Dr. Jonathan Goldman

Professor

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Biography

Jonathan Goldman specializes in 20th-century avant-garde music and is a full professor of musicology at the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal. He is the author of 'Avant-Garde Record: Musical Responses Stereos' (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and since 2024 has served as the editor of the journal 'Twentieth-Century Music' published by Cambridge University Press. From 2006 to 2016, he was the editor of the journal 'Circuit, musiques contemporaines' and has contributed to the 'Routledge Encyclopedia Modernism' (2016). Goldman authored 'Musical Language Pierre Boulez: Writings Compositions' (Cambridge University Press, 2011), which won an Opus Book of the Year award. Noteworthy publications include the co-translation of Pierre Boulez's Collège de France lectures published by Faber (UK) and University of Chicago Press. Goldman has also published collaboratively in 'La création musicale au Québec' (PUM, 2014) and edited 'Texts Process Music Composition 19th 20th centuries' (UT Orpheus, 2015). An accomplished bandoneon performer, he was a member of the group Quartango (2007-2017), which won both a Juno Award and an Opus Prize in 2015. He has performed with renowned ensembles and artists such as Musici de Montréal, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, and Lara St. John. His academic contributions have received multiple Opus awards for articles and recordings in music.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor

2002-09-01 — Present

Université de Montréal • Montréal, QC, Canada

Full professor of musicology at the Faculty of Music, specializing in 20th-century avant-garde music.

Awards

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Opus Prize

2022-01-01
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Opus Prize

2011-01-01
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Juno Award

2013-01-01

Requirements for Université de Montréal

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:90
Prerequisites
MSc in Pharmacology or equivalent Research supervisor confirmation
Application Checklist
  • Transcripts
  • Birth certificate
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Proof of French proficiency (B2/C1)
Specialization Notes

Department of Pharmacology and Physiology - Research intensive with options in Neuropharmacology and Pharmacogenomics.