Robert Labaree

Robert Labaree is an ethnomusicologist and performer specializing in Turkish music, with writings on improvisation, Ottoman-European musical interactions, and music and biology. He is faculty emeritus in musicology at New England Conservatory, where he has taught since 1984. In 1993, he founded the conservatory’s Intercultural Institute and in 2013, the conservatory’s Music in 2050 Forum. He holds a PhD in musicology from Wesleyan University.