Nature and nationalism in the vocal music of Jean Coulthard

GLENN COLTON is an Assistant Professor of Music at Lakehead University, where he teaches courses in music history, form/analysis, music criticism and Canadian music. His principal areas of research interest include nineteenth-century piano music, interdisciplinary studies involving music and art/literature, and Canadian Music of the twentieth century. He is the author of a doctoral dissertation on the piano music of Jean Coulthard (Ph.D. diss., University of Victoria, 1997), editor of the first published edition of Coulthard’s second piano sonata, and a contributor of articles to publications such as the Canadian University Music Review, the International Alliance for Women in Music Journal, the University of Toronto Quarterly, and Fermata. As a pianist, he has given many solo and chamber performances in Newfoundland, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia (including the world premiere of Coulthard’s complete Images for solo piano in 1996), and has served as a piano adjudicator at music festivals in Newfoundland. He is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland (B.Mus., 1990), McMaster University (M.A., 1992), and the University of Victoria (Ph.D., 1997), where his principal piano teachers were Maureen Volk, Edmund Dawe (Memorial), Valerie Tryon (McMaster), and Robin Wood (Victoria). A native of St. John’s and resident of the city during the inaugural Festival 500, he was a reviewer of Festival 500 concerts for The Evening Telegram in 1997 and is delighted to return this year as a participant in Symposium II.