Although I retired on July 1, 2021, I intend to continue to teach a few courses and work with my graduate advisees who are completing their dissertations, while completing my own book on expert musical memory.
Over more than thirty years as a professor at Berkeley I have enjoyed working with numerous graduate students in the Department of Music as well as from departments and programs such as Anthropology, Folklore, Performance Studies, South and Southeast Asia Studies, and Near Eastern Studies. I have taught several thousand undergraduates in the large-enrollment Music in American...
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 octet Cañon, and the string quartet Patagón. As Robert Carl notes in Fanfare, “Cox writes music that demonstrates an extremely refined and imaginative sense of...
Christy Dana holds a Bachelor of Music in Brass from DePauw University, and two degrees from Indiana University: Master of Music in Theory, and Doctor of Music in Brass Literature and Pedagogy, with minors in jazz studies and music history. At Berkeley, Dr. Dana teaches Musicianship (49B, 50, 51) and Jazz Theory and Performance (116A-B). A master teacher, Dr. Dana delights in teaching such practical musical skills as sight singing, ear training, keyboard harmony, jazz improvisation, and small ensemble performance. A frequent supervisor of the graduate student assistants who teach Basic...
PUBLICATIONS: Italian Music Incunabula; “The Psalter on the Way to the Reformation” in The Place of the Psalms in the Intellectual Culture in the Middle Ages; “Music in the Early Printed Missal, in The Dissemination of Music,” “Access to Sound and Image Databases,” in Studies in Multimedia; “Electronic Information and Applications in Musicology and Music Theory,” Early Music Printing in the Music Library of the University of California.
The recipient of awards and commissions from the French & Italian Governments, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the City of Berlin, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ford, Rockefeller, Fromm, and Guggenheim Foundations, his music has been performed on the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Darmstadt Summer Courses, the Almeida Festival (London), Tage für Neue Musik (Zurich), and the Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva (Mexico City). In 1987 he founded the Center for New Music & Audio Technologies (CNMAT),...
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 multidisciplinary approach, my research and teaching engages critical theoretical and methodological issues in ethnomusicology and popular music studies. I locate these issues in the scholarly intersections of music, anthropology, cultural studies, and...
“My main goal in directing singers is to lead them into choral/vocal repertoire very deeply. I want them to become acquainted with their own individual voice and artistry while exploring the voice and creativity of the composer.” MK
Marika Kuzma has been the director of choirs at UC Berkeley since 1990. While in Berkeley, she has gained acclaim in the San Francisco Bay Area as a versatile conductor, leading her student choirs in works ranging from the Dufay to Mozart, Verdi, Messiaen, and premieres of new works. Under her direction, the University Chorus has been invited to...
Davitt Moroney was born in England in 1950. After studies at King’s College (University of London), he completed the Master’s program in musicology with a thesis on Italian music for the Roman Counter-Reformation: “Giovanni Animuccia, Missarum Liber Primus” (1972). He studied performance with the Austrian organist Susi Jeans, the Canadian harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert and Dutch organist and harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt, and holds concert performance and teaching diplomas from London’s Royal Academy of Music (1974) and Royal College of Music (1975). He entered the doctoral...
