▼Profile
Current Position:
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Japan, 2013 –
Professional Experience:
Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of Fine Arts, 2014
Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Popular Culture, Kyoto Seika University,2014-
Full-time Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Kobe Gakuin University, Japan, 2008 – 2012
Part-time Lecturer,Department of Applied Music, Mukogawa Women's University,2012
Part-time Lecturer,Music Education Course, Department of Education,Kyoto Women's University,2011-
Part-time Lecturer, Department of Music, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, 2006-
Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Music, Osaka College of Music, 2006-
Part-time Lecturer, Department of Cultural Communication, Faculty of Human Environment, Osaka Sangyo University, 2006-
Part-time Lecturer, Department of Music, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Miyagi Gakuin Women's University, 2008/2010
Part-time Lecturer, School of Humanitie, Kwansei Gakuin University,2009
Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Osaka University of Foreign Studies,2006
Education
Osaka University (Japan) Ph.D: literature, 2005 Dissertation: the Concept of Improvisation in Iranian traditional music: the Performer's Mental State and Memory When Confronting the Improvisational Model
Kyoto City University of Arts (Japan) M.A: Science of Arts, 2001
Art University (Islamic Republic of IRAN)B.A: Music, 1998
Osaka College of Music (Japan)B.A: Musicology, 1995
Fellowship and Award
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Ministry of Education and Science of Japan, 2009-2011
Encouragement Award, Santūr Solo Section of the 1st Iranian Music Competition for Student, Tehran University, 1998
The 25th Hisao TANABE Award for the Book titled Music of IRAN; Orality and Improvisation, The Society for Research in Asiatic Music, 2008
Publications
Book
2007 Music of IRAN; Orality and Improvisation, SEIDOSHA, Tokyo,
Papers
2012 Verbal Rhythm and Musical Rhythm: A Case Study of Iranian traditional Music Indian and Persian prosody and recitation. Nagasaki, Hiroko(Ed.) Saujanya Books. Delhi
2008 The Function of Difficulty in Understanding: Towards a realization of one's incomprehension in understanding different cultures Japanese Journal of Music Education Research vol.37 no.2 pp.1-12
2005 The concept of improvisation in Iranian traditional music: the performer's mental state and memory when confronting the improvisational model] Journal of the Musicological Society of Japan｡｡ vol.51 no.1 pp.28-40
2005 Charkh in Iranian music: a paradigm of "circulation" in its performance type and musical structure｡ Journal of the Society for Research in Asiatic Music vol.70 pp.19-33
2003 The image of the sound that supports the existence of musical scores in Iranian traditional music Journal of the Society for Research in Asiatic Music vol.68 pp.1-12
2003 Towards a redefinition of radīdf in Iranian traditional music] Journal of the Musicological Society of Japan vol.48 no.3 pp.193-206
Conference Presentation [excluding those made in Japanese ]
2012 “Charkh in Iranian music: a paradigm of ‘circulation’ in its performance type and musical structure”, The Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, Durham University, Durham, UK, March 31,
2011 "Change in Context for Learning Improvisation: Influence of Mental Structure of Writing on Performance of Iranian Music" 41st World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, July 13,
2010 "The concept of improvisation in Iranian traditional music: the performer's mental state and memory when confronting the improvisational model", The Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, Oxford, St. John's College, April 9,
Associational Affiliations
Membership
The Musicological Society of Japan
The Society for Research in Asiatic Music
The Japan Music Education Society
International Council for Traditional Music
The Society for Ethnomusicology
British Forum for Ethnomusicology
International Society for Music Education
