Music
2011-12 General Catalog
244 Music Center
(831) 459-2292
music@ucsc.edu
http://music.ucsc.edu
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Amy C. Beal
American music, 20th-century music, experimental and improvisatory performance practices, postwar and Cold War culture, German new music festivals and radio stations, piano performance, contemporary music ensemble
Linda C. Burman-Hall
Baroque music and performance practices; historic and new keyboard repertoire (harpsichord, organ, and fortepiano); Indonesian music cultures; ethnomusicology, biomusic
David H. Cope, Emeritus
Sherwood Dudley, Emeritus
Karlton E. Hester
Premeditated, electroacoustic, and spontaneous composition; flutes, saxophones, and interdisciplinary performance; improvisational and Afrocentric music theory, analysis and history. Artistic Director, Global African Music and Arts Festival/Symposium; UCSC/ISIM International Improvisation Festival/Conference.
Edward F. Houghton, Emeritus
David Evan Jones
Instrumental and computer-assisted composition, electro-acoustic music, world music composition, chamber opera, language and music, timbre and orchestration
Hi Kyung Kim
Composition, theory, contemporary music, analysis, orchestration, Korean music, world music composition, Founder and Artistic Director, Pacific Rim Music Festival
Anatole Leikin
Classical and romantic music history, theory, and performance practices, piano and fortepiano, Russian music
Fredric Lieberman
Ethnomusicology; composition; the music industry and legal/ethical issues; American vernacular musics; musics of east, Southeast, and south Asia; organology
Leta E. Miller
Twentieth-century American music in the United States, 16th-century chanson and madrigal, music and science in the baroque period; C.P.E. Bach, Lou Harrison, music in San Francisco, modern and baroque flute
Gordon Mumma, Emeritus
Paul Nauert
Theory, composition; rhythm and meter; music cognition; mathematical and computer models of the compositional process
Nicole A. Paiement
Conducting; world premiere performance and recordings; contemporary chamber opera; interdisciplinary art; Founder and Artistic Director, Ensemble Parallèle
John M. Schechter, Emeritus
Associate Professor
Benjamin L. Carson
Theory and composition, music perception, empiricism and subjectivity, Schoenberg, popular music, improvisation
Nina Treadwell
Renaissance through early baroque music history and performance practices, early plucked-string instruments (theorbo, renaissance, and baroque guitar; renaissance lute), 16th- and 17th-century Italian theatrical music, gender studies, women and music, literary and critical theory
Assistant Professor
Tanya H. Merchant
Ethnomusicology, musics of Central Asia and the former Soviet Union, music and gender, identity, nationalism, globalization, and the institutionalization of music
Dard Neuman, Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music
Ethnomusicology; Hindustani music; colonialism, nationalism, technology and performance; sitar
Lecturer
Nathaniel A. Berman
Concert choir
Bill Kalinkos
Clarinet
Paul D. Contos
Saxophone
Mary Jane Cope
Piano, fortepiano
William D. Coulter
Classical guitar
Greer Ellison
Flute, baroque and classical flutes
Peter Q. Elsea
Electronic music and music technology
Maria V. Ezerova
Piano
Barry L. Green
String bass
Thomas Horning
Trombone
Erin Irvine
Bassoon
Robert Klevan
Wind ensemble, large jazz ensemble
Patrice L. Maginnis
Voice
Roy T. Malan
Violin, viola
George E. Marsh
Drumset, improvisation, rhythm theory, Inner Drumming, game theory, polyrhythms, Deep listening
Patricia L. Mitchell
Oboe
Mesut Özgen
Classical guitar, classical guitar ensemble
Stan E. Poplin
String bass, jazz ensembles
Richard Roper
Trumpet
Vanessa Ruotolo
Cello
Brian J. Staufenbiel
Voice, university opera theater
Undang Sumarna
West Javanese gamelan
Avi Tchamni
Theory, ethnomusicology
Susan C. Vollmer
Horn
William K. Winant
Orchestral percussion, percussion ensemble
The staff
Latin American ensembles
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Distinguished Adjunct Professor
Ali Akbar Khan (deceased)
North Indian classical music
Visiting Professor
Aashish Khan
North Indian classical music
Revised: 8/13/12
