The UC Berkeley Department of Music is pleased to announce critically-acclaimed artist, composer, and scholar Etienne Charles who will kick off the Department’s 2019 colloquium series on February 1st. Charles is a world-renown recording artist, composer, arranger, and assistant professor of Jazz Studies at Michigan State University. His talk is titled “Untold Stories: Deepening context … Continue Reading »
Where does musical knowledge, signal processing, and artificial intelligence intersect? It’s an ambitious question, and new UC Berkeley Music Assistant Professor Carmine Emanuele Cella’s research is at the center of it. Cella joined the Department for the spring 2019 term, and is also working closely with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). … Continue Reading »
Congrats to the class of 2019! Thirty-five students were recognized as graduates of the UC Berkeley Department of Music class of 2019 on Sunday, May 19 in Berkeley, CA. Commencement ceremonies took place in Hertz Hall on the UC Berkeley campus and recognized four Ph.D, five M.A., and twenty-six undergraduate degree recipients. In the keynote … Continue Reading »
Melissa J. Scott, graduate student in ethnomusicology, received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowship to conduct PhD dissertation fieldwork in Jordan, to begin June 2019. Her project, titled “Sounding Place: Arab Music and Humanitarian Sentiment in Jordan,” examines how musicians and music institutions intersect with humanitarian initiatives and rhetoric in order to better … Continue Reading »
Olly Wilson Symposium/Memorial February 16, 2019 Hertz Hall 12:30-1 Gather and Greet 1:00-1:15 Call to Order and Welcome with Professors Cindy Cox, and Edmund Campion Department of Music, UC Berkeley 1:15 Candace Johnson, soprano – Department of Music, UC Berkeley Michael S. Orland, Piano – Department of Music, UC Berkeley song title: There is a Need 1:30 Robert Greenberg – … Continue Reading »
Music alumna Joyce Kwon is a recipient of the Hertz Traveling Fellowship, which is awarded to individuals who have manifested unusual talent in music and who show a bona fide intention to devote their lives to music. She received funding to study the Korean zither in Seoul for the academic year 2015-16. While in Korea, … Continue Reading »
UC Berkeley dean and professor emeritus Anthony Newcomb passed away peacefully at his home on Sunday, November 18th in Berkeley. A widely-respected music scholar, Newcomb’s research focused on vocal music of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and later the ontological connections between Wagner and 18th and 19th-century instrumental works. Newcomb was born New York … Continue Reading »
UC Berkeley Music Professor and world-renowned jazz pianist Myra Melford will mark the release of two albums and career retrospective Blu-ray disc in November on Firehouse 12 Records. Melford – whom the New Yorker called “a stalwart of the new-jazz movement” – will support the releases with a world tour that boasts stops across the … Continue Reading »
Since January 2018, I have been in Santiago, Chile on a Fulbright US Student Fellowship conducting ethnographic research for my dissertation, titled “Noisy Women, Imagined Spaces: Mobility and the Emplacement of Feminist Politics in música popular chilena.” A bit about this title. What first interested me in studying feminist activism in Chilean popular music wasn’t … Continue Reading »