Baker Artist Portfolios

Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Peabody Institute, Dr. Ildar Khannanov  has received his professional education at Specialized Music School in Ufa, former Soviet Union, majoring in piano, music theory and composition, and at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, both undregraduate and graduate divisions, with degrees in music theory (with Dr. Yuri Kholopov) and composition (with Dr. Konstantin Batashev). Dr. Khannanov studied philosophy, ancient Greek language and had the field experience as an ethnomusicologist in Bashkiria. In the USA, Ildar Khannanov studied at UC Santa Barbara with Dr. Pieter C. Van den Toorn where he received Ph. D. in music theory. He also studied philosophy with Dr. Jacque Derrida at UC Irvine in 1997-2001. Dr. Khannanov is active in the field of  church music; he has the experience as the organist at the First Emmanuel Baptist Church in Baltimore and St. Paul AME church in Santa Barbara. Dr. Khannanov is especially interested in the culture of the spiritual and older genres of African-American church music. Dr. Khannanov teaches film music seminar at Peabody. His current project is in the area of music as it creates the conditions for the birth of the  image.