Flannery McIntyre is a PhD student in Musicology and Medieval Studies. She focuses on late antique and early medieval music, history, and material culture. Her master’s research was on the early medieval lyre. A.B. in Archaeology and the Ancient World (Classical), Medieval Cultures, and Music (History/Theory/Composition), Brown University MPhil in Archaeology: Medieval, University of Cambridge
Musicologist Max Jefferson (she/hers) centers her research around the agency and representation of Black bodies in American art music of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Her masters thesis, “American Pseudo-Realism: The Subversion of Black Agency in George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess,” interrogates the 1935 opening productions of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess not as musical art but as propaganda. … Continue Reading »
Eda Er, a native of Istanbul is a composer, sound artist and singer currently based in Berkeley, California. She primarily explores the potential of physicality and narrativity in her music. She enjoys collaborating with dancers, actors, and visual artists and improvising with electronics and vocals. She has had the pleasure to work as a composer … Continue Reading »
Allison Jerzak is currently a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studies the history of music recommendation. In particular, she is interested in the digital infrastructure underlying these systems and the datasets used to train them. Previously, Allison studied piano at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and at the University … Continue Reading »
Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Ceyda Çekmeci completed her B.A. in Sociology at Boğaziçi University (2016) and her M.A. in Musicology at Istanbul Technical University, Center for Advanced Studies in Music (2019). In the meantime, she worked as a choir conductor in various public and private institutions, most notably at the Music for Peace Foundation (El … Continue Reading »
I am a musicologist and performing musician, and I teach in the Department of Music as well as the American Studies program. I hold a B.A. in music from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in musicology from Cornell University. My research focuses on modernist music, particularly that of Anton Webern, and its performance and reception … Continue Reading »
John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache, Irish, German, Chicano) is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley (AY 2021-22) and an Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. His research interests include jazz and improvised music performance and composition, urban American Indian lived experiences and cultural productions, music technologies, recording … Continue Reading »
STEPHEN TRAMONTOZZI DOUBLE BASS PROFILE Stephen Tramontozzi is the Assistant Principal Bass of the San Francisco Symphony since 1980. A native of Arlington, Massachusetts, he studied at the Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is on the faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, has … Continue Reading »
Soprano Ann Moss is an acclaimed recording artist and champion of contemporary vocal music who has premiered over two hundred new works, the lion’s share of which have been composed for her. Often described as a “fearless performer” of some of the most challenging music of our time, her high, flexible voice has been singled … Continue Reading »
Melanie Acosta is a Board-Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Arts degree in Music Therapy from New York University. Clinically, Melanie has provided Music Therapy in a variety of different settings including work with individuals with various neurodevelopmental and communication disorders, … Continue Reading »
Brian Bond received his PhD in ethnomusicology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His current ethnographic monograph project Singing Islam: Sindhi Sufi Music, Affect, and Interreligious Relations in the India-Pakistan Borderlands builds on a year and a half of research with performers of Sindhi-language Sufi music in Kachchh, Gujarat between 2014-2018, including vocal … Continue Reading »