Sasha Berliner is an award winning vibraphonist and composer based in NYC. Named Downbeat Critics' Poll's Rising Star Vibraphonist winner in 2021, Sasha has notably shared the stage for recent projects with Christian McBride, Tyshawn Sorey, and Nicholas Payton, and leads her own group for international touring. She recently released “Onyx”(2022), her “vigorous, unabashedly avant garde sophomore recording […] finding the budding, San Francisco-born vibraphonist and composer in a fiery, dense and genre-bending posture.” Glide Magazine urges listeners to “add Berliner to the new vanguard of contemporary artists that are reshaping jazz with unconventional compositional approaches”.
“A young mallet master” - JazzTimes Magazine
“Despite her tender age of 23, Berliner plays, composes and leads her band with maturity and artistic presence rarely attained. […] Berliner is
in the firmament of the here and now in modern jazz, and appears likely to occupy that upper stratosphere for some time to come.” - Paul Rauch, All About Jazz
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BlueRail
Sunday, October 9th, 2022
2:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center
Free. RSVP required: http://music.ucsd.edu/tickets
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This event will not be livestreamed
BlueRail is a two hour-long, multidisciplinary, international, site-specific, and improvised performance that moves through the halls, patio, stairs, and secret little corners of the Conrad Prebys Music Center building. Over 80 extraordinary musicians, dancers, and visual artists from UC San Diego, San Diego, and Baja California will create BlueRail's audio-visual world.
Like runners passing the baton in a relay race, these artists tag each other in and out of ensembles that will grow and change through parts of the building that we've chosen for the special ways in which they invite new social, convivial, and communal dynamics.
The event will be free and open to the public. Food and drinks will also be provided. The title BlueRail honors the dynamics of circulation that have shaped peoples’ lives in the region. Like the trolleys that change direction at the border, BlueRail explores improvised ways of listening and sound that push and pull in many directions at once.
We hope you will join us for this moving concert that fosters community in a fun and innovative way, while it also brings much needed warmth to our building!
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Lei Liang with Mivos Quartet: Six Seasons
Saturday, October 15th, 2022
8:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
Additional performance added: Saturday, October 15 at 5:00 p.m.
An ArtPower presentation.
Tickets handled by the Triton Box Office
UC San Diego Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor, composer Lei Liang has been collaborating with Scripps oceanographers John Hildebrand and Joshua Jones in exploring the sound of the Chukchi Sea in the Arctic—one of the most inaccessible places to humans on earth. The resulting composition, Six Seasons, combines the sound of the ambient environment (ice, waves, wind), its inhabitants (beluga whales, bowhead whales, bearded seals)—captured by hydrophones deployed at the sea floor—and creative response from one of the world’s leading contemporary music string quartets, Mivos Quartet.
Buy Tickets: https://artpower.ucsd.edu/event/lei-lang-with-mivos-quartet
- General Admission: $30
- UC San Diego Student: $9
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Miles Okazaki & Dan Weiss
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
Free. RSVP required: http://music.ucsd.edu/tickets
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This event will not be livestreamed
“Both are absolute masters on their instruments, and both have released many albums as leaders of their own groups, often with each other as members, having collaborated for more than twenty years. . . . One has the sense that not only can Okazaki and Weiss anticipate each other’s next moves, but that they are both deeply dedicated to realizing each other’s artistic visions.” – The Paris Review
"composer-improvisers of absurdly expansive imaginative resources. . . a nearly telepathic rapport. This music is hyperacute and superdynamic, with myriad strategies at play.” – Nate Chinen, WBGO
“a high-order musical brainteaser and a memento of a deep, longstanding mind-meld between these two” - Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone
Miles Okazaki and Dan Weiss have been performing as a duo for over two decades. In early years their repertoire was focused largely on Weiss' translations of tabla material to drumset, and Okazaki's compositions for small ensembles. Gradually they incorporated a wide range of materials from the albums that they worked on together as well as covers and standards. In 2020, they each wrote complete suites for guitar and drums that were recorded and released on the album Music for Drums and Guitar. This concert will feature music from this release.
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The Art of Improvisation
Iranian Contemporary Dance and Music
Saturday, October 22nd, 2022
6:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
Tickets: General Public: $25 | PCC members: $20 | Free for UC San Diego students, staff and faculty. RSVP required: http://music.ucsd.edu/tickets
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
Shahrokh Moshkin-Ghalam, Pejman Hadadi and Behfar Bahadoran will take the stage to explore the ecstatic art of improvised music and dance. Acclaimed as one of the world's greatest dancers, Shahrokh's revolutionary style will embody Pejman's masterful percussive expressions and Behfar's passionate motifs - based on the Persian classical Dastgah modal system and Maqam melodic phrasings - on Tar, Setar, and Tanbour.
The audience will be enthralled by this glorious celebration of Persian performing arts.
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PLEASE NOTE: Audience members are HIGHLY encouraged to arrive early to secure parking and/or consider transportation alternatives. We anticipate a very, very busy campus on this evening.
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The improviser's initiative will give it's first ever virtual residency with renowned bassist, composer and author William Parker.
William Parker will perform telematically with an ensemble of students from the Graduate Improviser's Ensemble 201A, and various guest artists, including faculty Steph Richards and David Borgo, who will perform with William Parker's graphic scores.
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William Parker is a bassist, improviser, composer, writer, and educator from New York City, heralded by The Village Voice as, “the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time.”
In addition to recording over 150 albums, he has published six books and taught and mentored hundreds of young musicians and artists.
Parker’s current bands include the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, In Order to Survive, Raining on the Moon, Stan’s Hat Flapping in the Wind, and the Cosmic Mountain Quartet with Hamid Drake, Kidd Jordan, and Cooper-Moore. Throughout his career he has performed with Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Milford Graves, and David S. Ware, among others.
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BE - longing explores the converging specters that exist between sound, music, word, and image, and the construction of meaning in human experiences of space, its expansions, and contractions. Nuria Manzur-Wirth (texts, voice, staging), Jérôme Piguet (video installation), Maximilian Haft (music/violin), and Wilfrido Terrazas (music/flutes) make up the axes of this interdisciplinary and intra-sensory dialogue.
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Camera Lucida
Monday, November 7th, 2022
7:30 pm
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
Reserved ticketing information forthcoming
UC San Diego Gospel Choir
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
8:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $5.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
UC San Diego Chamber Orchestra
Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
7:30 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $5.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
UC San Diego Wind Ensemble
Thursday, December 1st, 2022
7:30 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $5.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
Lytle Scholarship Concert
Sunday, February 5th, 2023
3:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
Tickets may be purchased online at:
http://rels.ucsd.edu
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This event will not be livestreamed
95JC / JAZZ ENSEMBLES
Saturday, March 11th, 2023
7:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $5.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
UC San Diego Gospel Choir
Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
8:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $5.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
UC San Diego Wind Ensemble
Thursday, March 16th, 2023
7:30 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $5.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
Pandit Kartik Seshadri, sitar
Saturday, April 22nd, 2023
7:30 pm
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
kallisti - Chamber Opera
Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
kallisti - Chamber Opera
Friday, April 28th, 2023
7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
kallisti - Chamber Opera
Saturday, April 29th, 2023
7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
Conference: Alida Vázquez Ayala
Friday, May 5th, 2023
8:00 am
Conrad Prebys Music Center
Conference: Alida Vázquez Ayala
Saturday, May 6th, 2023
8:00 am
Conrad Prebys Music Center
Chehreazad
Saturday, May 13th, 2023
7:30 pm
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
Tickets: General Public: $25 | PCC members: $20 | Free for UC San Diego students, staff and faculty
RSVP required: http://music.ucsd.edu/tickets
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
UC San Diego Gospel Choir
Thursday, June 1st, 2023
8:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $5.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
95JC / JAZZ ENSEMBLES
Saturday, June 3rd, 2023
7:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $5.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
UC San Diego Chamber Orchestra
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
7:30 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $5.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
UC San Diego Wind Ensemble
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
7:30 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General Admission: $15.50 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $5.50
Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
All guests must adhere to University Return to Learn guidelines.
This concert will not be livestreamed.
Most Department of Music events are general admission, FREE and open to the public. Ticketed performances are listed below and available for sale online or via the Music Box Office: (858) 534-3448.
In an effort to conserve resources and reduce paper waste, we post our event programs as electronic documents on this page (see listings). If you are not at a computer, you can easily access this page by scanning the QR code at right (for iPhones we recommend using the built-in camera app). Programs for past events dating back to October 2008 are available in our events archive with links below.
PLEASE NOTE: As an experimental and new music department, much of our music is very intimate and quiet, for this reason, we request that students preparing concert reports refrain from writing or rustling papers during events. We also respect the artistry of our musicians and adhere to a strict policy of NO LATE SEATING. Guests arriving late may be turned away or will be asked to enter between pieces.
Copies of events performed by the faculty and students of UC San Diego Department of Music are available for educational use only by the performers, composers and faculty involved in the event pursuit to all applicable copyright laws. View our Dubbing Policy for more information.
