Julia Keefe Indigenous Jazz Masterclass Thursday, March 5, 2026 (tba) 4pm – 6pm (tba) Morrison Hall
Masterclass limited to 20 attendees
Indigenous singer & band leader Julia Keefe will be an artist-in-residence during her Cal Performances' Illuminations concert visit with the Julie Keefe Indigenous Big Band from March 4 - 6, 2026, and is offering:
Indigenous Jazz Masterclass for students, in partnership with Myra Melford (Music Department) - application required
Associate Professor of Music at Cornell University
Benjamin Piekut was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Amateurism Across the Arts Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Benjamin Piekut studied music and philosophy at Hampshire College before pursuing his M.A. in composition at Mills College, where he studied with Alvin Curran and Pauline Oliveros. After a stint in the critical studies/experimental practices program at the University of California, San Diego, he completed his Ph.D. in historical musicology at...
ARC Fellow, Associate Professor of Carillon, and University Carillonist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Tiffany Ng was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was chosen in the Graduate category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Tiffany Ng is an associate professor of carillon and university carillonist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. An energetic advocate of diversity in contemporary music, she has premiered or revived over sixty pieces by emerging and established composers from Augusta Read Thomas to Yvette Janine Jackson, pioneered models for interactive “crowdsourced” carillon performances and environmental-data-...
Aja Monet was a Poetry & the Senses Fellow in Spring 2021. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Born in New York City to parents of Cuban and Jamaican descent and raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, Aja Monet Bacquie began writing poems when she was eight or nine years old. While attending Baruch College Campus High School, she performed spoken-word for school talent shows. Around this time, Monet joined Urban Word NYC—a non-profit organization that offers guidance and public platforms to young writers,...
Filmmaker, Writer, Literary Theorist, Composer, and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in Gender & Women's Studies and Rhetoric at UC Berkeley
Trịnh Thị Minh Hà was a Affiliated Faculty Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Originally trained as a musical composer, who received her two masters and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Trịnh Thị Minh Hà is a world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist, post-colonial theorist. She teaches courses that focus on women’s work as related to cultural politics, post-coloniality, contemporary critical theory...
Avant-garde Jazz Pianist, Composer, and Professor of Composition and Improvisational Practices at UC Berkeley
Myra Melford gave an Affiliated Faculty Performance and Conversation at the Arts Research Center on January 30, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
For nearly two decades, as a Professor of Composition and Improvisational Practices at UC Berkeley, Myra Melford has pursued a philosophy that honors jazz and new-music traditions while emphasizing emerging developments in musical technique, theory, technology and performance.
The pianist, composer, bandleader and professor Myra Melford—whom the New Yorker called “a...
ARC Artist-in-Residence, Cellist, Composer, Arranger, Improviser, and Former Member of the Kronos Quartet
Joan Jeanrenaud was an ARC artist-in-residence from 2008 to 2009. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Joan Jeanrenaud is a cellist, composer, arranger, and improviser. She was the cellist of the Kronos Quartet for 20 years. Her work with Kronos included more than 30 recordings and over 2000 performances that took her to virtually every major concert hall worldwide. During those years the group became, in the words of The New York Times critic John Rockwell, "the world's best known, most innovative contemporary-...
Yenting Hsu was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Using sound as primary creation medium, Yenting Hsu investigates the cultural context and texture of sounds. Her works often reflect the relationship between sounds, environment, individual and/or collective memories and emotions. Interweaving field recordings with electronic sounds and objects, Hsu keeps exploring and experimenting documentary and...
Ellen Hargis was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the fête at Fontainebleau Performance at the Arts Research Center on February 20, ~2003. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Soprano Ellen Hargis is one of America’s premier early music singers, specializing in repertoire ranging from ballads to opera and oratorio. She has worked with many of the foremost period music conductors of the world, including Andrew Parrott, Gustav Leonhardt, Daniel Harding, Paul Goodwin, John Scott, Monica Huggett, Jane Glover, Nicholas...
Bracken Hanuse Corlett gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center in Fall 2024, alongside F2024 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Amanda Strong. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Bracken Hanuse Corlett is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations. He began working in theatre and performance in 2001 and eventually transitioned towards his current practice that fuses painting and drawing with digital-media, audio-visual performance, animation and narrative. He is a graduate of the En’...
