Cecilia Oinas
Cecilia Oinas is a Finnish-Hungarian music theory lecturer, music scholar and classically trained pianist from the University of the Arts Helsinki Sibelius Academy. Her research focuses on music analysis, performance, various modes of communication, and performativity in chamber music. During 2018 she worked as a post doc/senior scientist at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent and at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York.
In her academic dissertation (passed with distinction in 2017) “’Magic points’ and evaded cadences: Analysis, performance, and their interaction in the Piano trios of Mendelssohn and Schumann” she examined the opening movements of the piano trios of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann with a special aim to combine aspects of analysis and performance in a two-dimensional way: a performance influenced by analysis and analysis by performance.
Cecilia has published peer-reviewed articles in Music & Practice, SMT-V, and Music Performance Research and actively given presentations and lecture recitals in various seminars, colloquiums, and conferences throughout Europe and US. She has been teaching various music analysis and theory classes at university level for several years, including fundamentals of music theory (harmonic analysis, four-part writing), more advanced tonal and post-tonal music analysis courses, as well as special courses that combine analysis and performance approaches, which is very close to hear heart. She is also an active pianist, specialized in chamber music and collaborating with classical singers.
