M i r i a m   G e r b e r g   -   B i o g r a p h y

Miriam Gerberg is an ethnomusicologist, music educator and world music event producer. Her research specialties include Moroccan and Syrian Jewish, classical Arabic and Turkish musics, World Music Education and Music in the American Deaf community. Miriam served as Co-Chairman of the Applied Ethnomusicology Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology
from 2002 -2007.

• Miriam is currently an Instructor in Music and Education at Inver Hills Community College, an Instructor of Music at Minnesota West Community College and an Instructor of World Musics at Hamline University in St. Paul. She has previously been a visiting Professor with the Musicology department at the University of Minnesota and taught at UCLA, St. Thomas University, McNally Smith College of Music, the College of St. Catherine and Lesley College (Cambridge, MA). Her teaching experience includes courses in "teaching world music" to music educators and ethnomusicology students, as well as music appreciation, music fundamentals and world musics to non-major undergraduate students. She spent four years as Director of Outreach at UCLA's Department of Ethnomusicology, developed World Music CDs and resource materials for the Minnesota Department of Education and has been on the artist-school residency rosters for the Minnesota State Arts Board Artists Roster, Los Angeles' Music Center, Young Audiences, COMPAS, Meet the Composer, Inc. and others.

• Miriam is also co-founder of the Minnesota Global Arts Institute, a new organization which serves to link and promote Minnesota global performing artists. She has produced large-scale Near East music festivals and concert series in St. Paul, Minneapolis and Los Angeles.

• She has also received grants and fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, Arts International, the Minnesota Center for Arts Education, Meet The Composer, Inc. Educational Grant Program, the Minnesota State Arts Board, Hamline University's Race, Gender and
Beyond Initiative, the COMPAS Community Arts Program, the Jerome Foundation, the American Composers Forum, The Brooklyn Opera Award, and an APPEX/Ford Foundation Fellowship.

•Miriam has studied with many master artists as well as composition & music education at the State University of New York at Postdam's Crane School of Music, Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University and trained as an American Sign Language Interpreter in St. Paul, MN.