STEERING COMMITTEE

STEVEN VANDE MOORTELE (Director) 
Professor, Music Theory

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Theories of musical form; analysis of instrumental music from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century; Richard Wagner; Arnold Schoenberg.

CONTACT: steven.vandemoortele@utoronto.ca
PERSONAL WEB PAGE: https://discover.research.utoronto.ca/23817-steven-vande-moortele/about

SARAH GUTSCHE-MILLER
Associate Professor, Musicology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ballet, Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture, Women in the Arts, Carl Nielsen

CONTACT: sarah.gutsche.miller@utoronto.ca
PERSONAL WEB PAGE: https://music.utoronto.ca/our-people.php?fid=21

SHERRY LEE
Associate Professor, Musicology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: music philosophy and aesthetics, music and modernity, sound studies, music and environment, opera and music drama

CONTACT: sherry.lee@utoronto.ca
PERSONAL WEB PAGE: http://individual.utoronto.ca/lee_sherry

ELLEN LOCKHART
Associate Professor, Musicology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: epistemology of the senses; history of science; aesthetics; opera and its staging; critical philology; nineteenth-century materialities; history of nature 

CONTACT: ellen.lockhart@utoronto.ca
PERSONAL WEB PAGE: https://music.utoronto.ca/our-people.php?fid=255

RYAN MCCLELLAND
Professor, Music Theory

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Theories of rhythm and meter; Schenkerian theory; analysis and performance; Johannes Brahms

CONTACT: ryan.mcclelland@utoronto.ca
PERSONAL WEB PAGE: https://music.utoronto.ca/our-people.php?fid=91

FACULTY MEMBERS

DAPHNE TAN
Associate Professor, Music Theory

RESEARCH INTERESTS: History of theory, History of psychology, Philosophical idealism, Music perception and cognition, Ernst Kurth, Viktor Zuckerkandl

CONTACT: daphne.tan@utoronto.ca
PERSONAL WEB PAGE: https://individual.utoronto.ca/daphnetan

STUDENT MEMBERS

CALEB LABBE PHELAN
PhD Candidate, Musicology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Virtuosity and gesture, nineteenth-century keyboard music, travel literature, philosophy and literary aesthetics, the music of Franz Liszt

CONTACT: caleb.labbephelan@mail.utoronto.ca

EMILY MACCALLUM
PhD Candidate, Musicology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: music and environment; landscape; historical soundscapes; program music

CONTACT: emily.maccallum@mail.utoronto.ca

EMMA SOLDAAT
PhD Candidate, Music Theory

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mahler, philosophy, literary theory, form, and fin-de-siècle Vienna.

CONTACT: emma.soldaat@mail.utoronto.ca

JACOB BURTENSHAW
PhD Student, Musicology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: music and philosophy in the long nineteenth and twentieth centuries

CONTACT: jacob.burtenshaw@mail.utoronto.ca

TEGAN RIDGE
PhD Student, Musicology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: German-language repertoires, representations of horror and the g/Gothic, new materialisms

CONTACT: tegan.ridge@mail.utoronto.ca

ELWYN ROWLANDS
PhD Student, Music Theory

RESEARCH INTERESTS: nineteenth-century form, choreomusicology, and ballet history

CONTACT: elwyn.rowlands@mail.utoronto.ca

KRISTEN WHITTLE
MA Student, Music Theory

RESEARCH INTERESTS: intersections between music and literature; domestic music and its representations in fiction and the press

CONTACT: kristen.whittle@utoronto.ca

ALUMNI

SADIE MENICANIN
PhD Musicology, 2023; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oslo

RESEARCH INTERESTS: fin-de-siècle Vienna, music and visual culture, late-Romantic and modernist opera, musical temporality and spatiality, film music, staging and dramaturgy, music and technology DISSERTATION WORKING TITLE: A Cultural Geography of Gardens in Early Twentieth-Century Viennese Opera
DISSERTATION: A Cultural Geography of Gardens in Early Twentieth-Century Viennese Opera

MATTHEW POON
PhD Music Theory, 2022; Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Eau Claire

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Robert Schumann’s symphonic music; form-functional theory; music perception
DISSERTATION: Formal Functions in Robert Schumann’s Orchestral Sonata Forms

ELIZABETH FOX
PhD Music Theory, 2021; Law student, University of Ottawa

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Virtuosity, Concerto, Formal functions, Music and romantic literary theory
DISSERTATION WORKING TITLE: Deciphering the Arabesque: Genre Mixture and Formal Digression in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto

LINDSAY JONES
PhD Musicology 2020; Project & Administrative Coordinator, Graduate Education, University of Toronto Faculty of Arts & Science

RESEARCH INTERESTS: 19th-century guitarist-composers, folk music, variation form, the music of Johannes Brahms
DISSERTATION:  Music by the Ducat: Giuliani’s Guitar and Vienna’s Musical Markets, 1806–1819

DAN DEUTSCH
PhD Music Theory, 2018; Lecturer, University of Haifa

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Gustav Mahler, Formenlehre, Song Analysis, Fin-de-siècle Vienna, Jewish Studies
DISSERTATION: Music as “Minor Literature”: Musical Syntax and Form in Gustav Mahler’s Lied von der Erde

CAITLIN MARTINKUS
PhD Music Theory, 2017; Music Theory Faculty, Cleveland Institute of Music


RESEARCH INTERESTS: theories of musical form; nineteenth-century musical form; Schubert;  improvisation as performance and pedagogy
DISSERTATION: The Urge to Vary: Schubert’s Variation Practice from Schubertiades to Sonata For