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Faculty of Music

Amy Clements-Cortes

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Dementia
  • Education & training
  • Performance anxiety
  • Relationship completion in palliative care
  • Singing for Health and Wellness
  • Telehealth music therapy
  • Vibroacoutic therapy

Office: N/A
Mobile: 519-897-3613
Website
Email: a.clements.cortes@utoronto.ca
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Antia Gonzalez Ben

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical analysis of discourses
  • Educational policy
  • International education
  • Music Education
  • Philosophy of education
  • Research methodologies
  • School ethnography.
  • Sound studies

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Spanish; Castilian,Galician,French
Website
Email: a.gonzalezben@utoronto.ca

Carolyne Sumner

Assistant Professor (conditional)

Areas of Expertise

  • Music
  • Music interpretation
  • Musical networks in Canada during the post centennial period
  • Musicology and ethnomusicology

Office: N/A
Languages: French,English
Website
Email: carolyne.sumner@utoronto.ca

Catherine Moore

Adjunct Professor, Music Technology and Digital Media Program, Faculty of Music

Special Advisor to the Dean on Strategic Partnerships

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital media
  • Music
  • Music/media business

Office: 416-978-4073
Website
Email: catherinej.moore@utoronto.ca
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Daphne Tan

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cognitive sciences
  • Humanities and the arts
  • Music
  • Music interpretation
  • Musicology and ethnomusicology
  • Psychology and cognitive sciences

Office: N/A
Website
Email: daphne.tan@utoronto.ca

Eliot Britton

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian musical culture
  • Digital instruments
  • Digital media
  • Music technology
  • Videogame music

Office: (416) 978-1991
Website
Email: eliot.britton@utoronto.ca
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Gregory Lee Newsome

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Gregory Lee Newsome

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital Composition in the Music Technology

Office: N/A
Website
Email: greg.newsome@utoronto.ca
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Harcus Hennigar

Senior Lecturer (Retired), Department of Music, Faculty of Music

Areas of Expertise

  • French horn
  • Symphony orchestra

Office: N/A
Home: 905-839-6438
Email: harcus.hennigar@utoronto.ca
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Ka Nin Chan

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Chamber music
  • Chinese music
  • Contemporary music
  • Music theory and composition (opera)
  • Orchestral music

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-461-7069
Languages: Chinese
Website
Email: kanin.chan@utoronto.ca
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Kevin Komisaruk

Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Emotional
  • Flow theory
  • How these impact the spiritual
  • Kinaesthetics and improvisation
  • Physical health of artists and listeners.
  • Rhetoric

Office: (416) 978-2079
Languages: French,Hebrew,German
Website
Email: kevin.komisaruk@utoronto.ca
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Lorna MacDonald

Professor

Lorna MacDonald

Areas of Expertise

  • Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel Hubbard Bell
  • Music and the singing voice
  • Opera
  • Voice science and pedagogy

Office: 416-978-5777
Home: 416-944-3846
Mobile: 416-944-3846
Website
Email: lorna.macdonald@utoronto.ca
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Michael Albano

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream: Opera, Faculty of Music

Resident Stage Director, Opera Programme, Faculty of Music

Areas of Expertise

  • Opera pedagogy
  • Opera repertory
  • Opera stage direction

Office: 416-978-5776
Home: 416-923-6438
Email: michael.albano@utoronto.ca
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Nasim Niknafs

Associate Professor of Music Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Arts Policy
  • Community engaged research
  • Immigration
  • Music
  • Music Education
  • Political Movements

Office: 416-946-4053
Mobile: 647-295-0646
Languages: Persian (Farsi)
Website
Email: nasim.niknafs@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Robin Elliott

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Music in Canada
  • Western art music of the 19th and 20th centuries

Office: (416) 946-8622
Website
Email: robin.elliott@utoronto.ca
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Russell Hartenberger

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Minimalism; rhythm and time in music
  • Percussion

Office: N/A
Website
Email: r.hartenberger@utoronto.ca
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Steven Vande Moortele

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • Classical music
  • Music theory and analysis
  • Nineteenth-century music
  • Opera
  • Richard Wagner
  • Symphony

Office: N/A
Languages: Dutch, German, French
Website
Email: steven.vandemoortele@utoronto.ca
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