Choral Conducting
Master of Music
School of Music
One of the oldest and largest music schools in the country, the UBC School of Music offers a wide array of undergraduate, graduate, and non-degree training in composition, performance, and scholarship. Whether you're an aspiring musician or musicologist, studio producer or teacher, we have a program for you.
The School of Music offers graduate programs and degrees in three broad fields of specialization: performance, composition, and music scholarship.
The Master of Music (M.Mus.) and Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) are offered in performance and composition; the Master of Arts (M.A.) and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Music with emphases on Music Theory, Historical Musicology, and Ethnomusicology. We also offer Master's and doctoral degrees in Music Education.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Anderson, L. Mark | Piano, Piano Pedagogy |
| Carrabre, T. Patrick | Music; construction of identity; creation of shared musical spaces with indigenous and non-western musicians; decolonization; use of interactive electronics |
| Chang, Dorothy | Composition |
| Fisher, Alexander | Music, n.e.c.; musicology; music; Sound Studies; History; religious history |
| Franch Ballester, Jose | Spanish clarinetist |
| Fung, David | |
| Gillham, David | violin |
| Girard, Jonathan | conducting, orchestra, opera, new music, conducting pedagogy, orchestral repertoire, symphonic music, orchestral music, orchestration, Berlioz, Stravinsky |
| Hamel, Keith | Music composition; Composition; Interactive Computer Music |
| Hamm, Corey | Piano and Chamber music |
| Hermiston, Nancy Jane | Performing arts, n.e.c.; Other medical sciences; opera, voice, theatre, interdisciplinary work with a diversity of fields and opera; Opera training and its effect on sculpting the brain - Wall Opera Project, Hermiston/L/Boyd/J Werker |
| Hesselink, Nathan | Music; ethnomusicology; music analysis; entrainment; rhythmic play and social meaning; Anglo-American rock music; African American popular music |
| Jun, Hyejung | Music; choral |
| Langager, Graeme | choral conducting |
| Law, Hedy | Opera; eighteenth-century French music; opera; pantomime; dance; gesture; sign; the Enlightenment; Cantonese music; Cantonese opera; Cantonese songs; tone language; global Cantonese music; global music history; gender and sexuality; music and race |
| Maler, Anabel | music and disability studies; music in Deaf culture; music perception; embodiment and gesture; post-tonal form; intersections of music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology |
| Metzer, David | Popular Music, Classical Music, Popular Culture, Musicology, Jazz Studies |
| Poudrier, Eve | Music theory; Theories of rhythm and meter, with a special emphasis on temporal multiplicity and twentieth-century music; Music cognition, especially rhythm, expertise, and cross-cultural issues; Schenkerian analysis |
| Pritchard, Robert | Music composition; Linguistics; Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Composition; Interactive performance; Gesture tracking; Interdisciplinary performance; Hardware/software sensing |
| Raftery, James | opera; baritone; tenor |
| Robinson, Dylan | Indigenous Arts |
| Sharon, Rena | chamber music and conflict resolution, art song / lieder, young artist experience summer camp |
| Szabo, Krisztina | |
| Taylor, Robert | Music, Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, Music Education, Conducting, Instrumental conducting, brass instruments |
| Tenzer, Michael | Music Cultures of the World, Rhythm, Music and Human Evolution, Music and Cultural Critique, Jazz, Indonesian Music, Contemporary Art Music, Performance, composition, promoting interest in the world's finest musics |
| Van Handel, Leigh | |
| Vellutini, Claudio | Music; Critical Musicology; Cultural and reception history of nineteenth-century Italian opera; Early 19th century music (opera); Habsburg cultural policies; Historiography; Italian opera in the Habsburg Empire; Performance and staging practices; Vienna opera (first half of 19th century) |
| Whitney, Valerie | Music; French Horn |
| Wilson, Eric | Cello |
| Wood, Jasper | Violin, chamber music |
