
Gabriela Currie
2106 4th St S
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Gabriela Currie received her B.A. in musicology from the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest, Romania and her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University. Prior to her arrival at the University of Minnesota, she taught at the Eastman School of Music, New York University, and Cooper Union.
Her current research interests and publications concern music iconography and archaeology in pre-modern Eurasia; the entanglement of musical thought, instruments, and practices in pre-modern Eurasia under the theoretical umbrella of intersections and intercultural exchanges in early globalities; and early-modern European music ethnographic travel accounts (Persia, Central Asia, and West Africa). She has received fellowships from the Balzan Foundation, Fondazione Caripario, National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Association for University Women, and the Belgian-American Foundation.
Gabriela has presented at numerous national and international academic conferences such as International Study Group of Music Archaeology, Association Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale, International Council for Traditional Music, International Musicological Society, History of Science Society, etc. Her recent publications include Eurasian Musical Journeys: Five Tales (with Lars Christensen, contributor), published in 2022 by Oxford University Press, and numerous articles on subjects ranging from medieval musical cosmology to Eurasian music iconography and archaeology of the Silk Road and the Central Asian steppes.
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University, 1997
Specialties
- Global perspectives: historical ethnomusicology (pre- and early-modern)
- Eurasian music iconography and archaeology
- Early ethnographic accounts of musical traditions in Eurasia and Africa
- Intersections between musical and scientific thought in the early- and pre-modern eras
- Music and culture of the Balkan Penninsula, Western and Central Asia