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Professor, Director of Arts, Curriculum Developer

Location:
Oakville, ON, Canada
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Discussed only after getting to know the position
Posted:
April 19, 2021

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Brian Jude de Lima, PhD

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

adls5f@r.postjobfree.com 647-***-****

linkedin.com/in/dr-brian-de-lima-phd-56189449 http://www.briandelima.com/index2.html Summary

Experience:

Dr. Brian de Lima is a Professor of Music at Centennial College and the coordinator/developer of a proposed new joint program with the University of Toronto Scarborough in Music Business and Technology. He is also the recipient of the 2018 KMB internship for innovative curricula design that reconciles all the arts as being crucial interdisciplinary aggregates of one another as a means for learning. As a professor, he has taught courses in music composition, theory, world music, piano performance, community music, 20th century music history and ethnomusicology. Dr. de Lima holds a PhD in ethnomusicology with research interests that examine the importance of learning the arts as an interdisciplinary unified whole. Dr. de Lima also holds a Master of Arts, and has been a critical resource in acting as a board member to several arts organizations within the GTA. As post-secondary coordinator of music, Dr. de Lima has developed his business acumen by sharing in upper level management duties such as team building, recruitment and termination, employee scheduling, board meetings, departmental budgets and curricula design.

Skills:

Profile Pianist, Composer and Arranger specializing in the analysis traditional Jazz- theory, harmony, history and performance, Classical music-theory, harmony and history, 20th Century Music History, Improvisation, Analysis, Composition, Arranging, Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Traditional Jazz and Classical hybrids, Electronic music/ Tribal music, Music History, and Cultural Studies

Career Highlights:

Developer of the "Music Business and Technology" joint program between UTSC and Centennial College. Winner of the 2018 KMB internship from York University for post secondary curriculum design. Arranging for jazz great Oscar Peterson to be nominated as the 2003 Mississauga Arts award recipient. Opening for Oscar Peterson twice. Opening for Diana Krall. Having several of my music students go on to be Juno award nominees and winners.

Experience

Coordinator/ Developer - Music Business and Technology Centennial College

Sep 2018 - Present (2 years 4 months +)

The co-developer, head coordinator, and professor for the new joint program in Music Business and Technology between the University of Toronto and Centennial College. Professor Of Music: 20th century music

Brock University

Jan 2020 - May 2020 (5 months)

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Teaching students the musicology and ethnomusicology that shaped 20th Century music. Music Coordinator and Professor Of Music: Music Career Development and Performance

Centennial College

Sep 2018 - Aug 2019 (1 year)

Coordinator of Music, responsible for aiding over 300 students and music professors in scheduling, curricula development and accountability to the PAC (akin to a board of directors). A key component of the job was "Human Resources"- recruitment (and sometimes termination) of individuals. Equipping students with the tools needed to sustain a career in the Arts after they graduate. Professor Of Music: Music in Global Culture II

Brock University

Sep 2019 - Dec 2019 (4 months)

Professor-Music in Global Culture II 2020 - the impact of world music on Western music. Professor of Music: Keyboard Harmony I and II

Brock University

Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year 1 month)

Teaching non piano music majors the intricacies of how to play the essentials of pIano so they can gain a solid competency.

Professor Of Music: "Music of the World's Peoples" Brock University

Jan 2018 - May 2018 (5 months)

Professor-Music of the World's Peoples 2018- professor of World Music. Professor Of Music: World Music/ Ethnomusicology

Centennial College

Jan 2014 - Present (7 years +)

Professor of World Music/ Ethnomusicology and Community Music. Professor Of Music: Ensembles and Private Lessons

Centennial College

Sep 2014 - Present (6 years 4 months +)

Aiding students to be skilled soloists and ensemble players. Curriculum Developer

Centennial College

Jan 2014 - Jan 2015 (1 year 1 month)

Developing curricula for courses such as World Music/ Ethnomusicology, Community Music, the Art of Performance and private piano studies.

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Instructor: Piano for non majors

York University

Sep 2011 - Apr 2016 (4 years 8 months)

Teaching non piano music majors the intricacies of how to play the essentials of pIano so they can gain a solid competency.

Instructor: Jazz Piano, Jazz Theory, and Jazz Ensemble Instructor Humber College

Jan 2004 - Jan 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Teaching students jazz piano, theory, and as well being an ensemble coach. Curriculum Developer and Lead

Merriam School of Music

Jan 2000 - Jan 2005 (5 years 1 month)

Advisor of Music education and programming.

Published Research

York University

Jan 2010 - Apr 2017 (7 years 4 months)

https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/33597/ de_Lima_Brian_J_2017_PhD.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/002/MR88632.PDF Researcher

Dr. Barry Harris

Jan 1990 - Present (31 years +)

Studying traditional jazz harmony and improvisation that includes jazz genres such as swing and bebop.

Researcher

Koninklijk Conservatorium - Royal Conservatoire

Jan 2000 - Jan 2005 (5 years 1 month)

Barry Harris workshops

Studying traditional jazz harmony and improvisation that includes jazz genres such as swing and bebop.

Music Composer

University of Toronto - Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Jan 1999 - Present (22 years +)

Virtual Metropolis (publisher: virtual metropolis) 1995 Humber College Records (lead composer) 1999

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Education

York University

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Musicology and Ethnomusicology 2012 - 2017

Dissertation Title: "Reanimating Dissonance: Cultivating the Antecedents of Barry Harris' Concept of Movement as Multidimensional Pedagogical Tool for Ontario Post-Secondary Jazz Curricula." My research was aimed towards elucidating how post-secondary jazz instructors have seldomly gone through similar diachronic trajectories as the African American men and women that created the music. My research data contrasted the sociocultural upbringings of the black individuals that created the music, versus the mainly Caucasian individuals around the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) that learned jazz music by either formulaic or rote modalities. Consequently, and as a result of not being raised in similar sociocultural/ sociopolitical environments, the Caucasian instructors did not assimilate

"blackness" (the baptist church, after hour parties, juke joints, dancing to jazz, the iambic pentameter of "black verse" or slang, etc...), and thus, could not teach from a vantage of jazz "authenticity." As a result of not sharing the same experiences of their African American counterparts, I (successfully) argued that the Caucasian instructor "jazz lens" is flawed or non authentic, as there are to many crucial

"black" modalities (sociocultural and sociopolitical) missing from these individuals' upbringing and phenomenological experiences of what constitutes "jazz." York University

Master of Arts - MA, Music Theory and Composition

2010 - 2011

The purpose of this research was to investigate whether musicians who have experienced brain or heart trauma subsequently experienced an altered creative output. Examples discussed included the correlations between species of trauma such as physical, emotional and mental stress, as well as the side effects of taking medications.

The primary source of study was my own compositions derived shortly after a concussion and myocardial infarction. Since these compositions contrasted greatly from my previous works, the study was conducted to further elucidate if various species of trauma have had a profound influence on my creative output. Various medical specialists in the fields of neurology and cardiology have contributed their expertise via interviews to this paper. Other notable musicians such as Bud Powell and Louis Armstrong were studied for their validity to the subject as a result of paralleling trauma to my own.

Skills

Microsoft Office • Public Speaking • Human Resources (HR) • Music Industry • Performing Arts • Curriculum Development • Teaching • Leadership • Executive Coaching • Mentoring Honors & Awards

KMB Internship for Curriculum Design - York University Aug 2018

$10,000 internship awarded for curriculum design, enabling young students and adults a seamless modality in the comprehension and assimilation of jazz music by way of utilizing the interdisciplinary arts

(dance, poetics, theatre, fine arts, etc.)

Virtual Metropolis - University of Toronto

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Aug 1997

Award Winning soundtrack for "Virtual Metropolis." A think-tank of progressive urbanism: its mission is to make visible the multi-layered culture of the contemporary, wired city of Toronto. Conference: Moderator and Keynote Speaker - University of Toronto May 2017

IASPM May 27 2017

Moderator

“Music Pedagogy: From the Classroom to the Orphanage.” International Society of Improvised Music

Conference: Keynote Speaker - Wilfrid Laurier University May 2016

Examining how some artists never lost their musical prowess after physical ailments— a view that is contrary to current

taxonomies.

Conference: Keynote Speaker - University of Toronto Oct 2015

Keynote Speaker at Music and Change conference

“Earl ‘Bud’ Powell’s Brilliant Downward Spiral”

Conference: Keynote Speaker - The University of British Columbia Jun 2015

Colloquium: Time Changes: Improvisation, History, and the Body, Vancouver BC- Speaking on the musical output of disenfranchised African American jazz musicians after experiencing trauma. Volunteering - The Living Arts Centre/ JPEC

Jan 2000

Volunteer experience

The Living Arts Centre Mississauga

Board Director

Company NameThe Living Arts Centre Mississauga

Dates volunteeredAug 1999 – Apr 2005 Volunteer duration5 yrs 9 mos Jazz Performance and Education Centre

Music Advisor

Company NameJazz Performance and Education Centre

Dates volunteeredSep 2017 – Present Volunteer duration3 yrs 4 mos CauseArts and Culture

Publications

Book Review(s)

The Lived Experience of Improvisation: In Music Learning and Life 2018

(Simon Rose)

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Improvisation and Music Education: Beyond the Classroom (Editors: Ajay 2018 Heble and Mark Laver).

http://www.criticalimprov.com/article/view/4086/4186 Articles

Erotic Cities: Examining the use of Instrumental anthropomorphism in Prince’s Music (Journal of African American Studies)

de Lima, B.J. J Afr Am St (2017) 21: 385. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-017-9362-8 Brian Jude de Lima, PhD - page 6



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