School of Music

Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, a member of the CalArts faculty since 1987, currently holds the Larry Levine Chair in Contemporary Music. She has worked with composers including; Louis Andreissen, Earle Brown, Jason Robert Brown, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Sofia... Continue reading »

Meltem Ege is an internationally acclaimed vocalist, composer, and educator. Whether breathing new life into a standard or conducting one of her performance explorations through scene-based improvisation, Meltem enjoys taking a deep dive into the power of live performance. She has received... Continue reading »

Experimental vocalist Carmina Escobar is a creative performer, interpreter of contemporary music, improviser, sound and intermedia artist from Mexico City. Her work focuses primarily on sound, the voice, the body and their interrelations to physical, social and memory spaces. She has intensely... Continue reading »

Emily Evans is a sound engineer, music producer, recording studio director and musician. In 2006, she founded The Green Door Studio, a community-access analog/digital recording studio in Glasgow, Scotland, which has been named Recording Studio of the Year (Scottish New Music Awards, 2010), is... Continue reading »

Stuart Evans co-founded The Green Door Studio in Glasgow, Scotland in 2006, and went on to engineer and produce records for artists such as Golden Teacher (Optimo Music / Warp Records / Rough Trade / Sounds of the Universe), LAPS (MIC / DFA Records), The Amazing Snakeheads (Domino Records) and... Continue reading »

Improviser, composer, and interpreter Tim Feeney seeks to explore and examine the possibilities inherent in unstable sound and duration. He frequently collaborates with improvising artists including the trio Meridian, with percussionists Sarah Hennies and Greg Stuart, pianist Annie Lewandowski,... Continue reading »

Michael Jon Fink's instrumental and electronic music has been performed at numerous concerts and festivals throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.  He has composed concertos for soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, violin and cello as well as incidental music for two plays by... Continue reading »