UCI Symphony Orchestra Says Farewell to Maestro Stephen Tucker UCI Symphony Orchestra Says Farewell to Maestro Stephen Tucker
The final spring concert presents two notable guest artists for the occasion Irvine, Calif., May 20, 2022 – The UCI Symphony Orchestra will present the 2021-22 season’s final concert led by Maestro Stephen Tucker, with special guest artists Iryna Krechkovsky, violin, and Eric Byers, cello....
CTSA has a record-breaking Giving Day! CTSA has a record-breaking Giving Day!
On May 18, 2022, the UCI community held its annual online Giving Day, and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) had its most successful Giving Day to date, raising more than $60,000 from more than 150 gifts. Funds raised on went directly to the Departments of Art, Dance, Drama, and Music...
Catalyst for InnovationCatalyst for Innovation
Art students get creative outside gallery walls By Christine Byrd After more than a year away from campus due to the pandemic, Claire Trevor School of the Arts students were thrilled to get back into studios and in-person classes in fall 2021. For the five student leaders of the Catalyst...
Mafer Reyes: Dance-Educator-in-the-MakingMafer Reyes: Dance-Educator-in-the-Making
Support UCI Giving Day By Mia Hammett A second year undergrad, Mafer Reyes has managed to balance an ever-growing series of interrelated professional positions within and without the UCI campus. And she’s only just begun. Ostensibly generous with her time and energy, Reyes dedicates...
Teerath Majumder: The Social Phenomenon of MusicTeerath Majumder: The Social Phenomenon of Music
Support UCI Giving Day By Mia Hammett While continuing his creative work as an independent artist and producer, Majumder hopes to step into a near-future teaching position –– thus securing his place in music academia. He’s already got a jump-start by teaching a winter course of his own making...
Jazz Pianist Hime Ikehara: Music as Second NatureJazz Pianist Hime Ikehara: Music as Second Nature
Support UCI Giving Day By Mia Hammett Highly versatile and deliberate in her approach to music, fourth-year jazz piano major Hime Ikehara sounds up-to-par with your favorite seasoned pianists of the twenty-first century. Ikehara has only actively played jazz piano for five years, but her...
Taking a BowTaking a Bow
By Christine Byrd One of the most satisfying parts of my tenure has been raising awareness of the way in which arts are radically interdisciplinary. Stephen Barker’s career is hard to pin down: He has been a dancer, actor, director, creative writer, translator, critical theorist and, for...
#IamUCI – Q&A with Class of 2022 graduate Anna Medina, M.F.A.#IamUCI – Q&A with Class of 2022 graduate Anna Medina, M.F.A.
Q&A with Class of 2022 graduate Anna Medina, M.F.A. by Tom Vasich / UCI News In an essay for UCI’s Dance Major Journal, San Diego native Anna Medina wrote, “Growing up both Mexican and American, I lived on both sides of the border at different times in my life, sometimes sure that I...
Alumnus Skyler Gray is changing the industry, one production at a timeAlumnus Skyler Gray is changing the industry, one production at a time
By Mia Hammett Alum Skyler Gray (B.A. Directing and Stage Management, ’11) continues to push the boundaries of new play development. Having entered UCI as a music theater major, Gray’s academic and professional career inevitably evolved to recognize his desire to advocate for creators,...
Launching Clara Schumann Studies, Celebrating Women in MusicLaunching Clara Schumann Studies, Celebrating Women in Music
On March 1, 2022, in association with the Women in Global Music Network, the Department of Music was pleased to host the online launch of Clara Schumann Studies, a collection of essays edited by Dr. Joe Davies for Cambridge University Press. The event, attended by an...
Trailblazing Artist Ulysses Jenkins is being recognized for his critical work in video art Trailblazing Artist Ulysses Jenkins is being recognized for his critical work in video art
Groundbreaking video and performance artist. video and digital artist, Professor Ulysses Jenkins, presented the first major retrospective Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation Feb. 5 - May 15, 2022, at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Below includes some of the various press and...
The Opera is Coming to Town
Play explores UCI’s PrisonPandemic projectPlay explores UCI’s PrisonPandemic project
The disembodied voices of incarcerated people – scared, pleading, angry, upset – will haunt a UCI play about the coronavirus in California’s crowded penitentiaries. Set to run April 29 through May 1 in the campus’s Little Theatre, “COVID in Custody” chronicles the real-life efforts of three UCI...
Tiffany López is named dean of UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the ArtsTiffany López is named dean of UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Visionary arts and diversity leader comes from Arizona State University Tiffany López, Ph.D., visionary artist and administrator and proven champion for diversity and inclusion, has been named dean of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, following a...
Music Theatre Talent Kayla Quiroz on Identity and the FutureMusic Theatre Talent Kayla Quiroz on Identity and the Future
Support UCI Giving Day By Mia Hammett Triptych talent and third-year music theatre B.F.A. Kayla Quiroz won’t be slowing down anytime soon. The actor-singer-dancer’s resume boasts a string of music theatre experience as early as her formative years. From an eight-year-old’s ...
UCI M.F.A. Thesis Exhibitions 2022 head to the UAGUCI M.F.A. Thesis Exhibitions 2022 head to the UAG
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Part I The Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine, is pleased to present the solo exhibitions of M.F.A. candidates Hiroshi Clark, Doris Rivera, and Gosia Wojas. This is the first round of 2022 M.F.A. thesis exhibitions. Please join us for the opening...
Mackenzie Ostrowski and the Intersection of KUCI, Independent Creators and Community EffortsMackenzie Ostrowski and the Intersection of KUCI, Independent Creators and Community Efforts
Support UCI Giving Day By Mia Hammett Fourth year film and media studies major in the School of Humanities, Mackenzie Ostrowski, is one of the few undergraduates on campus pioneering the return to small businesses. A news, music, and talk show host-in-one, Ostrowski’s made a name for herself...
Forging a Common BondForging a Common Bond
Three UCI M.F.A. artists from 1969-71 reconvene in an Armory exhibition in Pasadena. By Richard Chang In 1969, three young women entered the newly formed M.F.A. program at UCI not really knowing what to expect. They were all divorcees with children. Each was doing a kind of art that was...
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