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Jocelyne Guilbault

Professor guilbault@berkeley.edu I am an ethnomusicologist and popular music studies scholar teaching at Berkeley since 1999. From 1984 to 1998 I taught at the University of Ottawa. My educational background includes bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Université de Montréal in my native Quebec, Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Stressing a … Continue Reading »

Myra Melford

Professor mmelford@berkeley.edu Originally from Chicago and classically trained, Myra Melford is a composer with a singular, kinetic, and lyrical voice in piano improvisation. Chicago blues, architecture, jazz and experimental music inspire her work. She has released over 40 recordings, including more than 20 as a leader or co-leader, and maintains three bands: the celebrated quintet … Continue Reading »

James Q. Davies

Professor jqd@berkeley.edu I am a historian. In my work, I think about what music is and has been made out of – broadly about poietic matters in musicmaking. I am from Johannesburg and pursued piano performance there at the University of Witwatersrand. Performance scholarships brought me north: RNCM in Manchester UK and then the University … Continue Reading »

Cindy Cox

Professor cacox@berkeley.edu Transparent yet richly multifaceted, Cindy Cox’s compositions synthesize old and new musical designs through linked strands of association, timbral fluctuation, and cyclic temporal processes. The natural world, ecology, and the concept of emergence inspire many of the special harmonies and textural colorations in her compositions, as in her piano trio la mar amarga, the … Continue Reading »

Edmund Campion

Edmund Campion is currently a Professor of Music Composition and Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been active as a performing artist, composer, software developer and collaborating artist for over 25 years. In 2023, Campion composed The Velvet Algorithms composed for large ensemble and electronics, … Continue Reading »