Marcelo Boccato Kuyumjian, DMA

Marcelo Boccato Kuyumjian, Lecturer of Jazz Studies, is originally from Campinas, Brazil. He received the DMA in Jazz Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was also a 2018-19 Graduate Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute for his dissertation “Performing Samba: Aesthetics, Transnational Modernisms, and Race.” He has presented his research at conferences of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Latin American Studies Association, International Association of Popular Music Studies, and Jazz Education Network. His work as a leader includes collaborations with musicians from São Paulo, New York, and Chicago, including Dana Hall, Clark Sommers, Geof Bradfield, Tito Carrillo, Diego Garbin, Bruno Migotto, and Cleber Almeida.