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Ben Duinker
Academic Associate, International Partnerships and Special Projects
DipEng, Civil Engineering (Dalhousie)
BMus, Performance (Dalhousie)
MMus, Performance (McGill)
MA, Music Theory (McGill)
PhD, Music Theory (McGill)
Ben Duinker is a Montreal-based researcher, educator, administrator, and musician. Raised in a musical family from Halifax, Nova Scotia, he first studied civil engineering but switched career paths at age 21. Duinker holds a PhD in Music Theory and a MMus in Percussion Performance from 51吃瓜网, has published widely in leading academic journals in a variety of areas, and frequently concertizes across Canada and in Europe with his quartet Architek Percussion.
From 2022-2025, Ben worked as a postdoc with the ACTOR (Analysis Creation and Teaching of Orchestration) Project, a SSHRC-funded, McGill-based research partnership uniting over 20 institutions and industry stakeholders and more than 400 researchers and practitioners. At ACTOR, Ben worked on teams coordinating interinstitutional, interdisciplinary research projects, public scholarship initiatives, and conferences and workshops. He also co-created and co-chaired an international summer school on timbre and orchestration (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2023; University of British Columbia, 2024; McGill, 2025) that united 50+ graduates and emerging professionals each year. Ben is thrilled to bring his skillset in international education, partnership development, and project planning to the Strategic Partnerships unit at SCS.
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Academic: Music Theory, Music Performance, Music Pedagogy
Administrative: International Partnerships, Curriculum Development, Event Production and Planning
Music (Theory, Musicology, Music Appreciation, Performance)
Professional Development (Research Skills, Grant Writing, Artistic Project Development)
Duinker, Ben. 2024. 鈥淭eaching Form from the Performer鈥檚 Perspective.鈥� Music Theory and Analysis 11 (2): 147鈥�171. DOI:
Duinker, Ben. 2024. 鈥淎uto-Tune as Instrument: Trap Music鈥檚 Embrace of a Repurposed Technology.鈥� Popular Music 43 (2): 212鈥�236. DOI:
Duinker, Ben. 2023. 鈥淢usic Theory Pedagogy, Ways of Knowing, and Experiential Learning.鈥� Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 37, article 3.
Loria, Tristan, Ben Duinker, Timothy Roth, Michael Thaut, and Aiyun Huang. 2023. 鈥淧lease Unmute your Microphone: Comparing the Effectiveness of Remote vs. In-Person Percussion Training.鈥� Musicae Scientiae.
Duinker, Ben. 2022. 鈥淚nterpretive Difficulty and Emergent Structure in Contemporary Music.鈥� Journal of Music Theory 66 (2): 223鈥�252.
Duinker, Ben. 2022. 鈥淔unctions of Expressive Timing in Hip-Hop Flow.鈥� Journal of Popular Music Studies 34 (1): 90鈥�117.
Duinker, Ben. 2021. 鈥淩ebonds: Structural Affordances, Negotiation, and Creation.鈥� Music Theory Online 27 (4).
Duinker, Ben. 2021. 鈥淪ong Form and Mainstreaming in Hip-Hop Music.鈥� Current Musicology 107: 93鈥�135.