Composers [http://www.kenueno.com/|Ken Ueno] and [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck_Bedrossian |Franck Bedrossian] have been added to the composition faculty in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley.
An exchange program for graduate student composers from UC Berkeley and France will continue for the upcoming academic year. [http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/people/evelyn_ficarra|Evelyn Ficarra], a student in the graduate program in composition in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley, will be in residence in Nice, France from October through December of 2008. A French student composer will be coming to UC Berkeley in the spring of 2009.
CNMAT presents a series of summer workshops for students, artists, musicians and anyone interested in learning new software.
Our online presence features continually evolving content with opportunities for user interaction and contributions including:
[cnmat:about|About] – an overview of CNMAT, including directions to our facility and ways to get involved with our programs;
[cnmat:calendar|Events] – upcoming concerts, lectures, workshops, etc.;
[cnmat:research|Research] – gateway to CNMAT research projects and publications;
[cnmat:mic|Education > Music Information Center] -- a gateway to content related to electronic music, computer music, and contemporary music;
Composer [http://martin.matalon.free.fr/|Martin Matalon] was in residence at CNMAT during November, 2007, meeting with students and presenting his work. Matalon was invited to the campus as a 2007-2008 Regents' Lecturer under the UC Berkeley [http://vpaafw.chance.berkeley.edu/regents_professor.html|Regents' Professorships and Lectureships Program].
The [http://www.cirm-manca.org/manca2007/|MANCA Festival] is an annual International Festival of Contemporary Music organized by [http://www.cirm-manca.org/|CIRM/Centre National de Création Musicale] and held in Nice and Monaco. This year's Festival features a number of CNMAT composers, including:
Sunday, November 4: Edmund Campion « Outside music »;
Wednesday, November 7: new works by student composers Aaron Einbond and Gaël Tissot;
