Adjunct Professor of Music
Artist Affiliate in Composition
Chris Ferebee is a composer, musicologist, and plucked string player. He holds degrees from the University of Durham (BA, MA) and the University of Oxford (DPhil). A native Georgian who lived and studied in England for nearly a decade, his music centers on the people, stories, and landscape of Georgia as well as those of his adopted home of England. He was co-director of the Palimpsest new music ensemble at the University of Durham, co-director of the M@SH Centre for Experimental Music at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, and founder of the folk/classical ensemble, Floyds Row.
His research interests include the aesthetics and techniques of contemporary composition, ethnomusicology, medieval and renaissance music, English music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. He lives with his wife and two children in Rome, Georgia.