Saagar is a PhD student in Musicology and Medieval Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research joins together the disparate fields of musicology and sociohistorical linguistics in an attempt to think historically about the multifarious relationships between music and language...Read more about Saagar Asnani
Composer, improviser, and vocal artist SARAH GRACE GRAVES explores complex, unnamed emotions through the re-embodiment of physical sensation. In delving into sensation as a core musical parameter, she often collaborates closely with other vocalists: night vision (2019) for two voices, her...Read more about Sarah Grace Graves
I use ethnographic methods to study the role of audio communication in contentious political environments. My dissertation, entitled “Sounding Through the Firewall: A Narrative of Audio Communication Between Taiwan and China,” examines the recent history of the Taiwan Strait (1949-today) from...Read more about Sarah Plovnick
I am a musicologist whose research focuses on French cultural history in the middle of the nineteenth century. I am interested in how music mediates and how it is mediated—its role in facilitating intimate social networks, colonial dispersion, and assertions of political power.
Soren Nyhus is a first-year Musicology PhD student at UC Berkeley. He received a Bachelor’s in Music from Harvard University in 2022 and an MPhil in Music from Cambridge University in 2023. His master’s thesis, “The Italian Renaissance in Viennese Opera of the First World War”, investigates the...Read more about Soren Nyhus
Virginia Georgallas is a PhD Candidate in Musicology. She holds an Associate Diploma in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and she completed a BMus in Piano Performance and an MA in Musicology at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation proposes an...Read more about Virginia Georgallas
