Team

• Jan Kuhr (Head of Department)  

• Carmen Sterke (Education Support Office)  

• Barbaros Bozkir (Coordination Maqam and Modal music across the Silk Routes) 

• Nils Fischer (Coordination Caribbean and South American Music)  

• Bárbara Varassi Pega (Coordination Master Tango)  

• Nina van der Heijden (Education Coordinator)  

• Claire Hell (Producer) 

• Niti Ranjan Bitwas  (Tabla and Indian Music Traditions, Tala)  

• Wobbe Kuiper (Theory of Music, Curriculum design)  

• Bárbara Varassi Pega (Global Music, Tango coordination, Community Projects, Researcher and Composer)  

• Juliano Abramovay (Global Music, Brazilian, Maqam Music)  

Caribbean and South American Music  

• Nils Fischer (Caribbean: congas, bongos, percussion)  

• Enrique Firpi (Caribbean: drums/timbales)  

• Martin Verdonk (pop percussion, batá)  

• Udo Demandt (Brazilian and Flamenco: cajón, percussion setup)  

• Maxim Zettel (Brazilian percussion)  

• Lilian Vieira (Brazilian vocal)  

• Sophie Nakou (Caribbean Vocal)  

• Connie de Jong (vocal technique)  

• Marc Bischoff (Piano, Afro Caribbean music, Transcription)  

• Luís Rabello (piano technique)  

• Elizabeth Fadel (Brazilian piano)  

• Thomas Böttcher (Cuban piano)  

• Carlos Matos (Caribbean piano)  

• Pedro Luis Pardo Cosme (double bass/bass/Afro bass)  

• Jesús Hernandez (Cuban guitar and Tres)  

• Daniel Guimaraes Montes (Brazilian Guitar, Arranger)  

• Marijn van der Linden (Brazilian guitar, Cavaquinho) 

• Mark Lotz (Flute)  

• Alex Simu (clarinet)  

• Rafael Pereira Lima (Saxophone)  

• Angelo Ursini (Brazilian Flute and Clarinet)  

• Bárbara Varassi Pega (Tango Piano, ensemble)  

• Santiago Cimadevilla (bandoneón) 

• Stephen Meyer (Tango violin, ensembles) 

• Wim Warman (Tango piano (major), ensembles, Tango Music Theory) 

Maqam Music and Modal Cultures of the Silk Road 

• Kudsi Ergüner (Ney, Ensembles)  

• Alexandros Papadimitrakis (Oud lavta, Maqam music theory)  

• Alper Kekec̨ (percussion, Ursul  rhythm theory)  

• Michalis Cholevas (Maqam and Modal music theory, yayli tambur,)  

• Alex Simu (clarinet)  

• Mutlu Kizilgedik (Anatolian music and bağlama) 

• Barbaros Bozkir (Maqam, and Modal Contextual Studies, accordion)  

• Burak Savas (Maqam Music vocals, Maqam violin, Maqam music theory)  

• Connie de Jongh (Vocal Technique)  

• Luís Rabello (piano)