UC San Diego Music

THIS THURSDAY - Senior students in the ICAM-Music major program will present their final projects, showcasing the innovation and talent that our young artists will carry with them after graduation. There will be many ways to experience their works, including installations, tabling, and theatrical presentations.

The ICAM Program in the Music and Visual Arts departments draws upon, and aims to bring together, ideas and paradigms from computer science, art and cultural theory. The departments take for granted that the computer has become a meta-medium and that artists and musicians working with computers are expected to combine different media forms in their works. This makes the program unique among other existing computer art or design programs.

Learn more about the UC San Diego's ICAM Major and the ICAM Music Festival at music.ucsd.edu.

📆 Thursday, June 11th, 2026 4:00 pm
📍 Conrad Prebys Music Center
🎟 Free

This Sunday, we invite you to our Vocal Masterclass' Spring Concert!

This evening will feature music by Mozart, Bellini, Duke, and more, plus the production of "Trial by Jury" by Gilbert and Sullivan.

Sunday, June 7th, 2026 5:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
Free Admission

How will you be celebrating the end of Week 10? We know what we'll be doing! Celebrate with us this Friday and Saturday...

🎶 Flute Studio Recital
Friday, June 5th, 2026 5:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall
Free Admission

🎶 Saul Arana, composition - Undergraduate Honors Recital
Saturday, June 6th, 2026 5:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
Free Admission

FREE concerts this week!

🎶 95W Indian Classical Music students of Pandit Kartik Seshadri
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
Free Admission

🎶 MUS 131 Advanced Improvisation Performance
Thursday, June 4th, 2026 7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
Free Admission

Learn more at music.ucsd.edu/concerts!

This exciting collaboration between the UC San Diego Concert Choir and Wind Ensemble explores themes of death, remembrance, and rebirth through the imagery of winter and spring. The first half features John Rutter’s Requiem, sung by the Concert Choir, which is a work that journeys from sorrow and mortality toward peace, light, and paradise, offering consolation and hope beyond death.

The second half features the UC San Diego Wind Ensemble, and highlights renewal through music by contemporary composers, including Asian and Asian American voices. Works by Chen Yi, Xi Wang, and Viet Cuong reflect celebration, memory, and transformation, while A Hymn of Promise and Copland’s The Promise of Living affirm perseverance and hope. The concert concludes with Alfred Reed’s The Hounds of Spring, celebrating spring’s triumphant return.

Thursday, June 4th, 2026 7:30 pm

Mandeville Auditorium

General: $20 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10 | All Students: Free with ID Purchase Online

As AAPI month comes to an end, we want to recognize one of our amazing lecturers, Dr. Long Tao (Pierre) Tang! Thank you for everything you do, Pierre!

Looking for a fun class to take over the summer? Try MUS 6: Electronic Dance Music!

🎶 MUS 6: Electronic Dance Music
➡ Instructor: Marcelo Caetano
➡ Description: In this class, you’ll study the origins of electronic music leading up to the development of electronic dance music. The main focus will be electronic dance music styles developed in Europe in the 80s and 90s, and students will make connections between the initial technological and aesthetic developments in electronic music from the beginning of the 20th century all the way to the popularization and commercialization of electronic dance music, from early underground club movements to radio stations and record charts.
➡ Available Summer Session 1 & 2. Enroll today at summersession.ucsd.edu!

Continuing our AAPI Heritage Month celebration, we're excited to amplify the voice of one of our PhD students, Akari Komura!

Tomorrow, come support fellow Triton Mel Conti Chen's Senior Recital!

This evening's concert features four movements from "The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies" by John Luther Adams, which bookend "The Ice Is Talking "by Vivian Fung and "Child of Tree" by John Cage.

Saturday, May 30th, 2026 7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
Free Admission

Interested in music + media + technology? We have the summer course for you!

🎶 MUS 7: Music, Media, and Technology - History, Theory, and Hands-On Practice
➡ Instructor: Sergey Kasich
➡ Description: The course will introduce an overview on emergence and evolution of music technology, with a focus on the transitions from mechanical mediation into electric, electronic, and digital. With a discussion about modern AI in the end. We will observe how different sonic media act within the fundamental operations that describe the lifecycle of information: emergence (creation), encoding (inscription), storage, transmission (distribution), and decoding (interpretation). Students will have a chance to learn the basics of creative work with sonic media using widely accessible tools and taking historical works of media manipulations as examples. As a result, students will have a deep understanding of the historical interconnection of music, media, and technology, which will give the power to manipulate, hack and take control.
➡ Enroll today at summersession.ucsd.edu