Music

2015-16 General Catalog

244 Music Center
(831) 459-2292
music@ucsc.edu
http://music.ucsc.edu

Program Statement | Course Descriptions

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Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Amy C. Beal
American music, 20th-century music, experimental and improvisatory performance practices, biography, women composers, piano performance, contemporary music ensembles (including percussion ensemble and gamelan), postwar and Cold War culture, German new music festivals and radio stations, trans-Atlantic cultural exchange

Linda C. Burman-Hall, Emerita

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

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, Emeritus

Nicole A. Paiement, Emerita

Larry Polansky
Composition, post-tonal theory, algorithmic music, American music, tuning theory, contemporary music, ensemble performance and performance practice, acoustic and electric guitar music, music editing and publishing, interdisciplinary collaboration, music and scientific research

John M. Schechter, Emeritus

Associate Professor

Benjamin L. Carson
Composition, music perception, empirical musicology, Arnold Schoenberg, popular culture, improvisation

Tanya H. Merchant
Ethnomusicology, musics of Central Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the Balkans, 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

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

David Dunn
Sound art and design, music and the environment, acoustic ecology, compositional linguistics, live electro-acoustic performance, composition, bio-acoustic research, history of electronic music practice, art and science, audio engineering and location recording

Nicol C. Hammond
South African music, popular music studies, ethnomusicology, voice, nationalism, postcolonialism,gender and sexuality, queer studies, world music, music of sub-Saharan Africa, music of the Global South

Bruce Kiesling
Conducting

Adjunct Professor

Zachary Watkins
Electronic music, composition, improvisation

Lecturer

Nathaniel A. Berman
Director, Concert Choir and Wind Ensemble

Kyle Bruckmann
Oboe

Paul Contos
Saxophone

William D. Coulter
Classical guitar

Greer Ellison
Flute, baroque and classical flutes

Maria V. Ezerova
Piano

Giacomo Fiore
Musicology

Roman Fukshanksky
Clarinet

Barry L. Green
String bass

Thomas Horning
Trombone, euphonium and tuba

Erin Irvine
Bassoon

Roy T. Malan
Violin, viola

George E. Marsh
Drumset, improvisation, rhythm theory, Inner Drumming, game theory, polyrhythms, Deep Listening

Stan E. Poplin
String bass, jazz ensembles

Richard Roper
Trumpet

Ittai Rosenbaum
Music theory, jazz ensembles

Vanessa Ruotolo
Cello

Emily Sinclair
Voice

Brian J. Staufenbiel
UCSC Opera Program Director

Undang Sumarna
West Javanese gamelan

Avi Tchamni
Theory, ethnomusicology

Susan C. Vollmer
Horn

Zachary Watkins
Electronic music studio

Sheila Willey Hannon
Voice

William K. Winant
Orchestral percussion, percussion ensemble

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Visiting Professor

Aashish Khan 
North Indian classical music

Revised: 09/01/15