Lecturer

Sharon Lee Kim

Staff Pianist/Piano Coordinator/Choral Accompanist

Jonathan Kulpa

Music Technology

CK Ladzekpo

Lecturer, African Music Ensemble

Rayshell Mederos

Lecturer, Electronic Music Production & History

Edmund Mendelssohn

Lecturer
Edmund Mendelssohn’s research focuses on music and philosophy in Europe and the United States from 1800 to the present, with particular emphasis on modernism and French poststructuralism. His first book, White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism (Stanford University Press, 2023), is a study of four twentieth-century composers (Satie, Varèse, Boulez, and Cage) alongside contemporaneous philosophies of “presence” from Bergson to Derrida. The...

Midiyanto

Lecturer, Indonesian Gamelan

Renowned Central Javanese musician and puppet master (dhalang) Ki Midiyanto, teaches and performs as Lecturer and Co-Director of Gamelan Sari Raras at University of California, Berkeley, and also as guest artist and instructor throughout the U.S., Indonesia, and internationally.

Born in Wonogiri, a rural district in the southern part of Central Java, Midiyanto comes from a family of many generations of gamelan musicians and puppeteers. Midiyanto was an autodidact learning and performing his craft at a young age. He attended the Sekolah Menegah Karawitan Indonesia (Indonesian Academy...

David H. Miller

Assistant Professor of Practice
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 in the United States. I am also interested in intersections between modernism and early music performance practices. Recent articles include “...

Ana María Ochoa

Visiting Bloch Professor
Music

Ana María Ochoa is a professor in the Newcomb Department of Music, the Department of Communication and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her work is on histories of listening and the decolonial, on sound studies and climate change, and on the relationship between the creative industries, the literary and the sonic in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her current projects explore the bioacoustics of life and death in colonial histories of the Americas and the relationship between sound, climate change and the colonial. She has been a Distinguished Greenleaf Scholar in Residence at...

David Pereira

Senior Lecturer, Theory

Matthew Sadowski

Band and Wind Ensemble

Matthew Sadowski has served as Director of Bands at UC Berkeley since 2018. In this capacity, he directs and conducts the University of California Marching Band and Wind Ensemble programs, teaches leadership and arts administration skills, and serves on the Music Department’s Undergraduate Committee. He is proud to have mentored and premiered the works of several undergraduate composers at Berkeley, including Pranav Sivakumar’s...