Student

Curtis Rumrill

Composition

The music of Curtis Rumrill explores the intersection of literary form and modern chamber music. His works with writer, naturalist and visual artist Zachary Webber tell darkly comic stories of animals in desperate or violent predicaments.

In May 2019 Kamratōn, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble and Shana Simmons Dance will premiere his new opera, Her Holiness, The Winter Dog. His music has been commissioned, premiered and performed by, among others, Ensemble Dal Niente, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, NAT 28, Kamratōn, Tony Arnold, Thomas Rosenkranz, Aiyun Huang, Jordan...

Peter Shin

Composition

Hallie Smith

Composition

Hallie Smith (b. 1995) is a musician based in Berkeley, California. Her research is oriented towards building soft circuits/sensors, coding, installations, and emotional music. Hallie’s music has been featured in festivals such as the Yellow Barn Young Artists’ Program, Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice, the SPLICE Institute, and the Valencia International Performance Academy.

Previous and Upcoming collaborations for Hallie include: the SMASH ensemble, saxophonist Drew Whiting, bassoonist Liam Mcgookin-Cunningham, Mazumal, writer/producer...

Pablo M. Teutil

Composition

Pablo M. Teutli is a young Mexican composer interested in observing the society around him to portray it through allegorical and imaginative musical narratives. He studied music composition at the Faculty of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University, and at UC Berkeley. His professional training has been under the guidance of composers Lucía Álvarez, Arturo Márquez, Ken Ueno, P. Q. Phan, David Dzubay and Maria Granillo. In 2020 he received the Young Creators Grant from the National Fund for Culture and Arts. He...

Jonathan Turner

Ethnomusicology

Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology with a Designated Emphasis in New Media.

My research focuses on relationships between musicians, makers, and instrument-repair-technicians in California, USA and São Paulo, Brazil. I investigate how the creative processes of both musicians and those who make and maintain their instruments are influenced by economics, climate change, pedagogical structures, automation, and cultural politics of technology.

Raised in Phoenix, Arizona, I completed a certificate program in guitar building at Roberto-Venn School of...

Shu Wang

Composition

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