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Research Alive
2024-2025

Unveiling what makes music so magical in the ears and minds of the listener through live performance and dialogue between researchers and musicians.

November 19, 2024

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Tanna Schulich Hall
Free Admission

Transformative musical communities: Black dignity interrupting colonial legacies

Frédéricka Petit-Homme, current Music Education PhD

January 30, 2025

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Tanna Schulich Hall
Free Admission

A discrete instrument in an indiscrete world: Developing a digital harmonium for Indian music 

Ninad Puranik, current Music Technology PhD, finalist of the 2024–2025 Research Alive Student Prize

February 12, 2025

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Tanna Schulich Hall
Free Admission

Performance is/as Analysis

Ben Duinker, Postdoctoral Researcher, ACTOR
with Noam Bierstone, percussion

March 11, 2025

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Tanna Schulich Hall
Free Admission

¡Guaitinaje! The pipe and tabor player as dance master and knowledge keeper in the Viceroyalty of Peru

Ellis Reyes, current Musicology PhD, winner of the 2024–2025 Research Alive Student Prize

The Research Alive Student Prize is made possible by a generous donation from Ms. Jill de Villafranca and Dr. David Kostiuk

About Research Alive

The public face of the Schulich School of Music consists, in large majority, of performances by our excellent faculty and student musicians, at times performing works by our own composers. These performances provide a great glimpse into the talent at the School, but they don't fully represent everything that goes on in the music faculty. So the aim of the Research Alive series is to bring alive the research in music theory, music history and musicology, music education, and sound recording, as well as the many faces of musical science and engineering that make up the music technology area. In performance and composition, much research goes on behind the scenes that leads up to the final product, and that research process will also revealed.

Each event is given by a member of the School to bring to light their research, amply illustrated with live musical examples, and ending with a small piece performed by the faculty and students to tie it all together. So, our motto is "Bring alive the research with music."

This series is curated by Prof. Stephen McAdams.

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