Shirish Korde

Shirish Korde (born June 18, 1945) is a Ugandan composer of Indian ancestry. He is the Chair of the Music Department at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has previously been on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music, the New England Conservatory, and Brown University. Korde studied jazz and composition at the Berklee College of Music, analysis and composition at the New England Conservatory, and ethnomusicology at Brown University.