معرفی
Nathalie Fernando is a full professor of ethnomusicology and Dean of the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal. She holds a position jointly between the Faculty of Music and the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She serves as the founder of the MCAM (Comparative Musicology and Music Anthropology Laboratory), which has branches in both faculties and hosts international researchers and students at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Her research interests focus on the analysis of musical systems, modeling phenomena, and categorization. Current research projects address aesthetics, the relationship between music and emotion, transcultural analysis of lullaby performances, and comparative studies of Pygmy music from Central Africa (Congo-CAR-Cameroon). She has conducted extensive fieldwork with Pygmy populations in Central Africa, examining music and culture in endangered communities.
Professor Fernando served as Vice-Dean for Theoretical Studies and Research at the Faculty of Music from 2011 to 2018 and as Vice-Dean for Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. She was holder of the Canada Research Chair in Ethnomusicology from 2005 to 2015, a position shared between the Faculty of Music and the Department of Anthropology.
- Canada Research Chair in Ethnomusicology (2005-2015)
- Montreal University Research Chair in Ethnomusicology
She has collaborated with teams from the Faculty of Education and Faculty of Medicine to develop the Music for Children program in partnership with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, which has enabled over thirty children from Saint-Rémi School in Montreal North to discover music through group sessions and individual lessons since 2016. Her research laboratory MCAM serves as an interdisciplinary hub for international researchers and students studying comparative musicology and music anthropology.
