Anthony Davis wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music!
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Distinguished Professor of Music Anthony Davis wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his opera 'The Central Park Five'
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Pulitzer Prize jury described the 'The Central Park Five' opera as "a courageous operatic work, marked by powerful vocal writing and sensitive orchestration, that skillfully transforms a notorious example of contemporary injustice into something empathetic and hopeful."
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Get to know Anthony Davis, 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner for ‘The Central Park Five’ opera with Name Drop San Diego
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Abby Hamblin and Kristy Totten of Name Drop San Diego, a new weekly podcast from The San Diego Union-Tribune, interviews Distinguished Professor of Music and 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Davis regarding his musical works.
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Anthony Davis's Revolutionary Opera: "X"
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Ryan Ebright of
The New Yorker takes a deeper look at Anthony Davis' first opera, “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” that premiered at the New York City Opera in 1986.
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Music King Britt speaks about the unexpected benefit of teaching his course, "Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music," remotely
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"King Britt, an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Music, has also discovered an unexpected benefit to the remote format. In his course, “Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music,” Britt has begun inviting musicians from London, Philadelphia, Thailand, Denver and more as keynotes. He has found that students have become more engaged through the combination of lectures, guest presentations and live music performances."
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Professor of Computer Music Miller Puckette discusses the creation of Max and Pure Data on the Future of Coding podcast
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UC San Diego Professor of Computer Music Miller Puckette retells the history and the forces at play when he created Max and Pure Data, two of the most important tools in the history of visual programming and computer music, in a podcast interview with Ivan Reese of Future of Coding.
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New book released featuring works written by Assistant Professor of Music Wilfrido Terrazas and grad students Teresa Díaz de Cossio and Paul Roth
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The new collective book, "
Musicians’ Migratory Patterns: American-Mexican Border Lands considers the works and ideologies of an array of American-based, immigrant Mexican musicians. It asserts their immigrant status as a central force in nourishing, informing, and propelling musical and artistic concerns, uncovering pure and fresh forms of expression that broaden the multicultural map of Mexico. The text guides readers in appreciation of the aesthetic and technical achievements of original works and innovative performances, with artistic and pedagogical implications that frame a vivid picture of the contemporary Mexican as immigrant creator in the United States."
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Professor Shlomo Dubnov is leading UC San Diego's involvement in the research of using voice to detect COVID-19
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Researchers at UC San Diego are part of a collaborative, multinational effort to use changes in voice to detect COVID-19. Shlomo Dubnov, a professor in the Departments of Music and Computer Science and Engineering, is leading UC San Diego’s involvement in the project, and is using tools he and his lab developed to analyze musical sounds.
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Commentary: From the arts front lines: Steph Richards: ‘I practice to recognize myself’
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Associate Professor of Music Stephanie Richards shares with The San Diego Union-Tribune regarding the impact of COVID-19 on musicians and what she's doing to keep motivated. "One thing that has been helping me sort things out is my trumpet. I practice to recognize myself, and it keeps me grounded... As a composer, I’m very much observing and absorbing as much about these moments as I can, as we will be parsing out all the complexities of this unique time for many years to come."
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Finally, a Stage for Female Composers From Iran
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UC San Diego Music grad student Anahita Abbasi is featured in The New York Times regarding her work with fellow Iranian composers Niloufar Nourbakhsh and Aida Shirazi in the founding of the Iranian Female Composers Association - IFCA
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UC San Diego Music grad student Alex Taylor speaks with Orchestra Wellington's Music Director Marc Taddei
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UC San Diego Music grad student Alex Taylor speaks with Orchestra Wellington's Music Director Marc Taddei regarding his time as the Orchestra Wellington Composer in Residence, his collaboration with artist Simon Ingram, life at UC San Diego, and more.
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UC San Diego Music Alum Tina Tallon awarded the 2020-21 Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
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UC San Diego Music alum Tina Tallon was the only composer selected this year to win the prestigious Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship. Tina received her PhD in Composition from UC San Diego, where she studied composition under Professor Lei Liang and computer music with Professor Miller Puckette and Associate Teaching Professor Tom Erbe.
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Composer and UC San Diego Music Alum Anna Thorvaldsdottir featured in
The New York Times'
"A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time"
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Composer and UC San Diego Music alum Anna Thorvaldsdottir's piece 'Existence' was featured in
The New York Times' "A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time," a list of "seven works that speak to the coronavirus time warp, in which days creep along but months vanish in a flash."
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Composer and UC San Diego Music Alum
Aaron Helgeson
appointed Associate Professor at Montclair State University.
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Composer, Sound Artist, and UC San Diego Music Alum
Kevin Zhang appointed Assistant Professor of Music and Composition at California State University, San Bernardino.
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Bassist and UC San Diego Music grad student Matt Kline appointed Assistant Professor of Music at Southwestern College, where he will be leading the orchestras, and teaching string methods and music history.
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Friday, June 5, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. PT
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The Checkout from WBGO's next Live and In Lockdown Performance, real duets in real-time, features Michael Dessen on trombone and live electronics performing with Mark Dresser on double bass.
Join Simon Rentner, and the two “OGs” – the original generators – of this new “telematics” technology, for a special LIVE concert webcast, Friday, June 5th at 3pm PT/ 6pm ET on
WBGO’s and
The Checkout’s Facebook Pages.
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Friday, June 5, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
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Join us for a Virtual Spring Undergraduate Forum showcasing UC San Diego's undergraduate music majors! The performances will be premiering on UC San Diego Music's Youtube channel on Friday, June 5th at 7:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.
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Join us on Wednesday, June 10th at 5 p.m. for a live stream of Best of ICAM on UC San Diego Music's YouTube channel! Senior year students of UC San Diego's ICAM Music major will be presenting their senior projects.
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