Rembrandt Wolpert is Professor of Ethnomusicology. He holds degrees in Sinology, Mongolian Studies, Musicology, and Computer Science from Munich (Germany), Cambridge (England), and Otago (New Zealand) Universities. He held senior research appointments at Peterhouse, Cambridge University (England), the Research Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University (Japan), the Department of Chinese Studies, Würzburg University (Germany), and was Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at The Queen's University of Belfast (Ireland), Chair and Professor of Ethnomusicology and Systematic Musicology at the University of Amsterdam, before joining the University of Arkansas in 2000.

Dr. Wolpert has conducted fieldwork in China, Japan, and Ireland. His research interests include musical grammars, computational tools in (ethno)musicology, historical sources in Far Eastern ethnomusicology, and organology. Together with Dr. Elizabeth Markham he co-ordinates the International Center for the Study of Early Asian and Middle Eastern Musics at Fulbright College and the Tang Music Project's international web-site. Dr. Wolpert's work on Chinese and Japanese historical musical sources connect him to the Music Preservation Project of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.