Faculty News
Umezaki joins the the first Silkroad Ensemble tour with Artistic Director Rhiannon GiddensUmezaki joins the the first Silkroad Ensemble tour with Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens
Now in his 21st year with the ensemble, Professor Kojiro Umezaki joined the summer Phoenix Rising tour including performances at the Newport International Folk Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center. The summer festival tour was the first with MacArthur Fellow and multiple GRAMMY...
Professor of Music Mari Kimura nominated for OC 2022 Innovator of the YearProfessor of Music Mari Kimura nominated for OC 2022 Innovator of the Year
Professor of Music Mari Kimura has been nominated for the 8th annual Innovator of the Year honor presented by the Orange County Business Journal (OCBJ). Kimura is one of 74 outstanding nominees from various industries throughout Orange County. This program is...
Local Choreographer Molly Lynch Brings her National Dance Initiative Back to Irvine Barclay Theatre July 30Local Choreographer Molly Lynch Brings her National Dance Initiative Back to Irvine Barclay Theatre July 30
The National Choreographers Initiative, founded by UCI Dance Chair Molly Lynch, returns to Irvine Barclay Theatre with world premiere contemporary ballets on July 30. Newport Beach Independent website
Nicole Grimes receives Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Prize Honorable MentionNicole Grimes receives Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Prize Honorable Mention
Nicole Grimes receives Society for Musicology in Ireland’s Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Prize Honorable Mention The Department of Music is pleased to share the news that Associate Professor of Music, Nicole Grimes, has received the Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Prize 2022 Honorable Mention for her book...
The Music PioneerThe Music Pioneer
Mari Kimura came to BU to study violin performance and left as an innovator at the intersection of art and technology Excerpt from CFA, a publication of the Boston University College of Fine Arts By Joel Brown May 16, 2022 "Now a professor of music in the Integrated Composition,...
The Maestro Has Left the BuildingThe Maestro Has Left the Building
Dr. Stephen Tucker, 22-year music director for the UCI Symphony Orchestra, reflects on his time at CTSA By Matt Coker Stephen Tucker’s accomplishments would not only fill the orchestra pit but the entire Hollywood Bowl. The professor and Robert and Marjorie Rawlins Chair of Music teaches...
Shakespeare, ReunitedShakespeare, Reunited
This, this! No more, you gods! Your present kindness Makes my past miseries sports. – Pericles By Christine Byrd Pericles’ joy over being reunited with his family after years apart may resonate with actors and audiences when Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Comedy of Errrorrs (note the...
CTSA Awards the 2021-22 Research & Innovation GrantsCTSA Awards the 2021-22 Research & Innovation Grants
The Claire Trevor School of the Arts Research and Innovation Advisory Committee has named the next Research & Innovation Grants cohort. Formerly known as 21C Research Grants, the newly relaunched Research and Innovation Creative Research Grant will continue to build on 21C’s legacy in...
Indeed It's Our Town Indeed It's Our Town
South Coast Repertory continues to foster a professional pipeline to retain local talent from UCI By Matt Coker When David Ivers, the artistic director of South Coast Repertory (SCR), approached Beth Lopes about directing a rival of Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town in December 2019,...
UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Names Thirteen New Medici Circle ScholarsUCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Names Thirteen New Medici Circle Scholars
UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) is pleased to announce the 2022 Medici Circle Scholars. Thirteen awards were given to both undergraduate and graduate students offering an opportunity to take their education beyond the classroom and collaborate with academics and artists in the community...
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...
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...
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...
Dance: Embodiology with Dr. S. Ama WrayDance: Embodiology with Dr. S. Ama Wray
University of California, Irvine | April 12, 2021 Dr. S. Ama Wray is a Professor of Dance at the UC Irvine, and an improviser, choreographer, director, teacher and scholar. Dr. Wray is a former UK National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts and received an Emerging Scholar Award...
Hooked from the StartHooked from the Start
Professor Michael Hooker receives top honor for career achievement in sound design By Jill Kato Professor Michael Hooker has received the 2022 Distinguished Achievement Award in Sound Design from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), the premiere organization in his...
UCI’s Bruce Yonemoto is named a 2022 Guggenheim FellowUCI’s Bruce Yonemoto is named a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
Professor of art is among 180 recipients of the renowned award Bruce Yonemoto, a video and digital media installation artist, educator, writer, curator, and professor of art at the University of California, Irvine, has been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. He joins 179 other American and...
Dance: Embodiment and Empathy with Lindsay GilmourDance: Embodiment and Empathy with Lindsay Gilmour
University of California, Irvine | April 12, 2022 Lindsay Gilmour is a performer, choreographer, filmmaker, and educator. Her work explores presence, ritual, and our body’s relationship with the natural world. She combines the mystical, somatic and scientific looking deeply into what it...
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