Jeryl Johnston

Phd Student, Music

Fulbright US Student Program

Jeryl is a Brooklyn based composer, performer, teacher and researcher with a portfolio encompassing projects for large and small straight ahead and Latin jazz ensembles, West African diasporic percussion ensembles, chorus, electronics, orchestra, wind ensemble and chamber groups. Currently, she teaches jazz arranging and other courses at CUNY Brooklyn College and pursues a PhD in critical music studies as a Graduate Council Fellow at SUNY Stony Brook, with research interests in timeline music, especially Yoruba and Lucumi Bata, and in tertiary music composition pedagogy.

Through the Fulbright Research award she hopes that her research in Lagos and Ibadan will help create connections between Nigerian Yoruba, Cuban Lucumi, and American musicians, both academic and practicing, between composers, researchers, teachers, and performers.

Jeryl is also a part of Graduate Council Fellowship on campus.