Faculty Mentors
Dr. Lindsey Reymore
Lindsey Reymore* (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Arizona State University in the School of Music, Dance and Theater.
Dr. Reymore’s research investigates the roles of timbre in musical experience, particularly with respect to meaning, cognition, and formal structure. She applies interdisciplinary methodologies, using approaches from behavioral psychology and data analytics in combination with music analysis. Her research has been published in journals including Frontiers in Psychology, PLOS One, Music Perception, Psychomusicology, and Musicae Scientiae, and she has shared her work via international and national conferences.
Dr. Reymore is an active member of (& former postdoc with!) the ACTOR Partnership (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration, https://www.actorproject.org/), a global network of musicians and scientists working on projects related to musical timbre and orchestration. She co-leads the Society for Music Theory Timbre & Orchestration Interest group as well as ACTOR’s Timbre Semantics Working Group. Dr. Reymore completed a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University and holds a PhD in Music Theory from The Ohio State University as well as degrees in oboe performance from The University of Texas at Austin (MM) and Vanderbilt University (BMus).
Originally from Stuart, Florida, she also enjoys traveling, hiking, running, yoga, rock climbing, reading, and spending quality time with her infamously lazy cat, Claudette.
*Hair color may vary.
PhD (Ohio State University)
MMus (The University of Texas at Austin)
BMus (Vanderbilt University)
Dr. Nick Shea
Nicholas Shea (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Arizona State University in the School of Music, Dance and Theater.
Broadly, Dr. Shea's research investigates how musicians, listeners, and performers use their body to understand musical organization, especially in popular-music contexts. His work encompass three main methods: corpus analyses, or the study of large databases of music; behavioral studies, which track how folks respond to music in real time, such as via motion capture; and pedagogical research, where he applies research-backed cognitive-learning practices to develop accessible teaching materials. His research has been published in Music Theory Online, Music Perception, Music Theory Spectrum, Empirical Musicology Review, and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Journal.
Dr. Shea holds a PhD in Music Theory from Ohio State University, a Master's in Music Theory from UMass Amherst, and a Bachelor's of Music Education from the University of Missouri – St. Louis and Pierre Laclede Honors College. He is a member of the ACTOR Partnership (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration, https://www.actorproject.org/), chair of the Music Informatics Interest Group for the Society for Music Theory, and director of the ASU Music Theory Pedagogy Graduate Certificate program.
Outside of research and teaching, he enjoys taking on DIY projects around the house, playing with his cats Bucky and Sushi, and making Wookiee noises in tandem with his son Oscar.
PhD (Ohio State University)
MMus (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
BEd (University of Missouri)