School of Music

Programmed by Jennie Park (Art, Creative Writing MFA 22) and Fabian Vasquez Euresti (Film/Video MFA 10), the Feeler Gauge Festival opened virtually earlier this month, featuring 32 films by CalArts BFA, MFA, and alumni filmmakers from across the Institute.  The overarching concept of the...

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City heralds the change in season with the spring edition of its performing arts series Works & Process, featuring CalArtian musicians on two April dates. With cooperation from the New York Department of Health and a collaboration with...

On March 8, the ASCAP Foundation announced the recipients of the 2021 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards. Among this year’s distinguished winners is CalArts jazz student Michael Echaniz (Music MFA 22).  Established in 2002, the award is designed to encourage young gifted jazz composers...

On Sunday, Feb. 28, the metaphysical Disney/Pixar feature 'Soul' picked up two awards at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards: Best Animated Motion Picture and for Best Original Score — Motion Picture.

The 2021 Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema presents a virtual screening of CalArts faculty Francesca Penzani’s (Dance-IM MFA 99) short dance film “Double Up” (2017) as part of its Black History Month programming, running from Friday, Feb. 26 to Sunday, Feb....

Los Angeles-based violinist, composer, and sound designer Henry Webster (Music BFA 13, MFA 17) transforms a stroll through natural Southern Californian landscapes into a meditative sonic experience in his augmented reality (AR) soundwalk The Bird. 

On Friday, Feb. 12, hybrid electronic duo NMND released its five-track EP Integration, the inaugural release by Garden Broom Recordings. NMND, a contraction of “No Mind,” is made up of vocalist-composer Mana Contractor (Music MFA 20) and producer McLean Macionis (Music MFA 19). Macionis...