Aida Huseynova

Aida Huseynova, Ph.D. is a musicologist from Azerbaijan currently teaching at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Since 2006, Huseynova has served as a research advisor and interpreter for the Silk Road Project under the artistic direction of Yo-Yo Ma. She has toured with the Silk Road Ensemble throughout the United States as well as in Canada, France, and Qatar, giving pre-concert talks and participating in workshops. In June 2009, Huseynova was the consultant for the live broadcast of Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at the Lincoln Center. she has also served in the capacity of a research advisor and interpreter for a number of projects carried out by the Aga Khan Music Initiative.

Huseynova's books, articles, and multimedia projects have been published in Azerbaijan, the United States, Germany, France, The Netherlands, and Russia. She has presented lectures on many campuses in the United States and Europe, including Indiana, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Berkeley, Stanford, Ohio State, Northwestern, Purdue Universities, University of Chicago, and Wisconsin-Madison, Dartmouth College as well as at Cambridge and York Universities in the United Kingdom.

Huseynova is the author of the educational DVDs “Music and Culture of Azerbaijan,” coauthor of “Music and Culture of Kyrgyzstan” and editor of “Music and Culture of Mongolia” produced with the support of the Indiana University Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center.

In 2006, Huseynova was a "musicologist-in-residence" at the International Festival and Symposium of Contemporary Music's "Icebreaker III: The Caucasus" in Seattle. In 2005, she was a member of the Advisors' Committee at the Sixth Annual San Francisco World Music Festival.

Huseynova is a member of the Composers' Union of Azerbaijan and holds the position of the Secretary General of the National Music Council of Azerbaijan. Her awards include a Fulbright Fellowship (2007-08) and a fellowship from the Junior Faculty Development Program (2001-02) sponsored by the U.S. State Department.