Edwin Seroussi
Israeli musicologist
Edwin Seroussi Bargman (Hebrew: אדווין סרוסי; born 26 December 1952 in Montevideo) is an Israeli musicologist of Uruguayan origin. He is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emeritus of Musicology, chair of the Academic Committee of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a visiting scholar in Jewish studies at Dartmouth College. He is the 2018 Israel Prize laureate in the field of Musicology. In 2024 he became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Biography
Edwin Seroussi was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. In Montevideo he studied violin with Maestro Miguel Szilágyi Pauer and composition with Héctor Tosar Errecart. He immigrated to Israel in 1971 to study at the Department of Musicology of the Hebrew University at the undergraduate and graduate levels continuing into his doctoral studies at the Department of Music (today the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music) of the University of California Los Angeles (1981–1987). Upon graduation he taught at Bar-Ilan University (1988–2000), transferring in 2000 to the Hebrew University. Parallel to his undergraduate studies in musicology he continued to pursue the study music composition with Prof. Andre Hajdu.
He founded and edits Yuval Music Series and is editor of the CD series Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel of the Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC).
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