School of Music


BUELL, Donald Professor
Keywords
• Teaching; learning music
Current research
• Conducting as communication
Past research
• Effective teaching from the podium
• Student perceptions
• Nature of learning in ensemble settings



DAHN, Nancy Associate professor
Keywords
• Violin performance (music); chamber music

 

KNOWLES, Kenneth Associate professor
Keywords
• Instrumental arranging; trombone performance
Current research
• Low brass duet arrangements
• Trombone performance
Past research
• Arrangements for brass ensembles
• Trombone duets
• Trombone performance
Potential research
• Arrangements for brass with woodwinds


RICE, Paul F.
Associate professor
Keywords
• Performing arts; France; 18th century; theatre; history; opera
Current research
• The symphonies of J.A. Fisher
• Eighteenth-century English secular, solo cantatas: an annotated catalogue
• Editions of selected cantatas
• Frequent contributor to CBC's Saturday Afternoon at the Opera, quiz panelist and producer for specialist intermission features
• English theatre overtures of the 18th century
Past research
• The performing arts at Fontainebleau, from Louis XIV to Louis XVI
• John Abraham Fisher's Music for the Opening of Macbeth
• Performing arts and the court of Louis XVI
• Theatre music of John Abraham Fisher, J.C. Smith, Thomas Arne, and others
• Rameau's Fontainebleau operas


SZEGO, Kati
Assistant professor
Keywords
• Ethnomusicology; Polynesian music; Hawaii; cultural boundary-crossing; musical meaning-making; music and language
Current research
• History of Hawaiian vocal practices
Past research
• Kamehameha schools, performing arts history


SZUTOR, Kristina
Associate professor
Keywords
• Contemporary piano music; 20th-century piano music; American piano music; Canadian piano music; Hungarian folle songs; Paganini variations; Bartoli's piano music; Canadian pianists
Research specialty
• Twentieth-century and contemporary piano music
Past research
• CD of solo piano music from the beginning and end of the 20th-century, Bookends in Time
• CD of contemporary chamber music by Newfoundland composer Michael Parker: Lyre
Potential research
• Plans for future recordings include newly commissioned and contemporary works by Canadian and American composers


VOLK, Maureen Professor
Keywords
• Piano performance; pedagogy
Current research
• Piano performance and technique
Potential research
• Piano pedagogy
• Music administration

 

 

 

 

 

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