Garo Saraydarian teaches in both the Master of Music in Music Education program and the Composition and Theory Department at Longy. His research interests include marginalized pedagogical practices in education, descriptive inquiry, critical theory, digital humanities, pedagogies of place, Carnatic music, and the oud. Garo is currently working on several projects including computational analysis of makams in late-Ottoman printed music, an archive of Armenian folk music printed in post-genocide Beirut and Soviet Armenia, a solfege based web application for dictation skills, and the “Musician of the Month Project” which aims to have more inclusive representation of musicians in public schools.
Garo has published in Jazz Education for Research and Practice and is currently finishing a co-authored book on narrative writing in research which will be published by Teachers College Press. He is also a jazz trombonist and performs regularly with the Boston-based Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra.
In addition to Longy, Garo is a lecturer at MIT where he teaches musicianship and aural skills. He is also a preK-5 elementary general music (vocal and instrumental) public school teacher in Massachusetts. Garo holds standard certification in the Kodaly Method and Level I Orff certification.
B.A., University of California, Riverside (Music); M.M., Berklee College of Music/Boston Conservatory (Jazz Performance); ABD, Lesley University (Educational Studies).
