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KELSEY

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I am currently working towards my Master’s degree in Music Theory from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. My work at UBC has been primarily analytically focused, engaging with a wide variety of repertoire and music theoretical techniques. At UBC I have also had opportunities to teach and research, activities that I aim to continue in the future. I play the flute and completed my Bachelor of Music degree at Queen’s University, where I gained experience in performance; music theory; orchestral, chamber, and jazz conducting; and composition. I plan to complete a Ph.D. in Music Theory and hope to find a career in music research, teaching, and academia. My current research focus is harmony in Tchaikovsky's orchestral music and I look forward to pursuing additional research interests, such as the relationship between theory and listening, music perception and cognition, music theory pedagogy, groove studies, musical form, and analysis of popular and non-Western musics.

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LAURA
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I’m a professional musician, and my instrument is the flute. I spent my thirties traveling wherever my instrument brought me, and I so played as principal flute in different orchestras in Italy, Mexico and China for about ten years. I decided then to go back to University to deepen my knowledge of flute performance in relation to physiological parameters and embodiment techniques. In addition to artistic performance, sharing my passion for music is a very important part of what I do, either through my teaching or just trying to bring classical music to a wider audience, bridging the most different cultures and social settings. Connection would be the word that describes me better: I am in fact interested to the musical phenomenon not only as artistic product, but also as a tool to connect artists together, to fill the gap between who is on stage and who is sitting in the audience, connecting different realms of artistic expression, and finally bridging the hyperuranion heights of the Academia to a wider public. Beside music, I’m an avid reader, interested in oriental languages and cultures (I have a degree in Chinese Language and Literature) and philosophy. In my spare time I love swimming and walking in the nature.

I’m mom of Leo, who is 5 years old and growing up between Italy and Canada.

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ALEX


I was born in 1991 in the city “where the sun rises first,” João Pessoa, in northeast-Brazil. There I started studying the piano with my grandma and ended up graduating at the Federal University of Paraíba in 2014. During my undergrad I fell in love with the harp too and was fortunate enough to have had great teachers! The academic calling spoke a little louder though and I ended up going to the University of Calgary, AB, in order to pursue a Master’s degree in Musicology (with a concentration in music theory) that I finished in 2018. In that same year I was accepted into the Music Theory Ph.D. program at the University of British Columbia. I lived in Vancouver for two years (2018–20) while I was doing the required coursework. It was there that I met these wonderful people—Laura, Kelsey, and Sofie—and we started talking about The Music Bubble! Now I’m back to my hometown where I’m to conduct my research remotely and trying to manage distances and timezones!

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