Sara Fazeli
- School of Music
Sara is an ethnomusicologist and santour player with extensive experience in performing Persian Classical music. She is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Florida. Her current work focuses on the politics of sound in the Middle East and among the Iranian diaspora in the United States. Additionally, she holds a certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies and is conducting research on music and gender.
She completed her master’s degree in ethnomusicology at Tehran Art University, where she completed a two-year fieldwork project, including interviews and live performance recordings, focused on hybrid genres in Iranian music. She also worked as a researcher at the Music Museum of Iran, contributing to a project aimed at digitizing gramophone records. As an active musician, Sara has performed with the UF Afropop ensemble as a percussionist and plays santour with the UF Persian ensemble.
Website: www.sarafazeli.com