Presenters

(Listed Alphabetically)

• Ignacio Aguilo
• Gerardo de Armas
• Yuiko Asaba-Born in Japan, Yuiko won a scholarship to study at Wells Cathedral School, then obtained Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Royal Holloway. As Tango violinist, Yuiko studied with Fernando Suárez Paz, then lived in Argentina for four years performing with the National Orchestra of Argentina “Juan de Dios Filiberto” and at many Tango houses. Yuiko’s CD album “Historia del Tango…y Yo”, recorded in Buenos Aires, will be released in 2011.
• John Cowley is an independent researcher and writer and, since 1998, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London. He has published widely on blues and other urban and black folk music from the United States and, similarly, indigenous black music from the English- and French-speaking Caribbean.
• Frank Cudjoe-To 2009 Frank was a visiting researcher at the School of Geography, Leeds University. His main area of research was based on examining the diffusion of jazz in the USA prior to 1946. This led to looking at the diffusion of the music outside the USA  and though no longer at the University continues with the research.
• Fiorella Montero Diaz is a Peruvian PhD candidate at Royal Holloway –University of London. Her research looks at popular urban intercultural music fusions and their impact on the elites in Lima. She particularly focuses at the potential role of this genre and scene in the construction of social cohesion through inter-ethnic / socio-economic collaborations.
  
• Andres Espinoza (rumbandres@gmail.com)
• Juan Carlos Franco is a PHD candidate in musicology in Paris at the Sorbonne University.He holds a Master’s degree  in music, creation, music and society from the  University Saint Denis Paris 8.He is interested in jazz, identity, popular music, urban music.
• Helen Glaisher-Hernández- Helen  is a concert pianist, musicologist, pedagogue and programme curator who combines her two great loves – music and hispanicity – as a specialist in Iberican repertoire.  A graduate of Cambridge University and Trinity College of Music, her research interests include the Tango as interdisciplinary art form, the postcolonial dialectics of place and identity in Latin American ‘serious’ music, and the history of Latin American piano music.  She also works tirelessly as Chairwoman of ILAMS, the Iberian and Latin American Music Society, to promote Iberian and Latin American classical music in the UK.
• Stewart Hill, b. Derby, UK 1982.  Current distance learning ethnomusicology Masters student at the University of Sheffield but has been based in Berlin for the past four years.  Main research interests: Afro-Uruguayan candombe (in diasporic forms), significance of language in fieldwork practices, “Balkan” and “Gypsy” influences in popular music and their socio-political significances.
• Mark Hough
• Dr. Hettie Malcomson
• Sara McGuinness
• Gloria Medone-  Dr. Gloria Medone, from University of Oviedo (Spain), specialist in performance theory, has developed a generative theory for the analysis and evaluation of musical versions, which is now expanding into new styles in collaboration with different research teams, being the next Heritages and Musical Languages, at Paris-Sorbonne University.
• Sharon Meredith
• Sam Murray- is a Masters student at the University of Liverpool studying the popular music studies programme. His main research interests are in sustainability within music scenes, the non-traditional folk music of the city of Portland, Oregon and is currently taking an ethnographic approach to the development of songwriting and musical identity in the Eurovision Song Contest within the 21st Century. He is also the clarinettist for Leeds based folk-reggae band Me and My Friends.
• Zezo Olimpio- Brazilian pianist and Composer Zezo Olimpio studied at the Berklee College of Music (Boston) where he majored in Jazz Composition and Film Scoring. He then moved to the UK where he complete an MA in Jazz and Improvised Music with John Taylor and is now pursuing his  PhD at the University of York. His interests are in large jazz ensemble writing with emphasis in Brazilian rhythms and grooves. His works have recently been performed by the Yorkshire Jazz Orchestra led my Tony Faulkner and featured Louise Gibbs as the soloist.
• Daniela Rosselson de Armas
• Dr. Henry Stobart is Senior Lecturer in the Music Department of Royal Holloway, he is the founder and co-ordinator of the UK Latin American Music Seminar, Associate Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and former Committee Member of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. He studied tuba and recorder at Birmingham Conservatoire, performed with a number of baroque ensembles, and taught music in several schools, before completing a PhD (1996) at St John’s College, Cambridge focused on the music of a Quechua speaking herding and agricultural community of Northern Potosí, Bolivia. Following a research fellowship at Darwin College Cambridge he was appointed as the first lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Royal Holloway in 1999. His books include Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes (Ashgate 2006), the edited volume The New (Ethno)musicologies, (Scarecrow, 2008), Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives, co-edited with Rosaleen Howard (Liverpool University Press 2002), and the interdisciplinary volume Sound, co-edited with Patricia Kruth (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Henry is also active as a professional performer with the Early/World Music ensemble SIRINU, who have given hundreds of concerts and recorded on many European radio networks since their first Early Music Network tour in 1992. Henry’s current research focuses on indigenous music VCD (DVD) production, music ‘piracy’, and cultural politics in the Bolivian Andes.
• Shirley Thompson
• Dr. Christian Weaver