Dr Alexander Khalil

Irlandia

Dr Alexander Khalil is a senior lecturer in music and joint head of music at University College Cork. An ethnomusicologist and cognitive scientist, his work investigates the interpersonal temporal dynamics of music making. He is a cantor in the Greek Orthodox chant tradition, a student of the late John Mestakides, former protopsaltis (or “first cantor”) of Jerusalem. His doctoral research investigates the present-day tradition at one of its most significant centers: the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. More recently, he has extended his work to communities in diaspora.