Research Faculty Members in Music
The following is a list of our research faculty in Music and their current research interests. Most of these faculty members are also graduate student supervisors.
Emily Abrams Ansari
- Music across the Americas
- The Cold War
- Music and protest
- Racial politics and music
- Music and national identity
Theodore Baerg
- Opera production and video projection techniques
- Musical theatre
- Promotion and presentation of young artists
- Ukrainian Art song
- Stage direction and technical aspects of theatre
adam patrick bell
- Music and accessibility
- Disability studies and music education
- Popular music pedagogy
- Music production pedagogy
- Music software/instrument design
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
- Post-tonal music theory
- György Ligeti
- Mathematical modelling of musical systems
- Sonata theory
- Popular music analysis
Omar Daniel
- Composition of solo, chamber and orchestral music
- Operatic composition
- Electronic music composition
- Estonian folksong
- Analysis of music from Northern and Eastern Europe
Jonathan De Souza
- Music theory and analysis
- Music cognition
- Embodiment in music
- Instrumental and ensemble performance
- Texture and timbre
Peter Franck
- Schenkerian theory
- Counterpoint
- J. S. Bach
- Tonality in jazz and popular music
- Jazz-rock fusion
Paul Frehner
- Chamber, orchestral and choral composition
- Operatic composition
- Elecroacoustic composition
- Acousmatic composition
- Composition with live electronics
Ed Goehring
- Eighteenth-century theatre and opera
- Aesthetics
- Criticism
- Historiography
- W.A. Mozart
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
- 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
- Trumpet performance
- Chamber music
- Contemporary classical music
- Brass pedagogy
- Applied music pedagogy
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
- 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
- Solo piano performance
- Piano concerto performance
- Collaborative piano and chamber music performance
- Piano pedagogy
Michael Kim
- Solo piano performance
- Concerto piano performance
- Pops repertoire performance
- Collaborative artistic performance
Leslie Kinton
- Piano duo performance
- Solo piano performance
- Chamber music
- Schenkerian analysis
Susan Lewis
- The Italian madrigal
- Music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Music printing and publishing
- History of the music business
Simone Luti
- Operatic young artist training
- Collaborative piano in opera
- Opera conducting
- Operatic and vocal coaching
- Italian opera
Kevin Mooney
- Modernist aesthetics
- Weimar culture
- Gustav Mahler
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Works and fragments
Catherine Nolan
- Music after 1900
- Music and modernism
- Transformational music theory
- Mathematical models in music theory
- The late music of Anton Webern
Mark Ramsay
- Choral conducting and leadership
- Canadian choral repertoire
- Diversifying choral repertoire
- Choral curriculum and pedagogy
- Tenor/bass choirs and repertoire
Colleen Richardson
- Wind band/ensemble literature
- Rehearsal techniques and pedagogy
- Conducting techniques and pedagogy
- Wind band/ensemble performance
- International wind orchestra repertoire/training
Sophie Roland
- Operatic performance
- Operatic pedagogy
- Vocal difficulties
- Experiential learning
- Historically informed performances
Jana Starling
- Clarinet performance
- New music
- Chamber music
- Clarinet pedagogy
Stéphan Sylvestre
- Solo piano performance
- Performance psychology and physiology
- Chamber Music
- Piano pedagogy
- Mindfulness
Bobbi Thompson
- Saxophone performance and contemporary repertoire
- Music for saxophone and electric guitar
- Applied music pedagogy
- Improvisation
- Saxophone music of Marilyn Shrude
Robert Toft
- Research creation
- Historical vocal performance, 16th–19th centuries
- Bel canto
- Recording practice
- Popular music
Annette-Barbara Vogel
- Entrepreneurship
- Solo violin performance (Baroque to 21st century)
- Chamber music performance (string, piano, mixed) (Baroque to 21st century)
- Music of the Holocaust
- Violin pedagogy and its history
Kevin Watson
- Jazz education
- Music teacher preparation
- Improvisation
- Instrumental practice
- Music cognition
Sharon Wei
- Solo viola performance
- Chamber music and orchestral performance
- Entrepreneurship and music
- Research-creation
- Canadian music
Thomas (Tom) Wiebe
- Cello performance
- Chamber music performance (Rebelheart Collective and others)
- Premiering music of exiled composers (ARC Ensemble)
Tracy Wong
- Choral conducting
- Choral pedagogy
- Choral composition and arrangement
- Vocal pedagogy in a choral context
- Malaysian choral music
Ruth Wright
- Sociology of music education
- Popular music in music education
- Empowering marginalized students through music education
- Informal music learning
- Music, class, and education
