A protege of Maestro Daniel Barenboim and Professor Edward Said, Dr. Khuri, an Arab-Palestinian citizen of Israel, is a violin virtuoso who designed performance workshops that introduce Arab music to predominantly classically trained musicians as extended modes and genres. Born to a musical family, Dr. Khuri started his violin studies with Mr. Victor Yaacov in his native hometown Tarshiha. At age 10, he was invited by Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky (Royal College of Music) to join Keshet Eilon International String Mastercourse. At Keshet Eilon, Khuri was introduced to distinguished violin professors and performers with whom he studied, most notably: Ms. Osnat Yehieli, Professor Arthur Zisserman (Tel-Aviv University,) Professor Hagai Shaham (Tel-Aviv University), Professor Ani Schnarch (Royal College of Music), and Professor Haim Taub. He also attended workshops and masterclasses with violin virtuoso Shlomo Mintz and other esteemed faculty of Keshet Eilon. He continued his studies with Professor Moti Schmitt at Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (JAMD), where he appeared as a soloist with the university orchestra. In his late teens, Khuri joined the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and was offered a scholarship through A.M. Qattan Foundation to pursue a solo violin career as a student of Professor Mark Kaplan at UCLA. He toured with the Divan while studying closely with Maestro Daniel Barenboim and members of Staatskapelle Berlin: Violin with Professor Mathis Fischer and Professor Axel Wilczok, viola with Professor Felix Schwartz, and chamber music with Professor Matthias Glander. He pursued graduate studies in violin performance with Professor Helen Kwalwasser at Temple University where he also studied chamber music with Professor Charles Abramovic and Professor Sidney Curtiss and orchestral excerpts with musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra: viola with Professor Choong-Jin (C.J.) Chang and Professor Che-Hung Chen, and violin with Professor Luis Biava. In addition to violin, Dr. Khuri studied viola with Professor Choong-Jin (C.J.) Chang. Dr. Khuri graduated Magna Cum Laude with departmental honors from UCLA with a Bachelor's in Economics and Music Performance, and obtained his Master's degree in Music from Temple University. He received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 where he worked with Professor Carol Muller and Professor Timothy Rommen. While at UPenn, Dr. Khuri developed semester-long performance workshops that introduce Arab music to practitioners of classical music as extended modes and genres. Additionally, he taught violin at the prestigious UPenn’s Blutt College House Music Program. While in Philadelphia, Dr. Khuri led the inception and implementation of an award winning traditional Arab music concert series featuring a resident takht for nearly a decade. He is the winner of numerous awards and grants that include the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Dr. Khuri performs on a violin made at the workshop of Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, an early twentieth century German violin, and a viola made at the Workshop of John Betts. He currently resides with his wife in Newark's Pike Creek area.