Student

Mara Lane

Musicology

Mara focuses on opera staging and theories of acting. Her interests lie in how artistic process can be revealed to and noticed by audiences. She has a forthcoming article in Diderot Studies on theatrical asides in the Paradoxe sur le comédien and listening practices in the 18th-c. Parisian theater. She has presented at the Transnational Opera Studies Conference on backstage documentaries and at the Northern California Chapter of the American Musicological Society on acting surprised. In Fall 2022, she and Collin Ziegler co-convened the conference Contemporary Opera on Stage: Institutions...

Tina Liu

Ethnomusicology

Kevin Lo

Ian Mahanpour

Musicology

Allie Mangel

Ethnomusicology

Flannery McIntyre

Musicology

Flannery McIntyre is a PhD candidate in Musicology and Medieval Studies. Her dissertation,“Music and the Materiality of Knowledge in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages,” offers an alternative narrative for the role of music in Late Antique and Early Medieval culture. Whereas music in this period has traditionally been understood as a precursor to the liturgical standardization and the development of music notation in the ninth century, such a teleological focus obscures other facets of musical activity. Her approach, by contrast, centers material culture, allowing for a larger, more...

Ahkeel Mestayer-Velasquez

Ethnomusicology

Matthew Monaco

Matthew T. Monaco (born November 24, 1997) is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2022, Matthew received his master’s degree from the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), where he studied composition with Stefano Gervasoni and electronic music with Yan Maresz, Luis Naon, et Grégoire Lorieux. In May 2020, he received his Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Stratis Minakakis, minoring in music theory.

His works have been performed in the United States and...

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 I am learning to use sensor technology and controller design to build new musical instruments and sound installations.

I grew up in Quito, Ecuador, and obtained my BA from Columbia University. Between 2017 and 2019, I completed MMus programs in Composition and Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths,...

Mathew Muntz