Christine Beckett Ph.D.

Dr. Beckett received her Ph.D. (1993) in Music Education from McGill University.  Prior to joining Concordia University, Dr. Beckett was the Chair of Musicianship in the Faculty of Music at McGill from 2001 to 2003, and has been a private studio music teacher and performing violist since 1968.  She has performed her own original compositions, Fanfare I and II on the Name of Concordia with the Concordia Jazz Orchestra.  Dr. Beckett specializes in cognition and music perception.   She has given oral presentations at the 9th International Conference for Music Perception (ICMPC) in Bologna in 2006 and at the 8th Conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) in Montréal in 2007, for which she received grant funding from SSHRC. Her main research and teaching interets include music theory, ear training, keyboard skills, research in music cognition, perception and pedagogy.