Western offers nationally recognized scholars, teachers and performers -- leaders in Canadian music -- to engage students in a learning environment equaled by very few Canadian schools. The following faculty are available specifically to graduate students:
Emily Abrams Ansari
Assistant Professor (Musicology): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Theodore Baerg
Professor (Voice; Opera): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Doctoral Membership
Jill Ball
Assistant Professor (Percussion): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Limited Membership
John-Paul Bracey
Professor (Piano): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Doctoral Membership
Torin Chiles
Assistant Professor (Voice): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Limited Membership
Norma Coates
Associate Professor (Popular Music Studies): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
John Cuciurean
Associate Professor (Music Theory; Tonal & Post-Tonal Theory and Analysis): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Omar Daniel
Associate Professor (Composition; Electroacoustic Media): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Peter Franck
Associate Professor (Music Theory; Schenkerian Analysis): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Master's Membership
Paul Frehner
Associate Professor (Composition; Electroacoustic Media): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Edmund Goehring
Associate Professor (Musicology): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Patricia Green
Associate Professor (Voice): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Doctoral Membership
James Grier
Professor (Medieval Music; Music of Aquitaine: 900-1200; Textual Criticism and Music Editing; Popular Music: Post-World War II): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
John Hess
Associate Professor (Collaborative Piano): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Doctoral Membership
Aaron Hodgson
Assistant Professor (Trumpet): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Master's Membership
Jay Hodgson
Associate Professor (Popular Music Studies): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Leslie Kinton
Associate Professor (Piano): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Doctoral Membership
Peter Paul Koprowski
Professor (Composition; Music Theory): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Victoria Meredith
Professor (Choral Techniques; Vocal Techniques, Conducting): Dept. of Music Education; Doctoral Membership
Kevin Mooney
Associate Professor (18th- and 19th-century Harmonic Theory; Riemann; Post-Riemannian Transformation Theory; Music Hermeneutics; Music Perception and Cognition): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
David Myska
Associate Professor (Composition; Theory; Electroacoustic Media): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Gerald Neufeld
Associate Professor (Choral Techniques; Conducting): Dept. of Music Education; Master's Membership
Catherine Nolan
Associate Professor (Music Theory; History of Theory; Schenker; Pitch-class Set Theory; Tonal and Post-tonal Music Analysis); Doctoral Membership
Colleen Richardson
Associate Professor (Wind Ensemble; Conducting Techniques): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Doctoral Membership
Sophie Roland-Wieczorek
Associate Professor (Voice): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Doctoral Membership
Richard Semmens
Professor (Historical Performance Practices; French Baroque Music; Baroque Dance and Dance Music; History of Music Theory; History of Music and Science; History of Woodwind Instruments): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Jana Starling
Assistant Professor (Clarinet): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Master's Membership
Jeffrey Stokes
Associate Professor (Double Bass; 19th-century Performance Practice; Wagner): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Doctoral Membership
Stéphan Sylvestre
Associate Professor (Piano): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Doctoral Membership
Robert Toft
Professor (Popular Music: recordings and mixes, analytical procedures for both songs and recordings, singing, textual criticism, 1960s pop and rock; Western Art Music: modes and modality, musica ficta, lute song, the bel canto tradition, rhetoric and music): Dept. of Music Research and Composition; Doctoral Membership
Kari K. Veblen
Associate Professor (Multicultural and Interdisciplinary studies): Dept. of Music Education; Doctoral Membership
Annette-Barbara Vogel
Professor (Violin,Chamber Music): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Master's Membership
Thomas Wiebe
Associate Professor (Cello; Chamber Music): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Master's Membership
Todd Wieczorek
Assistant Professor (Voice): Dept. of Music Performance Studies; Master's Membership
Robert Wood
Associate Professor (Music Technology in Education; Music Perception); Dept. of Music Education; Master's Membership
Paul Woodford
Professor (Historical, Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of Music Education; Instrumental Music Education, Conducting, Qualitative Research): Dept. of Music Education; Doctoral Membership
Ruth Wright
Associate Professor (Sociological, Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of Music Education): Dept. of Music Education; Doctoral Membership
Betty Anne Younker
Professor (Historical, Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of Music Education): Dept. of Music Education; Doctoral Membership
