Research

My current research, funded by a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, and the Canada Council for the Arts, examines new practices for the documentation of electroacoustic music, with data collected and analyzed through the research-creation lenses of performer and composer.

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Prior to this turn to the technological, my doctoral research addressed two compositions for unaccompanied violin written by the German violin virtuoso and composer Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739–1796). These pedagogical works, jointly called Sonate, are notable because they are structurally and stylistically modeled after Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sei Solo of 1720. Despite Sei Solo’s profile as a cornerstone of present-day violin performance, there remain lingering questions about how violinists performed the work in Bach’s own day. As a close associate of the Bach family and an esteemed violinist, Rust’s pedagogical Sonate constitute a hitherto unstudied account of how a period violinist interpreted, analysed, and taught Sei Solo.