The Institute of Musicology

Team

Dr. Joel Rubin

Assoziierter Professor für Musik an der University of Virginia (Adjunct Researcher), Musikethnologe

E-Mail: joel.rubin@faculty.unibe.ch

Faculty Appointments

Faculty Appointments
2021-present	Adjunct Researcher at the University of Bern, Institute of Musicology and Institute of Jewish Studies
2012-2021	Associate Professor of Music/Director of Music Performance, McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia; Director, University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble; Jewish Studies Faculty
2006-2012	Assistant Professor of Music/Director of Music Performance, McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia; Director, University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble; Jewish Studies Faculty.
2005-2006	Lecturer (Jewish Studies, Ethnomusicology; Spring 2006), Ithaca College; Director, Syracuse University Klezmer Ensemble (Spring 2006)
2004-2005	Assistant Professor (Jewish Studies, Ethnomusicology, Clarinet; Spring 2005 sabbatic replacement), Ithaca College
2004-2006	Rothman Family Visiting Lecturer in Judaic Studies (and Ethnomusicology), Syracuse University; Visiting Scholar, Cornell University Society for the Humanities.
2003-2006	Founder and director, Cornell University Klezmer Ensemble; Consultant and clarinetist, Cornell Mid East Ensemble.
2003-2004	Mellon Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cornell University, Society for the Humanities/Department of Music (Ithaca, NY); Curator, Yiddish music and theater film series, Cornell University
2003	Lecturer, Humboldt Universität, Department of Musicology (Berlin)
1991-1996	Instructor (music, theater, film), Victor Gollancz College, Berlin
1980-1982	Adjunct faculty, clarinet, Portland State University and University of Portland, Oregon

Education

Education
1995-2001	Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, City University, London; Dissertation: The Art of the Klezmer: 'Improvisation and Ornamentation in the Commercial Recordings of New York Clarinettists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras 1922–1929' (academic advisor: Dr. Steve Stanton; external examiner: Professor Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago; internal examiner: Dr. Gerry Farrell).
1990-1991	Freie Universität Berlin; ethnomusicology and Slavic studies
1984-1991	Portland State University, Portland, Oregon; post-baccalaureate studies in preparation for the CPA examination (May 1986)
1975-1978	School of Music, State University of New York, College at Purchase; Bachelor of Fine Arts, June, 1978; clarinet studies with Kalmen Opperman; music theory with Robert Levin
1973-1975	School of Music, California Institute of the Arts; clarinet studies with Richard Stoltzman, Michele Zukovsky

Books / Monographs

New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras. University of Rochester Press, Eastman/Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology, 2020.
Jüdische Musiktraditionen (Jewish Musical Traditions), with Rita Ottens. Gustav Bosse Verlag, 2001.
Klezmer-Musik, with Rita Ottens. Bärenreiter and dtv, 1999.
Mazltov! Jewish-American Wedding Music for Clarinet. Schott Musik International, 1998.
Kol Rino. Die Stimme des Jubels (The Voice of Jubilation), I-III. Jüdische und israelische Musik in der Schule. Handreichung für den Musikunterricht (Jewish and Israeli Music in the Schools. Manual for Music Instruction), with Rita Ottens. Berlin: Ministry of Schools, Youth and Sports, 1998.

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