Nikolai Ruskin

Nikolai Ruskin. Photo: Nahara Ruskin

Ruskin is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with expertise in Arab, Turkish, and Persian music. Specializing in percussion, oud, and nay, Ruskin also performs and records on qanun, violin, rababa, mizmar, saz and many more. Although he is mainly self-taught, he has studied with Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Bassam Saba, Georges Lammam, and Professor Ali Jihad Racy. Ruskin is Music Director of the Cornell Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, which he co-founded in 2002.

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Folk / Traditional Arts, Music, Composer, Instrumentalist, Traditional / Culturally Specific