Student

Rosie Ward

Musicology

I focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music, with particular interests in: political singing and ideas/ideals of song in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century revolutions; music and the history of environmental and climate science; song, timbre and music aesthetics in relation to articulations of the human. I came to Berkeley for my PhD in 2017, following a BA in Music, French and German (University of Cambridge, 2014) and an MMus in Musicology (King’s College London, 2016). Between my musicological studies, in 2014–15 I enjoyed working in a bookstore and then teaching English to...

Jeremy Wexler

Composition

Jeremy Wexler is a musician from Long Island, NY. Studying the drum set from a very young age, Jeremy cites his deep immersion in rhythm, gesture, and timbres of non-pitched percussion instruments in his formative years as a strong influence on his current musical explorations. This has been the central basis of Jeremy’s compositions lately, which feature complex timbres, computer-based sonic analyses, microtonality, and the derivation of musical content based on various aspects of the drum set. He aims to create music that sounds naturally visceral and gestural, rigorously...

Jacob Wolbert

Ethnomusicology

Research interests: popular music in Brazil and the United States, rock and pop around the world, alternative music scenes, social and cultural marginalization, gender and sexuality, race and music, performance studies, critical pedagogy

Jonathan Wu

Jenny Xiong

Composition

Onur Yildiz

Musicology

Mia Yun

Ethnomusicology

Collin Ziegler

Musicology

Collin researches French musical thought in the Third Republic, examining how musicians and writers turned to surprising texts, histories, and contexts—particularly related to the Symbolist and phenomenology movements—as alternatives to the musical thought circulating in Parisian institutions like musical societies and the Paris Conservatoire. Collin is particularly interested in how these discourses evolved around a changing conception of text, in which discourses about writing and communication inspired new thought about the experience of music.

Collin recently presented papers at...

Tianyu Zou

Composition