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Dr. Scott Marcus
Scott is the founder and director of the UCSB Middle East Ensemble and teaches in the Music Department at UCSB. He studied Middle Eastern music at UCLA and in Cairo, Egypt.

Susan Rudnicki
Sue has lead the percussion section since the founding of the Ensemble in 1989. She has studied Arabic drumming with Souhail Kaspar, Persian drumming with Mehrdad Arabifard and Siamak Pouian, the Armenian d'hol with Sarkis Petrossian, and the Uzbek doire with Tolkin Isakov.

MEE playing live

The Ensemble
Strings
'Ud
Voula Aldrich
John Caprara
Nareg Djabrayan
Keenan Moore
Philip Murphy
Tareh Raheem
Sabina Saib
Violin/Viola
Morgan Benedict
Joshua Bouganim
Lillie Gordon
Anna Hennessey
Peggy Oki
Rachel Phillips
Jared Stein
Sachiyo Yoshimoto
Qanun
Jim Grippo  
Cumbuş
Eric Ederer
 
Guitar/Bass
Geoffrey Boynton

Santur
Bahram Osqueezadeh
Areo Saffarzadeh
Accordian Chris Hampton
Winds
Nay
Andrea Harris
Richard Johnson
Scott Marcus
Dan Reyna
Kristen Tucker
Malia Wieczorek
Clarinet
Kara Attrep
Nancy Capelle

Kateri McLucas
Sax Colter Frazier
Percussion
Lead Darbuka,Dohl, Tombak Sue Rudnicki
Darbuka
Allie Baldassari
Sonia Fernandez
Linda Galindo
Pete Khooshabeh
Ari Marcus
Ziyad Marcus
Mike Marks
Will McClintock
Allegra O'Donoghue
Shirly Solaiki
Shane Thompson
Tomas
Patricia Zavala


Riqq/Frame Drum
Michael Benedict
Magda Campo
Andrea Fishman
Shirley Wood Force
Linda Galindo
Judy Piazza
Rob Wallace

Tabla
Sean Anderson Ian Slater
Chorus
 
Cecilia Arredondo
Monica Dedhia
Viva Rose Horowitz
Julie Huniu
Marysia Kosowski
Eric McAnlis
Ihsan Saib
Qing Zheng
Ruth Zhou

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    Contact UCSB MEE
Dr. Scott Marcus c/o Music Department
UCSB - University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
To inquire about booking the UCSB MEE for an event,
please contact Scott Marcus at
E-mail: scottmarcu@aol.com
Phone (805) 893-3261 or (home) (805) 967-7125
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