Education
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2022–2024), University of Toronto
- PhD in Music (2020), University of Cambridge
- Master of Music in Piano Performance with Distinction (2015), Royal College of Music
- Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance with Distinction (2013), University of Victoria
Biography
Dr. Daniel Jordan is an instructor of musicology at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.
Daniel’s current research focuses on music, aesthetics, and cultural policy from the beginning of the Cold War to the present day. He is concentrating on the governments and geographical regions of Canada, Latvia, and Ukraine.
Daniel is the author of Coros y Danzas: Folk Music and Spanish Nationalism in the Early Franco regime, 1939-1953, published by Oxford University Press (2023). He has also written peer-reviewed articles for Musical Quarterly and Music & Letters and book reviews for Intersections and Revue de musicologie.
Daniel regularly presents papers at the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, the British Forum of Ethnomusicology, and the Royal Musical Association.
Daniel completed a postdoctoral research at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Daniel wrote his PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge on the music, gender, and politics of Francoist Spain. He also holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance with Distinction from the Royal College of Music, London, and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance with Distinction from the University of Victoria.
Daniel continues to perform as a pianist alongside his academic career.