Mark Hijleh, currently Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Music at Houghton College (NY), has taught music theory and composition for over 20 years. Author of “Towards a Global Music Theory: Practical Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Music Across Human Cultures” (Ashgate, 2012), he holds degrees in composition, conducting and world music from The University of Sheffield, the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, Ithaca College and William Jewell College. Hijleh has written about and presented on world music theory through the College Music Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music, and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. An active composer and conductor, Hijleh also studied shakuhachi with Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldi.