Teaching

Assistant Professor, and Jazz Area Coordinator at York University’s Department of Music

(September 2024) - I teach an array of undergraduate and graduate courses, including the following for the 2024-2025 academic year:

  • MUSI x054A Jazz Piano (Applied)

  • MUSI 2210 Jazz in Global Contexts

  • MUSI 4360/GS MUSI 5200 Transcultural Jazz: Studies and Performance (Graduate)

Past Courses include:

  • MUSI 1059 Jazz Theory & Musicianship I

  • MUSI x051A Jazz Workshop: New Directions

  • MUSI 1110 Composition

  • MUSI 4580 Field Placement in Music

  • GS/MUSI 5180 Jazz Studies (Graduate)

    Deep Listening

    I have also become invested in the study, application and instruction of Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening, a practice that is “intended to heighten and expand consciousness of sound in as many dimensions of awareness and attentional dynamics as humanly possible.” (Oliveros 2005). In 2015 I studied at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with Pauline Oliveros, Heloise Gold and IONE, becoming a certified Deep Listening® teacher. Since then, I have been conducting Deep Listening workshops in Canada and the US.

 *Oliveros, Pauline. 2005. Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse. p. xxiii