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Dorian Bandy

Academic title(s): 

Professor

Dorian Bandy
Department: 
Music Research
Music Performance
Area(s): 
Early Music
Music History/Musicology
Contact Information
Phone: 
+1 (514) 398-1266
Email address: 
dorian.bandy [at] mcgill.ca
Instrument(s): 
Violin
Group: 
Faculty
Office: 
C-306A, Strathcona Music Building
Degree(s): 

BA,听Cornell University
MMus, Royal Academy of Music (London)
PhD, University of Glasgow

Areas of expertise: 

Musicology; historical performance practice;聽philosophy of music

Biography: 

Dorian Bandy is a musicologist and performer with wide-ranging interests in the 17th through early 19th centuries.

Dorian's academic work, which draws from music history, theory, and philosophy, focuses on Mozart and Beethoven. He is the author of聽, an interpretive guide to Mozart's output based on analytic accounts of his solo keyboard works, concertos, symphonies, and operas. Dorian's other research interests include German instrumental music c.1660-1720 and Lieder c.1780-1840, as well as聽various issues in aesthetics and聽the philosophy of music (including the work concept, meme theory, musical meaning, and the philosophy of historical performance), and philosophical artworks more broadly (especially Stephen Sondheim's musicals). His writings on these and related topics have appeared in publications ranging from leading academic journals to blogs such as violinist.com and聽aestheticsforbirds.com.聽He is a member of the Re:Enlightenment collective.

Alongside his scholarly work, Dorian is active as a conductor, baroque violinist, and historical keyboardist.聽His repertoire spans four centuries, and his performances鈥攑raised for their "impressive emotional scope" and a "virtuosity [that is] relentless, precise, and above all, dazzling" (The Whole Note)鈥攈ave taken him to venues across Europe and North America, including London鈥檚 Wigmore and Cadogan Halls, Amsterdam鈥檚 Concertgebouw, and New York鈥檚 Symphony Space. As a conductor, he has served as music director of orchestras and opera companies on both sides of the Atlantic, garnering acclaim for his "unquestionable theatricality" and "palpable passion" (Opera Today) and ability, when conducting Mozart's operas, to "tread the line between joy and sadness" (Opera Now).

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

William Dawson Scholar (2023- )

Marjorie Weston Emerson Award, Mozart Society of America (2024)

Courses: 

MUHL 286 (Critical Thinking About Music)
MUHL 366 (Era of the Fortepiano)
MUHL 383 (Classical Music)
MUPP 381 (Topics in Historical Performance)

Graduate seminars: Music and the solitary; Mozart in the marketplace; Adventures in musical subjectivity; Philosophy of historical performance; Approaches to musical meaning; Research methods in music

Performance: Baroque orchestra, chamber music coaching, private lessons, vocal coaching, etc.

Selected publications: 

Monograph:

聽(University of Chicago Press, 2023)

Articles:

"When is the brilliant style not the brilliant style? Topical mention, ambivalence, and negation in Mozart and Beethoven."聽Journal of Musicology (forthcoming)

"Donna Elvira and the dark places of the heart."聽Journal of the Royal Musical Association (forthcoming)

"Beethoven's rhetoric of embellishment."聽19th-Century Music听46/2

"Mozart's operatic embellishments." Cambridge Opera Journal听33/1-2

"Thema da capo: another look at Mozart's embellishments."聽Eighteenth-Century Music听19/1
Winner of the Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America

"Violin technique and the contrapuntal imagination in 17th-century German lands."聽Early Music听49/2

Book chapters:

"Variation at the intersection of performance and composition in the 17th and 18th centuries," in聽The Oxford Handbook of Variation and Melodic Techniques听(蹿辞谤迟丑肠辞尘颈苍驳)

Reviews:

Review essays in聽The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism,听The Beethoven Journal, and the聽Newsletter of the Mozart Society of America

Discography: 

Mozart, Kreutzer, Gluck, Boccherini, Widerkehr: Chamber Music (ATMA, forthcoming)

Mozart: String Duos and Arrangements, including two premieres (Leaf, 2025)

Lovers and Mourners: Sonatas and Variations by Becker, Biber, Pisendel, Schenck, and Walther (Leaf, 2023)

Telemann: 1715 Violin Sonatas,听including one premiere (Balaena, 2018)

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