HESS, Juliet

Juliet Hess is an assistant professor of music education at Michigan State University, having previously taught elementary and middle school music in Toronto. Her compositions regularly center the voice. She has written extensively for choir and for solo voice with chamber accompaniment. Her music draws upon the poetry of Dickinson, Housman, Yeats, Rossetti, Crane, and Lorca, among others.

Juliet received her Ph. D. in Sociology of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her book, Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education, explores the intersection of activism, critical pedagogy, and music education. Her research interests include anti-oppression education, activism in music and music education, music education for social justice, and the question of ethics in world music study.