Brian Jude de Lima is the coordinator of the joint University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)/Centennial College Music Business and Technology program and a faculty member in the Music Industry Arts and Performance program at Centennial College.
He is a racialized jazz pianist with allegiances to the styles of Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, Charlie Parker, J.S Bach, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Olivier Messiaen. Brian holds a Ph.D. in Musicology/ Ethnomusicology, with research interests that examine the importance of learning the arts (particularly African American musics) as intersections of an interdisciplinary unified whole (music, dance, poetics, fine arts, theatrics). As an academic scholar, Dr. de Lima believes that to teach a musical genre, one must first delineate the socio-cultural/ socio-political narratives that have contributed to its cultivation. As a performer, he has opened twice for Oscar Peterson and Diana Krall. Professor de Lima's published work can be found in IASPM, Routledge, Springer, University of Chicago Press, University Press of Mississippi, MUSICultres, and the Journal of African American Studies. Dr. de Lima also has a YouTube channel dedicated to traditional jazz and Classical Harmony.