Graduate Students

Graduate Students

Adrian Montufar

Composition

I am a composer and improviser in the Music Composition PhD program. My music often plays with the relationship between the musician and their instrument or, more recently, between the voice and the body. I try to use technology to extend and disrupt these relationships. In practice, this means...Read more about Adrian Montufar

Ahkeel Mestayer-Velasquez

Ethnomusicology

Aine Nakamura

Composition

Art of Voice and Body
performance, improvisation, composition, stories, poetry, theater, interdisciplinary art

I attune to depth of stories and create a sonic and visual space through my voice and body. I focus on the nuanced potentialities of my voice, and my body of listening...Read more about Aine Nakamura

Alfred Jimenez

Composition

Alfred was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, with a Ukrainian mother and a Cuban father. The family moved to Sweden when he was 4 years old, where he started his musical journey by playing the trombone. After two years of bachelor studies with the trombone as his primary subject, he was admitted to study...Read more about Alfred Jimenez

Allie Mangel

Ethnomusicology

Allison Jerzak

Musicology

Allison Jerzak’s research on the history of digital music and music recommendation sits at the intersection of Historical Musicology, Science and Technology Studies, and Critical Data Studies. Her work experience in the technology sector — first at Epic Systems as a Project...Read more about Allison Jerzak

Andrew Blanton

Composition

Andrew Blanton is a PhD student in music composition. His work has been performed and presented around the world in venues such as Google Cultural Lab in Paris, The University of Brasilia, The City University of Hong Kong, and STEIM Amsterdam among many others. His current research focuses on...Read more about Andrew Blanton

Andrew Harlan

Composition

Andrew Harlan (b. 1995) is a composer, bassist, and sound designer, based in Berkeley, California. His music exists at the intersections of long-form ambient music, experimental club music, dystopian sound design, chamber music, and electroacoustic improvisation. His music has been featured in...Read more about Andrew Harlan

Anne Greenwood

Ethnomusicology

Anne Greenwood is a PhD student in ethnomusicology, originally from Terrace, British Columbia. She completed a BMus in Orchestral Instrument Performance and an MA in Ethnomusicology at the University of British Columbia before starting the PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley in...Read more about Anne Greenwood

Augustus Holley

Ethnomusicology

Caitlin Belem Brown Romtvedt

Ethnomusicology

Caitlin Belem Brown Romtvedt is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology. Born and raised in Buffalo, Wyoming, she grew up in a Basque community in a musical family. After high school, she spent a year in Brazil as a Rotary exchange student, which sparked an enduring interest in Brazilian music, dance...Read more about Caitlin Belem Brown Romtvedt

Camden James Oberg

Musicology