Dr. Yoko Hirota
- Contemporary Classical Piano Music and Chamber Music with Piano
- Piano Music for Young Performers by Canadian Composers
- Dr. Hirota is a strong advocate of contemporary music and she particularly enjoys performing music, including works written for her, by some of Canada’s finest composers.
- Dr. Hirota's “Teaching Contemporary Piano Music” workshops are in high demand across North America as are her informative lecture/recital presentations.
Dr. Charlotte Leonard
Dr. Leonard's research focus includes repertoire for trombone, seventeenth-century Lutheran church music and brass ensembles, as well as the history of each of these subjects. Her interests include pedagogy in the areas of music history and trombone teaching, the history of local music ensembles, historical trombone performance and the transcription of scores of early baroque music for modern performance. Her current research focuses on the local history of the Sudbury Band and composer Sam Mason. Dr. Leonard is also involved in a project with two other trombone historians entitled The Early Trombone: A Catalogue of Music from the 16th to the 19th Century. In addition, she will be responsible for editing Volume 8 of the Complete Works of Sebastian Knüpfer (1633–76) as part of the American Institute of Musicology's series Corpus musicae.