Joy Ollen

Joy Ollen

Joy Ollen began teaching at Douglas College in 1996 and became head of the Aural Skills Division in 1998. She holds three degrees in music theory: a Ph.D from the Ohio State University and a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral work was in the field of music perception and cognition, with a minor in Research Methodology. Joy's dissertation examined the validity of various indicators of musical sophistication used by music researchers and is available for download at: http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1161705351.

Joy Ollen studied piano and accompanying with Jane Hayes, Ronald Turini and Damjana Bratuz (University of Western Ontario) and with Robert Rogers (University of British Columbia).

Joy Ollen has published and presented on topics including music theory pedagogy, musical form and connections between speech and music. Her interest in aural skills pedagogy has led to a study of selected evaluative methods and experimentation with the movement- based teaching approaches of Jaques-Dalcroze.

She is a member of the Society for Music Theory, the College Music Society and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.