Eric Galm is Assistant Professor of music and ethnomusicology, where he is the coordinator of the music track at the Trinity in Trinidad Global Learning Site. He directs the Trinity Samba Ensemble, which has performed throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts, and at the Intercollegiate Festival of African Music and Arts at Tufts University in Boston. He has lived, studied and traveled extensively throughout Brazil, and has conducted research in Cuba and Trinidad. He holds degrees in ethnomusicology/world music from Wesleyan and Tufts universities, a degree in percussion performance from the University of Michigan, and performance certificates from the Escola Brasileira de Música and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. His awards include a Fulbright fellowship for research in Brazil, and the Marilla McDill Prize for Teaching Excellence at the Community Music Center of Boston, and he has received course development grants from the Mellon Foundation and Trinity College’s Community Learning Initiative. His publications include “Baianas, Malandros and Samba: Listening to Brazil Through Donald Duck’s Ears,” a chapter in Global Soundtracks (Wesleyan Press forthcoming) edited by ethnomusicologist Mark Slobin, and articles about Brazilian percussion instruments in the Garland Encyclopedia of Percussion (Routledge forthcoming), and the Virtual Instrument Museum (Wesleyan University).
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Listen to Samba Ensemble Excerpts Below: