Teaching and Research Interests
- Enlightenment Aesthetics
- 18th C Studies – Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven; Music and Place: London, Paris, Vienna
- Haydn’s Operas and Theatricality
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Opera; Opera and Mediation; Orpheus
- Opera and Orientalism; Opera and Diversity
- Music and Gender Studies
- Social History of the Piano
- Listening/Viewing/Spectatorship
- Politics of Musical Reception
- Music and Jewish Identity
Graduate Courses Taught
- Music and the Enlightenment (MUS1265)
- Haydn (MUS1236)
- Introduction to Music Research (MUS1000)
- Approaches to Musicology (MUS1001)
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Interdisciplinary Art Form: Opera (MUS1203/COL3375) – co-taught with University Professor Linda Hutcheon
- Orientalism and Opera (MUS1105/JLE5075) – with University Professor Linda Hutcheon
- Music and Jewish Identity (MUS1068
- Orpheus (MUS1245)
Undergraduate Courses - Faculty of Music
(1993-96; 2007- )
- Lives in Music (MMU100)
- Music and Entrepreneurship (HMU327) – with TSO, and TBO
- The Glenn Gould Legacy (HMU310)
- The Operas of Mozart (HMU380)
- Historical Survey II (HMU226)
- Topics in Classical Music (HMU430)
- Music of the Western Tradition (HMU204)
- Introduction to Music Research (HMU223)
- Women and Music (HMU207)
- Haydn (HMU358)
Undergraduate Courses - Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- The Age of Haydn and Mozart (MUS325)
- The World of Opera (MUS206)
- A Social History of the Piano (MUS335)
- Music for Orchestra (MUS202)
- Beethoven (MUS207)
Undergraduate Courses, UTSC
(1997-2006)
- Introduction to Music (VPAA80Y)
- Elementary Music Theory (VPAA94)
- Music and Gender (VPAC83)
- Music of the Classic Period (VPAB83)
- Beethoven (VPAC85)
- Music of the Romantic Period (VPAB84)
- Handel (VPAC87)
- Research in the Arts (VPAB04)
- Opera (VPAC80)
- Topics in Music and Society 1600-1900 I (VPAB87); and 1600-1900 II (VPAB88)
- Piano Roles (VPMB76)
- Senior Project in Visual and Performing Arts (VPAD02)
- Current Issues in the Visual and Performing Arts (VPAC01)
- Collaborations in the Visual and Performing Arts (VPA05)
Research Supervision
PhD and DMA Supervision: thesis supervisor - completed theses
- Katelyn Clark (2013-19); degree awarded June 2019. “The Early Pianoforte School in London’s Musical World, 1785-1800: Technology, Market, Gender, and Style” (FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia, 2019-2022)
- Virginia Acuña (2010-16); degree awarded June 2016.
“The Spanish lamento: discourses of love, power and gender in the musical theatre (1696-1718)” (SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University, 2018-2020)
- Eva Branda (2009-13), co-supervisor with Ryan McClelland; degree awarded June 2014.
“Representations of Antonín Dvořák: A Study of his Music through the Lens of Late-Nineteenth-Century Czech Criticism” (Assistant Professor, Western University)
- Andrea Botticelli (2010-13); degree awarded June 2014.
“‘Creating Tone’: The Relationship between Beethoven’s Piano Sonority and Evolving Instrument Designs, 1800-1810.” (Fortepianist and recording artist; faculty member at the Glenn Gould School, RCM)
- Elisha Denburg (2011-13); degree awarded June 2013.
“From Synagogue to Concert Hall: the world of Srul Irving Glick.” (Composer; Toy Piano Composers; Toronto Summer Music)
PhD Supervision: in progress
- Rena Roussin (2018-) “Joseph Haydn at the Intersections: Environmentalism, Gender, Race, and late-eighteenth-century Musical Activism”; SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS D), 2019-22.
Additional doctoral advising
- 17 doctoral advisory committees (14 completed)
- 5 internal examiner committees (Musicology, Music Education, Music and Health)
- 4 external examination reports for other universities (3 Canadian; 1 international)
- 8 MA supervisions
- 8 Undergraduate supervisions (1 current)
