About

In my professional work in musicology, at first I mainly pursued academic research and university course instruction. However, I also did a recordings archive collection assessment 

for UCLA’s Music Library Special Collections and served as the librarian of the Elora Festival 

& Singers, with which I also sang. In addition, I worked on web development, largely for non-profit arts and academic organizations, and volunteered in holds shelving and missing-item traces at the Waterloo Public Library. I have also written "public music history" books about the music of the Canadian band Rush and the British musician Peter Gabriel.

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My first degrees were an Honours BA in Music and Applied Studies Co-op from the University of Waterloo (1989), then an MA in Musicology from the University of Toronto (1991) and doctoral coursework also at the Univeristy of Toronto (1991-93). After my PhD in Musicology from UCLA (2003), I later also completed a Co-op IT Certificate from Conestoga College (2010) and then pursued a Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS) at Western University (2016-17).