INDIGENOUS STUDIES

Ed Wapp, IAIA Faculty

Biography

Edward Wapp Wahpeconiah, Sac and Fox/Comanche, is an ethnomusicologist, who has specialized in Native American music. He is one of the few Native American Indian flute players who maintains a repertoire of traditional Native American flute music. He has been instrumental in the revitalization of the instrument and its music and has performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. As well as Native American flute and Native American Music Performance, he teaches piano, harpsichord, and world music at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Major Professional Activities

National Endowment for the Arts grant to research the Native American flute and perform with Doc Tate Nevaquahyah, Comanche flute player and artist.
Master Artist grant awarded by the Kansas State Historical Society (funded by the NEA) to teach Sac and Fox tribal flute music to member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri.
Arts Council of Great Britain invitation to perform during the “Sacred Circles” American Indian Art Exhibition in London.
Featured ethnic performer during the 1989 World’s Fair, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Selected as one of the Northwest Folk life Festival’s outstanding ethnic performers.
Performed at the Contemporary Ukrainian Composers Festival in Kieve and at the Amsterdam Festival.

“His flute has two voices—one that sings purely and another that is like two voices together.” Denver Post, 1980