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Pantelis
Vassilakis received a B.A. in Music Composition & Technology from the
School of Music, Kingston University, Surrey in 1993, M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees in Ethnomusicology, specializing in Music Cognition, Acoustics,
& Aesthetics, from the Ethnomusicology Department, University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1997 and 2001 respectively, and a
Postdoctoral Certificate in Auditory Science from the Physiological
Science Department, UCLA in 2003. Dr. Vassilakis has composed for the English National Ballet and the London Chinese Orchestra and, since 1997, has been presenting at US national and international conferences, publishing several abstracts, articles, and book chapters and serving as reviewer for publications that include the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, the Journal of Comparative Physiology, the Computer Music Journal, and Oxford University Press. Recognitions include awards from the London Arts Board (1993), the National Training Council, UK (1994), and the Acoustical Society of America (1999 & 2001). He is currently teaching at DePaul University’s School of Music, and at Columbia College’s Audio Arts and Acoustics department, Chicago, IL, and is the Music Technology Specialist and Acoustical & Instructional Design Consultant for DePaul University. His research interests include cross-cultural dissonance perception, signal analysis, otoacoustic emissions, sound localization, musical aesthetics, film music theory, and assessment driven collaborative learning. Pantelis lives in downtown Chicago with his wife, Maria E. Vassilakis, a biologist (Goucher College) with a Masters degree in Nursing (DePaul University), currently working at Astellas Pharma, Inc., Deerfield, Illinois. |
