Graduate Faculty
Western offers nationally recognized scholars, teachers and performers -- leaders in Canadian music -- to engage students in a learning environment equaled by very few Canadian schools. Contact information for all faculty members can be found in the Alphabetical Directory. The following faculty are available specifically to graduate students:
Emily Abrams Ansari
Lecturer (Musicology): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Master's Membership
Theodore Baerg
Associate Professor (Voice; Opera): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Master's Membership
Jill Ball
Assistant Professor (Percussion): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Limited Membership
John-Paul Bracey
Professor (Piano): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Master's Membership
Torin Chiles
Assistant Professor (Voice): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Limited Membership
Norma Coates
Assistant Professor (Musicology): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Thesis Membership
John Cuciurean
Assistant Professor (Music Theory; Tonal & Post-Tonal Theory and Analysis): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Omar Daniel
Associate Professor (Composition; Electroacoustic Media): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
John Doerksen
Associate Professor (Music Theory; Tonal and Post-Tonal Music Analysis; Computer Applications; Pitch-Class Set Theory; History of Theory): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Harold Fiske
Professor (Psychology of Music; Experimental Research; Music Perception and Cognition): Dept. of Music Education; Doctoral Membership
Peter Franck
Assistant Professor (Music Theory; Schenkerian Analysis): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Master's Membership
Paul Frehner
Assistant Professor (Composition; Electroacoustic Media): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Master's Membership
Edmund Goehring
Assistant Professor (Musicology):
Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Master's Membership
Patricia Green
Associate Professor (Voice): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Non-Thesis Membership
James Grier
Professor (Medieval Music; Music of Aquitaine: 900-1200; Textual Criticism and Music Editing; Popular Music: Post-World War II): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
John Hess
Associate Professor (Collaborative Piano): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Master's Membership
Jay Hodgson
Assistant Professor (Popular Music Studies): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Master's Membership
Peter Paul Koprowski
Professor (Composition; Music Theory): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Sandra Mangsen
Associate Professor (Harpsichord; 17th- and 18th-century Keyboard Music; Italian Baroque Music; Performance Practice; Sociology of Music): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Doctoral Membership
Stephen McClatchie
(Musicology): Doctoral Membership
James McKay
Professor (Bassoon; Conducting): Master's Membership
Victoria Meredith
Associate Professor (Choral Techniques; Vocal Techniques, Conducting): Dept. of Music Education; Doctoral Membership
Kevin Mooney
Associate Professor (18th- and 19th-century Harmonic Theory; Riemann; Post-Riemannian Transformation Theory; Music Hermeneutics; Music Perception and Cognition): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
David Myska
Associate Professor (Composition; Theory; Electroacoustic Media): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Gerald Neufeld
Associate Professor (Choral Techniques; Conducting): Dept. of Music Education; Master's Membership
Catherine Nolan
Associate Professor (Music Theory; History of Theory; Schenker; Pitch-class Set Theory; Tonal and Post-tonal Music Analysis): Chair, Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Richard S. Parks
Professor (Music Theory; Schenker; Pitch-class Set Theory; Tonal and Post-tonal Music Analysis; Philosophy of Music Theory): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Colleen Richardson
Assistant Professor (Wind Ensemble; Conducting Techniques): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Non-Thesis Membership
Sophie Roland-Wieczorek
Assistant Professor (Voice): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Non-thesis Membership
Richard Semmens
Associate Professor (Historical Performance Practices; French Baroque Music; Baroque Dance and Dance Music; History of Music Theory; History of Music and Science; History of Woodwind Instruments): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Jeffrey Stokes
Associate Professor (Double Bass; 19th-century Performance Practice; Wagner): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Doctoral Membership
Stéphan Sylvestre
Assistant Professor (Piano): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Master's Membership
Robert Toft
Professor (Popular Music: recordings and mixes, analytical procedures for both songs and recordings, singing, textual criticism, 1960s pop and rock; Western Art Music: modes and modality, musica ficta, lute song, the bel canto tradition, rhetoric and music): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Kari K. Veblen
Associate Professor (Multicultural and Interdisciplinary studies): Dept. of Music Education; Doctoral Membership
Annette-Barbara Vogel
Assistant Professor (Violin): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Master's Membership
Thomas Wiebe
Associate Professor (Cello; Chamber Music): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Master's Membership
Todd Wieczorek
Assistant Professor (Voice): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Limited Membership
Fiona Wilkinson
Associate Professor (Baroque, Classical and Modern Flute; Chamber Music; Ornamentation and Improvisation; MIDI; Electroacoustic Techniques): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Master's Membership
Robert Wood
Associate Professor (Music Technology in Education; Music Perception); Dept. of Music Education; Master's Membership
Paul Woodford
Professor (Historical, Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of Music Education; Instrumental Music Education, Conducting, Qualitative Research); Doctoral Membership
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