Mills College Catalog 2018-19 1 Music
www.mills.edu/academics/graduate-programs/music), the graduate MUSIC thesis festival, and Mills Music Now (https://musicnow.mills.edu), a concert series presented fall through spring in Littlefield Concert Hall The Mills Music Department has enjoyed an international reputation in that features contemporary composers and performers from around the field of contemporary music for well over half a century, occupying the world as well as Mills faculty and campus ensembles. a unique place in Bay Area culture. Our two-year graduate degree programs continue this tradition of excellence. Mills offers three Scholarship is an important component of all our graduate programs, graduate degrees: and a lively intellectual atmosphere is maintained through seminars and one-to-one studies in musicology, theory, and ethnomusicology Master of Arts in Composition (https://catalog.mills.edu/ with renowned scholars David Bernstein and Nalini Ghuman. archives/2018-2019/graduate/programs/music/ma-composition) Master of Fine Arts in Electronic Music and Recording Media (https:// Our commitment to creating interdisciplinary works with other fine catalog.mills.edu/archives/2018-2019/graduate/programs/music/ arts departments is enhanced by Mills' Art and Technology Program mfa-electronic-music-recording-media) (https://catalog.mills.edu/archives/2018-2019/undergraduate/ Master of Fine Arts in Music Performance and Literature (https:// majors-minors/art-technology/#majorsminorstext), which generates catalog.mills.edu/archives/2018-2019/graduate/programs/music/ many fresh ways of making and thinking about music and sound art. mfa-performance-literature) (with specializations in solo and chamber music or in improvisation) Programs Master of Arts in Composition These programs successfully blend appreciation for past Master of Fine Arts in Electronic Music and Recording Media (https:// accomplishment and skills with commitment to artistic innovation catalog.mills.edu/archives/2018-2019/graduate/programs/music/ and technological advancement. The graduate faculty of leading mfa-electronic-music-recording-media) composers, performers, and scholars prides itself on its creative Master of Fine Arts in Performance and Literature (https:// openness and accessibility to students. catalog.mills.edu/archives/2018-2019/graduate/programs/music/ The programs in composition and electronic music keep Mills at the mfa-performance-literature) forefront of new music. Directed by a core of distinguished composers and sound artists, including John Bischoff, Chris Brown, James Fei, Fred Faculty & Staff Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, Maggi Payne, and Les Stuck, these programs welcome stellar guests to their teaching rosters, including Joëlle Faculty Léandre in 2006, Hilda Paredes in 2007, and Zeena Parkins (spring David Bernstein semesters since 2011). Professor of Music Music 264, 510.430.2025, [email protected] The Music Department also has at least one visiting composer in Professional Interests: John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, American residence each year. Lou Harrison was the first Jean Macduff Vaux Experimentalism, avant-garde music and aesthetics, Arnold Composer-in-Residence in 1998–99, followed by Gordon Mumma, Schoenberg's tonal theories, post-tonal theory and analysis, 20th- José Maceda, Bun-Ching Lam, Cecil Taylor, Meredith Monk, Terry Riley, century music literature, the history of late 19th- and early 20th-century James Tenney, Maggie Nichols, Helmut Lachenmann, Muhal Richard harmonic theory Abrams, Julia Wolfe, Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Laurie Anderson, George Lewis, and Hilda Paredes. The Music Department also has John Bischoff an endowed residency in honor of the electronic music composer/ Professor, Composer performer David Tudor; Paul DeMarinis initiated this residency in 2000– Music 244, 510.430.2331, [email protected] 01, followed by Maryanne Amacher, Steina Vasulka, Trimpin, Ron Professional Interests: Composition; electronic music for solo Kuivila, Jon Rose, Keith Rowe, Bob Ostertag, David Dunn, Ikue Mori, performers, computer network bands, and instrumental ensembles; David Behrman, Nic Collins, John Driscoll, Laetitia Sonami, Hild Sofie alternative tuning systems; electroacoustic instrument construction Tafjord, and Bonnie Jones/Suzanne Thorpe. James Fei The College's Center for Contemporary Music (https://www.mills.edu/ John and Martha Davidson Professorship academics/graduate-programs/music/center-contemporary- Professor of Intermedia and Electronic Arts music.php) (CCM), with its roots in the historic San Francisco Program Head of Art and Technology Tape Music Center, is world renowned for its innovative work in Department Head of Music electroacoustic and computer music, interactive installations and Music 231, 510.430.2329, [email protected] performances, sound art, performance art, visual arts, recording media, Professional Interests: Composition, improvisation, sound installation, and sound synthesis. Its popular public events include Songlines live electronic music, recording, intermedia (https://musicnow.mills.edu/songlines.php), a series of symposia on sound, nature, and new music technologies that brings together in an Nalini Ghuman informal setting guest composers, performing artists, and researchers. Professor of Music Guests have included Robert Ashley, Amelia Cuni, Luc Ferrari, Janice Music 265, 510.430.2332, [email protected] Giteck, Matthew Goodheart, Annie Gosfield, Brenda Hutchinson, Professional Interests: Nineteenth- and 20th-century western Jason Kahn, Carla Kihlstedt, Kitundu, Christina Kubisch, C.K. Ladzekpo, classical music and opera; solo and chamber piano performance; Catherine Lamb, John Leidecker, Annea Lockwood, Miya Masaoka, Neil ethnomusicology (particularly North Indian vocal music and Welsh Rolnick, Tetsu Saitoh, David Tudor, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, and Hildegard folk music); cultural studies; post-colonial perspectives on musical Westerkamp. Popular events also include Signal Flow (https:// orientalism, nationalism, and cross-cultural musical exchange Mills College Catalog 2018-19 2 Music
Roscoe Mitchell Professor of Music Darius Milhaud Professorship Music 276, 510.430.2200, [email protected] Professional Interests: Composition and the performance of composed and improvised music
Zeena Parkins Distinguished Visiting Artist, Spring Music 275, 510.430.2142, [email protected] Professional Interests: Composition; Improvisation; Sound installations; recording; sound processing; inventing new harps; performances of music: acoustic/electric, analog/digital, composed/improvised; writing scores for film, theater and dance with a particularly strong commitment to collaborative work with choreographers and visual artists
Laetitia Sonami Professor of Music Music 243, 510.430.2330, [email protected] Professional Interests: Composition, strategies for live performance of electronic music, new interfaces and wearables, interactive systems, sound installations in the pubic sphere, intermedia, collaborations with writers, film makers and dancers
Jennifer L. Wilsey Assistant Adjunct Professor Music 248, [email protected] Professional Interests: Deep Listening; contemplative practices in the arts and higher education; pedagogies and practices of improvisation, musicianship, and music theory Staff Steed Cowart Concert Coordinator Music 138, 510.430.2334, [email protected]
Stephanie Neumann Faculty Administrative Assistant Music 137, 510.430.2171, [email protected]
Les Stuck Technical Director Music 233, 510.430.2336, [email protected]