Mark V. Campbell is a DJ, scholar and curator. His research explores the relationships between Afrosonic innovations and notions of the human. Dr. Campbell is a former Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Fine Arts at the University of Regina and is currently the Principal Investigator in the SSHRC funded research project, Hip Hop Archives: The Poetics and Potentials of Knowledge Production as well as the SSHRC funded Black Studies Summer Seminar. As co-founder of the Bigger than Hip Hop radio show in 1997 and founder at Northside Hip Hop Archive in 2010, Mark has spent two decades embedded within the Toronto hip hop scene operating from community engaged praxis as both a DJ and a Curator. Mark’s forthcoming books include Afrosonic Human Life (via Bloomsbury), the co-edited collection of essays, Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production with Murray Forman (2022 via Intellect). Dr. Campbell recently published …Everything Remains Raw: Photographing Toronto hip hop Culture from Analogue to Digital as part of the 2018 Contact Festival exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and We Still Here: Hip Hop in North of the 49th Parallel with Dr. Charity Marsh (2020 with Queen’s McGill). Dr. Campbell has published widely, with essays appearing in the Southern Journal of Canadian Studies, Critical Studies in Improvisation, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society and the Journal of World Popular Music. His popular writing can be found in various public sources, such as the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star as well as hip hop magazines such as Urbanology.

Usual Courses Taught:

Musical Diasporas

DJ Cultures: Analogue Innovations

Digital Aesthetics, Popular Music Preservation

Archives & Exhibitions

Educator and conductor, Dr. Tony Nam-Hai Leong completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. An advocate for well-being and social change through accessible and lifelong music-making, community engagement is central to his work. Dr. Leong serves as MusicFest Canada’s Chairman of the Orchestra/Strings Division; Executive Member of the Canadian Music Educators’ Association; Past-President and member of the Ontario Music Educators’ Association Board of Directors; co-founding director of the Ontario Strings Association; Conn-Selmer Educational Clinician; and past Board Member of the Coalition for Music Education in Canada. With a passion for public and post-secondary education, Dr. Leong is an assistant professor, teaching stream at the University of Toronto Scarborough; an instructor at Queen’s University; and Head of the Arts Department at Sir Oliver Mowat C.I.. His research includes the intersections of string music education, technology, adolescents, community music, and Music for Life.

Usual Courses Taught:

Foundations in Musicianship

String Orchestra

Small Ensembles - Acoustics

Roger’s teaching and scholarship focus on connections between education and well-being, with an emphasis on lifelong engagement in and with music and the arts. Roger grew up in Manitoba, where he subsequently taught instrumental music in schools (in Dauphin, Brandon, Winnipeg, and Oakbank), and performed as a member of Saxology Canada and the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra. After completing his PhD at University of Toronto, he held academic appointments at Boston University and Arizona State University before returning to Toronto as a member of the Arts, Culture and Media Department at UTSC, with a graduate appointment at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). Roger is the author of Music, Leisure, Education: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (2021), co-author of Education, Music, and the Social Lives of Undergraduates: Collegiate A Cappella and the Pursuit of Happiness (2020), co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education (2017) and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure (2016). He is on the editorial boards of several academic journals and is senior editor of the International Journal of Community Music. Complete information at rogermantie.com.

Usual Courses Taught:

Foundations in Musicianship

Introduction to Music Teaching, Facilitation, and Learning

Introduction to Community Music

Music, Health, and Wellness

Laura Risk is a fiddler and musicologist. Her research examines genre formation and the mechanics of innovation in traditional music from Québec and related fiddling-based traditions. She also works on a variety of community-engaged research projects, ranging from digitizing and disseminating archival recordings to producing community CDs to designing professional development workshops for music educators. She has published in Ethnomusicology, MUSICultures, and Critical Studies in Improvisation, and is co-editor of a recent triple special issue on “Improvisation, Musical Communities, and the COVID-19 Pandemic” for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Laura received the 2014 Prix Mnémo for her co-production of the CD “Douglastown: Music and Song from the Gaspé Coast.” Her writings have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, and Strings Magazine.

Usual Courses Taught:

Foundations in Musicianship

Music in the Contemporary World

Exploring Community Music

Alan Stanbridge has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in the fields of popular music, jazz history, cultural policy, museum studies, and cultural theory, and his new book, Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse, will be published by Routledge in 2022. He is a contributor to the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, writing the main entries on Jazz and Postmodernism, with the main entry on the Hollywood Musical forthcoming in a future volume. Stanbridge is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cultural Policy, and served on the Editorial Board of the Jazz Research Journal from 2004 to 2021. Stanbridge’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the manner in which a variety of discourses have shaped contemporary understandings of musical meaning and cultural value, and has been supported by grants from SSHRC. From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Stanbridge pursued a fifteen-year career in professional arts management and music promotion in the UK, during which time I held the posts of Festival Director of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival, Director of Jazz Services, Centre Manager at MAC (Midlands Arts Centre), and Administrative Director at the Almeida Theatre.

Usual Courses Taught:

Jazz Roots and Routes

Movies, Music and Meaning

Exploring Music in Social and Cultural Contexts

Critical Issues in Music and Society

Kotoka Suzuki is a composer and sound artist. Her work frequently investigates the relationship between visual elements and sound, often crossing into theater. Suzuki’s work has been featured internationally by performers such as Arditti String Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, Pacifica Quartet, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Continuum, and Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra (Germany). She received her B.M. in composition from Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and a D.M.A. in composition at Stanford University, where she studied with Jonathan Harvey. She has held academic positions at the University of Chicago and Arizona State University and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough with a graduate appointment in the Faculty of Music on the St. George campus. Her work is published by Edition RZ, EMF Media, IMEB records and Signpost Music. She has been an associate composer at the Canadian Music Centre since 2001.

Usual Courses Taught:

Developing Musicianship

Digital Music Creation

Creative Audio Design

Aaron Tsang is a Canadian composer and producer who has provided original music, sound design and post-production audio to over a hundred titles and releases across video games, commercials, television shows, films, and performance arts productions. As a recording, mixing and mastering engineer, his work for Christos Hatzis’ and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s “Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation” won a Juno award for “Classical Album of the Year” in 2017. His other recent collaborations include recording and mixing Matthias McIntire and Rachel Fenlon’s song cycle “Sing Nature”; producing, recording, and mixing Sarah Slean and Christos Hatzis’ orchestral song “Nothing But The Light”.

In video games, Aaron has composed music for over 30 titles since 2010, beginning with CAPCOM Beeline’s “Smurfs’ Village”. Some other highlights include mobile games for franchises such as Shrek (DreamWorks Pictures), Ghostbusters (Sony Pictures), Yu-Gi-Oh! (Konami), and Kim Kardashian’s “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood”, a game with over 145 million global downloads. In 2017, Aaron was the composer for “Shuyan Saga”, a graphic novel style 3D action video game released on Steam, mobile platforms, and now PS5, which stars Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Burden of Truth) as the titular heroine Shuyan. The game features a full orchestral soundtrack, and was nominated by the Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for “Best Original Interactive Production for Digital Media”.

Aaron teaches at the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Music Industry & Technology (MIT) program in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media as well as at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music in the Music Technology Digital Media (MTDM) and Composition departments.

Usual Courses Taught:

Introduction to Music, Industry, and Technology

Introduction to Music and Technology

Lynn Tucker has proudly conducted the UTSC Concert Band since 2004, and teaches additional courses in community music, musicianship, and small ensembles. She founded and facilitates This Uke’s for U-TSC, a weekly ukulele session open to all members of the campus community. Engaging people in lifelong music-making is at the forefront of Lynn's work with research interests in learner-centered pedagogy, facilitation, community music, avocational music-making, and leadership. Her dedication to fostering accessible music-making opportunities for students regardless of career path was recognized with a Canadian Music Educators’ Association Excellence in Leadership Award. Lynn is President of the Canadian Band Association and Co-Editor of their professional journal Canadian Winds/Vents canadiens, Past-President of the Ontario Band Association, and serves on the board of directors for the Coalition for Music Education in Canada. In 2020-21, she was named Community-Engaged Learning Faculty Fellow by the Centre for Community Partnerships at the University of Toronto.

Usual Courses Taught:

Concert Band

Introduction to Community Music

Foundations in Musicianship

Campbell, Mark V. (2022). Afrosonic Life. Bloomsbury  Academic. goes here

Charity Marsh, Mark V. Campbell (Eds.). (2020). We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel. McGill-Queen's Press

Mantie, R. (2022). Music, Leisure, Education: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press).

Mantie, R. & Talbot, B. (2020). Education, Music, and the Social Lives of Undergraduates: Collegiate A Cappella and the Pursuit of Happiness (Bloomsbury Press).

Stanbridge, Alan (forthcoming, 2022) Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse, New York: Routledge

Mantie, R. & Smith, G.D. (Eds.) (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure.New York: Oxford University Press.

Ruthmann, S.A. & Mantie, R. (Eds.) (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education. New York: Oxford University Press.

Laura Risk. With Anne Lederman, Erynn Marshall, Christina Smith, and Jean Hewson. Pan-Canadian fiddling ensemble.ere

Laura Risk. With Nicholas Williams, Rachel Aucoin, and Nic Gareiss. Traditional Québécois repertoire and original compositions. Awarded the Prix OPUS for Album of the Year—Traditional Québécois Music from the Conseil québécois de la musique.

Risk, Laura. 2000 Miles. With Éric Beaudry, Rachel Aucoin, Michel Donato, Éric Breton. https://laurarisk.bandcamp.com/album/2000-miles

Suzuki, Kotoka. Apparitions, Signpost Music – Rei Hotoda, piano – inclusion of “Hidden Voices”

Suzuki, Kotoka. IMEB records, Bourges Cedex – FranceBourges – inclusion of “Umidi Soni Colores”

Risk, Laura, and Glenn Patterson, co-producers. Douglastown: Musique et chanson de la Gaspésie. Douglas Community Centre DOUG001, 2014. Compact disc and booklet (60 pp.). https://douglastown.bandcamp.com/album/music-and-song-from-the-gasp-coast

Suzuki, Kotoka. Mikka & Other Assorted Love Songs, Albany Records, Eric Rynes, violin – inclusion of “Sift”

Chicouté. Quand la saison viendra. Marie Marceau, Laura Risk, and Marianne Trudel. https://mariemarceau.bandcamp.com/album/chicout-quand-la-saison-viendra-2

Risk, Laura. Triptych. With Kieran Jordan and Paddy League. https://triptychtrad.bandcamp.com/album/triptych

Mantie, R. (forthcoming). Getting it Right: On the (Im)possibilities of Play in School Music. Philosophy of Music Education Review.

Mantie, R., & Tironi-Rodó. P.  (2024). Interculturalism, Interculturalidad, and Music Education. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 23 (1): 102–123. https://doi.org/10.22176/act23.1.102

McArton, L. & Mantie, R. (2023). Music, health and well-being in IJCM articles: An integrative review.  International Journal of Community Music, 16(1), 51-81 https://doi.org/10.1386/ijcm_00075_1.

Mantie, R. (2023). What should one expect from a sociology of music education? Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education, 22(1), 112-138.

Risk, Laura. (in press) “Share the Arts, Share the Planet: Toward a ‘Regional Residency’ Model for Sustainable Touring in the Post-Pandemic.” MUSICultures.

Risk, Laura. “Ginger Smock: Narratives of Perpetual Discovery, Jazz Historiography, and the “Swinging Lady of the Violin.” Journal of the Society for American Music 17, no. 2 (2023): 151-177.

“Le 1 juillet 1928 entre tradition et modernité : Le défilé de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste comme expression régionaliste sonore et performative.” MENS: Revue d'histoire intellectuelle et culturelle 24, no. 1 (2023): 117-139. 

Stanbridge, Alan (2008) 'From the Margins to the Mainstream: Jazz, Social Relations, and Discourses of Value', Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation, Vol. 4 No. 1

Stanbridge, Alan (2007) 'The Tradition of all the Dead Generations: Music and Cultural Policy', International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 13 No. 3 (2007): 255-271

Mantie, R. (2024). Ethno Online. In Higgins, L. (Ed.), In Higgins, L., & Gibson, S.J. (Eds.) Ethno Music Gatherings (pp. 133-147). Intellect Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835950364_9

Mantie, R. & Tironi, P. (2024). Marvelling at the Ethnoverse: Intercultural Learning through Traditional Music. In Higgins, L., & Gibson, S.J. (Eds.) Ethno Music Gatherings (pp 96-113). Intellect Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835950364_7 

Mantie, R. & Marais, G. (2024). It’s About the Relationships: Epiphanies in Songleading. In Morgan-Ellis, M. & Norton, K. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing (pp. 258-273). New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197612460.013.14

Mantie, R. (2023). I’ve Learned Three Chords. Now What? In Smith, G.D. & Powell, B. (Eds.) The Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education (pp. 115-119). Intellect Publishing.

Risk, Laura. “Soirée canadienne: Televised folklore in Quebec.” In Music and Genre: New Directions, eds. Georgina Born and David Brackett. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Forthcoming.

Risk, Laura. “Tracing the Tunes: A Computer-Aided Mapping of Musical Variation in Early Commercial Recordings of Instrumental Dance Music in Quebec.” In Trans-Atlantic Transactions: Fiddle and Dance Studies From Around the North Atlantic Series 5, eds. Heather Sparling and Chris McDonald. Aberdeen, U.K.: University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Institute NAFCo Series. Forthcoming.

Risk, Laura, and Keegan Manson-Curry. “Playing with Tradition: Personal Authenticity and Discourses of Traditional Music-Making at Ethno World Gatherings.” In Ethno Music Gatherings: Pedagogy, Experience, and Impact, eds. Lee Higgins and Sarah-Jane Gibson. Bristol, U.K: Intellect, 2024, 25-42.

Risk Laura. “‘Trouble is, we don’t make the rules’: The Las Vegas Years of Jazz and Classical Violinist Ginger Smock.” In The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas, ed. Jake Johnson. Chicago: University of Illinois Press,  2023, 180-196.

Stanbridge, Alan (2018) 'And Then I Don’t Feel So Bad: Jazz, Sentimentality, and Popular Song', in Tony Whyton, Nicholas Gebhardt and Nicole T. Rustin (eds.) (2018) The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies, New York: Routledge, pp. 139-149

Stanbridge, Alan (2013) 'Somewhere There: Contemporary Music, Performance Spaces, and Cultural Policy', in Ajay Heble and Rob Wallace (eds.) People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz is Now!, Durham, NC: Duke University Press (2013), pp. 184-196

Mantie, R. & Talbot, B. (forthcoming). Contemporary A Cappella. In Horn, D. & Shepherd, J. (Eds.), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World.

Mantie, R. (2019). Arts Education as Leisure Education. In Peters, M. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_681-1. goes here

Stanbridge, Alan (forthcoming) 'The Hollywood Musical', in John Shepherd and David Horn (eds.) Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Genres: International, London: Continuum

Stanbridge, Alan (2012) 'Jazz', in David Horn and John Shepherd (eds.) Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Vol. VIII Genres: North America, London: Continuum (2012), pp. 286-307

Stanbridge, Alan (2003) 'Postmodernism', in John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Paul Oliver and Peter Wicke (eds.) Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Vol. 1: Media, Industry and Society, London: Continuum (2003), pp. 106-111

Suzuki Kotoka. 30 Jahre Inventionen Festival, Edition RZ – inclusion of “Automata | Mechanical Garden” https://www.edition-rz.de/3355-107,1,0.html

Suzuki, Kotoka. DVD, 50 Jahre Elektronisches Studio der TU Berlin, EMF Media – inclusion of “Umidi Soni Colores” https://www.discogs.com/release/2464719-Various-50-Years-Studio-TU-Berlin

Stanbridge, Alan (2017) 'Beautiful Pictures and Question Marks: The Willem Breuker Kollektief’s Musicality and Theatricality', Liner notes for the 11-CD set, Out of the Box - Willem Breuker Kollektief (BVHAAST, 2017)

Stanbridge, Alan (2017) 'At Somewhere There', Liner notes for the CD At Somewhere There - Evan Parker, Wes Neal, and Joe Sorbara (Barnyard Records, 2011)