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UCI Music Lecture Series: Special Guest Anthony McGill

October 22 Online

Principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic, Mr. Anthony McGill will visit with the music students and ensemble members of the Music Department of UCI to engage on the subjects of life in the music world and the need for “Social Awareness” in ...
Jennifer Curtis joins UCI Music for the 2020-21 academic year

October 13

Curtis, a Juilliard trained violinist and chamber musician, will teach individual violin lessons and violin studio class.
Dr Joe Davies joins the Department of Music as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow

September 30

Dr. Davies’s fellowship project, “Rethinking Widowhood: Women, Loss, and Liberation in Nineteenth-Century Musical Culture,” centers on women’s experience of widowhood in musical cultures of the long nineteenth century (c. 1800–1914).
The 1619 Project in 2020 | African American Music: the Sound of Freedom’s Journey

October 27 Online

Using The 1619 Project’s “Episode 3: The Birth of American Music” as a launching point, this panel explores innovation in musical expressions from spirituals to jazz and contemporary music, investigating freedom as a process in motion, not as a ...
UCI Music Lecture Series: Special Guest Grant Gershon

November 10 Online

American conductor and Music Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, will be a guest of the Music Department’s performing ensembles at UCI this Fall. Maestro Gershon will present to the combined ensembles of UCI Symphony, UCI Wind ...
Hub New Music in 360°

November 17 - November 19 Online

Boston-based mixed quartet Hub New Music returns to UCI to present – in 360° audio and video – new works by doctoral students in the Integrated Composition Improvisation and Technology program (ICIT). Live conversations with the artists on working in ...
UCI Music Lecture Series: Special Guest Billy Childs

December 10 Online

Composer, pianist and teacher Billy Childs will be a visiting guest lecturer with the UCI Symphony, UCI Wind Ensemble, UCI Chamber Singers, and the Chamber Class this quarter. Mr. Childs, a multiple Grammy Award winner, will speak to the combined...

Jennifer Curtis joins UCI Music for the 2020-21 academic year

The Department of Music in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UCI is pleased to welcome Ms. Jennifer Curtis as a lecturer for the 2020-21 academic year. Curtis, a Juilliard trained violinist and chamber musician, will teach individual violin lessons and violin studio class. Curtis is a member...

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Dr Joe Davies joins the Department of Music as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow

Dr. Joe Davies will join the Department of Music, in conjunction with the new Ph.D. program in History and Theory of Music, as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow. The funding is provided by the European Commission and jointly affiliated with Maynooth University, Ireland (2021–2024). Currently,...

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UCI Music Professor Uses Technology to Build Bridges

By Richard Chang Michael Dessen, a music professor at UC Irvine, specializes in telematics, or networked music performance. He knew his field was important and growing, but he didn’t expect the entire world of musicians to be calling him nonstop during the coronavirus pandemic. It turns out...