Joel Martinez-Lorenzana

Assistant Professor
Music Education Department

Biography

Before moving to Canada, Joel worked for twelve years as a faculty member of the National Autonomous University of Honduras and was coordinator of the Bachelor of Music program from 2016-2019. He was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a Master of Music in Performance and Piano Pedagogy at Arizona State University and completed a PhD in Music Education at Western University. Since the fall of 2022, Joel has been conducting research with Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador, an interdisciplinary research project supported by the Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His research interests center on the connections between music, education, and memory in community and postwar settings.