz Federation (IJF)

LANGUAGES

' Modern Greek
' Chinese (Mandarin)
' Spanish (Caribbean)

MENTORS

Piano:

Clela Pryor, DeWard Johnson Jr., Earl Van Dyke, Nadi Qamar (aka Spaulding Givins), Harold Danko, Jaki Byard, Billy Taylor, Frederick Simmons, Oscar Peterson

Composition:

Jimmy Guiffre, Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton, James Tenney

World Music Scholarship:

David McAllester, Mark Slobin, Su Zheng, Gage Averill, Robert Witmer, Brenda Romero, Beverly Diamond

African: Atta Anan Mensah

North Indian (Hindustani): Pandit Sushil Mukherje

South Indian (Carnatic): Vidwan Sri Ramnad Raghavan, Tanjore Vishwanathan, Sarah Morelli

Indonesia: I.M. Harjito, Sumarsam, Paul Humphreys, Victoria Levine, Aloysius Suwardi

Arabic: Munir Beken, Frederick Elias, Costas Maniatakos, Michael Gregiann