February 25, 2019
The Department of Music’s Cross-Wired is a week-long set of mini-concerts, master classes and large-scale performances for seven up-and-coming percussionists, each who will be studying new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and University Professor Roger Reynolds.
September 3, 2024
Thanks to a gift from Marco Londei and Liquin Wang—founders of the Farfy Foundation—undergraduate students will have the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of creating a musical production through a new course in UC San Diego’s Department of Music that will culminate in a student-produced music festival on…
February 19, 2021
The Qualcomm Institute at the University of California San Diego has appointed the composer, music professor and sound designer Shahrokh Yadegari to be an Associate Director of the interdisciplinary institute.
April 13, 2023
Associate Professor of Communication Angela Booker has been named inaugural provost of Eighth College. The campus’s newest college will be located in the Theater District Living and Learning Neighborhood and will welcome an inaugural cohort of 600 students in Fall 2023.
April 4, 2016
Calit2 director Larry Smarr welcomes artist Daniel Ambrosi to Qualcomm Institute to showcase full-size art works for first time ever at highest resolution.
October 7, 2021
…the San Diego Repertory Theater and Old Globe Theater, and Chris with San Diego Mainly Mozart, San Diego Grantmakers, and the Jacobs Family Foundation/Jacobs Center for Community Innovation. Both Pat and Chris Weil serve on the board of their family foundation along with their three children. The Revelle Medal Created…
May 20, 2015
…door in the Calit2 Theater, which will showcase the full breadth of the virtual group portraiture. “By using the Vroom display wall,” says UC San Diego visual arts lecturer Emily Grenader (MFA ’13), “we will be able to adequately show the ties between individuals at different locations performing in different…
May 24, 2023
Nathan East is a prolific, Grammy-nominated session bassist who has worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry. But first, he was a student at UC San Diego.
March 18, 2021
…the ideal of “public theater.” She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Oxford and Roma III—and was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2007 by the Venice Biennale. In “Advanced Technology,” Ching W. Tang, Ph.D., is renowned for his pioneering work in developing organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)…
October 6, 2016
…Music’s hi-tech black box theater. “Thousands of people will experience ‘Nimbus’ every week. It will be at Disney hall all season, so anyone who visits will walk right through it.” The inspiration for “Nimbus” was Angel’s Flight, the narrow-gauge funicular that for more than a century carried passengers up a…
