Walter Zev Feldman is a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music. During the 1970s he spearheaded the revival of klezmer music. Today he is a per-former on the traditional klezmer dulcimer, the cimbal, and on the Ottoman lute, the tanbur. Under an NEH grant (1984-86) he translated the seminal Ottoman-language Book of the Science of Music (ca. 1700) by the Moldavian Prince Demetrius Cantemir. His book, Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instru-mental Repertoire (Berlin, 1996) is taught as a basic text worldwide. In 2004 he co-directed the successful application of the Mevlevi Dervishes of Turkey as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity for UNESCO. He is currently writing a book on the music of the Mevleviye–From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes–for the Agha Khan University. Feldman has also published extensively on Ottoman poetry, especially on the “Indian Style” of the seventeenth century, for which he had received an NEH grant in 1999. His current research interests include the relation of rhythmic cycle (usul) and melody in Ottoman music. Since 2014 he has been a board member of the Corpus Musciae Otto-manicae (CMO) Project of the Wilhelm Westphalian University in Münster. In 2018 he had conducted the workshop “A Locally Generated Modernity: the Ottoman Empire in the ‘Long’ Eighteenth Century” at NYU in Abu Dhabi. His book Klezmer: Music, History and Memory, was published by Oxford University Press (2016). Between 2011 and 2015 he conducted field work in Moldova, Romania, Germany, Turkey, Israel and Canada on the interaction on klezmer and Moldavian Gypsy (lautar) music during the 18th to the mid-20th centuries, under the auspices of NYU Abu Dhabi. Feldman is currently a Senior Research Fellow affiliated with New York University, Abu Dhabi. In addition to the CMO in Münster he is on the Advisory Board of the Istanbul Research Institute. He is the Creative Director of the Klezmer Institute in New York.