UC San Diego Music

🚨 IT'S YOUR LAST CHANCE TO TAKE SUMMER CLASSES - Spots are filling up fast, so make sure to enroll by July 10th!!! 🙌

Learn more at:
summersession.ucsd.edu
music.uscd.edu

What's better than 1 award? 4 AWARDS! Congratulations to the outstanding UC San Diego winners of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards. Read more about it at today.ucsd.edu OR link in bio 📲

Award Recipients:
- Distinguished Professor of Music and Conrad Prebys Presidential Chair ⭐ Rand Steiger
- Composer, Professor and Head of Composition ⭐ Karolla Obermuller
- Composer and UC San Diego Music Alumn (MA '89, DMA '00) ⭐ Steven Kazuo Takasugi
- ISU Assistant Professor, composer, and UC San Diego Music Alumn (DMA ‘23) ⭐ Alex Stephenson

THERE ARE STILL SPOTS LEFT FOR SUMMER SESSION I!!! Deadline to enroll for music courses is July 2nd. Take a look at our courses 🙌

Learn more at:
summersession.ucsd.edu
music.uscd.edu

The enrollment deadline for Summer Session II is coming up, and we still have seats available for MUS 15: Latin American Music With Electronics!

🎶 MUS 15: Latin American Music With Electronics
➡ Instructor: Emir Chacra
➡ Description: Have you ever been interested in learning the sound and history of Reggaetón, Brazilian Funk, and Latin Club? This course will explore the history and expression of music genres developed in Latin America, made mainly on electronic media. Students will learn how to recognize characteristic elements of each genre and distinguish between them, as well as how to analyze the influence of race/class/gender dynamics in their development. Assessment will include two formative listening tests and a final presentation on a topic of interest related to the class.
➡ Available Summer Session 2. Enroll today at summersession.ucsd.edu!

2025-2026 🙌 Photo Dump 📸

Take a look at the memories we made this year. For those who graduated, congratulations and remember to stay in touch! For those who are joining us next year, we're excited for the memories we'll be making in the Fall!


Photo credit: Robbie Bui and Natalie Calderon-Hansen

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