RESEARCH & FACULTY
Charlotte Leonard
Charlotte Leonard
Associate ProfessorMusic
Humanities and Social Sciences
705.675.1151 ext. 2523
SE-106H
Sudbury Campus
Charlotte Leonard is an Associate Professor of Music at Laurentian University, where she teaches music history and low brass. She is currently also serving as Chair of the Department. She received a Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree from The University of Western Ontario, a Master of Music in Trombone Performance from the University of Michigan, and both a Master of Art and a Ph.D. in Musicology from Duke University. Dr. Leonard has published two score anthologies of early baroque music. The first is entitled Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Church Music with Trombones and the second Selections from the Gespräche (1655-56) with Capellen by Andreas Hammerschmidt, both for A-R Editions. She has also published articles in the Historic Brass Society Journal, International Trombone Association Journal and Moravian Music Journal, as well as book reviews for the Historic Brass Journal and Newsletter, the American Musical Instrument Society, and The Canadian Association of Libraries Newsletter. She has given papers at the Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, American Bach Society, Canadian University Music Society, Early Brass Festival, International Brass Symposium, and International Trombone Festival, among others. She plays principal trombone regularly with the Sault Symphony Orchestra, the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra, the North Bay Symphony Orchestra, the Northern Brass Quartet, and the Northern Brass Choir. Her music history classes normally feature performance as an aspect of her pedagogy, usually resulting in her classes presenting a public concert of early music.
- Honours Bachelor of Music in Music Education
- Master of Music in Trombone Performance
- Master of Arts in Musicology
- Ph.D. in Musicology
Dr. Leonard's research focus includes repertoire for trombone, seventeenth-century Lutheran church music and brass ensembles, as well as the history of each of these subjects. Her interests include pedagogy in the areas of music history and trombone teaching, the history of local music ensembles, historical trombone performance and the transcription of scores of early baroque music for modern performance. She is currently working on a catalogue of all music naming the trombone, up to Beethoven's Three Equali, with two colleagues.
- Awarded a Certificate acknowledging helping students at LU for 2010, 2011 and 2012.
