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Mathew Muntz
Simon Cohen
I am a musicologist whose research focuses on French cultural history in the middle of the nineteenth century. I am interested in how music mediates and how it is mediated—its role in facilitating intimate social networks, colonial dispersion, and assertions of political power. My previous projects have considered Rossini and salon culture in Second Empire … Continue Reading »
Aine E Nakamura
My voice is of and with my body. I pursue sensibility and spirituality as my aesthetics through a focus on the nuanced possibilities of my voice. I am song itself. I recently focus on orality and movements of body. My theatricality is represented in my weaving of stories and imageries through my embodiment and sometimes … Continue Reading »
Danniel Ribeiro
Danniel Ribeiro is a Brazilian composer born in Bahia. Recently, Danniel’s practice has explored instrumental music, developing ways to expand the use of instruments by way of bespoke techniques, preparations, practical sculptural (and found) objects, amplification, and transduced electronics. In Brazil, Danniel studied with Paulo Costa Lima and Wellington Gomes, composers who continued the cultural resistance … Continue Reading »
Luke Dzwonczyk
George Papajohn
Flannery McIntyre
Flannery McIntyre is a PhD student in Musicology and Medieval Studies. She focuses on late antique and early medieval music, history, and material culture. Her master’s research was on the early medieval lyre. A.B. in Archaeology and the Ancient World (Classical), Medieval Cultures, and Music (History/Theory/Composition), Brown University MPhil in Archaeology: Medieval, University of Cambridge
Max Jefferson
Musicologist Max Jefferson (she/hers) centers her research around the agency and representation of Black bodies in American art music of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Her masters thesis, “American Pseudo-Realism: The Subversion of Black Agency in George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess,” interrogates the 1935 opening productions of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess not as musical art but as propaganda. … Continue Reading »
Eda Er
Eda Er, a native of Istanbul is a composer, sound artist and singer currently based in Berkeley, California. She primarily explores the potential of physicality and narrativity in her music. She enjoys collaborating with dancers, actors, and visual artists and improvising with electronics and vocals. She has had the pleasure to work as a composer … Continue Reading »
Allison Jerzak
Allison Jerzak is currently a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studies the history of music recommendation. In particular, she is interested in the digital infrastructure underlying these systems and the datasets used to train them. Previously, Allison studied piano at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and at the University … Continue Reading »
E. Ceyda Çekmeci
Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Ceyda Çekmeci completed her B.A. in Sociology at Boğaziçi University (2016) and her M.A. in Musicology at Istanbul Technical University, Center for Advanced Studies in Music (2019). In the meantime, she worked as a choir conductor in various public and private institutions, most notably at the Music for Peace Foundation (El … Continue Reading »