Faculty

DOROTHY de VAL

BMus, MA (Toronto), ARCM (Royal College of Music, London), PhD (King's College, London)
Associate Professor, Musicology
Department of Music, York University

ddeval@yorku.ca

Professor de Val is a musicologist and pianist whose research interests include the history of the piano, late 19th-century concert life in London, and the English folksong revival. She has published widely on pianos and pianism, ranging from early pianos to early 20th-century pianists such as Fanny Davies, a pupil of Clara Schumann, and Paderewski. Her most recent work includes articles on the pianist and composer Muzio Clementi. Her research on the folk music revival in England in the early 20th century includes publications on the scholar and collector Lucy Broadwood and on Percy Grainger. She is a contributor to the New Dictionary of National Biography and many music reference works including The Haydn Companion, and is a regular reviewer for the journal Music and Letters.

Dr. de Val complements her research with performances on early and modern pianos, and is also an experienced accompanist. She has taught at the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music (London), Oxford Brookes University and the University of Oxford. She joined York University's Department of Music in 1999.

Dorothy de Val currently serves as director of the Graduate Program in Dance (MA) and the Graduate Program in Dance Studies (PhD) at York University.