Faculty

MICHAEL MARCUZZI

BMus (Windsor), BEd (Toronto), MA, PhD (York)
Associate Professor: Music Education
Department of Music, York University

marcuzzi@yorku.ca

Michael Marcuzzi is a performer, arranger, composer, ethnomusicologist and teacher with broad experience in classical, jazz, Cuban, Latin and popular music. He advanced his training through orchestral studies with trumpeters James Spragg and Barton Woomert of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, among others; jazz studies with Kenny Wheeler, Herbie Williams, Marcus Belgrave and Donald Byrd; and percussion studies at the Escuela de Superacion Profesional, Ignacio Cervantes in Havana, Cuba. He has performed with symphony orchestras in Windsor, Detroit and Mississauga; as freelance trumpeter with artists such as Cleo Laine, Sid Caesar, The Four Tops, Al Martino, The Drifters, The Temptations and many others; with numerous musicians in Cuba; and with many Latin music ensembles in Toronto. His credits as arranger and composer include work with the Canadian Brass, University of Memphis Jazz Orchestra, and Toronto-based Latin ensembles Orquesta Fantasia and Pacande.

Professor Marcuzzi's research interests include organology, Cuban music, African cultural retentions in the diaspora and gender studies in music.

Prior to joining the full-time faculty at York University, Professor Marcuzzi taught for 10 years at the university and secondary school level and in community settings in Windsor, Toronto and California. At York, he holds a cross-appointment in the Faculty of Education.