Jonathan De Souza is an Associate Professor of Music Theory in the Don Wright Faculty of Music. He serves as the Director of Western’s Graduate Collaborative Specialization in Music Cognition. He is also an Associate Member of Western’s Centre for Brain and Mind and a Core Member of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism.

De Souza’s research combines music theory, psychology, and philosophy, and it examines both classical and popular repertoire. He is particularly interested in music, performance, and embodiment. For example, his book, Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition, asks how instruments affect music’s sounding organization and players’ experience. In 2020, Music at Hand won the Emerging Scholar Book Award from the Society for Music Theory, and he received a Faculty Scholar Award recognizing significant achievements in research.