Music News

CTSA Launches Retail!

In honor of our August Alumni Appreciation Month, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts is introducing our new e-shop! Step into a world of artistic expression and style with our carefully curated collection of apparel and branded items. Embrace your passion for the arts and proudly showcase your...

August is CTSA Alumni Appreciation Month

August is Alumni Appreciation Month at the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Join us as we honor and express gratitude for our talented alumni. Throughout August, we will spotlight the remarkable achievements of our former students on our social media channels. Each week will be dedicated to a...

Dr. Amy Bauer featured on ABC Listen celebrating composer György Ligeti at 100

From ABC Listen | July 29, 2023 György Ligeti (1923 – 2006), the avant-garde Hungarian composer, celebrates his 100th anniversary this year. He was one of the most unique composers of the 1950s and 60s, and then kept pushing his musical language so that in the 1990s he was still one of the...

Artful Horizons

CTSA students are passionate about giving back and fostering artistic endeavors By Greg Hardesty | UCI Magazine, Spring 2023 What does it mean to be part of a community? For Claire Trevor School of the Arts students, it often means focusing on the underrepresented, social justice,...

Community Canvas

Forming connections is critical to school’s mission of forging arts students’ pathways to UCI and beyond By Greg Hardesty | UCI Magazine, Spring 2023 The four out-of-state guests sat in a classroom at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, their eyes fixed on a large monitor. The...

UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Names Twelve New Medici Circle Scholars

UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) is pleased to announce the 2023 Medici Circle Scholars. Twelve awards were given to both undergraduate and graduate students offering an opportunity to take their education beyond the classroom and collaborate with academics and artists in the community...

New Publication, “Clara Schumann: Changing Identities and Legacies”, edited by Joe Davies and Nicole Grimes

  The Department of Music is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Music Review, “Clara Schumann: Changing Identities and Legacies”, edited by Joe Davies and Nicole Grimes. The journal issue includes contributions by faculty members and graduate...

He Teaches Another Kind of String Theory

Pacific Symphony concertmaster Dennis Kim joins UCI music faculty By Roy Rivenburg, UCI | June 12, 2023 Tropical fish helped turn Dennis Kim into a violin virtuoso. “That’s why I practiced,” he says, recalling how his father rewarded progress on the instrument with finned additions to the...

Tania Katan to Give the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Commencement Address

Trailblazing storyteller and champion of creativity to inspire the Class of 2023   Tania Katan, a powerful storyteller, bestselling author, and co-creator of the globally viral social impact campaign #ItWasNeverADress, has been chosen as the 2023 commencement speaker for the joint...

Out On a Great Note

Legendary jazz pianist Kei Akagi to retire After more than two and a half decades of service to the University of California, Irvine, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI Chancellor’s Professor Kei Akagi will retire in the spring of 2023. His retirement marks the end of an era for the...

Building Roads with Music

Musician and professor Kojiro Umezaki builds connections between communities By Christine Byrd Kojiro Umezaki plays a traditional Japanese bamboo flute called shakuhachi, which has been around for centuries. But he also uses artificial intelligence to analyze and layer recordings of himself...

Forging the Path Ahead

The ICIT Ph.D. program’s embrace of diverse forms of music hit the right notes for percussionist, sound artist and educator JoVia Armstrong By Greg Hardesty JoVia Armstrong, a 2022 graduate of the Department of Music's Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) Ph....

The Pursuit of Artistic Inquiry

Research and innovation are at the core of the mission at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts by Greg Hardesty | UCI Magazine, Winter 2023 | March 1, 2023 Annie Loui, professor of acting in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, remembers being recruited to UCI from her cozy, full-time...

UCI Academic Senate Honors Music Professor Michael Dessen

The UCI Academic Senate recently presented the 2022-23 Distinguished Faculty Awards, the Senate's highest honors, to recognize the achievements of its members in research, teaching, mentorship, and service. The recipients were selected by the Committee on Scholarly Honors and Awards. Among the...

Two CTSA Graduate Students Made It to the Finals for UCI Grad Slam

Grad Students from Dance and Music Pitched Their Research in Annual UCI Grad Student Competition By Sammy Merabet | Posted March 6, 2023 | Updated on March 12 On March 9, 2023, scholars from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts competed against students across the UCI campus to pitch their...

Highlights from the African American Art Song Alliance conference

Last October, UCI’s Department of Music hosted the 25th anniversary African American Art Song Alliance conference. The four-day event took place at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and was presented by the African American Art Song Alliance, an advocacy organization representing Black composers...

New Recording: Lorna Griffitt and Haroutune Bedelian, Romantic Music of Robert, Clara and Johannes

The Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Music is pleased to announce the release of a new recording of compositions for solo piano, and for piano and violin, by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Johannes Brahms performed by pianist Lorna Griffitt and violinist Haroutune Bedelian. This...

Music’s Hidden Figures: Women at the Piano

Visiting scholar Joe Davies sheds new light on female musicians throughout history By Christine Byrd Clara Schumann was a 19th century piano virtuoso – a performer, composer, teacher and arranger. Yet for nearly a century after her death, she was recognized as little more than the wife of...