School of Music

On Friday, Dec. 18, students from CalArts’ Choreographers & Composers course will present their final works over Zoom. Choreographers & Composers is co-taught by David Rosenboom and Dimitri Chamblas, deans of The Herb Alpert School of Music and The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance,...

Downtown Los Angeles-based experimental performance venue Automata has announced its latest edition of artist residencies. The fall/winter 2020-21 residencies feature six resident artists, five of whom are CalArtians: Benni Quintero (Film/Video BFA 20), Ramona Apthorp (Art BFA 19), Susan Simpson...

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On Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 4 pm PST, the Twisted Spruce World Music Foundation presents the virtual premiere of the interdisciplinary project Parts, Together, composed by Azariah Felton (Music MFA 21) and set to animation by Chia-Hsin Lee (Film/Video BFA 20).  The work features the talents of...

Experimental trumpeter and composer Steph Richards (Music MFA 08) curates an “inter-sensorial body of works” in Supersense, her third full-length album created in collaboration with Detroit-based multimedia artist Sean Raspet. A recording several years in the making, Supersense explores how...

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and CalArts alum Ellen Reid (Music MFA 11) has turned New York City’s Central Park into an immersive public art piece. Launched earlier this fall, SOUNDWALK is a free downloadable app that uses the participant’s smartphone GPS to trigger site-specific musical...

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