UCSB Ensembles
Ensemble for Contemporary Music
The University of California-Santa Barbara’s Ensemble for Contemporary
Music, directed by Dr. Jeremy Haladyna, is the resident contemporary music
ensemble for the UCSB Department of Music. Its members include outstanding
student and faculty performers. Formed in 1992, it has performed to high
acclaim both on campus and in the Santa Barbara community.
"The ECM is the place to go for new music." -Santa Barbara
Independent
"When it comes to the sparse portions of contemporary music available
in Santa Barbara, eager ears tend to lean toward UCSB, where its Ensemble
for Contemporary Music presents several academic concerts each year."
Santa Barbara News Press
"The Ensemble for Contemporary Music continues to play an important
role in the musical life of Santa Barbara." -Santa Barbara Independent
"This important event (New Music Festival) has quietly worked wonders
over the past several years. Among the composers brought to town for past
festivals are Milton Babbitt, Mel Powell, Lou Harrison, and Henry Brant."
-Los Angeles Times
Jeremy Haladyna
Jeremy Haladyna, Director of the ECM (and Associate Director of New Music
Festivals II-X), holds prizes and academic qualifications from three countries.
He is a diplòmè of the history-rich Schola Cantorum on Paris'
Left Bank. He also holds the Master's degree with Distinction from the
University of Surrey (U.K.). He has taught undergraduate composition at
UCSB since 1991 and and was awarded the Ph.D. in composition in 1993.
In addition to his responsibilties with ECM, he teaches orchestration
and is on the faculty of the College of Creative Studies, UCSB. As pianist,
composer, conductor and organist, he has long been committed to the espousal
of new music. Prizes from the Friends of Lili Boulanger and Britain's
MCPS Ltd. bear witness to his creativity, and his own music has recently
been heard at St. John's Smith Square, London; South Bank Centre, London;
St. Paul's Cathedral, London; BMIC, London; and the National Museum of
Art, Mexico City. His On The Mat of The Jaquar Priest, written
for Jill Felber, appears on Neuma records.
UCSB Dance Company
photo by Derrick Bruce
The UCSB Dance Company, directed by Delila Moseley, is a ten-member student
dance company in residence in the Division of Dance, UCSB. The company
performs throughout the year in Santa Barbara and on tour in California,
serving as a training vehicle for dance majors. Dance majors in their
senior year are invited by the dance faculty to join the company. Students
learn dance repertory by faculty and guest artists. The company is directed
in the manner of a professional dance company, where dancers are expected
to learn the repertory of different choreographers quickly and competently.
The company then performs on campus, in the Santa Barbara community, and
on tour in a variety of theatres and other venues, giving the students
a wide range of performance experiences. The goal of the Division of Dance
is to prepare students for the professional world and participation in
this student company is an invaluable part of the dance students' educational
experience. The students consistently evaluate working in the company
as one of the most challenging and valuable experiences in their career
at UCSB.
Delila Moseley
Delila Moseley (Director, UCSB Dance Company) is a versatile choreographer,
teacher, and director who works in a variety of styles, including ballet,
jazz and modern dance. She holds a B.A. in Dance and a M.A. in Dramatic
Art from UCSB where she is currently on the faculty in the Division of
Dance. She has performed professionally in Los Angeles, New York, and
throughout the United States on tour, working with Donald McKayle's Inner
City Repertory Dance Company, the American Heritage Dance Theatre, the
Joyce Trisler Danscompany, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.
She appeared on television in the New Bill Cosby Show, and the special
"Ailey Celebrates Ellington". While a member of these companies,
she performed in works by Gus Solomons, Talley Beatty, Jaime Rogers, and...
She performed for 10 years with Repertory-West Dance Company, traveling
to Europe with the company three times. Choreographers worked with include
Loius Falco, Lucas Hoving, Charles Moulton, Kathryn Posin, Holly Schiffer,
Alan Sener, and... She has directed the UCSB Dance Company, the student
company at UCSB, for seventeen years. The company performs in the Santa
Barbara community and on tour throughout California. The company has traveled
to Mexico twice to perform and to Washington, D.C. to perform in the Gala
Performance for the American College Dance Festival. In 1997 she received
the 2nd Annual Lifetime Achievement Award from the Santa Barbara Dance
Alliance, for which she produced over fifty concerts, including Choreographer's
Showcases, Dance Nights, solo concerts, Young Dancers Concerts, and experimental
concerts. She has choreographed for the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance,
City College, UCSB Division of Dance, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and the
Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera.
CREATE/MAT
The Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) serves
as a productive environment available to students, researchers, and media
artists for the realization of music and multimedia works. The Center
also serves as a laboratory for research and development of a new generation
of software and hardware tools to aid in media-based composition. Among
those who have made use of our facilities are Iannis Xenakis, Thea Musgrave,
and Bebe Barron.
Media Arts and Technology (MAT) is a transdisciplinary graduate program
that fuses emergent media, computer science, engineering, and electronic
music and digital art research, practice, production, and theory. Created
by faculty in both the College of Engineering and the College of Letters
and Science, MAT offers an unparalleled opportunity for working at the
frontiers of art, science, and technology, where new art forms are born
and new expressive media are invented.
