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Faculty of Fine Arts

School of Performance

Faculty members

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Full-time faculty

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    Jens Richard Giersdorf
    • Professor, Contemporary Dance
    • Chair, Contemporary Dance
    Research areas: dance studies, dance and politics, epistemologies of dance education, dance histories, queer studies, dance analysis, choreography as knowledge system
  • Angélique Willkie
    • Associate Professor, Contemporary Dance
    • Artist in Residence, USINE C | Centre de création et de diffusion
    • Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
    • Chair of the Concordia University Task Force on Anti-Black Racism
    • Special Advisor to the Provost, Black Integration & Knowledges
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Ecologies of B/black Performance
    Research areas: dance dramaturgy, contemporary circus, choreographic practice, transdisciplinarity, performing arts, dance technique, identity, ethnicity, voice, movement, performance, improvisation, human body, decolonial dramaturgies
  • Lília Mestre
    • Co-director LePARC - Performing Arts Research Cluster within MILIEUX Institute for Arts Culture and Technology, Concordia University, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
    • Assistant Professor, Contemporary Dance
    Research areas: expanded choreography, transdisplinarity, performativity, community, collectivity, bio politics, co-learning, scores.
  • Joshua Rager
    • Associate Professor, Music
    • Chair , Music
    Research areas: jazz, improvisation, piano, music composition, musical ensembles, solo performance, jazz culture, musical accompaniment, performing arts, jazz theory, ear training, rhythm, music theory, listening/hearing, music education
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    Sandeep Bhagwati
    • Professor, Music
    • director, matralab - lab for research-creation in the performing arts , Fine Arts
    • GM500-21, Music
    Status: Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art (2006-2016)
    Research areas: music, musicking, music composition, comprovisation, research-creation, transdisciplinary aesthetics, interactive scores, trans-traditional musicking, experimental theatre, situative scores, dramaturgy, performance, contemporary music, improvisation, intercultural music, artistic research, music notation, music technology, voice, computer music, opera, music theatre, piano music, orchestra music
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    Ricardo Dal Farra
    • Professor , Music
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    Georges Dimitrov
    • Lecturer, Music
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    Meghan Gilhespy
    • Coordinator, Jazz Studies, Music
    • Assistant Professor, Music
    Research areas: Improvisation, extended techniques, gender studies, jazz historiography, voice
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    Norah Lorway
    • Area Coordinator (Electroacoustic Studies) , Music
    • Assistant Professor, Music
    Research areas: artificial intelligence, live coding, responsible AI, spatial audio, HCI, computer music language development, electroacoustic music, audio visual composition, live electronics, music plugin development, real-time interactive computer systems
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    Eldad Tsabary
    • (formerly Department Chair), Music
    • (formerly Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies), Fine Arts
    • Professor, Music
    Research areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Creativity, Research-Creation, Electroacoustic Music, Laptop Orchestra, Live Coding, Improvisation, Telematics, Spatial Composition, Mini Opera, Cataclysmic Scenarios, Multiplicity, Neurodiversity, Music Education, Technical Ear Training, Motivation, Music Technology.

Part-time faculty

Professors Emeritus

  • Silvy Panet-Raymond
    • Professor Emeritus, Contemporary Dance
    Status: Professor Emeritus
    Research areas: choreography, creative process, mobility, moving borders, creative approaches to public space, artistic transmission projects
  • Michael Montanaro
    • Professor Emeritus , Contemporary Dance
    • Co-director Topological Media Lab
    Research areas: transformation, transmutation, proposition/purpose, alchemy, illusion, possession/conflict, intermedia, movement, technological animation, sensory adaptation, prediction, performing arts, transparency, non-invasive systems, surroundings/the surrounded, interactivity, virtual environments, urban futures
  • Kevin Austin
    • Professor Emeritus
    Status: Retired
    Research areas: music composition, electroacoustic studies, aural acuity, aural skills, ear training, aural perception, live electroacoustics, tonal music theory, atonal music theory, psychoacoustics, metamusic, metalinguistics, James Joyce, metempsychosis, pedagogy, curriculum development, synesthesia
  • Mark Corwin
    • Professor, Music
    Research areas: electroacoustic studies, music composition, listening/hearing, aural perception, acoustics, performing arts, music making, digital sound technology, sound design, recording arts, performance art, surround projection, surround recording, sound, interactivity, surround sound, recording engineering, location recording

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