January 26, 2017
…resist. That’s what gospel music is intended to do—get you swaying, tapping your feet and joining in the joyful harmony. On Sunday, Jan. 29, UC San Diego will host the 21st annual Lytle Scholarship Concert, featuring the UC San Diego Gospel Choir with special guests Archie Robinson and New Birth…
October 25, 2024
UC San Diego alumna Mary Kouyoumdijian developed “Paper Pianos” to highlight the global refugee crisis.
April 24, 2012
…visual arts; Carolyn Chen, music; Miao-Ping Chien, chemistry; Mike Navarro, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Stevie Ruiz, ethnic studies; Nick Saenz, history; Sonya Seif-Naraghi, bioengineering; Kimberly Stiemke, education studies; Dennis A. Young, bioengineering; and Melanie Zauscher, mechanical and aerospace engineering. Ten UC San Diego graduate students were recently inducted into the…
May 16, 2013
…much new and experimental music is built around explorations of form, instrumentation and new technologies, Narucki said that “the music of our time is not speaking to social issues.” By contrast, “Cuatro Corridos” combines provocative music with Volpi’s libretto to express the human cost of the border sex trade. In…
June 4, 2024
UC San Diego music alumna Anna Thorvaldsdottir has been described by NPR as “one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music.” She recently won the 2024 CHANEL Next Prize and just premiered her newest orchestra METAXIS.
December 14, 2015
…the scope of classical music through innovative, programming in unique performance venues, received a Koussevitzky Commission Grant from the Library of Congress for a piece that Liang will write for the Formosa Quartet, a co-sponsor of the commission. The new piece will premiere March 29, 2016 in a performance at…
July 31, 2017
…the whole world is music. The Wind Garden is an invitation to listen and become better connected to our environment. So how exactly can trees sing? Adams was invited to work with the signature landscape of UC San Diego, and chose a grove west of the Mandel Weiss Theatre. Thirty-two…
January 13, 2022
Project REACH: Raising Co-creativity in Cyber-Human Musicianship is teaching computers how to improvise, musically.
October 18, 2018
…Opera Uses Art and Music to Address a Complex Social Issue Using legendary story of Sarah Winchester, Department of Music professors stage timely world-premiere about gun violence in America Moved by headlines of yet another mass shooting in the United States, a team of musicians and artists felt it was…
February 25, 2016
…In a sense, her music bridged the divide between modern Mexico and its poor indigenous communities. Paredes’ work, and other compositions from around the world, will be performed Feb. 26 – 28 at UC San Diego Department of Music’s Intercultural Music Conference (ICM). More than 80 composers, scholars and performers…
