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Music

Faculty & Staff

David Bernstein
Professor of Music
On sabbatical 2009-2010
Music 264, 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, 20th-century music literature, the history of late 19th- and early 20th-century harmonic theory

John Bischoff
Assistant Professor
Composer
Music 244, 510.430.2331, bischoff@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition; electronic music for solo performers, computer network bands, and instrumental ensembles; alternative tuning systems; electroacoustic instrument construction

Chris Brown
Professor of Music
Luther B. Marchant Chair
Intermedia Arts Program Head
Co-Director, Center for Contemporary Music
On leave of absence Spring 2010
Music 243, 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, 21st-century performance practice, world music

James Fei
Assistant Professor of Electronic Arts
Music 231, 510.430.2329, jfei@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition, improvisation, sound installation, live electronic music, recording, intermedia

Fred Frith
Professor of Music
Department Head
Mary S. Metz Professorship for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching
Music 135, 510.430.2142, frith@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition and songwriting; 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 265, 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
Music 276, 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
Music 232, 510.430.2187, maggi@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Interdisciplinary electroacoustic composition and performance; the creation of works for electronic and visual media; music recording and editing

Visiting Scholars & Artists

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

Elizabeth Eshleman
Visiting Assistant Professor
Music 248, 510.430.2335, leshlema@mills.edu
Office Hours: Fridays 10:00-11:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Singer and pianist, contemporary and adventurous music, long-forgotten folk songs, Brazilian jazz

Pauline Oliveros
Visiting Professor, Fall
Music, 510.430.2200, paulineo@mills.edu
Composition, improvisation, performance, telematic music and teaching, the advancement of women in music and all the arts, frog ponds

Sandra Soderland
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Fall
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 138, 510.430.2334, steed@mills.edu

Les Stuck
Technical Director
Music 233, 510.430.3326, les@mills.edu

Kathleen Baumgardner
Faculty Administrative Assistant
Music 137, 510.430.2171, kbaumgar@mills.edu

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