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RESEARCH

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Photo: Mari Poller

Academic Bio 

Described by Jazzwise magazine as “an imperious presence on tenor sax,” German/Canadian saxophonist Jonathan Lindhorst is an internationally recognized performer, composer, educator, and leading researcher in the emerging field of Tone-Clock Theory. For more than a decade, Jonathan has had an active international career performing and lecturing across Canada, the EU, and the USA, and maintains creative residences in both Montreal and Berlin. 

 

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, a Master’s in Music from Queens College CUNY, and is currently a Doctoral candidate in Jazz Performance at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University under the supervision of professors John Hollenbeck and Robert Hasegawa. Jonathan is also a course lecturer at McGill University where he has taught theory, analysis, improvisation, composition, as well as directing the Chamber Jazz Ensemble and running regular public workshops on Tone-Clock Theory. 

 

Jonathan has also spoken at multiple conferences around Europe and North America about Tone-Clock Theory and its applications to contemporary jazz improvisation, composition, and analysis, and his article “Tone-Clock Theory Explained: Mapping the Chromatic Tonalities” will be published in the December 2024 issue of the Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie. 

 

Keywords: Jazz, Improvisation, Composition, Post-Tonal Theory, Tone-Clock Theory

Conferences 

Society for Music Theory annual meeting, Jacksonville, Florida, 2024

13th Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, Leuven,

Belgium, 2024

Society for Music Analysis, EdMAC conference, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2024

International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers (ISJAC) Jazz Symposium,

hosted by Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, Nashville, TN, USA, 2024

SMA OxTAGS conference at Oxford University, UK (special mention), 2024

McGill Music Graduate Symposium, McGill University, Schulich School of Music, Montreal, Canada, 2024

University of Toronto Faculty of Music Graduate Student Conference, 2024

Selected Lectures and Masterclasses 

Tone-Clock Theory and Composition, Jazz Forum Series, McGill University, Schulich School of Music, 2024

Introduction to John Zorn’s Cobra, Jazz Forum Series, McGill University, Schulich School of Music, 2024

Tone-Clock Theory and Improvisation, Jazz Forum Series, McGill University, Schulich School of Music, 2023

Tone-Clock Theory Vol.1, Masterclass, Jazz Heaven, 2023

Introduction to Tone-Clock Theory, Universität der Künste Berlin, 2023

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