Dr. Robert Pritchard, D.M.A. (Br.Col.)
Assistant Professor, Theory; Chromatic Harmony and Form; Interdisciplinary Projects; Special Topics.

Office: 604.822.3526, Room 313
Email: dr.bob(at)ubc.cabob@interchange.ubc.ca

Bob Pritchard works in acoustic, electroacoustic, and interactive media as well as with film/video, dance, and installation art. He has received several awards and commissions from The Canada Council, the B.C. Cultural Fund, the Ontario Arts Council and the C.B.C. In 2007, his work Strength received a Unique Award of Merit from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers.

He is a joint recipient of three Innovation Fund awards and in 2004 received a three-year SSHRC Artist-Researcher grant for the refactoring and refinement of gesture-controlled vocal synthesis. In 2007 he was a joint-recipient of a three-year New Media Initiatives grant from the Canada Council for the Arts/Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, developing Digital Ventriloquized Actors (DIVAs) and in 2009 he and Keith Hamel received a three-year SSHRC artist-researcher grant to develop score-following systems for interactive performance environments. He is a full researcher with the UBC Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS), the UBC Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC), and co-director of the UBC research group for MUsic, Sound, and Electroacoustic Technologies (MUSET).

Dr. Pritchard completed degrees at the U. of Toronto and U.B.C., with additional studies at Simon Fraser University and Stanford University. He has taught at Brock University, the UBC Dept. of Physics, Douglas College, and the UBC School of Music. In 2004 he was awarded a UBC Killam Teaching Prize. Currently he is the vice-chair of the Canadian Music Centre British Columbia Region.