Kaylene Chan
Biography
Kaylene Chan is a third-year PhD student in music theory. She holds an MA in music theory from the University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Music with Distinction from the University of Victoria, and a Diploma of Music with Distinction from Capilano University. Her academic interests range from the analysis of physical movement and the relationship to music, analysis of timbre and texture in popular music, and music cognition and perception. Her doctoral research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. She has presented her research at the Music Theory Midwest Conference (2024, 2025), the International association for the Study of Popular Music (2025), and the Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting (2025). She is active within the UofT music community where she is currently a coordinator of the Musicology/Music Theory Roundtable Series, has served as the President and Secretary of the Music Graduate Student Association (2022-2025), and has tutored for the Student Service Program for undergraduate students at the Faculty of Music (2023-2025).