Haley Heinricks

Haley Heinricks is a Ph.D. candidate in music theory at Harvard University. Her research investigates relationships between instruments (broadly construed) and musical encounters. Specifically, her dissertation focuses on the saxophone, adopting critical organological perspectives alongside archival research, music analysis, and ethnographic methods in order to understand the saxophone as a music-theoretical instrument. Her other research interests include film music studies and ludomusicology, where she is currently most curious about the roles of music and sound in world-building and storytelling.

Prior to attending Harvard, Haley received her B.Mus. in Music Education (Secondary) from the University of British Columbia and her M.Mus. in Music Theory from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. She performs regularly as tenor saxophonist with the Azura Quartet, a Vancouver-based saxophone quartet that won the FCMF National Music Festival’s chamber music division in 2017. Outside of her academic life, you can often find her working on a jigsaw puzzle or engrossed in a story. 

Photo credit: Nicole Loeb