Department of Music

Dr. Judith Choen is an ethnomusicologist and singer specializing in Sephardic music and music among the Crypto-Jews of Rural Portugal. She is the Spain Consultant for the Alan Lomax Recordings, and also works with medieval music, pan-European balladry, Balkan music and Spanish, Portugese, Yiddish, and French-Canadian traditions. She teaches at York University in Toronto. Recently, she was invited to Morroco to give workshops and concerts returning old Morrocan Sephardic songs to a small town whose longtime Jewsih presence is now only a memory. On Monday March 3, Judith Cohen will discuss her current research on folk music in Portugal from 3:30pm - 4:30pm in Harrison Auditorium.