Julia Dokter, PhD, DMus
Part-Time Lecturer of Harpsichord, Secondary Organ, and Academic Studies
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Julia Dokter holds a D.Mus in organ performance (McGill University) and a Ph.D in musicology (Utrecht University). She currently teaches harpsichord, secondary organ, and music history at Baylor University.
Dokter specializes in the performance of early music up to J.S. Bach, including Sweelinck, Frescobaldi, and Couperin, but also loves to explore the French organ music of the 19th and 20th centuries.
In her teaching, she is passionate about bringing the music of the masters alive through the exploration of inter-connections between the various European styles of performance and composition.
As a soloist, Dokter has performed in prominent venues such as the Basilique Notre-Dame in Montreal, Sts. Anges-Gardiens in Lachine, and Metropolitan United Church in Toronto. She also gave a lecture-recitals at early music conferences in Aberdeen (UK) and Montreal.
Dokter’s book "Tempo and Tactus in the German Baroque: Treatises, Scores, and the Performance of Organ Music" has been published by Rochester University Press. She also has published a further study in German baroque tempo with the Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschedenis (TVNM), and studies in baroque musical rhetoric with the TVNM and Ashgate, including a Dutch translation and an abridged (English) version of the article in Het Orgel and The American Organist. She has presented her research at various conferences in Europe and America, and at the Curtis Institute for Music.
She is the recipient of the American Musicological Society's "Noah Greenberg Award" and the American Bach Society's "William H. Scheide Research Grant".
She has previously taught at Georgia State University (Music History), Agnes Scott College (Organ), Brock University and Redeemer University College (Music Theory).