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Areas of expertise: African Music, Music Composition, Contemporary Music, Experimental Music, Jazz, Computer Music
Biography, Education and Training
Karlton E. Hester, Ph.D. (composer/flutist/saxophonist), began his career as a composer and recording artist in Los Angeles where he worked as a studio musician and music educator. He received his Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York Graduate Center and is currently Director of "Jazz" Studies (and member of the Digital Arts and New Media faculty) at the University of California in Santa Cruz. As performer on both flute and saxophone, he is founding music director of the Fill... more »
Professor, Music Department, Director, Graduate Studies in Music, Director, Creative Technologies
Music DepartmentPress Contact
Ben Leeds Carson
Professor, Director
blc@ucsc.edu
Areas of expertise: Music Composition, Experimental Music, Improvisation, Perception, Popular Culture, Feminist Theory, Psychoanalysis
Biography, Education and Training
Ben Carson is a composer and theorist specializing in perception studies and popular culture studies in music. His music is available on Sideband Records, Centaur Records, Albany Records, and on other labels, and has been performed throughout the US and at international festivals, including "June in Buffalo," Gerngesehen (Köln), New England Conservatory's Summer Institute for the Contemporary Piano, at the Smithsonian, Blurred Edges in Hamburg, and at REDCAT in LA, where crit... more »
Areas of expertise: Music Composition
Biography, Education and Training
Biography James Gordon Williams (JGW) is a transdisciplinary composer, pianist, and cultural theorist. He recently collaborated with artist Moor Mother in a program he created entitled The Worldmaking Aura of Sonic Blackness. He has also collaborated with Crystal Z. Campbell, Maria Gaspar, Fred Moten, Cauleen Smith, Suné Woods. He has performed with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington in her Music for Abolition program, pianist/composer Anthony Davis, bassist Mark Dresser, Joseph Jarma... more »
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