Music

  • September 07, 2018

    Sounding it out

    Alumnus Alexis Harte’s long career as a singer/songwriter has included original albums and songs for TV and film, and his company has become a pioneer in scoring and sound design.

  • June 11, 2018

    New Grateful Dead Archive exhibit opens at McHenry Library

    "Put Your Gold Money Where Your Love Is, Baby: Counterculture, Capitalism, and the Grateful Dead" is the title of a new exhibition now open to the public at UC Santa Cruz.

  • May 22, 2018

    Bettina Aptheker to lead 'Women In the Arts' panel at Kuumbwa

    The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz will present "Always Moving Uphill: Women in the Arts," on Tuesday, May 29, at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in downtown Santa Cruz.

  • May 11, 2018

    UC Santa Cruz collaborates with SF Academy of Arts for spring production of 'The Magic Flute'

    The UC Santa Cruz Music Department will present a fully-staged production of Mozart’s comic fantasy: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), May 31 through June 3, on campus at the Music Center Recital Hall.

  • April 10, 2018

    Hip-Hop Hesteria heading to Music Center Recital Hall on April 20

    The UC Santa Cruz Music Department will present an evening of new hip-hop with live experimental jazz featuring music professor Karlton Hester and his band, Hesterian Musicism, on Friday, April 20, at the Music Center Recital Hall. The concert will include performances by winners of the 2018 Hip-Hop Hesteria Contest.

  • February 09, 2018

    Climate Conference features visionary artist and Smithsonian biologist

    The fifth annual Climate Science and Policy Conference presented by UC Santa Cruz brings together a visionary artist and a Smithsonian scientist for an engaging, interdisciplinary conversation about how humans and ecosystems will cope on a warming planet.

  • January 04, 2018

    David Dunn awarded Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship

    UC Santa Cruz assistant professor of music David Dunn has been selected for a Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship for 2019. He is one of four local artists who will receive $20,000 grants from the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County in 2018-19.