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Graduate Students

  • Marguerite Brown

    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.

  • Emir Chacra

    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

    Anita Chandavarker

    Email: achandavarkar@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Flute

  • Andrew Crapitto

    Andrew Crapitto

    Email: acrapitto@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Bass

  • Jordan Davidson

    Jordan Davidson

    Email: jedavidson@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

  • Timothy Gmeiner

    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

    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

    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

    Jose Hernandez Lopez

    Email: jhernnndezlpez@ucsd.edu 

    Emphasis: Composition 

  • Akari Komura

    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.

  • Alissa Liu

    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
  • Natalia Merlano Gómez

    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

    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

    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

     

  • Myles Ortiz-Green

    Myles Ortiz-Green

    Email: mortizgreen@ucsd.edu 

    Emphasis: Computer Music

  • Stefanie Quintin

    Stefanie Quintin

    Email: squintin@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Voice

  • Carlos F. Rosas Coronado

    Carlos F. Rosas Coronado

    Email: crosascoronado@ucsd.edu 

    M.M. Conservatorium van Amsterdam

    Emphasis: Performance, Oboe

    Sound in pictures

  • Yin Hsuan Tai (Heidi)

    Yin Hsuan Tai (Heidi)

    Email: ytai@ucsd.edu 

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies 

  • Brian Tice

    Brian Tice

    Email: btice@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Computer Music

  • Camilo Zamudio

    Camilo Zamudio

    Email: hzamudio@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Percussion

  • Yongyun Zhang

    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

     

  • Haihui Zhang

    Haihui Zhang

    Email: haz079@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Composition

  • Han Zhang

    Han Zhang

    Email: haz074@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Computer Music

  • Adam Zuckerman

    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.

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