TCC 23. The Classical Canon - TCC Roundtable
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast is the first TCC Roundtable, with today’s subject being The Classical Canon. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla discusses with performer/educator Dr. Pamela Mireles and music theorist Albert Wheeler to define the canon, who is in it, who is excluded, issues with pedagogy, structural change with tangible solutions to these issues.
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Albert Wheeler contact: https://www.instagram.com/wheeler_albert_/
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Aaron D'Zurilla
Theorist/TCC Founder
He/Him
Aaron D'Zurilla is the primary host and founder of the Theorist Composer Collaboration. With diverse research interests in both modern classical composition and rap, Aaron has presented work at the 2025 Indiana University Symposium of Research in Music, with a paper titled: “Guess Who’s Back: Narrative Subversions in The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)". In a currently forthcoming presentation, Aaron will also present at the 2025 Analytical Approaches to World Musics Symposium on the Music Theories, Histories, Analysis, and the Musical Cultures of Asia, with a paper titled: "International and Personal Tragedy in "A Vietnamese Mother’s Letter to Nixon" (2023)". Aaron also has a forthcoming publication through SMT-Pod, titled: "Trauma and Vocal Timbre in Ellen Reid’s p r i s m (2019)"
Aaron holds a Bachelor's of Music in Music Theory from the University of Florida and a Master's of Music in Music Theory from Florida State University.
Contact:
acdzurilla@yahoo.com
941-773-1394
Dr. Pamela Mireles
Performer/Educator
She/Her
Dr. Pamela (pah-MEH-lah) Mireles is a Mexican-American violinist with different talents
and strengths in her musical career. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Violin
Performance (2017) in the Escuela Superior de Música from the Fine Arts and Literature
National Institute in Mexico City, and her masters in Violin Performance (2019) and her
Doctorate in Musical Arts in Violin Performance with a cognate in Entrepreneurship (2022)
from the University of Florida. Since her studies in the hometown in Mexico, Dr. Mireles
has performed as a soloist, joined jazz bands, folkloric music ensembles, new music
projects, chamber music and orchestra performances, both in the classical and pop style.
Nowadays, Pamela spends her time freelancing in several orchestras around North
Florida, teaching violin lessons (privately and in public education), teaching music
appreciation online as an adjunct and translating in-person lessons and masterclasses
from Spanish to English and vice versa.
Albert Wheeler
Theorist
He/Him
Long Island native Albert Wheeler is a Master's in Music Theory student at Florida State
University. Before arriving in Tallahassee, he attended the Aaron Copland School of Music at
CUNY Queens College. He received a bachelor's in Music Education while competing in Track
and Field for the Knights. His primary instrument is the violin, allowing him to play in
prestigious venues such as Kodak Hall at the Eastman School of Music and Carnegie Hall in
New York. His current research interests include pedagogy, Greek popular music, and Topic
theory.
Email:wheeleralbert25@gmail.com
