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In the Bag - Cassandre Balosso-Bardin

Cassandre Balosso-Bardin is a musician and an ethnomusicologist. She is an Assistant Professor in Cultural Musicology at KU Leuven in Belgium, and has dedicated a large part of her research to bagpipes. Her MA explored the world of Bulgarian bagpipes, her PhD (SOAS, Uni of London) was about the Xeremies, the Mallorcan bagpipes, her postdoc at the Sorbonne looked at the movement of the bagpiper's arm, and last year (2022-23) she was a research fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she carried out an in-depth study of the museum's bagpipe collection, and updated the online catalogue for the 50-odd instruments, some in collaboration with other experts in the field. She is the co-founder of International Bagpipe Day, along with Andy Letcher, and is the founding director of the International Bagpipe Organisation. Cassandre is also a touring musician: she plays the recorders and the bagpipes and collaborates with a wide range of international musicians.

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