Faculty Research

Emily Abrams Ansari


Emily Abrams Ansari

  • Music across the Americas
  • The Cold War
  • Politically engaged music
  • Feminist musicology
  • Music and identity

adam patrick bell


adam patrick bell

  • Music and accessibility
  • Disability studies and music education
  • Popular music pedagogy
  • Music production pedagogy
  • Music software/instrument design
 

Norma Coates


Norma Coates

  • Anglophone popular music (US and UK)
  • Popular music and identity
  • Popular music in television and film
  • Girl and teen culture
  • Fandom Studies
 

John Cuciurean


John Cuciurean

  • Post-tonal music theory
  • György Ligeti
  • Mathematical modelling of musical systems
  • Sonata theory
  • Popular music analysis
 

Omar Daniel


Omar Daniel

  • Composition of solo, chamber and orchestral music
  • Operatic composition
  • Electronic music composition
  • Estonian folksong scholarship
  • Analysis of music from Northern and Eastern Europe
 

Jonathan De Souza


Jonathan De Souza

  • Music theory and analysis
  • Music cognition
  • Embodiment in music
  • Instrumental and ensemble performance
  • Texture and timbre
 

Peter Franck


Peter Franck

  • Schenkerian theory
  • Counterpoint
  • J. S. Bach
  • Tonality in jazz and popular music
  • Jazz-rock fusion 
 

Paul Frehner


Paul Frehner

  • Chamber, orchestral and choral composition
  • Operatic composition
  • Elecroacoustic composition
  • Acousmatic composition
  • Composition with live electronics
 

Ed Goehring


Ed Goehring

  • Eighteenth-century theatre and opera
  • Aesthetics
  • Criticism
  • Historiography
  • W.A. Mozart
 

Patricia Green


Patricia Green

  • Performing art song, opera and oratorio
  • Performing works of living composers
  • French lyric diction and mélodie performance
  • Performing vocal chamber music
  • Improvisation and sound creation
 

James Grier, FRSC


James Grier, FRSC

  • Medieval music and liturgy
  • Textual criticism, music editing and paleography
  • Popular music since World War II
  • The music of Aquitaine
  • Adémar de Chabannes
 

Aaron Hodgson


Aaron Hodgson

  • Trumpet performance
  • Chamber music
  • Contemporary classical music
  • Brass pedagogy
  • Applied music pedagogy
 

Jay Hodgson


Jay Hodgson

  • Laptop musicianships
  • Popular music practice, especially electronic and beat oriented genres
  • Screen scoring and scoring for motion media (gaming, film, TV, etc)
  • Music synthesis & creative music technology
  • Minimalism, Neo-Minimalism and Synthwave
 

Denis Jiron


Denis Jiron

  • Trombone in non-classical ensembles
  • Afro-Cuban / salsa music
  • Expanding the trombone to styles/ensembles not typically inclusive of trombone
  • New classical chamber music for trombone, from trombone groups (duets-dodecatet) to mixed chamber groups.
 

Kyung Kim


Kyung Kim

  • Solo piano performance
  • Piano concerto performance
  • Collaborative piano and chamber music performance
  • Piano pedagogy
 

Leslie Kinton


Leslie Kinton

  • Piano duo performance
  • Solo piano performance
  • Chamber music
  • Schenkerian analysis
 

Susan Lewis


Susan Lewis

  • The Italian madrigal
  • Music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • Music printing and publishing
  • History of the music business
 

Simone Luti


Simone Luti

  • Operatic young artist training
  • Collaborative piano in opera
  • Opera conducting
  • Operatic and vocal coaching
  • Italian opera
 

Kevin Mooney


Kevin Mooney

  • Modernist aesthetics
  • Weimar culture
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Theodor W. Adorno
  • Works and fragments
 

Catherine Nolan


Catherine Nolan

  • Music after 1900
  • Music and modernism
  • Transformational music theory
  • Mathematical models in music theory
  • The late music of Anton Webern
 

Mark Ramsay


Mark Ramsay

  • Choral conducting and leadership
  • Canadian choral repertoire
  • Diversifying choral repertoire
  • Choral curriculum and pedagogy
  • Tenor/bass choirs and repertoire
 

Colleen Richardson


Colleen Richardson

  • Instrumental ensemble curriculum and pedagogy
  • Instrumental conducting and leadership
  • Music teacher preparation
  • Wind ensemble performance
  • Repertoire selection and diversification
 

Sophie Roland


Sophie Roland

  • Operatic performance
  • Operatic pedagogy
  • Vocal difficulties
  • Experiential learning
  • Historically informed performances
 

Jana Starling


Jana Starling

  • Clarinet performance
  • New music
  • Chamber music
  • Clarinet pedagogy
 

Stéphan Sylvestre


Stéphan Sylvestre

  • Solo piano performance
  • Performance psychology and physiology
  • Chamber Music
  • Piano pedagogy
  • Mindfulness
 

Bobbi Thompson


Bobbi Thompson

  • Saxophone performance and contemporary repertoire
  • Music for saxophone and electric guitar
  • Applied music pedagogy
  • Improvisation
  • Saxophone music of Marilyn Shrude
 

Robert Toft


Robert Toft

  • Research creation
  • Historical vocal performance, 16th–19th centuries
  • Bel canto
  • Recording practice
  • Popular music
 

Annette-Barbara Vogel


Annette-Barbara Vogel

  • Magisterra Soloists: ongoing global impact
  • Entrepreneurship and leadership in not-for-profit
  • Solo violin, chamber music, commissions
  • Recovering music of the Holocaust
  • First recordings on international record labels
 

Kevin Watson


Kevin Watson

  • Jazz education
  • Music teacher preparation
  • Improvisation
  • Instrumental practice
  • Music cognition
 

Sharon Wei


Sharon Wei

  • Solo viola performance
  • Chamber music and orchestral performance
  • Entrepreneurship and music
  • Research-creation
  • Canadian music
 

Thomas (Tom) Wiebe


Tom Wiebe

  • Cello performance
  • Chamber music performance (Rebelheart Collective and others)
  • Premiering music of exiled composers (ARC Ensemble)
 

Ruth Wright


Ruth Wright

  • Sociology of music education
  • Popular music in music education
  • Empowering marginalized students through music education
  • Informal music learning
  • Music, class, and education