Music theorist and composer Robert Hasegawa joined the faculty of McGill University's Schulich School of Music in 2012. His research explores contemporary music, spectralism, psychoacoustics, timbre, and orchestration. Recent projects include studies on composers Georgia Spiropoulos and Pascale Criton, microtonal theory and composition, creative constraints in contemporary compositional practice, and applications of transformational theory to the music of George Benjamin and Georg Friedrich Haas. He is a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Orchestration Studies and associate director of the ACTOR Project (Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration) supported by Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. His research has appeared in the journals Music Analysis, Music Theory Spectrum, Perspectives of New Music, Živá hudba, and Circuit : musiques contemporaines, as well as in edited collections including Théories de la composition musicale au XXe siècle and Xenakis Matters.
