All graduate students at the Faculty of Music are members of the MGSA, entitled to vote in its elections, attend its meetings, and participate in its events. The Executive Team manages and represents the MGSA on behalf of its members. Its non-executive Council members represent graduate areas and programs (to the MGSA) and represent the MGSA to University of Toronto and Faculty of Music unions and committees.
Executive Team
Sophia Wang
President
Sophia Wang is a PhD candidate in Music Education at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include policy, cross-sectoral relations, paradigm shifts, and institutional change in music education. Sophia’s on-going dissertation research examines how school music festivals function as events and networks through which private sector and social economy actors shape the provision of public school music education in Canada. Her doctoral studies are supported by the SSHRC CGS-D and the OGS. Sophia is an Ontario Certified Teacher (OCT), flutist, and alumna of the University of Toronto (Mus.Bac. ’18, MA ’23) and Queen’s University (B.Ed. ’19).
Jude Leschyshyn
Vice-President, Internal
Jude Leschyshyn (he/him) is a second-year Master’s student in Musicology. His principal research interests include 19th- and 20th-century pianism and piano music (particularly that of France and Russia) and the philosophy of music. He holds a Bachelor of Music and Certificate in Jazz from the University of Saskatchewan (’23), with professional experience as a teacher, performer, and composer. He is an enthusiast of cinema and baseball. His research is supported by SSHRC and CGRS-M.
Isaiah Chadney
Treasurer
Isaiah Chadney is a PhD student in Musicology at the University of Toronto. He holds an MA in Musicology from the University of Toronto and a BMus in Performance from the University of Lethbridge. His research interests broadly include music and politics, cultural history, philosophy, and the relationships between music, technology, and media, with recent research examining the musical culture of Canadian political movements in the latter half of the twentieth century. Questions of political power, collective identity, and social imagination are central to this work, alongside interests in mediation, ideology, aesthetics, hybridity, and archival research. Alongside his academic work, Isaiah maintains an active musical practice spanning performance and other creative work.