Music

Professor

Linda C. Burman-Hall
Baroque music and performance practices; historic keyboard repertoire (harpsichord, organ, and fortepiano); Indonesian music cultures; ethnomusicology

David H. Cope
Composition; 20th-century music history, with focus on the avant-garde; 18th- and 19th-century theory; analysis; Experiments in Music Intelligence

Sherwood Dudley, Emeritus

Edward F. Houghton
Medieval and Renaissance music, 15th- and 16th-century polyphony, conducting

David Evan Jones
Composition and analysis (often computer assisted), timbre and orchestration, language and music

Anatole Leikin
Classical and romantic music history and performance practices, piano and fortepiano, Russian music

Fredric Lieberman
Ethnomusicology; composition; the music industry and legal/ethical issues; American vernacular musics; musics of East, Southeast, and South Asia

Leta E. Miller
Renaissance and baroque music history and performance practices, 20th-century American music, modern and baroque flute, 16th-century chanson and madrigal, music and science, 18th- and 20th-century flute literature and performance styles, music of c.p.e. Bach and Lou Harrison

Gordon Mumma, Emeritus

Nicole A. Paiement
Orchestral and choral conducting; baroque, classical, and 20th-century performance practices; Handel; le Groupe des Six; French 20th-century music; interdisciplinary art

John M. Schechter
Ethnomusicology; music theory; South American traditional and contemporary musics; Quechua music-culture; music and ritual; organology; Stravinsky; Founder-Director, UCSC Latin American Ensembles

Associate Professor

Hi Kyung Kim
Composition, 20th-century music, tonal and Schenkerian analysis, orchestration, Korean traditional music

Paul Nauert
Theory, composition; rhythm and meter; music cognition; mathematical and computer models of the compositional process

Assistant Professor

Amy C. Beal
American music, 20th century music, experimentalism, post-war and cold war cultural practices, German new music festivals and radio stations, ethnomusicology, piano, contemporary music performance, John Cage

Benjamin L. Carson
Theory and composition; music cognition and consciousness; rhythm and voice leading; history of musical subjects

Karlton E. Hester
Premeditated, electroacoustic and spontaneous composition; flutes, saxophones and interdisciplinary performance; improvisational and Afrocentric music theory, analysis and history

Dard Neuman
Ethnomusicology; Hindustani music; colonialism, nationalism, technology and performance; sitar

Nina Treadwell
Medieval 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

Lecturer

Karen L. Andrie
Cello

Erika Arulanantham
Group piano, musicianship

Gerald J. Bassermann
Electronic music

Mark Brandenburg
Clarinet

Paul D. Contos
Saxophone

Mary Jane Cope
Piano, fortepiano

William D. Coulter
Classical guitar

Jacques A. Desjardins
Concert choir

Peter Q. Elsea
Electronic music and music technology

Maria V. Ezerova
Piano, musicianship

Barry L. Green
String bass

Robert Klevan
Wind Ensemble

Patrice L. Maginnis
Voice

Roy T. Malan
Violin, viola

George E. Marsh
Percussion: trap set

Patricia L. Mitchell
Oboe

Owen M. Miyoshi
Trumpet

Diana I. Nieves
Latin American ensembles

Jane A. Orzel
Bassoon

Mesut Özgen
Classical guitar

Stan E. Poplin
String bass, jazz ensembles

John T. Sackett
Music theory

Wayne J. Solomon
Trombone

Brian J. Staufenbiel
Voice

Undang Sumarna
West Javanese gamelan

Susan C. Vollmer
Horn

William K. Winant
Orchestral percussion, percussion ensemble

Greer Ellison Wolfson
Flute

Professor

William G. Mathews, Professor of Astronomy
Galaxies, high-energy astrophysics, gaseous nebulae; cornetto (music)

Distinguished Adjunct Professor

Ali Akbar Khan
North Indian classical music