Composer Fred Lerdahl (Bloch Lecturer, UC Berkeley 2011) leads a working group at CNMAT this Spring 2024 to discuss his music alongside his music theory and cognition texts.

Fred Lerdahl’s music is admired for its original harmonic syntax and formal processes, striking ideas, elegant craftsmanship, and expressive depth. His work seeks and achieves both complexity and intelligibility. It is indebted to the past yet committed to the exploration of new territory.

CNMAT welcomes PARK Chi-Wan, PIRI (Korean Bamboo Oboe) master and Senior Member at the Gugak Center in Korea, for a special visit in preparation for next year's 2025 Korean Electronic Music Festival (KEMF), to take place in Santa Cruz, Berkeley, and Stanford.  Three graduate students in music composition, Dion Nataraja, Mat Muntz, and Peter Shin will join Professor Matthew Schumaker from Santa Cruz, Edmund Campion from CNMAT, Jarek Kapuscinki from Stanford, and Ken Ueno from Berkeley, Richard Dudas from Hanyang University in Seoul, in creating and premiering new works for live electronics a