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BERKELEY VOICES PODCAST Music Ethnomusicology graduate student Everardo Reyes and Music alum John-Carlos Perea (M.A. 2005; Ph.D. 2009) joined the Berkeley Voices podcast to discuss the 1969 American Indian occupation of Alcatraz. HIRAYAMA SCHOLARSHIP Composition graduate student Sarah Grace Graves was awarded the Michiko Hirayama Scholarship to perform the music of Giacinto Scelsi at Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Rome in July 2023. LA SED DE LOS COMETAS Antonio Juan-Marcos (PhD, 2018) will premier his opera “la Sed de los Cometas” based on the figure of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz at the Festival Cultura UNAM in Mexico City.

RICHARD TARUSKIN, 1945-2022

Taruskin was a beloved and deeply engaged member of the Berkeley faculty from 1987 until his retirement in 2014.

EL RAYES TO JOHNS HOPKINS

In Fall 2022, Nour El Rayes (Ph.D 2022) joins the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology).

HOLMES/D’ACCONE FELLOW

Musicology graduate student Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit has been awarded the Holmes/D’Accone Fellowship from the American Musicological Society

LANDOWSKA COLLECTION

Salz Collection curator Carla Shapreau will part of a panel titled “Restitution, Restoration and Repertoire: New Findings in the Wanda Landowska Collection at the Library of Congress

COMMENCEMENT 2022

Join us LIVE to celebrate the classes of 2021, 2021, and 2022 from Hertz Hall via our livestream

POÉSIE AUGMENTÉE

Assistant professor Carmine-Emanuele Cella will premiere a new work titled “Kobi,” the last piece of his cycle “les Espaces Physiques” on May 22 as part of the Milano Musica festival.

SPECTRAL MUSIC

Professor Ken Ueno’s article “Embodied Practice in Ken Ueno’s “Person-Specific” Concertos” has been published in the Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music.

BERLIN FESTSPIELE Composer-Performer Aine Nakamura’s “Circle hasu We plant seeds in the spring of mountains” will be performed in the prestigious Berlin Festspiele this March of 2022.  Aine also just won the College Teatro award for a site-specific performance at the Venice Biennale in 2022. CHAMBER MUSIC COLLECTIVE Professor Nicholas Mathew will lead a five-day intensive chamber music program dedicated to repertoire from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Berkeley in July 2022. WIDERKLNAG Graduate Student Selim Göncü’s new composition “Widerklang”, winner of the 2020 Lee Ettelson Award, will be premiered by the Ninth Planet Music Ensemble, Saturday, March 19, 2022 DAEDALUS DRONES Professor Ken Ueno recently had a successful run of 9 sold-out shows of his installation/performance, Daedalus Drones, at the Asia Society of Hong Kong. An hourlong site-specific piece, instrumentalizing flying drones and a fence-labyrinth, it was hailed by China Daily as “an ingeniously crafted work that marries myth and science, presenting primal sounds via bespoke new technology.” LES ESPACES PHYSIQUES Assistant Professor Carmine Emanuele Cella will join a cross-residency with Sixtrum to create his triptych for augmented percussion instruments DEEP FAKE PROGRAM IN MORRISON HALL Rafael Valle, who records quadraphonic artist Suzanne Ciani, completed his interdisciplinary Ph.D. dissertation with co-chairs, Professor Edmund Campion (Music), and Sanjit Seshia (EECS), and Professor Ken Ueno (Music). CHOOSE YOUR IDENTITY PROVIDER Composition graduate student Jeremy Wexler was awarded 2nd prize commission in the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commissioning Competition for his acousmatic piece Choose your identity provider. The piece was also featured at this year’s National Student Electronic Music Event and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. 2021 UNIVERSITY MEDALIST Leyla Kabuli, a senior graduating in Music and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is the winner of the 2021 University Medal, UC Berkeley’s highest undergraduate honor. CHENG AT ACDA Wei Cheng, Director of Choral Programs, recently presented at the American Choral Director Association national conference on conducting technique, entitled “conducting/non-conducting: expressiveness reinterpreted.”

KIRSTEN PAIGE Kirsten S. Paige, Ph.D. ’18 Has recently been published in Opera Quarterly and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association and will participate in San Franciso Opera’s Ring Festival throughout March RADION SINFONIAORKESTERI Composition Graduate Student Maija Hynninen’s piece “Incandescence,” a Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra, will be performed by The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 150 YEARS OF WOMEN AT BERKELEY Helen Farnsworth, the first-ever employee in the Music Department, has been honored as part of 150 Years of Women at Berkeley Celebration. HIVE CHOIR Composition Graduate Student Didem Coskunseven recently collaborated with Belfast’s HIVE Choir on their song “Murmuration,” adding electronics and visuals BOND PUBLISHED Visiting Lecturer Brian Bond published the chapter in the edited volume “Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond” (Columbia University Press) GOURLEY PRESENTS AT MIT, NAMED TITLE VIII FELLOW Ethnomusicology graduate student Ryan Gourley presented his research virtually at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology  and was named a Title VIII Fellow at the IU Summer Language Workshop UENO AWARDED CREATIVE DISCOVERY GRANT Prof. Ken Ueno was recently awarded a Creative Discovery Grant from Berkeley Arts + Design to reimagine his composition class to respond to the pandemic

OLIVARES NAMED ASSOCIATE COMPOSER

Graduate student Clara Olivares was announced Associate-Composer at Paris Chamber Orchestra. Her commissions include a piece to be played along Mozart’s Requiem and her piece “Blue Spine” amongst others

GOURLEY PRESENTS IN AUSTRALIA

Ryan Gourley presented at the “Music and Politics in the 1930s” symposium

SHAPREAU PUBLISHES RESEARCH ON NAZI-ERA CONFISCATION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Carla Shapreau, Curator of the Salz Collection of Stringed Instrument at Berkeley Music has recently contributed two publications on histories of confiscations and issues of repatriations of ancient instruments in Nazi Germany.

THE MANY FASHION-FORWARD HATS OF MELFORD

Berkeleyside profiles Professor Myra Melford, and her expanded creative purview as an educator and curator

GREENBERG’S MISSION

For almost 30 years Robert Greenberg Ph.D. ’84 has worked to spread musical knowledge. He currently serves as music historian in residence at SF Performances.

SOUND EVIDENCE

Assistant Professor Delia Casadei’s article “Sound Evidence, 1969: Recording a Milanese Riot” was recently published in Representations, Vol 147, Summer 2019

AMS HAROLD POWERS TRAVEL GRANT

Kim Sauberlich wins the American Musicological Society’s Harold Powers World Travel Grant in support of her doctoral research in Brazil.

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AMS 50 DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS

Graduate students Alessandra Jones and Saraswathi Shukla land prestigious Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowships

AMS BOSTON 2019

Berkeley lands EIGHT graduate student papers (Bay, Sheehan, Turner, Sauberlich, Wangpaiboonkit, Gudesblatt, Mendelssohn) and FOUR faculty papers (Casadei, Davies, Sonevytsky, Smart)

BAMBERGER ACHIEVEMENT

Jeanne Bamberger M.A. ’51 was named Society for Education Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) Lifetime Achievement Award winner for her significant contributions to the field of music psychology

JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGY

Assistant Professor Emily Zazulia’s article “Out of Proportion: Nuper rosarum flores and the Danger of False Exceptionalism” was recently published in The Journal of Musicology 31 (1), 2019

VASSILANDONAKIS, POPE JOAN

The Greek National Opera has commissioned Yiorgos Vassilandonakis Ph.D. ’06 to write a new opera to celebrate their 80th anniversary. Pope Joan will be premiered in the Stavros Niarchos Hall in 2020

AHRENDT TO UTRECHT

Rebekah Ahrendt Ph.D. ’11 has joined the Department of Media and Culture Studies as an Associate Professor at the Universiteit Utrecht in Utrecht, the Netherlands following stints at Yale and Tufts

KAPUSTA TO EASTMAN

John Kapusta (PhD UC Berkeley, 2017) has recently been appointed Assistant Professor of Musicology at Eastman School of Music

HER HOLINESS

New opera by Graduate Student composer Curtis Rumrill titled “Her Holiness, The Winter Dog,” premieres

MELFORD BUILDS ANEW WITH AN ALL-STAR, ALL-WOMAN QUINTET

Professor Myra Melford’s Fire and Water Quintet was recently featured in the New York Times.

EVERYTHING RISES

The New York Times wrote a rave review of composition professor Ken Ueno’s music theater piece, Everything Rises, featuring Davóne Tines and Jennifer Koh which opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) this week.

REGUCERA TO EMPAC

Amadeus Regucera (PhD, 2016) recently began his new role as the Curator of Music at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

CHENG WINS WARLAND AWARD

Choral Director Wei Cheng has won the 2022 Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting. Presented by The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, Cheng was recognized for excellence amongst university conductors.

SYMPHONY TOURS EUROPE

Led by Chair David Milnes, the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra just wrapped up a tour through Prague, Vienna, and Budapest.

BERKELEY FESTIVAL

Professor Nicholas Mathew is appearing twice at this year’s Berkeley Festival and Exhibition.

GÖNCÜ WINS FROMM

Music Composition graduate Selim Göncü (Ph.D. anticipated Spring 2022) was awarded a prestigious 2021 commission from the Fromm Music Commission at Harvard University.

HARD SONGS

Professor Emily Zazulia, in collaboration with the ensemble Cut Circle, released an album of technically ambitious, historically important, and never-before-recorded polyphonic music from the fifteenth-century.

DONAUESCHINGER MUSIKTAGE Graduate composition student Didem Coskunseven’s piece “Ext.TheWoods.Night” will be performed by Ensemble Nikel at the 100th annual Donaueschinger Musiktage on October 17th. 32 SONATAS Professor Nicholas Mathew will perform as part of the complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle at SFJazz with Mari Kodama to celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday SCHUMAKER TO UC SANTA CRUZ In fall 2021, Matt Schumaker (Ph.D. 2015) joins the Arts Division of UC Santa Cruz as Assistant Professor in Music, continuing his artistic research and teaching in the areas of computer music and music technology.

PAIGE JOINS NC STATE FACULTY

Kirsten Paige Ph.D. ’18 will join the faculty at NC State as an Assistant Teaching Professor.

SOUNDSCAPES

UC Berkeley’s Panel of Digital Media Artists, Conductors, and Musicians created a virtual gallery concert experience. Born from a collaboration between the UCBSO and UCB Department of Art Practice.

NTNU

Heather Frasch (Ph.D. 2011) will be joining the team at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU as Associate Professor in Music Technology.

2021 UNIVERSITY MEDALIST Leyla Kabuli, a senior graduating in Music and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is the winner of the 2021 University Medal, UC Berkeley’s highest undergraduate honor. CHENG AT ACDA Wei Cheng, Director of Choral Programs, recently presented at the American Choral Director Association national conference on conducting technique, entitled “conducting/non-conducting: expressiveness reinterpreted.”

FUKUSHIMA TEN YEARS LATER

Assistant Professor Carmine Cella recently presented at the symposium titled “Fukushima 10 years,” organized by the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory

POETRY & THE SENSES

Professor Ken Ueno has been named a Poetry & the Senses Faculty Fellow. Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Arts Research Center the program creates opportunities for engagement with regional poetry communities.

BROWN FELLOWSHIP

Musicology graduate student Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit has been awarded the prestigious Howard Mayer Brown dissertation fellowship by the American Musicological Society for his project “Sounding Civilization: Race and Sovereignty in the Imperial Opera of Siam, 1870-1910.”

SONEVYTSKY WINS LOCKWOOD

Music faculty member Maria Sonevytsky’s book “Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine” has been awarded the prestigious Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society.

AMS 2020

Graduate Students Ryan Gourley and Amalya Lehmann, as well as Professor Nicholas Mathew, are presenting at this year’s virtual AMS in addition to the many former Berkeleyans featured on the program.

ASK THE EXPERTS

Music alum Michael Sy Uy (B.A. ’07) has published a new book “Ask the Experts: How Ford, Rockefeller, and the NEA Changed American Music,” through Oxford University Press

COSKUNSEVEN COLLABORATES ON FILM

Graduate Composition Student Didem Coskunseven worked with visual artist Shania Selvendran to premiere a film at Sound, Science and Technology Association’s concert series Sonic Practice Now

MORRISON BEDROOM EXPERIMENT

Ben Goldberg’s Music 116 Jazz Theory and Performance students released an album called “Cool It,” recorded entirely during shelter in place during Spring 2020

SIMON DARTMOUTH FELLOW

Musicology Graduate Student Danni Simon has accepted a three-year postdoc at the Dartmouth Society of Fellows beginning fall 2020

BEHIND THE GLASS

Ethnomusicology graduate student Jonathan Turner presents at AMS pre-conference Backstage and Behind the Glass Sponsored by the Popular Music Study Group

SUMMER SESSIONS 2020

Berkeley Music is offering a complete catalog of summer sessions courses REMOTELY for 2020, including performance opportunities

HALCYON

Graduate Composition student Hallie Smith (Halcyon) recently performed a DJ set at San Francisco’s noted Adobe Books, alongside new music mavens Gleb Kanasevich, Dan Meyer O’Keeffe, Kim Nucci, and UC Santa Cruz professor Michelle Lou.

GOURLEY PRESENTS IN AUSTRALIA

Ryan Gourley presented at the “Music and Politics in the 1930s” symposium hosted at the University of Melbourne.

SHAPREAU PUBLISHES NEW WORK ON INSTRUMENT TRADING IN WARTIME PARIS.

“Documenting the Violin Trade in Paris, 1930-1945:  The Archives of Albert Caressa and Émile Français” was published in Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)

AMS HOLMES/D’ACCONE FELLOW

Recent PhD Melanie Gudesblatt wins prestigious William Holmes / Frank D’Accone Dissertation Fellowship with the American Musicological Society

TSAY ’14 WINS FULBRIGHT

Mosa Tsay will study with Anssi Karttunen at École Normale de Musique de Paris as part of a project to perform works for solo cello by Kaija Saariaho, Betsy Jolas, and Pascal Dusapin

GONCÜ WINS MARTIRANO AWARD

UC Berkeley Composer Selim Goncu’s piece “Widerklang” for bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cell is a recipient of the 2019 Martirano Memorial Composition Award given by the University of Illinois.

CHEN TO TAIPEI

Lily Chen, Ph.D. ’17 has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Taipei National University of the Arts where she will teach composition and music technology

MELFORD AT CIVITELLA RANIERI

Professor Myra Melford was named Fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation for summer 2019 in Umbertide, Italy

MELFORD PREMIERE

Myra Melford premiered her piece for improvising piano soloist, chamber ensemble and fixed media: “Homogenous Infiltration,” with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players on May 11, 2019 at SFJazz

KINDERMAN JOINS UCLA

William Kinderman Ph.D. ’80 has been named inaugural holder of the Leo M. Klein and Elaine Krown Klein Chair in Performance Studies and professor of music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

SCOTT PRESENTS IN CAIRO

Doctoral student Melissa J. Scott, graduate student in ethnomusicology, presented at ICTM’s Music of the Arab World Study Group conference in Cairo, Egypt in January 2019. In her paper, “Rethinking Jordanian Music: Perspectives on the Politics of Style,” she assessed the extent to which histories of Iraqi and Palestinian forced migration to Jordan inform local musical practices as well as musicians’ attitudes towards Syrian refugees

HUMANITIES MAJORS BOOMING AT BERKELEY First-years declaring majors in the Division of Arts and Humanities are up 43.2% over 5 years and 121% over last year. TRAIETTORIE MUSIC PRIZE  Composition Professor Carmine Emanuele Cella has won the 2022 Traiettorie Music Prize which is awarded for his research in the field of Artificial Intelligence applied to musical creation, augmented reality, the definition of mathematical models for the representation of sound through deep learning techniques and machine learning methods for computer-assisted orchestration. ANGEL ISLAND PROJECT UC Berkeley’s Angel Island arts project explores immigration, architectures of incarceration through various mediums. In December, the Berkeley Chamber Chorus, conducted by Wei Cheng and the Del Sol Quartet, will perform “Angel Island — Oratorio for Voices and Strings” at Hertz Hall. EVERYTHING RISES Professor Ken Ueno’s music theater piece, Everything Rises, featuring Davóne Tines and Jennifer Koh will be performed over four nights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) this October. GOTTFRIED TO ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS Dr. Rama Gottfried (Ph.D, 2015) has been named Professor of Contemporary Computer Music Practice at the Zurich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste).

PAI WINS UNIVERSITY MEDALIST Music Minor Anjika Pai has been named this year’s winner of the University Medal, UC Berkeley’s highest honor for a graduating senior. MUSIC’S IRON CURTAIN Emily Richmond Pollock (Ph.D.’ 12) recently was interviewed in the New Yorker about national identity in the performing arts and the politics of blacklisting sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

TWO LOPEZ PREMIERES

Jimmy Lopez-Bellido (Ph.D. Music Composition, 2012) will have two upcoming premieres. First with SF Symphony on April 28, 29 & 30, and with Berkeley Symphony on June 12

EVERYTHING RISES

Professor Ken Ueno composed an evening-long piece for Grammy-winner Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines that premiered at UCSB (Campbell Hall) on April 12 and UCLA (Royce Hall) on April 14.

WESTON & SF SYMPHONY

CITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE

Salz Collection curator Carla Shapreau is the keynote speaker at La spoliation des instruments de musique en Europe in Paris as well as International conference on provenance research in Brienz, Switzerland.

ZAZULIA PUBLISHES NEW BOOK

Assistant Professor Emily Zazulia’s book Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing has just been published with Oxford University Press in the AMS Studies in Music Series.

MASON BATES PREMIERE

Mason Bates, Ph.D. Music Composition (2008) receives in January 2022 a premiere by the Philadephia Orchestra for a newly commissioned piano concerto composed for the pianist Daniil Trifonov.

SCOTT WINS RMSS STUDENT PAPER AWARD

Ethnomusicology graduate student Melissa J. Scott received the 2021 Student Paper Prize from the Religion, Music and Sound (RMSS) section of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

PISK PRIZE

Musicology graduate student Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit has been awarded the Pisk Prize of the American Musicological Society, which recognizes the best graduate student paper of the year.

VANHASSEL TO BERKLEE

Dan VanHassel, Music Composition Ph.D. 2014, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Composition at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee where he is teaching courses in electronic music and composition.

19TH CENTURY MUSIC

Kirsten Paige (Ph.D. 2018) guest-edited and contributed an essay to a special issue of 19th-Century Music (“Music and the Invention of Environment”) that appeared in August 2021. Professor James Q. Davies also authored an essay for the volume.

LIKE FLESH

Like flesh, a new chamber opera by composer Sivan Eldar (Ph.D. Music Composition, 2016) and librettist Cordelia Lynn wins the 2021 FEDORA Opera Prize. Like Flesh will premiere at Opéra de Lille in January 2021, and will tour to Opéra national de Montpellier, Opéra national de Lorraine (Musica Festival), and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp.

FINALISTS

4 of the 5 finalists for the 2021 University Medal have strong ties to Berkeley Music. 3 Music Majors and a UCBSO participant were amongst the finalists.

IMPULS

Oren Boneh, Ph.D. in Music Composition (2021), has been awarded by the International Composition Competition a commission to create a new work for the famed ensemble Klangforum Wien to be premiered at the Impuls Festival in Graz, Austria, 2023.

STRANGE FRUIT

Professor Ken Ueno’s arrangement of “Strange Fruit” will stream on Carnegie Hall’s Voices of Hope series on Friday, April 23, 2021.

EDWIN DUGGER 1940-2021

The Department of Music mourns the loss of Professor Emeritus Edwin Dugger, who passed away in Charlottesville, Virginia on January 20, 2021 at the age of 80 after a long illness.

MONC OPERA AWARDS

Mezzo-Soprano Erin Alford ’14 has been awarded the Encouragement Award from MONC Kansas City District

CERENEM

Read Composition Graduate Student Andrew Blanton’s interview in the most recent issue of the CeReNeM Journal.

GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG

Kirsten Paige (Ph.D. ’18) participated in an online panel and contributed an essay to the program guide for the Michigan Opera Theater premiere of “Götterdämmerung.”

2020 HELLMAN FELLOW

Assistant Professor Maria Sonevytsky has been awarded a Hellman Fellows Fund to develop work on Soviet children’s music

INSITUTO DE ETHNOMUSICOLOGIA

Andrew Snyder (Ph.D. ’18) was awarded a research position in affiliation with the Insituto de Etnomusicologia at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal

NEW WORLD SYMPHONY

Nils Bultmann (Ph.D. Music Composition 2013) was the featured soloist in his composition for 31 violas written for and premiered by Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony.

COSKUNSEVEN TO IRCAM

Graduate Composition student Didem Coskunseven has been accepted into ‘CURSUS’ program on composition and computer music by IRCAM, in Paris for 2020/21. Coskunseven will be supported by the George Ladd Prix De Paris, which is awarded to a distinguished graduate composer in the music department and supports one year of study in Paris.

A VOICE THAT CARRIES

Assistant Professor Delia Casadei’s essay “A voice that carries” was recently published in the edited collection Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense (Oxford University Press, 2019).

SONEVYTSKY & ENSEMBLE BASIANI

Assistant Professor Maria Sonevytsky to give pre-performance talk for Ensemble Basiani

CAMPION SEOUL CONCERTS

The Contemporary Gugak Orchestra presented Professor Edmund Campion’s Audible Numbers on Friday and Saturday, September 27-28, 2019, at the National Gugak Center in Seoul, S. Korea.

BERKELEY PODCAST FOR MUSIC

An open-source podcast on all things Music from UC Berkeley Department of Music. Episode 1 features Professor Nicholas Mathew on the life, music, and activism of Malvina Reynolds

STUDENT TECH EQUITY PROGRAM

Students who do not have access to the technology resources they need are invited to apply now to the Student Tech Equity Program (STEP) to be considered for a new laptop, Wi-Fi hotspot, or other resources to support their studies in time for Fall semester

BLANTON PROMOTED AT CADRE

Current Ph.D. composition student Andrew Blanton has been given tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in the Digital Media Art program and CADRE Media Labs at San Jose State University

LO AWARDED BCNM FELLOWSHIP

Composition Graduate Student Kevin CK Lo was awarded BCNM Summer Research Fellowship to create new music involving an industry LiDAR sensor as an interactive component at CNMAT

RADIO MEYDAN

Assistant Professor Maria Sonevytsky’s article “Radio Meydan: ‘Eastern’ Music and the Liminal Sovereign Imaginaries of Crimea” was recently published in Public Culture 31(1), 2019

COX & THE ST. PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Music Chair Cindy Cox has been commissioned to compose a new work for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

GOODHEART AT RPI

Matthew Goodheart Ph.D. ’13 has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he will teach composition, improvisation, and sound installation

CHISHOLM ’15

Leon Chisholm Ph.D ’15  is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 980 at the Free University in Berlin, and a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute

OLIVARES & LES GENS DE BERKELEY

Clara Olivares, a graduate student in Composition and native of France, sat down for an interview with Les Gens de Berkeley

AZAHAR WINS AAUW FELLOWSHIP

Ph.D. Ethnomusicology student Christina Azahar has been named a 2019-20 Fellow by The American Association of University Women (AAUW)

SUSTAINABLE SOUNDS

Jonathan Turner will present “Exploring Shifts in the Material Production of Sustainable Instrument Manufacturing at Blackbird Guitar” at the conference titled “Sustainable Sounds: Interrogating The Materials of Music Making Technologies,” to be held on Saturday, 11 May 2019, at St. Cecilia’s Hall Concert Room and Music Museum, University of Edinburgh