October 17, 2013
…Chair of Department of Music, Dies at 92 Composer Will Ogdon, founding chair of UC San Diego’s department of music, died Oct. 6. He was 92. Ogdon was hired in 1965 by Muir College Provost John Stewart, along with composer Robert Erickson, to create the music department at UC San…
August 4, 2016
In a new study, researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego found that the background music in shark documentaries affects viewers’ perceptions of sharks.
April 25, 2013
…of the impact of music training on the brain and behavioral development in children has been awarded a grant of nearly $20,000 by the Grammy Foundation. The San Diego Youth Symphony’s Community Opus program works in partnership with the UC San Diego SIMPHONY project to better understand how music helps…
January 10, 2013
…Lecture Series What makes music musical? Why is music such a potent form of expression? And how does the human brain respond to music? A series of talks by UC San Diego faculty will answer these questions and more in the free lectures series “The Making of the Modern World:…
May 23, 2019
…Sherman. Live Performance Brings Music of the Sea to UC San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute Renowned string ensemble performs original score by UC San Diego students Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer and UC San Diego music professor Lei Liang had worked with poets, painters and dancers, but never with beluga whales before he…
January 24, 2012
…Reich Storms Campus with ‘Music for 18 Musicians’ Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications In a rare San Diego appearance, renowned composer Steve Reich was honored at a sold-out Jan. 18 concert at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall. The concert climaxed with Reich’s epic Music for 18…
April 30, 2015
…composer Rand Steiger, whose music is often inspired by environmental themes and frequently incorporates digital audio processing, has earned a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. UC San Diego composer Rand Steiger. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Steiger is among 175 recipients selected from a pool of 3,100 applicants to receive…
March 17, 2016
…first-year pharmacy students playing music, including Warren Yau on violin, Tiffany Cheng on cello and Josh Valdez on guitar. The three students later decided to join forces, and the musical group “Serotones” was born in the fall of 2015. At first, the group just played for fun. Then Yau, who…
March 5, 2015
…Schick, who introduced the music (this year’s May 26 KPBS Members concert is also directed by Schick). Campus-KPBS Partnership Gives Inside Look at UC San Diego Arts Audience members reached into plastic buckets and grabbed handfuls of smooth stones. They would soon shake these stones as percussionists in a performance…
January 31, 2013
…to provide quality, accessible music education for San Diego community members of all ages and backgrounds. “Singing 1” was the course Fiona Chatwin wrote for UC San Diego Extension while pursuing her doctoral degree in musical arts at the university. Concurrently, Chatwin taught voice privately to undergraduate music minors and…
