Judith Valerie Engel
Student
Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA)
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 | construction of identity; creation of shared musical spaces with indigenous and non-western musicians; decolonization; use of interactive electronics; Construction of identity, Creation of shared musical spaces with indigenous and non-western musicians, Decolonization, Use of interactive electronics |
| Chang, Dorothy | Composition |
| Davis, Ryan | Strings; Strings |
| Fisher, Alexander | musicology; music; Sound Studies; History; religious history; european history; musicology, music, sound studies, history, religious history, european history |
| Franch Ballester, Jose | Spanish clarinetist |
| Fung, David | performing arts, music, piano, piano performance, intersections between music and visual arts; historically informed performance,; performing arts, music, piano, piano performance, intersections between music and visual arts , historically informed performance, |
| Gillham, David | violin |
| Girard, Jonathan | conducting, orchestra, opera, new music, conducting pedagogy, orchestral repertoire, symphonic music, orchestral music, orchestration, Berlioz, Stravinsky |
| Hamm, Corey | Piano and Chamber music |
| Hermiston, Nancy Jane | 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; 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 | ethnomusicology; music analysis; entrainment; rhythmic play and social meaning; Anglo-American rock music; African American popular music; Afrofuturism; ethnomusicology, music analysis, entrainment, rhythmic play and social meaning, Anglo-American rock music, African American popular music, Afrofuturism |
| Jun, Hyejung | choral; choral |
| Langager, Graeme | choral conducting |
| Law, Hedy | eighteenth-century French music; the French Enlightenment; music and signs; ; global music history; gender and sexuality; music and race; music with Cantonese lyrics; global Cantonese music; eighteenth-century French music; the French Enlightenment; music and signs; , global music history, gender and sexuality; music and race, music with Cantonese lyrics; global Cantonese music |
| 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; 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 |
| Raftery, James Patrick | opera; baritone; tenor |
| Robinson, Dylan | Indigenous Arts; 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 |