Dorian Komanoff Bandy

Dorian Komanoff Bandy is a baroque violinist and musicologist. He is Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator of Early Music at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, and has previously taught at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Norwegian Academy of Music (Norges Musikkhøgskole), Oslo.

He holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of Glasgow and a master's in baroque violin and conducting from the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he was a Marshall Scholar, following undergraduate studies at Cornell University. His monograph Mozart the Performer is published by the University of Chicago Press, and his research on melodic embellishment and improvisation appears in journals including Eighteenth-Century Music, Early Music, and the Cambridge Opera Journal. As a performer he has worked with ensembles such as the Dunedin Consort, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Avison Ensemble, and Musica Florea.