Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music
Ph.D., M.F.A., Princeton University
B.A., Amherst College
Theodore Levin is a specialist on music, expressive culture, and traditional spirituality in Central Asia and Siberia. His two books, The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York) and Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond, which won ASCAPís 2007 BÈla Bartok Award for Excellence in Ethnomusicology. As an advocate for music and musicians from other cultures, Levin has produced recordings, curated concerts and festivals, and contributed to international arts initiatives. During an extended leave from Dartmouth, he served as the first executive director of the Silk Road Project, founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and currently serves as Senior Project Consultant to the Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia, and as a chair of the Arts and Culture sub-board of the Soros Foundationsí Open Society Institute. He is currently working on a book on culture and development in Asia, and completing a 10-volume CD-DVD series, ìMusic of Central Asiaî, released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. At Dartmouth he teaches courses on ethnomusicology and world music, sacred music in East and West, and, in 2008, began teaching an interdisciplinary course on the Silk Road.
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