Leydon, Rebecca
Rebecca Leydon is Professor of Music Theory at Oberlin Conservatory, in Oberlin, Ohio. Born in Saskatchewan, she holds degrees in music from University of Toronto, Eastman School of Music, and McGill University. Her writing appears in Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online, Perspectives of New Music. Popular Music, JAMS, and various essay collections—most recently, The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music.
Noble, Jason
Jason Noble is a composer and researcher whose work focuses on meaning in contemporary music. He currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the Université de Montréal, funded by FQRSC. Previously he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with the ACTOR project (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration). His PhD from McGill University was funded by the prestigious Vanier Scholarship (SSHRC).
Reymore, Lindsey
Dr. Lindsey Reymore
Postdoctoral fellow, McGill University, Music Research
lindsey.reymore@mail.mcgill.ca
Research interests: music analysis, timbre semantics, cognitive linguistics of timbre, crossmodal correspondences, cross-cultural research, music perception/cognition, corpus studies of orchestration, timbre in pop music, instrument-specific absolute pitch
Skills: experimental design, R, Bash/humdrum (basic), oboe performance, music theory
Current ACTOR projects: Timbre semantics, Orchview beta-testing, Executive Committee, Knowledge Mobilization Committee, Voice Working Group, Diversity Working Group, CORE Analysis Working Group, newsletter editor, social media.
Saariaho, Kaija
Kaija Saariaho is a prominent member of a group of Finnish composers and performers who are now, in mid-career, making a worldwide impact. Born in Helsinki in 1952, she studied at the Sibelius Academy there with the pioneering modernist Paavo Heininen and, with Magnus Lindberg and others, she founded the progressive ‘Ears Open’ group. She continued her studies in Freiburg with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber, at the Darmstadt summer courses, and, from 1982, at the IRCAM research institute in Paris.
Yadegari, Shahrokh
Yadegari is currently on the faculty of the department of Music at UC San Diego, and the director of the Sonic Arts Research and Development group and the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) at the Qualcomm Institute (UC San Diego's branch of California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology).
