Sather Tower was completed in 1915, and so for the past year or so the university has been celebrating its hundredth birthday with a wide-variety of events. Celebrations began right after school began with a multi-media event with sound, light, and the participation of the earth in “Natural Frequencies,” a collaboration between several departments on … Continue Reading »
Marika Kuzma Retires
Marika Kuzma (Professor, Choral Director) On Dec 9th in Hertz Hall on the University of California, Berkeley campus, Marika Kuzma led two concerts that marked her retirement from the university choirs. It was one of many crowning moments in her twenty-five years of teaching in our Department of Music. The 2014–15 year marked several milestones … Continue Reading »
Bonnie Remembers Berkeley
My first acquaintance with Berkeley was the summer of 1967. I was a graduate student in ethnomusicology at UCLA and came up to spend part of the summer working on my Master’s thesis and also attending performances at the World Music Center funded by the Scripps family. I made a tour of the Department of Music. I also, with typical … Continue Reading »
2016 master classes for UCB Symphony Orchestra; Tchaikovsky 4
Maestro David Robertson, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, January 30th Orchestra master class with Maestro David Robertson, music director of the St. Louis Symphony. The UCBSO rehearsed Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 as part of the master class. Maestro Robertson was in town with the St. Louis Symphony that weekend to perform with Cal Performances at Zellerbach … Continue Reading »
14th-century Ferrell-Vogüé Machaut Manuscript authors win AMS award
The American Musicological Society has awarded Carla Shapreau, and co-authors Lawrence M. Earp of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Domenic Leo of Duquesne University, the 2015 Claude V. Palisca Award for their work on The Ferrell-Vogüé Machaut Manuscript, published by the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, University of Oxford. This award “honors each year … Continue Reading »
Cal Day Music 2016
The Music Department is proud to offer a wide range of musical activities for Cal Day visitors on Saturday, April 16, from 10am to 4pm. Events take place in and around the music buildings, Hertz Memorial Concert Hall and Morrison Hall, for all to enjoy. Indoor events include the kid-friendly Music Connection Instrument Workshop, as … Continue Reading »
In Memoriam, Steven Stucky
Leading American Composer Steven Stucky died on February 14, 2016 at age 66 in Ithaca, New York. He served on the faculty at Cornell University, Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School and served residencies at a number of leading international conservatories – including the Beijing Central Conservatory, Shanghai Conservatoire, Cleveland Institute of Music, Curtis … Continue Reading »
Cindy Cox
In addition to serving as department chair in the Music Department, Professor Cindy Cox has also had a busy year with performances of her works across the world. In April, there was a portrait concert in Shanghai, China at the Oriental Arts Center of “La cigüeña” and “Mallets,” Playing a round, Hishuk ish ts’walk, and … Continue Reading »
Alumni and Student News
Amadeus Regucera, PhD student (composition) The fall of 2015 has been incredibly busy and wonderful for me professionally and artistically. I have had the pleasure of having attended the premieres of two new pieces. If only after you then me which was premiered by Duo Cortona at the Resonant Bodies Festival in New York in … Continue Reading »
Stefano Flavoni, BA 2015, Music
Stefano Flavoni (BA, 2015), conducting student of David Milnes and Marika Kuzma and 2015 recipient of the Eisner Prize, has recently begun tenure as conductor of the China National Welfare Institute Children’s Choir, centered in Shanghai. Though he began his work there in early September, his appointment came this past June after conducting the South Carolina … Continue Reading »
Carla Shapreau, curator of the Salz Collection
Carla Shapreau is the new curator of the Salz Collection of Stringed Instruments. She brings to this position a background of violin making, restoration, and service as a Board member and advisor to the non-profit American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers and the Violin Society of America. Co-author of Violin Fraud — Deception, Forgery, … Continue Reading »
Piano Institute 2015
On Sunday, October 25th, the Department of Music hosted a full day of piano recitals, lectures, masterclasses, lessons, and discussion featuring a noon concert recital on period instruments by exciting up-and-coming fortepianist David Hyun-su Kim, Turkish-born Schumann-and-Brahms specialist, Sezi Seskir of Bucknell University, and Andrew Willis of UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance, an … Continue Reading »