Lena Console

Lena Console teaches courses in music theory and aural skills, with a focus on introductory musicianship and chromatic harmony. Before joining BW, she taught music theory and aural skills at Northwestern University and was a teaching artist with the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Music Partners.

Console is a Ph.D. candidate of music theory and cognition at Northwestern University. Her dissertation focuses on the phenomenology of metric irregularity in popular music, using qualitative methods to excavate their qualia through motional, metaphorical, and affective lenses. Console has presented this research at international, national, and regional conferences, including The Groove Workshop, the AMS-SEM-SMT Joint Meeting, and Music Theory Midwest. In addition to rhythm & meter and popular music, other research interests include music cognition and gender studies.

An active performer, Console plays baroque trumpet with period orchestras throughout the Midwest, Pacific Northwest and Canada, as well as modern trumpet in community jazz ensembles and chamber groups.