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Graduate Students

  • Boris Acosta Jaramillo

    Boris Acosta Jaramillo

    Email: bacostaj@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

  • 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.

  • Robbie Bui

    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

    Mitchell Carlstrom

    Email: mcarlstr@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Percussion 

  • 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

  • Charles Deluga

    Charles Deluga

    Email: cdeluga@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Computer Music

  • Pablo Dodero

    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.

  • 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 

  • Tornike Karchkhadze

    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

     

  • Sergey Kasich

    Sergey Kasich

    Email: skasich@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Computer Music

  • Jiyoung Ko

    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

    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

     

  • 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
  • Jingwei Liu

    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

     

  • Kosuke Matsuda

    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

     

  • Alejandrina M. Medina

    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

    Aaron Mencher

    Email: amencher@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Composition

  • 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

     

  • Pauline Ng

    Pauline Ng

    Email: png@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Composition

  • 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

  • Grace Talaski

    Grace Talaski

    Email: gtalaski@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Clarinet

  • 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

  • Delong Wang

    Delong Wang

    Email: dew002@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Composition

  • 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

  • Ni Zheng

    Ni Zheng

    Email: n1zheng@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Composition

  • 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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