1969-1971 SILVERMINE COLLEGE of ART, Silvermine, Connecticut

JANE LEWISOHN

The Old Chapel 55 High St., Eydon Daventry, Northants NN11 3PP United Kingdom

Tele/fax: 01327 263196 Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION

1969-1971 SILVERMINE COLLEGE OF ART, Silvermine, Connecticut AFA (Associate Degree in Fine Arts) June 1971. Painting. GPA= 4.0

1974-1978 PAHLAVI UNIVERSITY, Shiraz, Iran BA 1978, International Relations in Iranian Studies. GPA= 3.82

EMPLOYMENT

1969.1973 RENNE ANTIQUES, New York City. Responsible for buying, selling and restoration of works of art in the U.S.A. and Europe

1974-1978 TAUGHT ESL at Iran-America Society, Shiraz, Iran

1977-1978 INTERPRETER for Gestalt Psychologist, Shiraz, Iran

1978 RESEARCH ASSISTANT for a U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities-funded study of school girls in Shiraz, Iran

1979 SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATOR at the Boston Superior Court, MA, USA

1984-2003 Editor for KNP PUBLICATIONS, London, responsible for checking English translations against the original Persian, manuscript preparation, editing, and index preparation for up to 25 published volumes 1993-2005 WINDMILL ORCHARDS, Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, and U.K. Management of organically certified top fruit orchard

2004-2005 DIRECTOR OF FRIENDS OF AFGHANISTAN, an International Charity. Setting up computer labs in regional High Schools near Kabul, and arranging seminars for Kabul University’s Dari/Persian Literature Department

2005-2009 RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Department of Music, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

PUBLICATIONS

Flowers of Persian Song and Music: Davud Pirniā and the Genesis of the Golhā Programs, in Journal of Persianate Studies 1 (2008) 79-101

Flowers of Persian Song and Music The Gulha Programs. CD with liner notes. SOASIS catalogue No. 20 2009

Gulha-ya Avaz va musiqi-yi Irani: Davud Pirnia va aghaz-i barnama-yi Gulha. Trans. M. R. Purja’fari. Falzlnama-yi musiqi-yi Mahur No. 44 (Winter 2009) Tehran Iran.

PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES

January 2007 – “The Sacred Music Of Persia.” Paper delivered at The Sacred Music Colloquium at Windsor Castle

April 2007 – “Davoud Pirnia and the genesis of the Golha Programmes.” Paper presented at the third Bi-annual ASPS Conference in Tbilisi, Georgia

April 2008 – “Barnama-yi Golha va mobtaker-i an: Davoud Pirnia.” Presentation given in Persian, in Paris, France to the Iranian Society for Civilization and Modernization (Anjoman-i Tamaddon va Tajaddod) August 2008 – “The Golha Radio Programs (1954-76) and their Impact.” Paper delivered at 7th bi-annual ISIS conference in Toronto, Canada

October 2008 – “Flowers of Persian Song and Music: The Golha Radio Programs.” Paper delivered at the 53rd annual conference of The Society for Ethnomusicology, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

April 2009 – “The Importance of the Golha Radio Programmes.” Paper delivered at The Middle East and Central Asia Forum, Institute of Musical Research, University of London

June 2009 - “Islam, Female performers, music and modernization in 20th-century Iran.” Paper given at AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Program on “Performance. Politics, Piety, Music as Debate in Muslim Societies,” University of Leeds, UK

September 2009 – “Barnama-yi Golha.” Presentation given in Persian at the Asia House, London

Oct. 20, 2009 – “The Golha Radio Programmes and their Importance to Persian Culture.” Paper to be delivered at a seminar on “Music and Identity in the Middle East and Central Asia,” convened by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies and the Central Asia Forum, Cambridge University

OTHER ACTIVITIES AND POSITIONS

1979-2005 Worked in the voluntary sector with Iranian Diaspora community, doing counseling and interpretation work, helping to organize various charitable events and benefits

2008-2009 Academic adviser to the Toos Foundation for their tribute event to Davoud Pirnia and the Golha Radio Programmes GRANTS AND AWARDS

2005 – Grant of £1600 from BIPS for Pilot project for the Golha Radio Programmes project

2005 – Grant of £1600 from the IHF for the Pilot Project for the Golha Radio Programmes project

2006 – Grant of £59,913 from the British Library Endangered Archives Programme for the Golha Radio Programmes project

2007 – Grant of £3000 from the IHF for Master Classes in Persian Music at the SOAS World Music Summer School

2008 – Grant of $5000 form thr Parsa Foundation towards the production of the Golha Database website.

2008 – Grant of £2000 from DISMARC to produce the CD called “Flowers of Persian Song and Music,” a short selections of the Golha Programmes with liner notes

2009 – Grant of £100,000 from the IHF to make a website and searchable relational database for the Golha archive