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Luke Dahn, PhD

  • Luke Dahn
Associate Professor, Music
Phone number
403-407-9522
Email Address
luke.dahn@ambrose.edu

Biography

As a composer, I have had the privilege of working with many fantastic musicians and ensembles.The thrilling experience of artistic collaboration, the creative process of bringing something new to life with other artists, is the reason I compose. My works can be heard on the Albany, Bridge, and Furious Artisans labels. Teaching is my other passion, and I love that I can study great works of music alongside others for a living. I have served on music faculties at the University of Utah and at Northwestern College (IA) where I was honoured with the 2011 Teaching Excellence Award, one of my proudest achievements. My work in music theory has primarily centred on the four-part chorales of J.S.Bach, and in 2017 I created www.bach-chorales.com which houses much of that research.

My hobbies include chess, reading fiction, and playing basketball. But my favourite thing to do is to travel abroad and explore other cultures with my wife Julie and daughter Mae.  

Two of my recent works can be viewed below: 

 

Select Publications

“Gyôrgy Ligeti’s Melodien (1971) as Pedagogical Vehicle for Analytical Exploration” presented at the international conference “The music of Gyôrgy Ligeti in the world of teaching” held at the Conservatorio di Musica “Antonio Vivaldi” on December 15-16, 2023. https://www.conservatoriovivaldi.it/WIP/wp-content/uploads/Convegno_Ligeti_Programma.pdf
“Automatic Figured Bass Annotations Using the New Bach Chorale Bass Dataset,” co-written with Yaolong Ju, Sylvain Margot, Cory McKay, and Ichiro Fujinaga, presented virtually at the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference (October 11-16, 2020) and published in the conference proceedings. https://program.ismir2020.net/poster_5-02.html
“Fifth Amendments: Editorial ‘Corrections’ in the Early Bach Chorale Collections” presented at the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory annual meeting, March 23-24, 2018, University of Arizona.
“Situating the Fasch Manuscript among the Early Collection of Bach Chorales” presented at a conference in Lviv, Ukraine entitled “Ex umbra in solem” honoring the work of Christoph Wolff, November 2-5, 2017.
Piano Sonata (2023) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0HmOcq_47I
Richter 938-5 (2022) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL2XIv1_zoI
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