Music

Jindong Cai

Director of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Music and Arts at Bard College
Jindong Cai was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Dream of the Red Chamber Conference at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016.

Conductor Jindong Cai is director of the US-China Music Institute, professor of music and arts at Bard College, and associate conductor of The Orchestra Now. Over his 30-year career in the United States, Cai has established himself as an active and dynamic conductor, scholar of Western classical music in China, and leading advocate of music from across Asia. Born in Beijing, Cai received his early musical training in China,...

Sarah Cahill

Pianist, Radio Host, Writer, Producer
Sarah Cahill was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Revisions in Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015.

Sarah Cahill, hailed as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times and “a brilliant and charismatic advocate for modern and contemporary composers” by Time Out New York, has commissioned and premiered over seventy compositions for solo piano. Composers who have dedicated works to Cahill include...

Lisa Bielawa

Composer, Producer, and Performer
Lisa Bielawa was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012.

Composer, producer, and vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and a Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition, who takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations. She is the recipient of the 2017 Music Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and a 2020 OPERA America Grant for Female Composers. She was named a William Randolph Hearst Visiting Artist...

Tarek Atoui

Artist, Composer
Tarek Atoui gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2015.

Tarek Atoui is an artist and composer working within the realm of sound performance and composition. His work challenges traditional ways of perceiving sound and focuses on the medium’s ability to act as a catalyst for human interaction, while exploring its relation to current social, historical and political realities. Atoui’s work often revolves around large-scale, collaborative performances that stem from extensive research into music history and anthropology. He engineers...

Alexandro Segade

Interdisciplinary Artist & Assistant Professor of Art at UCSD

Xandro Segade is an interdisciplinary artist whose queer world-building projects propose speculative group identities. Often working in collectives, Segade makes spaces for critical play, using collaboration to complicate utopian impulses with radical ambivalence. Segade’s practice traces connections across performance, writing and drawing, making video, installation, theater, sculpture, music, costumes and comics that defy genre distinctions, subverting contextual frameworks, disrupting the political imagination.

Segade’s multimedia science fiction performance...

ARC Salon: Conversation and Performance with Myra Melford

January 30, 2015
ARC Salon Series presents Myra Melford Performance and Conversation January 30, 2015 6pm: Cocktails, Food, and Meet & Greet 7pm: Performance from Life Carries Me This Way 8pm: Salon conversation with Myra Melford and T. Carlis Roberts

Salon: Ed Campion

November 7, 2011
We had the opportunity to hold another ARC Salon to celebrate the work of UCB faculty composer, Ed Campion, when Cal Performances featured the performance of his work by the stunning Paris-based group Ensemble Zellig. Ed is a leader in the fields of electronic and digital music composition, crafting what are not so much “scores” but alternate “systems” for composing, calibrating, integrating, and synthesizing musical and sonic forms. Cal Performances director, Matías Tarnalpolsky, joined us for a pre-show talk and a post-show reception to help us think about the beauty of Campion’s work...

Jocelyne Guilbault

Ethnomusicologist and Professor of Popular Music Studies at UC Berkeley

Jocelyne Guilbault is an ethnomusicologist and popular music studies scholar teaching at Berkeley since 1999. From 1984 to 1998 Guilbault taught at the University of Ottawa. Her educational background includes bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Université de Montréal in her native Quebec, Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Stressing a multidisciplinary approach, her research and teaching engages critical theoretical and methodological issues in ethnomusicology and popular music studies. She locates these issues in the scholarly intersections...

Nordic Time Zones: Time-based art across disciplines in the Northern Landscape

March 26, 2014
Nordic Time Zones Time-based art across disciplines in the Northern Landscape
 Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo

(Closed roundtable, by invitation only)

Everardo (Ever) Reyes

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Everardo (Ever) Reyes (he / him & Rarámuri descent and Chicanx) is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology. He is a multi-instrumental musician and songwriter who enjoys the possibilities that improvisation provides. His research focuses on the intersections between music, social movements, and Indigenous self-determination. Ever is also a co-creator of the Indigenous Sound Studies working group, which is supported by the Center of Race and Gender and the University of California Berkeley.