Dr. Michael Tenzer, B.A. (Yale), Ph.D. (Calif., Berkeley)
Professor, Ethnomusicology

Office: 604.822.3405, Room: Mary Bollert Hall 201
Email: michael.tenzer(at)ubc.ca
Website: www.michaeltenzer.com

Michael Tenzer is a musician whose interests span the globe and whose dedicated achievements cover all of the kinds of things musicians do: performance, composition, research, teaching and mentoring, analyzing, thinking and writing about music, promoting interest in the world's finest musics, and envisioning what can be done to best shape our future world of music.

Tenzer was mainly self-taught until he studied music at Yale University (BA 1978), and then completed a PhD in music composition at University of California, Berkeley (1986). Since 1977 he has also lived on and off for five years in Bali, Indonesia, studying gamelan traditions. In 1988-89 he learned drumming and singing in South India.From 1986-1996 he taught music theory and composition at Yale, and since 1996 has been professor of music at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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