Lecturer

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...

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...

Carla Shapreau

Specialist - Curator

Carla Shapreau is the Curator of the Ansley K. Salz Collection of Stringed Instruments. She brings to this position a background of violin making, restoration, and service as a member of the non-profit American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers, the Violin Society of America, the International Council of Museum’s Committee of Museums and Collections of Instruments and Music, and the American Musical Instrument Society.

A recipient of a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in connection with her musical cultural property research, Shapreau has written and lectured...

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...

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...

Jean Ahn

Lecturer

Born in Korea, Jean Ahn finished her B.A. and M.M. at Seoul National University and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. Her creative output includes works ranging from solo instruments to full orchestra, as well as choral, dance and electroacoustic music.

She received First Prize at the Renée Fisher Competition and the Sejong Korean Music Competition as well as awards from the Korean National Music Composers Association, the De Lorenzo Prize in Music Composition, and the Isadora Duncan Award for Saltdoll. She was a Finalist for the League of American Orchestra Women Composers...

Ben Goldberg

Lecturer, Jazz Studies
Beginning in 1992, when his group New Klezmer Trio “kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music” (SF Chronicle), clarinetist Ben Goldberg has established himself as “one of the most vibrant, flexible, and inventive clarinetists in jazz and improvised music” (Downbeat). NPR calls Ben “an artist who seems to find beautiful melodies at the end of every path,” and The New York Times has noted his music for “a feeling of joyous research into the basics of polyphony and collective improvising.” After twice being named Rising Star Clarinetist in the Downbeat Critics...

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...

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...