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Myrtle D. Millares
Myrtle D. Millares is a classical pianist with an Honours BA in philosophy, music history and theory, and French, and a bachelor of music degree. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in music education, complemented with studies in piano pedagogy and performance while teaching at her music studio and at the University of Toronto’s Children’s Piano Pedagogy Program. Myrtle’s experiences in the b-boy/b-girl community have inspired focus on the development of hip-hop artists in Toronto. Through narrative inquiry into artist identity construction she seeks to inform music education pedagogy. Other research interests include the role of Filipinos in the development of Toronto hip-hop, use of hip-hop-derived pedagogy in piano instruction, and an autoethnographic study of postcolonial effects on institutional music study and musician identity. She is the co-founder of Climate Pledge Collective, which provides tools for individual action and activism to mitigate the effects of our climate emergency.