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Vanessa Romao

Musicology

Biography

Vanessa Romao is a PhD student in Musicology with a collaborative specialization in Women and Gender Studies. Broadly, her research interests include voice and identity in 20th and 21st century art music and music theatre. Her current CGS-D supported research focuses on uncovering the gendered dynamics and authorial politics surrounding the use of extended vocal techniques in mid-century musical modernism and experimentalism. Vanessa also holds an MA in Musicology from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Music in Voice from Queens University.