Jonathan Wild

As a McGill undergraduate, Jonathan narrowly avoided completing a Physics degree before transferring to the Schulich School of Music. There he completed a B.Mus in Composition, studying composition with Bengt Hambreus, piano with Charles Reiner and Eugene Plawutsky, and jazz trombone with Muhammad Al-Khabyyr. He stayed on at McGill for a Master's degree in music theory, working mostly with Prof Brian Alegant, while continuing his composition studies with Bruce Mather.

In 1997 Jonathan began a Ph.D in Theory and Composition at Harvard University, where his advisor was David Lewin and his composition teachers were Mario Davidovsky and Bernard Rands. His dissertation is a study of musical "tessellation": register-specific pitch configurations as a compositional resource. He has remained active as a composer, most recently serving as composer-in-residence for The Hilliard Ensemble. His scholarly interests include early twentieth-century harmonic practice, alternative tuning systems, Schenkerian Analysis, History of Theory during the scientific revolution, and computation in music theory and in audio synthesis.