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Department of Music
303 Music and Media
(949) 824-6615
music@uci.edu
About the Department of Music
The Department of Music is a dynamic center of musical activity, offering degrees in performance, creation and scholarship that feature close engagement with faculty, and serving the broader campus through wide-ranging classes and ensembles.
Our curriculum is built around three core areas. In the Performance area, we offer B.Mus. and M.F.A. degrees that train classical piano, voice and strings students at the highest level of artistry, and faculty direct performance classes and ensembles that are open to all UCI students by audition, including Symphony, Opera Workshop, Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Small Groups and Wind Ensemble. In our Integrated Composition Improvisation and Technology (ICIT) area, we offer a B.A. emphasis and a Ph.D. degree centered on innovative forms of artistic creation and research, led by faculty who teach courses on diverse contemporary practices and technologies. In our History and Theory of Music (HTM) area, we offer a B.A. emphasis that combines both historical musicology and music theory and analysis, and faculty teach courses that interrogate musical material and modes of research through an array of critical lenses.
The Department of Music is led by nationally and internationally recognized faculty artists and scholars who are highly active in their professional fields, while also being deeply committed to teaching, mentoring and engaging with the campus and regional community. Many of our alumni enter top-tier music graduate programs and lead successful careers as performers, conductors, composers, technologists and scholars, while others – including many double majors – build on their critical and creative training to pursue professional careers outside of music. Our flexible degree options and our dedicated faculty help students cultivate their own creative identity and professional pathway, and provide a foundation to deepen students' lifelong relationship with music.
The Department is located on the Claire Trevor School of the Arts campus. The Music & Media Building (MM) contains the department office and most faculty and staff offices, teaching studios, and classrooms, as well as rehearsal spaces, and various other specialized creative laboratories.
Performance Venues
Winifred Smith Hall, named for one of the Department's most generous donors, provides an intimate recital space with seating for approximately 200 patrons. Smith Hall contains the Oberbergen Pipe Organ and a nine-foot concert grand piano. The hall is used throughout the year for numerous concerts by students, faculty and guest artists.
The Irvine Barclay Theatre, located only a few minutes' walk from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts campus, is a joint venture of the University and the City of Irvine. Each year the Department schedules several events in this beautiful facility, including selected performances of the University Symphony.
Technology
Music department facilities and technology are for use by Music department students and faculty ONLY. These facilities are not available for rent or for use by the wider UCI community.
The "Mocap" studio, located in MM 218, is a flexible performance laboratory for both conventional acoustic and multi-media forms of musical performance, featuring multichannel audio, video projection and capture, and lighting equipment, and is also connected via tielines to the REALab which can be used as a control room.
The REALab (Realtime Experimental Audio Laboratory), located in 216 Music and Media Building, is a laboratory for research and creative activity in the use of computers in live musical performance, including realtime audio processing, sound spatialization, networked performance, interactivity, and alternative computer-mediated instruments.
The ColLab (Music Collaboration Laboratory) located in 190 Arts Instruction Technology Resource Center is designed to promote an interactive, collaborative model for teaching, research, and creative work in audio and music. It supports multi-channel audio recording, surround sound, multimedia presentation, and teleconferencing.
The Music Recording Studio located in 1103-1104 Contemporary Arts Center, and connected to the Experimental Media Performance Laboratory, supports 24-channel recording and provides a drum set, a Nord Stage 2 88-key synthesizer, and a Yamaha Disklavier grand piano.
The SPACELab in 115 Music and Media Building is a secondary recording and production studio shared by the Sound Design program in the Department of Drama and the ICIT program in the Department of Music.
The CLASSic Synthesizer Studio (Classic Laboratory for Analog Sound Synthesis) is a small studio of "vintage" synthesizer equipment for students to gain hands-on experience with analog synthesizers of the late '60s, '70s, and early '80s. It features a Moog modular synthesizer (circa 1970), two early Buchla synthesizers (1970s), a Roland Jupiter 6 (early 1980s), and other old synthesizers.
The Gassmann Electronic Music Studio, located in Room 103 of the Music and Media Building, is a Macintosh-based studio for digital recording and MIDI composition, named for School of the Arts benefactor and composer Remi Gassmann.
The Keyboard Instruction Lab in 190A Arts Instruction Technology Resource Center is a facility for teaching keyboard skills and music theory, outfitted with a Yamaha Music Lab monitoring system, sixteen digital pianos, computer projection, and stereo sound system.
Thank you for your interest in UCI Music! We're often asked to provide references for events and private lessons.
It’s important to note that we are not a booking agency, and as an educational institution we are prohibited from providing student contact information. The Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a law that protects the privacy of student educational records. Institutions may not disclose information about a student without that student’s written consent.
What we can do is direct your request to appropriate faculty, who will consider and forward it to interested students, if any. We cannot guarantee a response.
Please contact us and include all of the following information (for events or lessons):
EVENTS - Please include the following information:
- Date, Time & Location of your event
- Type of Performance (i.e. specific music or genre, soloist vs. ensemble, etc.)
- Compensation
- Contact information and the best time to reach you
- Requests for event referrals should be submitted at least 2 - 3 months in advance. Again, replies are not guaranteed.
PRIVATE LESSONS – Please include the following information:
- Specific instrument you are seeking lessons for
- Age & musical background of the person for whom you are seeking lessons
- Compensation
- Contact information and the best time to reach you
Thank you for your interest in our department and program. We hope you’ll consider attending one of the many performances offered by the Department of Music at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Information about our events can be found at our events calendar.
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