
Nalini Ghuman
Darius Milhaud Professor of Music
2025 Outstanding Teacher of the Year
510.430.2332
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Education
BA, The Queens College, Oxford
MA, The Queens College, Oxford
MMUS, King’s College, University of London
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Professional Interests
Nineteenth- and 20th-century Western classical music and opera; solo and chamber piano performance; ethnomusicology (particularly North Indian vocal music and Welsh folk music); cultural studies; post-colonial perspectives on musical orientalism, nationalism, and cross-cultural musical exchange