Lecturer

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...

Robert Yamasato

Lecturer, Theory

Jeremy Wagner

Music Perception & Cognition

Jeremy Wagner is a composer, performer and sound designer based in the Bay Area. Since 2016 he has served on the staff of the Center for New Music & Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley, where he currently serves as Research Composer and Technical Director. He supports CNMAT’s research, pedagogy and performances, maintains CNMAT’s software legacy, mentors graduate student projects and teaches Music Perception & Cognition in the Music Department.

As a composer, Jeremy’s music focuses on intricate constructions for small forces meant to probe the limits of...

Saúl Sierra-Alonso

Latin American Music Ensemble
Born and raised in Mexico City, where he started playing professionally in 1990. He moved to Boston Mass. in 1995 and attended the Berklee College of Music where he graduated in the summer of 1999, with a major in Performance. Some of his teachers included Oscar Stagnaro, Rich Appleman, Daniel Morris, and Jim Stinnet. He received the US Scholarship tour award and the Outstanding Performer award at Berklee. For the past 25 years Saúl has been a member of some of the leading bands in the Bay Area, including The John Santos Quintet/Sextet, Bobi Cespedes’ band, Dr. Loco’s...

Melanie Acosta

Music Therapist

Melanie Acosta is a Board-Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Arts degree in Music Therapy from New York University. Clinically, Melanie has provided Music Therapy in a variety of different settings including work with individuals with various neurodevelopmental and communication disorders, adults and children undergoing neurorehabilitation and individuals from infants to adults in medical settings. Melanie holds several Music Therapy certifications including a specialization in Neurologic...

Lisa Gold

Lecturer, Teacher Special Program, Balinese Gamelan

Lisa Gold teaches ethnomusicology lecture courses and directs the Balinese Gamelan program in the department where she earned her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, with a specialization in Balinese music in ritual & theater, gamelan gender wayang, and shadow puppetry. Her research interests include transmission, oral performance and improvisation, performance eco-systems, folklore, and vocal and instrumental music of England, Scotland, and Ireland. She is a performing member of Gamelan Sekar Jaya, Gamelan Sari Raras, and ShadowLight, with expertise in Balinese and Javanese...

Jon Yu

Lecturer

Jon Yu is a Taiwanese-American composer whose works explore notions of ritual, utility, and excess. His music has been performed internationally by ensembles and soloists such as Mivos Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Wet Ink Ensemble, AuditivVokal Dresden, Eco Ensemble, Earplay, AsianArt Ensemble, haegeum player Soo Yeon Lyuh, and percussionist Oded Geizhals. His music has been programmed at festivals such as June in Buffalo (2014), Dian Red Kechil (2015), SICPP (2016), Darmstadt Ferienkurse (2016), Pacific Rim Music Festival (2017), Festival Musica (2018), Festival Barcelona Modern...

Juliana Gaona Villamizar

Lecturer: Musicianship, Teacher Special Program: Oboe

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Juliana is an oboist, chamber and orchestra musician, and improviser. She has performed with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Colombia, and the Ópera al Parque Festival in Colombia. Since moving to the US, she has performed with La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, Meridian Symphony Orchestra, Redlands Symphony, and Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra. Juliana has participated in Contemporary music festivals and ensembles including the Academia Cervantina in Guanajuato, Mexico, and Vértice Ensemble in Mexico City. In 2020, she...

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 “...

Francesco Spagnolo

Associate Adjunct Professor

Francesco Spagnolo is a multidisciplinary scholar focusing on Jewish studies, music and digital media. At the University of California, Berkeley, he is the Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Music. He is also an affiliated faculty with the...