Lee R. Bartel

Professor, Music Education

Director, Canadian Music Education Research Centre
B.A. (Manitoba), B. Mus (Brandon), A.Mus (Western Board), L. Mus. (Western Board), M. Ed. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Illinois- UC)
email: lbartel@chass.utoronto.ca
website: www.leebartel.com

Lee Bartel teaches at the graduate level (Research Methods, Music and the Brain, and Social Psychology of Music) and at the undergraduate level (Introduction to Music Education). He has extensive early experience as a music teacher at the elementary and high school levels and as a performing choral conductor, singer, violinist, and guitarist.   He has special interest in new pedagogies and in music therapy. He has served as editor of the Canadian Journal of Research in Music Education, editor of the Canadian Music Educators’ Journal, and as senior editor of the CMEA Research to Practice biennial book series. He has presented many academic papers and workshops around the world. As a researcher he has pursued multiple interests including music topics in psychology, social psychology, curriculum, and music therapy, and general educational topics ranging from international educational reform to issues of schools, parents, and homework. His varied publications include research articles on music response, curriculum, and pedagogy; edited books on philosophy of music and curriculum; a guitar text, Get into Guitar, and is perhaps most well known for his research and design of music for health (24 albums with Somerset Entertainment) and music for children (60 albums with Fisher Price). He has served as anchor for evaluation for a major international educational reform project in Central Asia, under the United Nations.  Current research interests include the “Face the Music” project focused on conditions of learning including negative aspects of abuse, the development of music enjoyment ability retraining (Music-EAR) approaches for cochlear implant recipients through Sunnybrook Health Sciences, and the effects of low frequency physioacoustic vibration of body and mind.