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Celebrating Ric Trimillos, Professor Emeritus

More than 100 former colleagues and students from around the world gathered virtually to surprise ethnomusicology leader Ricardo Trimillos, professor emeritus in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Music and former Department of Asian Studies chair, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. One of Trimillos’ legacies was starting the Ric Trimillos Visiting Distinguished Professorship in Ethnomusicology in 2017 with the UH Foundation.

The milestone birthday party also served to raise funds to bring a foreign scholar of ethnomusicology to campus for a semester. UH Mānoa Department of Anthropology Professor Christine Yano is one of Trimillos’ former students. Yano is spearheading the “80 for 80” with a goal of raising $80,000 within a year from Trimillos’ 80th birthday…

See the rest of this article by Mark Arakaki at UH News.

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