Faculty
Marié Abe
I am a scholar of music and sound with ongoing ethnographic commitments in Japan, Okinawa, Ethiopia, and the US. Broadly speaking, my research explores the political and affective affordances of (musical) sounds in contexts ranging from everyday life to social movements, primarily in...Read more about Marié Abe
Edmund Campion
Edmund Campion is currently a Professor of Music Composition and Co-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.
Carmine-Emanuele Cella
Carmine-Emanuele Cella is an internationally acclaimed composer with advanced studies in mathematics who serves as Co-Director of the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. For many years he has worked on the poetical relationships between the...Read more about Carmine-Emanuele Cella
Wei Cheng
Dr. Wei Cheng is the Director of the Choral Program and an Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Music. She oversees the UCB Chamber Chorus, University Chorus, Vocal Program, and conducting instruction. For her outstanding...Read more about Wei Cheng
James Q. Davies
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...Read more about James Q. Davies
Daniel Fisher
My research in Aboriginal Northern Australia proceeds in two, related domains that bring together my interests in music, media, and the close ethnography of an urbanising Northern Territory. The first looks to the tremendous successes of Aboriginal media production in order to...Read more about Daniel Fisher
Matthew Hough
Matthew Hough is a composer, theorist and performer working on new and popular music.
His compositions have been described as “unnervingly exacting” (Time Out: New York), “mood music if you’re in a mental home” (Howard Stern) and “awful but also kind of brilliant” (Richard...Read more about Matthew Hough
Lester Hu
A historian of music and music theory, I focus my research on music and state-building—empire-building, to be more specific. Empires are by default players and products of transregional processes encompassing diverse peoples, territories, and traditions. Hence the other...Read more about Lester Hu
Nicholas Mathew
Myra Melford
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...Read more about Myra Melford
David Milnes
David Milnes presently serves as music director of the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and conductor of the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players. Following early musical studies on the clarinet, piano, organ, cello and voice, he earned degrees from SUNY Stony Book and Yale University His...Read more about David Milnes
Juan David Rubio Restrepo
I am an artist/scholar focusing on Latin American popular musics and global experimental practices. My book project considers Ecuadorian singer Julio Jaramillo (1935-1978). Using a transnational and comparative lens, the book analyses Jaramillo’s vocality, prolific discography, mediatized figure...Read more about Juan David Rubio Restrepo
Mary Ann Smart
Much of my research has focused on social dimensions of opera in nineteenth-century Europe. My first book, Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera (2004), drew on textual sources (treatises on...Read more about Mary Ann Smart
Matthew Evan Taylor
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Dr. Matthew Evan Taylor (1980) has been hailed as a “risk taker” (Neil De La Flor, Huffington Post), who has “…wrestled with the societal boundaries of Black artistry only to blast them apart…” (Dr. Kori Hill, I...Read more about Matthew Evan Taylor
Ken Ueno
A recipient of the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize, Ken Ueno, is a composer, vocalist, improviser, sound artist, and scholar.
Ueno's music celebrates artistic possibilities which are liberated through a Whitmanesque consideration of the embodied practice of unique musical personalities....Read more about Ken Ueno
Emily Zazulia
My research focuses on Medieval and Renaissance music—in particular, the intersection of musical style, complex notation, and intellectual history. My first book, Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing (Oxford, 2021), is a wide-ranging study of notational aesthetics...Read more about Emily Zazulia