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Graduation Spotlight Series: Soprano Isabelle Knowles ’25 Hits a High Note with her UC Irvine Experience

Knowles graduates with a B.Mus. in vocal performance and professional recording credits By Christine Byrd Isabelle Knowles is graduating this June with more than just a bachelor of music in vocal performance. She already has experience working with a Grammy-winning producer and making a...

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Mari Kimura to Present at Osaka Expo 2025

UC Irvine Department of Music professor brings cutting-edge sensor technology in cross-cultural performance Mari Kimura, Ph.D., professor of music in UC Irvine’s Ph.D. program in Integrated Composition and Technology (ICIT), will be featured next week in Breathing Media: Traditional Japanese Arts...

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2025 Medici Circle Scholars

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts names 14 new Medici Circle Scholars UC Irvine Arts is pleased to announce the 2025 Medici Circle Scholars. These scholarships allow recipients to extend their education beyond the classroom, collaborating with academics and artists in the community and...

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Seven UC Irvine Arts Educators Receive the U18 Faculty Professional Development Award

The recognition provides opportunities for U18 faculty to enhance pedagogy UC Irvine and the University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) recently announced awardees of the Unit 18 Faculty Council on Professional Development for the 2024–25 academic year, including seven U18 ...

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UC Alianza MX Awards $150K for Binational Music and Community Project

Led by faculty from UC Irvine and UC San Diego, Cauces Sónicos explores collaborative artmaking and education across the U.S.–México border. IRVINE, Calif., May 12, 2025 — Funded with a Latino Studies Research Project award from the University of California Alianza MX Initiative, Cauces Sónicos:...

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A Voice for Angelica

M.F.A. candidate Abigail Mesel discusses her role in UCI Opera’s production of Puccini’s Suor Angelica: A Q...

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UC Irvine Music Students to Perform at Segerstrom Hall

Nathaniel Chao and Yang Lu join a professional orchestra for Messiah in America, a Broadway-style production by Millennial® Choirs...

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Reclaiming Sound

Doctoral students Fabricio Cavero and Alyssa Wixson blend sustainability and sound By Diana Kalaji In 2024, the Department of Music’s Ph.D. program in Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technology (ICIT) celebrated 15 years of innovation and community. ICIT pushes beyond traditional...

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UC Irvine Professor Mari Kimura Honored with Prestigious SEAMUS Award

The Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine proudly announces that Professor Mari Kimura, a trailblazing violinist, composer and researcher, has been named the recipient of the 2025 SEAMUS Award. This prestigious honor, presented by the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States...

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Professor Darryl Taylor Releases DEAR FRIENDS AND GENTLE HEARTS with Louise Toppin

The album explores the artistry of African American Art Song through a collaboration 30 years in the making Professor Darryl Taylor from the Department of Music at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts has released Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts, a collaborative album with Louise Toppin,...

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CTSA Research & Innovation and Theater of Community Faculty and Graduate Student 2024-25 Research & Innovation Grants

Creative Research in the Arts Now in its fourth year, the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) Department of Research and Innovation continues to prioritize projects that feature cutting-edge research and interdisciplinary collaborations with potential for external recognition and...

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Finding Light

UCI Music and UCI MIND Join Forces for a Profound Musical Journey into Alzheimer’s On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 8 p.m., the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Music and UCI MIND will present Finding Light: Alzheimer’s Stories by Robert S. Cohen at the Irvine Barclay Theatre...

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Songs of Light

Daniel Keeling shares his relationship with Alzheimer’s as he performs with UC Irvine Chamber Singers at the Irvine Barclay Theatre: A Q...

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$1 Million Endowment Aspires to Build Musical Bridges

Business leader and philanthropist Jong Sup Kim views music as a universal language that bridges communities and enhances lives. With a $1 million gift, he aims to help the UC Irvine Department of Music at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) extend its impact, both locally and globally....

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Creative Communities

How Claire Trevor School of the Arts clubs cultivate belonging and equity beyond the classroom and across campus By Diana Kalaji At UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA), students’ success goes beyond main-stage productions, choral performances and thesis exhibitions. With over 100...

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Full STEAM Ahead

How three women double majoring in the arts and sciences draw from it all By Diana Kalaji At UC Irvine, a convergence of artistic talent and scientific inquiry thrives. Meet Cassidy Doan, Isabella Cao and Brenna Farrell. What do these three students have in common? Besides relying on Google...

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The UC Irvine Chamber Singers Release Holiday EP

Celebrate the holidays with classical hymns in Winter Night The UC Irvine Chamber Singers release their first holiday EP, Winter Night, on Friday, November 29, 2024. Produced by Signum Records, the musical collection features four songs with an available single, Gabriel’s Message, featuring Jim...

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UC Irvine Chamber Singers Place Second in the American Prize

Chamber Singers receive national recognition in choral performance The UC Irvine Chamber Singers, directed by Dr. Irene Messoloras, professor in the Department of Music, have earned second place in the 2024 American Prize in Choral Performance—college/university division (smaller program). The ...