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Rodney Padovani

Born and raised in the Caribbean, Rodney graduated in Spring 2023 with a BA magna cum laude in History of the Americas, Foreign Languages (French and German), and Music from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, where he was awarded the Luis Muñoz Marin Prize in History of the Americas. Born and raised … Continue Reading »

Soren Nyhus

Soren Nyhus is a first-year Musicology PhD student at UC Berkeley. He received a Bachelor’s in Music from Harvard University in 2022 and an MPhil in Music from Cambridge University in 2023. His master’s thesis, “The Italian Renaissance in Viennese Opera of the First World War”, investigates the ways in which portrayals of the Renaissance … Continue Reading »

Rubina Hovhannisyan

Rubina Mazurka Hovhannisyan is a PhD student in Musicology, with interest in Venetian and Ottoman cross-cultural interactions in the 16th and 17th centuries, as evident through musical performance-practice influence on one another. In addition, she is interested in modern transcriptions of 16th and 17th century Venetian vocal music. Her master’s research project included several musical … Continue Reading »

Dionysius Arya Nataraja

Dion Nataraja is a composer, experimental vocalist, and scholar from Indonesia. He graduated from Bennington College and is currently pursuing a PhD in music composition at UC Berkeley. His musical and scholarly works have been focusing on the intersection of areas such as Javanese gamelan, electroacoustic music, microtonality, instrument building, and critical theory. The composer-pianist … Continue Reading »