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UCI's Creative Engine

January 17

Through art, dance, music and drama, UCI artists push boundaries and fuel innovation
2022-23 Faculty Artist Series: Lorna Griffitt, piano

February 18 Winifred Smith Hall

Lorna Griffitt will perform a piano recital featuring the fantastical Gaspard de la Nuit (Treasurer of the Night) by Maurice Ravel. Based on the poetry by Aloysius Bertrand, this dark, mysterious, terrifying and devilishly difficult work is one of the ...
UCI Small Jazz Groups - Winter 2023

February 22 Winifred Smith Hall

The UCI undergraduate jazz program will showcase the small-group student ensembles
UCI Symphony Orchestra - Winter 2023

March 10 Irvine Barclay Theatre

Join the UCI Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of guest conductor Dr. Geoffrey Pope, for an evening of orchestral classics from your favorite composers and will feature the winner of the 2023 UCI Concerto Competition. The annual competition ...
Yvette Janine Jackson | Radio Opera Workshop

March 11 Winifred Smith Hall

Radio Opera Workshop is a scalable intermedia chamber ensemble established to perform the radio operas of Yvette Janine Jackson. The 60-minute concert features the U.S. premiere of Left Behind, part of a series of radio operas themed around the ...
UCI Wind Ensemble - Winter 2023

March 13 Winifred Smith Hall

This advanced ensemble is devoted to the study and performance of music composed for varying combinations of wind and percussion instruments. Concerts typically include works written for small groups as well as those written for full symphonic wind ...
UCI Guitar Ensemble - Winter 2023

March 15 Arts Amphitheater

UCI guitar students present a program al fresco.

UCI's Creative Engine

Through art, dance, music and drama, UCI artists push boundaries and fuel innovation By Christine Byrd This winter, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts will treat audiences to riveting performances and thought-provoking exhibitions, all of which are the result of a thriving creative engine that...

Faculty |Student

The Highly Collective Work of ICIT’s “Circadian Etudes”

And the pursuit of ‘remote interconnectedness’ Inherent to UCI’s Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) Ph.D. program is collaboration; all projects to emerge from the ICIT program suggest a degree of collectivity and interactivity. Rather—the entire music-making process,...

Alumni

ICIT Alumnus Omar Costa Hamido publishes groundbreaking dissertation work on quantum computing and music.

When considering music and technology, most people probably do not think of the intersection between creative expression through music and new directions in quantum computing. The work of Omar Costa Hamido–a recent recipient of a doctoral degree from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (Ph.D. in...