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UCI Choral Concert - Spring 2023

June 9 Winifred Smith Hall

This fun family concert is sure to put a “spring” in your step!
Chamber Music Concert - Spring 2023

June 12 Winifred Smith Hall

A FREE evening of student groups performing chamber music selections. Save the date for this moving concert!
2023 Summer Academies: Chamber Music

July 17 - July 28 Arts Campus

Students will explore masterpieces in the chamber music repertoire, while training with world-renowned faculty. In collaboration with their peers, students experience life as an undergraduate Music Major.
2023 Summer Academies in the Arts

July 10 - July 28 Arts Campus

The Summer Academies in the Arts are college and career preparatory intensives in Art, Dance, Drama, and Music focused on practical and technical skill development for experienced high school and college arts students on campus at UC Irvine.

Tania Katan to Give the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Commencement Address

Trailblazing storyteller and champion of creativity to inspire the Class of 2023 Tania Katan, a powerful storyteller, bestselling author, and co-creator of the globally viral social impact campaign #ItWasNeverADress, has been chosen as the 2023 commencement speaker for the joint ceremony for UC...

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Building Roads with Music

Musician and professor Kojiro Umezaki builds connections between communities By Christine Byrd Kojiro Umezaki plays a traditional Japanese bamboo flute called shakuhachi, which has been around for centuries. But he also uses artificial intelligence to analyze and layer recordings of himself...

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Forging the Path Ahead

The ICIT Ph.D. program’s embrace of diverse forms of music hit the right notes for percussionist, sound artist and educator JoVia Armstrong By Greg Hardesty JoVia Armstrong, a 2022 graduate of the Department of Music's Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) Ph.D. program,...