Dr. John Roeder, Prof. Nancy Hermiston, and Dr. David Metzer
Congratulations to Professor of Music Theory Dr. John Roeder who recently celebrated 35 years at the UBC School of Music, and congratulations to Professor of Voice and Opera Nancy Hermiston and Professor of Musicology Dr. David Metzer, who both joined the quarter-century club this year!
The School of Music welcomed two new full-time faculty members in 2020-21: Dr. Leigh VanHandel, Associate Professor of Music Theory, and Krisztina Szabó, Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera.
A leading expert on teaching music theory, Prof. VanHandel is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy and the author of Oxford University Press’s Music Theory Skill Builder, an online music fundamentals drill and practice program. Her research areas include pedagogy, music cognition, the relationship between music and language, computer-assisted research, and how these things all relate to one another. Dr. VanHandel joins UBC from Michigan State University.
Prof. Szabó is a Hungarian-Canadian mezzo-soprano who is well-known for her promotion and performance of contemporary Canadian works. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario, a postgraduate degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Vancouver audiences will be familiar with Prof. Szabó from her past appearances with Early Music Vancouver and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. She performed her début recital at UBC on Nov. 4th, as part of the school’s Wednesday Noon Hours series.
