Annual TWO-0-NINE Concert Features New Works by ICIT Ph.D. Students

UCI Department of Music’s ICIT program presents original works exploring contemporary composition and emerging sonic technologies

Ph.D. students in UC Irvine’s Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) program will present TWO-0-NINE, the annual concert featuring newly composed works. The performance will be held Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, at 3 p.m. at The Sanctuary Studio for the Arts & Humanities in Santa Ana. 

“In these Two-0-ninE concerts, I think the ICIT group often challenges itself with making sense of present and past giants of forward-thinking musicians and their legacies,” said Kojiro Umezaki, core faculty member in the ICIT Ph.D. program. “In this concert’s case, they would be Ornette Coleman, Alvin Lucier, Annea Lockwood, Horațiu Rădulescu and more. If that's like one foot, the other is testing waters of creative directions into the future through this generation's prism, where aesthetics and issues collide, including video game culture, which is firmly woven into the cultural fabric and the creative vocabulary of young artists today.” 

This year’s program features original compositions and performances by Brandon Woo Snyder, Daniel Richardson, Emma Houton, Fabricio Cavero, Hayley Qin, Lisa Yoshida, Nolan Miranda, Rebecca Larkin, Reed Wixson and Xuanqi Liu, with artistic direction by Umezaki. The ICIT program advances interdisciplinary and forward-looking approaches to contemporary music, integrating practices in classical composition, computer music, improvisation, jazz and emerging sonic technologies.

Housed within the Department of Music, the ICIT Ph.D. program supports the development of innovative, creative work shaped by diverse musical traditions and contemporary scholarship. Students work closely with faculty mentors and collaborate across the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, contributing to a dynamic environment for interdisciplinary research and artistic exploration.

For ticketing information, visit the Eventbrite listing or The Sanctuary Studio for the Arts & Humanities website. To learn more about the ICIT program, visit music.arts.uci.edu/icit.