Isabelle Cossette
Associate Professor
Premier Prix Conservatoire - 1989; Masters in Performance - 1991; Doctorate in Performance - D. Mus. 1995; Postdoctoral studies 1996-1999.
Former director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (2015-2020), director of the Music Performance and Body Lab (since 2005) and at the forefront of establishment of the Applied Performance Sciences Hub, Isabelle Cossette's research and teaching as an Associate Professor at the Schulich School of Music/McGill University since 2003, aims at developing scientific - and at times technology - based music pedagogies through the study of the performer- interaction, its biomechanical and expressive aspects, as well as looking into the health benefits/challenges of music-making. Her multidisciplinary expertise (flute and respiratory mechanics), international collaborations and her supervisory role for over 50 research trainees led her to publish in journals such as Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology, Medical Problems of Performing Artists, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Frontiers (in Computer Sciences and in Psychology).
Türk-Espitalier, A., Bertsch, M. & Cossette, I. (2024) The effect of expiratory muscle strength training on the performance of professional male trumpet players, Medical Problems of Performing Artists, 39(1):18-26, Doi: https://doi.org/10.21091/mppa.2024.1003
Cossette, I., & Creech, A., with Boucher, S., Gaudette, A., Generale, M., Lee, J., Enright, C., (2024). Relational pedagogies for later-life learning as participation. In: Creech, A., & Enright, C. (Eds.). Pedagogies for Later Life Music Learning and Participation - Facilitating Creative Musical Development in Later Life, Palgrave MacMillan.
Duarte, E., Cossette, I., & Wanderley, M. M., (2023) Analysis of Accessible Digital Musical Instruments through the lens of disability models: A case study with instruments targeting d/Deaf people, Frontiers in Computer Science, section Human-Media Interaction, (5), https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2023.1158476
Williamon, A., Cossette, I., Dąbrowski, K. P., Glasser, S., Héroux, I., Marandola, F., Stambaugh, L. A., eds. (2023). International symposium on performance science 2021. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. DOI 10.3389/978-2-83251-732-1
Spiro, N., Kaye, S., Perkins, R., Tymoszuk, U., Mason-Bertrand, A., Cossette, I., Glasser, S., & Williamon, A. (2021). The Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown 1.0 on Working Patterns, Income, and Wellbeing among Performing Arts Professionals in the United Kingdom (April–June 2020), Frontiers in Psychology, 11 (594086), 1-17 [DOI].
Massie-Laberge, C., Cossette, I., & Wanderley, M. (2019). Kinematic analysis of pianists’ expressive performances of romantic excerpts: Applications for enhanced pedagogical approaches, Frontiers in Psychology, Performance Science, 9:2725. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02725 .
Barbeau, A.-K., & Cossette, I. (2019). The effects of participating in a community concert band on senior citizens’ quality of life, mental health and physical health, International Journal of Community Music, 12:2, 269-288, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/ijcm.12.2.269_1
Cossette, I. & Héroux, I. (2017). Co-Editors, Editorial : Apprentissage et enseignement de la musique au XXIe siècle : l’apport des sciences et des technologies, Les Cahiers de la SQRM, 17:2.
Barbeau, A.K., & Cossette I. (2016). Intergenerational community bands and preservice music teacher training: A win-win interaction for new models of teaching and learning, In: CMEA/ACME Biennial Book Series on Research to Practice (Senior Editor, S. O’Neill) entitled 21st Century Music Education: Informal Learning and Non-Formal Teaching Approaches in School and Community Contexts, eds. Wright, R., Younker, B. A. & Beynon, C.
d'Alessandro, C., Cossette, I., Fabre, B., Fritz, C., Vergez, C., Wanderley, M., Wolfe, J., & Woodhouse, J. (2015). Co-editors, Editorial Special Issue: Musician–acoustic instrument interaction. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 101(2):5-6.
Vauthrin, C., Fabre, B., & Cossette, I. (2015). How do flute players adapt their breathing and playing to musical tasks? Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 101 (2), 224-237. DOI 10.3813/AAA.918821.
Nassrallah, F., Comeau, G., Russell, D., & Cossette, I. (2013). Coordination between breathing and different movement markers during pianists’ performance tasks, Perceptual and Motor Skills,116/1:1-20
Bianco T., Fréour V., Cossette I., Bevilacqua F., & Caussé R. (2012) Measures of facial muscle activation, intraoral pressure and mouthpiece force in trumpet playing, Journal of New Music Research, 41/1: 49-65.
Cossette, I., Fabre, B., Fréour, V., Montgermont, N., & Monaco P. (2010). From breath to sound: Linking respiratory mechanics to aeroacoustic sound production in flutes. Acustica / Acta Acustica, 96: 654-667.
Cossette, I., Monaco, P., Aliverti A., & Macklem, P.T. (2008). Chest wall dynamics and muscle recruitment during professional flute playing, Respiration Physiology and Neurobiology, 160: 187-195.
Cossette, I. Mécanique respiratoire des flûtistes professionnels. (2002). Revue des Maladies Respiratoires, 19:197-206.
Cossette, I., Sliwinski, P., & Macklem, P.T. (2000) Respiratory parameters during professional flute playing, Respiration Physiology, 121/1:33-44.
