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Music

Faculty & Staff

Faculty  |  Visiting Scholars & Artists  
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David Bernstein
Professor of Music
Department Head
Lisser Annex F, 510.430.2025, davidb@mills.edu
Professional Interests: John Cage, American Experimentalism, avant-garde music and aesthetics, Arnold Schoenberg's tonal theories, post-tonal theory and analysis, twentieth-century music literature, the history of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century harmonic theory

John Bischoff
Assistant Professor
Composer
Music 44, 510.430.2331, bischoff@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition; electronic music for solo performers, computer network bands, and instrumental ensembles; alternative tuning systems; electro-acoustic instrument construction

Chris Brown
Professor of Music
Intermedia Arts Program Head
Co-Director, Center for Contemporary Music
Music 43, 510.430.2330, cbmus@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition and improvisation, interactive electronic music, musical instrument building and new instrumental resources, sound installations, algorithmic composition, twenty-first century performance practice, world music

Fred Frith
Professor of Music
Luther B. Marchant Chair
On sabbatical 2007-2008
Music 3, 510.430.2142, frith@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition; the performance of both composed and improvised music; collaboration in the fields of theater, dance, and film; improvisational pedagogy

Nalini Ghuman
Assistant Professor of Music
Music, 510.430.2332, nalinig@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Nineteenth- and 20th-century western classical music and opera; solo and chamber piano performance; ethnomusicology (particularly North Indian vocal music and Welsh folk music); cultural studies; post-colonial perspectives on musical orientalism, nationalism, and cross-cultural musical exchange

Roscoe Mitchell
Distinguished Milhaud Professor of Music
Lisser Annex B, 510.430.2200, rmitchell@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition and the performance of composed and improvised music

Maggi Payne
Professor of Music
Co-Director, Center for Contemporary Music
On leave Spring 2008
Music 32, 510.430.2187, maggi@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composer, performer, interdisciplinary artist, recording engineer, music editor, creator of many works for electronic and visual media

Visiting Scholars & Artists

India Cooke
Lecturer, Spring
Fine Arts Annex 106, 510.430.2171, indiac@earthlink.net
Professional Interests: African American music and culture, violin performance, improvisation

Elizabeth Eshleman
Visiting Assistant Professor
Music 48, 510.430.2335, leshlema@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Singer and pianist, contemporary and adventurous music, long-forgotten folk songs, Brazilian jazz

James Fei
Visiting Assistant Professor
Music 31, 510.430.2329, jfei@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:30
Professional Interests: Composition, improvisation, sound installation, live electronic music, recording, intermedia

David Kwan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Music Studio, 510.430.2171, dkwan@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:00-1:00
Professional Interests: Sound art and installation, experimental film and video, interdisciplinary practices and interrelated media

Rebeca Mauleon
Visiting Artist, Fall
Lisser Annex G, 510.430.2171, rmauleonsantana@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Afro-Caribbean jazz pianist; band-leader; recording artist and composer; author and ethnomusicologist specializing in Afro-Caribbean music history and performance practice; independent music producer; private instruction in Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz piano

Pauline Oliveros
Visiting Professor, Fall
Music 6, 510.430.2200, paulineo@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition, the advancement of women in music and all the arts, frog ponds

Zeena Parkins
Distinguished Visiting Artist, Fall
Fine Arts Annex 109, 510.430.2171

Sandra Soderland
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Music, 510.430.2171, ssoderl@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Early music, literature and performance practices; organ and harpischord

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Staff

Steed Cowart
Concert Coordinator
Music Rooms 11 and 12, 510.430.2334, steed@mills.edu

Les Stuck
Technical Director
Music 33, 510.430.3326, les@mills.edu

Kathleen Baumgardner
Faculty Administrative Assistant
Lisser Annex G, 510.430.2171, kbaumgar@mills.edu

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Program Information
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Requirements

Courses
Full Course List

Music Course List

MUS 001 - MUS 033

MUS 034 - MUS 118

MUS 119 - MUS 148

MUS 154 - MUS 183

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Center for Contemporary Music

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Contact Information

P: 510.430.2025
F: 510.430.3228
E: music@mills.edu