Jonathon Grasse, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
LCH A324 | 310.243.2382 | jgrasse@csudh.edu
Office Hours: MW 1-2:00 p.m. and Tue. 1-3:00 p.m.

Jonathon Grasse is an ethnomusicologist, composer, and music theorist with a Ph.D. from UCLA in composition with the cognate in ethnomusicology. His teaching areas include courses related to world music and music theory. As an adjunct professor for UCLA departments of music and ethnomusicology from 1999-2005, he taught world music theory, music of Brazil, and the complete sequence of Western music theory. Jonathon’s work as a theorist interested in diverse music cultures led to his involvement in the founding of the Institute for the Pedagogies of World Music Theories where he lectures on Brazilian and Indonesian music among other areas. He has published articles, book chapters, and book reviews with Oxford University Press, Illinois University Press, Cambridge University Press, and the Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology. Jonathon has presented his scholarly work at many conferences including those held in Rio de Janeiro and Japan. Since 2000, compositions of his have been performed by the Pori Sinfonietta of Finland, The UCLA Percussion Ensemble, The Los Angeles Flute Quartet, and the Elgart-Yates guitar duet, to name a few. Jonathon is also an electric guitarist for the Los Angeles-based improvisation ensemble Surrealestate with who he has appeared at the Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, San Francisco’s Luggage Store Gallery, Long Beach SoundWalk, the Jazz Bakery, and other venues.