Harald Kisiedu

Harald Kisiedu is a historical musicologist, author, and saxophonist. He received his PhD in Historical Musicology from Columbia University, New York. His writings have appeared in The Wire, The Grove Dictionary of American Music, and Critical Studies in Improvisation, among other publications. He has taught at the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, and the British and Irish Modern Music Institute Hamburg. As a saxophonist, Kisiedu has performed with Branford Marsalis, George E. Lewis, and Henry Grimes, among others. He is the author of European Echoes: Jazz Experimentalism in Germany, 1950–1975 (2020) and the co-editor (with George E. Lewis) of Composing While Black: Afrodiasporic New Music Today (2023). Kisiedu lives and works in Hamburg.