Born to a musical family, Palestinian-Israeli violinist Hanna Khuri started his violin studies in his native hometown Tarshiha with Mr. Victor Yaacov. At age 10 he was invited by Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky (Royal College of Music) to join Keshet Eilon International String Mastercourse where he 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, Dr. Khuri joined the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Under the recommendation of Itzhak Rashkovsky, Professor Edward Said, and Maestro Daniel Barenboim, Dr. Khuri won the A.M. Qattan Foundation grant to pursue a solo violin career as a student of Professor Mark Kaplan at UCLA. He toured with the Divan while working 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 classical music, Dr. Khuri is a performer of traditional Arab music, an area that is typically found on the margins of Ethnomusicology. In 2011, Dr. Khuri joined the PhD program in Ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania with the objective of designing performance workshops that introduce Arab music in university setting. At UPenn, he worked closely with Dr. Carol Muller and Dr. Timothy Rommen while leading two performance groups. In the following years, he developed a number of semester-long experiential Arab music performance workshops while teaching violin at the prestigious Blutt College House Music Program. These ethnomusicology workshops build on Dr. Khuri's extensive work with performers of classical and traditional Arab music. Most notably, Dr. Khuri directed an award winning concert series that present traditional Arab music with a resident takht. This concert series featured 40 productions that received numerous awards, including: the Knight Foundation, the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Takreem Award from her majesty Queen Rania, the National Endowment of the Arts to name a few.

           A winner of the A.M. Qattan Foundation grant and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Dr. Khuri is an advocate of a just two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. On this note,  Dr. Khuri partnered with Virtuoso cellist Ohad Bar David of the Philadelphia Orchestra on many projects that include performances in Palestine and Israel: the Nativity Church in Bethlehem, a concert in Khuri's hometown Tarshiha, a concert at Rabin Center and many concerts in Europe, the U.S., and Canada. He recorded the Beethoven Cycle with maestro Barenboim and the Divan Orchestra and he is currently working to record the Bach Sonatas and Partitas, Paganini's 24 Caprices, and Ysaye Sonatas for Solo Violin. 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. Dr. Khuri graduated Magna Cum Laude with departmental honors from UCLA with a Bachelor's in Economics and Music Performance. He obtained his Master's degree in Music from Temple University, and a PhD in Ethnomusicology in 2018. 

          A fun fact about Dr. Khuri: Before starting an appointment as Professor of Classical Violin and Director of the Arab Music Performance Workshop, he decided to take a break to focus on his playing and to study Esthetics at La' James International College. Nestled in the beautiful town of Davenport, IA, this specialized school is a leader in health and beauty. Dr. Khuri is the school's first male Esthetician.  He lives with his wife who is a professor at Augustana College.