Vita
Jacob Olley studied ethnomusicology (BA and MMus) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London (2007–2011). He completed an AHRC-funded PhD at King’s College London in 2017 under the supervision of Martin Stokes. His thesis is entitled “Writing Music in Early Nineteenth-Century Istanbul: Ottoman Armenians and the Invention of Hampartsum Notation,” and approaches the use of notation as an aspect of the intellectual, social, and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire. Jacob Olley has taught at SOAS, King’s College London, and the University of Kassel. He joined Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae in 2015, and within the framework of the project focused on the edition of Armeno-Turkish music manuscripts until his departure in 2020.