In 2007 she visited the People’s Republic of China, where she performed at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the Tianjin Conservatory, and Southgate Space in the famous 789 Arts District in Beijing. In 2009 she and Brian toured Pakistan under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of State, with concert and radio and television appearances in Karachi, Islamabad, and Lahore, and in January 2010 she performed at the Museum of Man in Bhopal, India.

Washington Post: "The Music Soars. . . . The most vibrant element of the production, without question, is the trio of terrific musicians."

Washington Post review of 06.24.07 concert at Gandhi Memorial Center

He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and has taught Urdu language and literature, Indian music, South Asian culture, and world and contemporary American music at the University of Minnesota, the University of Chicago, Harvard University, Duke University, and most recently at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He has also lectured at a wide range of colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad, and has written in a variety of forms, on South Asian, Iranian, and Middle Eastern music and musical culture.

In the summer of 2006, he composed and performed original incidental music for, and appeared in a minor acting role in, the Washington Shakespeare Theatre’s eight-week production of Love’s Labor’s Lost in the Landsburg Theatre in Washington; in a subsequent ten-day run at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon; and in a final series of performances in 2007 at the Carter-Barron Amphitheatre as part of Washington’s “Shakespeare in the Park.”

His 2007 tour of the Peoples Republic of China involved lectures and concerts at the Central Conservator of Music in Beijing and the Tianjin Conservatory; collaborative performances with the Guqin player Wu Na, members of the Panjir Trio, and the throat singer Xue Ting; and a final concert at Southgate Space in the famous 789 Arts District in Beijing. In 2009, he and Shubha toured Pakistan under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of State, with concert and radio and television appearances in Karachi, Islamabad, and Lahore, and in January 2010, his performance concluded the four-day Pratishruti Festival at the Museum of Man in Bhopal, India.

In the summer of 2007, after nearly 21 years of Chief the Voice of America's Urdu Service in Washington, he was appointed Ethnomusicologist and World Music Curator in order to work toward fulfilling new VOA priorities. He is also founder and Executive Director of International Music Associates, which will celebrate its 30th Anniversary in 2012. I.M.A.’s clients have included Independent Broadcasting Associates, for which he served as senior music consultant for two major award-winning NPR series—the ten-part "World of Islam", and the ten-part "Passages to India"; the New York Public Library and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as curator for the major Festival of India exhibition, "India: The Performing Arts"; the television series "Smithsonian World", for which he did the soundtrack for the PBS television film, "Islam"; a variety of recording companies; and the Arthur M. Sackler and Freer Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. In addition, I.M.A. has arranged major U.S. tours for the late Ustad Ghulamhusain Khan, the late Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ustad Imrat Khan, and Ustad Asad Ali Khan, and assisted the Gundecha Brothers (www.dhrupad.org) with their previous U.S. tours.