Jewish Music Course with Dr Alexander Knapp Spring Term (January--March 2009)

Spring Term - remaining sessions
Monday 16 March--The Sephardic World of Music
Monday 30 March--Jewish Music in China
Summer Term (June 2009)
Monday 1 June--Ernest Bloch Reconsidered (in the Jubilee year of Bloch's death in 1959)
Monday 15 June--Classical Music in Modern Israel

Alexander Knapp is a pianist and composer, and has published and lectured on the subject of Jewish music in the UK, USA, many parts of Europe, Israel, Russia and China. He was - until taking early retirement in 2006 - the Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. He has also held positions at Wolfson College, Cambridge, Goldsmith's College, The Royal College of Music and City University.