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Boris Acosta Jaramillo
Email: bacostaj@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
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Marguerite Brown
Email: mlb001@ucsd.edu
B.M. Cornish College of the Arts
M.A. University of California Santa Cruz
Emphasis: Composition
Marguerite Brown (b. 1990) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who explores new mediums, forms, and performance practices with an emphasis on unorthodox approaches to tuning and temperament. In her compositions, algorithms often provide a framework for indeterminate parameters to unfold, where freedom of performer interpretation can contribute to a shared sense of vision.
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Robbie Bui
Email: robui@ucsd.edu (he/him/his)
M.A. UC San Diego
B.M. New England Conservatory
Emphasis: Performance, Cello
Researching multimedia performance, concert program diversification, community engagement strategies, and modernized nontraditional forms of the concert experience
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Mitchell Carlstrom
Email: mcarlstr@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Percussion
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Emir Chacra
Email: echacra@ucsd.edu
MSc in Applied Mathematics, Universidad de Chile
Emphasis: Computer Music
Electronic music production and mixing. Audio effects, virtual analog, and physical audio modeling.
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Anita Chandavarker
Email: achandavarkar@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Flute
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Andrew Crapitto
Email: acrapitto@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Bass
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Jordan Davidson
Email: jedavidson@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
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Charles Deluga
Email: cdeluga@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Computer Music
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Pablo Dodero
Email: pdodero@ucsd.edu (he/him/his)
B.A. in International Business-English/North America, San Diego State University
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
Research interests include the origins of electronic music in Mexico and the practices of Mexican electronic music instrument designers. Additionally interested in contributing to Latin American Science and Technology Studies and archival work in Mexico.
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Timothy Gmeiner
Email: tgmeiner@ucsd.edu (he/him/his)
BA in ICAM-Music, UC-San Diego
Emphasis: Computer Music
Primary focus on audiovisual relationships in virtual and physical spaces. Current projects and collaborations explore correlations between synesthesia, imagination and memory through spatialized, interactive, narrative-based linear and non-linear compositions in virtual reality, audiovisual live performance and large-scale real-time reactive installations in two-dimensional projection and three-dimensional dome spaces.
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Joy Guidry
Email: cguidry@ucsd.edu (they, them)
B.M. Bassoon Performance, Peabody Conservatory
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
I am researching the history of Black trauma globally and how it has influenced Black artistry through out time.
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Yifan Guo
Email: yig020@ucsd.edu
B.M. in Composition, Mannes School of Music
M.M. in Composition, New England Conservatory of Music
Emphasis: Composition
My recent interests lie in exploring multidimensional music perception experiences, employing both sonic and non-sonic elements in performance to convey profound artistic expressions. This has led me to focus on compositional practices in music theater, instrumental electronic music, intermedia performance, and other innovative stage works.
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Jose Hernandez Lopez
Email: jhernnndezlpez@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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Tornike Karchkhadze
Email: tkarchkhadze@ucsd.edu
M.A.in Music Technology, Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatoire The Hague
B.A. in Music Tecnology, Tbilisi State Conservatoire
B.A. in Physics, Tbilisi State University
Emphasis: Computer Music
Computer music, Deep neural sound synthesis, Audio/Music generative models
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Sergey Kasich
Email: skasich@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Computer Music
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Jiyoung Ko
Email: jiko@ucsd.edu
M.M. Composition, New England Conservatory
M.A. and B.A. Composition, Korea National University of Arts
Emphasis: Composition
My main focus is crafting orchestral, chamber, and vocal music. The narratives I embed in my compositions serve as a guiding force in shaping my artistic expressions. I write music primarily about people, landscapes, and experiences, and my affinity for dense and rich textures, resonant hues, and poetic and delicate melodies shines through in all of my creations.
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Peter Ko
Email: m6ko@ucsd.edu (he/him)
M.M. in Music Cello Performance, Memorial University of Newfoundland
B.A. in Music Performance, University of California San Diego
Emphasis: Performance, Cello
Contemporary Music Cello Performance
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Akari Komura
Email: akomura@ucsd.edu (she/her)
M.M. in Composition, University of Michigan
B.A. in Vocal Arts, University of California Irvine
Emphasis: Composition
My works center around contemplative engagement with listening and soundmaking. I am interested in facilitating a participatory performance space that invites both musicians and listeners for a collective ritualistic experience. My compositional approach is oriented toward transforming the everyday perception of the sonic environment. Text-based scores are also integral to my practice informed by composers involved in Fluxus, Deep Listening, and acoustic ecology.
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Alissa Liu
Email: all041@ucsd.edu (she, her)
B.A. in Music Technology and Production, Oregon State University
B.A. in Managerial Economics, Oregon State University
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
East Asian/Asian American Studies, Transnationalism, critical race and gender theory, global popular music industries and production -
Jingwei Liu
Email: jil121@ucsd.edu
M.A. in Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
B.S. in Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong, China
Emphasis: Computer Music
AI Music Generation; Quantative examination of perceptual problems of music and general arts, humanity under neural network architecture; interactive artificial agent design
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Kosuke Matsuda
Email: kmatsuda@ucsd.edu (he, him)
M.M. in Artist Diploma from University of Miami, Frost School of Music
M.M. Aichi University of the Fine Arts, Japan
Emphasis: Performance, Percussion
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Alejandrina M. Medina
Email: a3medina@ucsd.edu
M.A. in Music-Integrative Studies, UC San Diego
B.M. in Performance Studies, Lawrence University - Conservatory of Music
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
Affect/Trans Studies/Latinx Feminism/Sound and Performance/Anarchism
My work is particularly drawn to excess. I am interested in the ways in which sensing–forms of touching, feeling, hearing–critiques human subjectivity. Animating objects such as bananas, glitter, mucus, fire, and cockroach skin, my dissertation project theorizes loudness. My writing is a love letter to depressed trans Latinas who feel like they're too much.
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Aaron Mencher
Email: amencher@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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Natalia Merlano Gómez
Email: nmerlanogomez@ucsd.edu (she, her, ella)
M.A. Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende; Kunst Stuttgart, Germany
B.A. Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas; Bogotá, Colombia
Emphasis: Performance
Experimental music, worldwide folk music, especially from Latin America, improvisation-creation, graphical notation, explorations with electronic devices, extended vocal sounds, relations between sounds and meaning, collaborative work with other artists, interdisciplinary practices; theatrical performance and explorations around video and photography.
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Lyra Montoya
Email: l1montoya@ucsd.edu (she, her)
M.M. in Contemporary Improvisation, New England Conservatory
B.A. in Music, University of Colorado Boulder
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
Lyra is a woodwinds specialist, composer and performer. Her work explores the intersections of identity and positionality through mixes of Music notation and improvisation, and how performance practice and musical concept reflect the priorities of the performance event. -
Amir Norouz Nasseri
Email: anorouznasseri@ucsd.edu
M.M. University of Maryland
B.M. Tehran University
Emphasis: Performance
Just Intonation, Modular Model Compositional Technique, Marxist theory's implications for the music industry
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Pauline Ng
Email: png@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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Myles Ortiz-Green
Email: mortizgreen@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Computer Music
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Stefanie Quintin
Email: squintin@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Voice
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Carlos F. Rosas Coronado
Email: crosascoronado@ucsd.edu
M.M. Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Emphasis: Performance, Oboe
Sound in pictures
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Grace Talaski
Email: gtalaski@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Clarinet
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Yin Hsuan Tai (Heidi)
Email: ytai@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
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Brian Tice
Email: btice@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Computer Music
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Delong Wang
Email: dew002@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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Camilo Zamudio
Email: hzamudio@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Percussion
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Yongyun Zhang
Email: yoz011@ucsd.edu
M.M. University of Washington
B.M. College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Emphasis: Performance, Percussion
Percussion performance and cross-cultural musical expressions
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Haihui Zhang
Email: haz079@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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Han Zhang
Email: haz074@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Computer Music
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Ni Zheng
Email: n1zheng@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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Adam Zuckerman
Email: adzuckerman@ucsd.edu (he, him)
M.F.A. Experimental Sound Practices, California Institute of the Arts
B.M. Music Composition, Bard College and Conservatory of Music
B.A. Ancient Greek, Bard College and Conservatory of Music
Emphasis: Composition
Adam is a musician engaged in the creation of scores, recordings, performances, and installations. He is interested in music’s capacity to shape experiences of time and memory, condition the perceptual limits of change and difference, shift the intangible atmosphere of a space, and reframe the incidental sounds and experiences of everyday life. His music attempts to explore these capacities as it also holds open an immersive space for listening, reflection, and imagination.