Edwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre
Professor of Musicology and Director of the
Jewish Music Research Centre at Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. Since 2008 he has
served as head of the new School of the Arts
at Hebrew University. Born in Montevideo,
Uruguay, he immigrated to Israel in 1971,
where he earned undergraduate and
graduate degrees in Musicology at Hebrew
University receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA in
1987. He taught at Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv
Universities in Israel and has been a visiting
professor at SUNY Binghamton, UCLA,
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Wesleyan
University, Dartmouth College, Institut für
Musikwissenschaft in Zürich, Moscow
University, University of California
Berkeley, Boston University and Harvard
University. He has published extensively on
North African and Eastern Mediterranean
Jewish musical traditions, on Judeo-Islamic
relations in music and on Israeli popular
music. He founded the Yuval Music Series
and is editor of the acclaimed CD series
Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel.