Welcome to UC Santa Barbara Department of Music!

 

Jazz Ensemble

Jazz Ensemble

 

Middle East Ensemble

Middle East Ensemble

Percussion Ensemble

 

UCSB Symphony

The Tender Land Performance

Master Class with Yo-Yo Ma

Wind Ensemble

UCSB Chamber Choir

UCSB Opera Theatre, The Coronation of Poppea

UCSB Chamber Orchestra

Professor Lee Rothfarb’s Ernst Kurth, Selected Writings (1991), and August Halm, A Critical and Creative Life In Music (2009)

Arts and Lectures Master Class Series with Murray Perahia, photo credit : David Bazemore

Rosalyn Tureck, the first renowned guest artist in the Karl Geiringer Lecture Series which brings internationally known artists to the department each spring

Jamm session with UCSB students, faculty, and community members with Carlos Nunez and his brother Xurxo Nunez

Polish choreographer Ted Zdybal teaching Polish Tatra dance steps to UCSB students

Professor Ruth Hellier-Tinoco's Embodying Mexico: Tourism, Nationalism & Performance

Professor Timothy Cooley's Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers & Mountain Musicians (2005), and Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology (2008), with Gregory Barz

 

 

Upcoming Concerts & Events

Corwin Chair presents CEMEC on May 18
Event Date: May 18, 2013 - 7:00pm

The Corwin Chair presents a California Electronic Music Exchange Concert on May 18 at 7 p.m.

UCSB PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
Event Date: May 22, 2013 - 7:30pm

The UCSB Percussion Ensemble presents "STARRY NIGHTS" on May 22 at 7:30 p.m.

UCSB WIND ENSEMBLE in 20th Anniversary Concert
Event Date: May 26, 2013 - 1:30pm

Paul Bambach conducts the Wind Ensemble in an 20th Anniversary Alumni Reunion Concert on May 26.

UCSB Ethnomusicology Forum presents Timothy Taylor
Speaker: Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at UCLA
Event Date: May 29, 2013 - 3:30pm

Guest speaker Timothy Taylor presents a free lecture, "Music and Neoliberal Capitalism."

Contact Us

Phone/Fax
Tel: 805-893-3261
Fax: 805-893-7194

Main office hours [PST]
Monday through Friday
9am-12pm and 1-4pm

Mailing address
Music Department
1315 Music Building
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6070

Campus MailCode: 6070
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