[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":164},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news/ucla-library-awards-grants-to-eight-faculty-and-student-music-projects":3},{"entry":4},{"postDate":5,"id":6,"slug":7,"uri":8,"sectionHandle":9,"title":10,"text":11,"externalResourceUrl":12,"dateCreated":13,"heroImage":14,"category":27,"contributors":32,"locations":33,"associatedStaffMember":39,"blocks":40,"articleCategory":27},"2026-05-05T11:00:00-07:00","10349953","ucla-library-awards-grants-to-eight-faculty-and-student-music-projects","about/news/ucla-library-awards-grants-to-eight-faculty-and-student-music-projects","article","UCLA Library awards grants to eight faculty and student music projects","\u003Cp>Projects include new compositions, performances, community events and interdisciplinary collaborations\u003C/p>",null,"2026-05-04T14:06:34-07:00",[15],{"id":16,"image":17},"10350574",[18],{"id":19,"src":20,"height":21,"width":22,"srcset":23,"alt":24,"focalPoint":25},"10350571","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_fullscreen/Intangible-at-UCLAKrieger-Robert-Reigle.jpg",1229,2560,"https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_375xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Intangible-at-UCLAKrieger-Robert-Reigle.jpg 375w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_960xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Intangible-at-UCLAKrieger-Robert-Reigle.jpg 960w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1280xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Intangible-at-UCLAKrieger-Robert-Reigle.jpg 1280w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1920xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Intangible-at-UCLAKrieger-Robert-Reigle.jpg 1920w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_2560xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Intangible-at-UCLAKrieger-Robert-Reigle.jpg 2560w","Intangible & Ulrich Krieger",[26,26],0.5,[28],{"id":29,"title":30,"uri":31},"5233","Announcement","article-categories/announcement",[],[34],{"id":35,"title":36,"to":37,"uri":37,"email":38},"11512","Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library","visit/locations/music-library","AskUs@library.ucla.edu",[],[41,45,158,161],{"id":42,"typeHandle":43,"richText":44,"sectionTitle":12},"10350758","richText","\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">UCLA Library has announced the 2026 recipients of the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.library.ucla.edu/about/programs/hugo-and-christine-davise-fund-for-contemporary-music/\">Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music\u003C/a>, awarding grants to eight UCLA faculty and student music projects. The selected projects span a wide range of creative activity, including new operas, cross-genre compositions, experimental collaborations and community-oriented performances. Each will receive funding between $1,000 and $3,500\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">The Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music was established at the Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library in the 1990s. Since 2012, the fund has supported public performances, programming, and scholarly research. These approaches enhance how the Music Library engages meaningfully with students, faculty and the broader music communities in Los Angeles and the world. \u003C/p>\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">New works or commissions may be published in the Music Library’s \u003Ca href=\"https://www.library.ucla.edu/collections/explore/contemporary-music-score-collection\">Contemporary Music Score Collection\u003C/a>, the first global open-access repository of new music published by a library and the largest of its kind.\u003Cbr />\u003C/p>",{"id":46,"typeHandle":47,"dataId":46,"sectionTitle":48,"sectionSummary":12,"mediaGallery":49},"10350759","mediaGallery","2026 Davise Fund grantees and projects",[50,66,80,94,108,122,131,144],{"dataId":51,"captionTitle":52,"captionText":53,"sortOrder":54,"item":55},"10350760","Workshop: “The Passion of Nell”","In spring 2026, UCLA Opera under direction of James Darrah Black, professor of music and director of Opera UCLA, will present a workshop of “The Passion of Nell” composed by Shelley Washington, with libretto by Lisa Teasley.",1,[56],{"dataId":57,"src":58,"srcset":59,"height":60,"width":22,"title":61,"focalPoint":62,"kind":63,"type":64,"alt":65},"10350796","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_fullscreen/images-Katya-Lynch.jpeg","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_375xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/images-Katya-Lynch.jpeg 375w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_960xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/images-Katya-Lynch.jpeg 960w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1280xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/images-Katya-Lynch.jpeg 1280w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1920xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/images-Katya-Lynch.jpeg 1920w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_2560xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/images-Katya-Lynch.jpeg 2560w",3841,"Shelley Washington / Photo credit: Peter Yankowsky",[26,26],"image","image/jpeg","Shelley Washington",{"dataId":67,"captionTitle":68,"captionText":69,"sortOrder":70,"item":71},"10350762","Anna-Louise Walton writes new work for Bent Frequency Duo","Anna-Louise Walton writes new work for Bent Frequency Duo\nJan Berry Baker, associate dean of faculty mentoring and community relations and professor of saxophone, will commission chamber, orchestral, and electronic composer Anna-Louise Walton to create a new work for the Bent Frequency Duo, featuring Berry Baker on saxophone and percussionist Stuart Gerber. The work will premiere at UCLA and be performed nationally during the 2026-27 season.",2,[72],{"dataId":73,"src":74,"srcset":75,"height":76,"width":22,"title":77,"focalPoint":78,"kind":63,"type":64,"alt":79},"10350591","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_fullscreen/bf.jpg-Jan-Berry-Baker.jpg","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_375xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/bf.jpg-Jan-Berry-Baker.jpg 375w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_960xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/bf.jpg-Jan-Berry-Baker.jpg 960w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1280xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/bf.jpg-Jan-Berry-Baker.jpg 1280w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1920xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/bf.jpg-Jan-Berry-Baker.jpg 1920w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_2560xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/bf.jpg-Jan-Berry-Baker.jpg 2560w",1708,"Bent Frequency Duo / Photo Credit: Steve Eberhardt",[26,26],"Bent Frequency Duo",{"dataId":81,"captionTitle":82,"captionText":83,"sortOrder":84,"item":85},"10350763","Bridging Latin American Folk Harp Traditions and Pedal Harp Traditions: Performance Practices and Techniques in Alfredo Rolando Ortiz’s “South American Suite for Harp and Orchestra”","Jillian Risigari-Gai, a doctoral student in music, will develop a new pedal-harp edition of Cuban-born composer Alfredo Rolando Ortiz’s “South American Suite for Harp and Orchestra,” accompanied by a performance, recording, oral-history interviews and a performance-practice guide to expand access to the work.",3,[86],{"dataId":87,"src":88,"srcset":89,"height":90,"width":22,"title":91,"focalPoint":92,"kind":63,"type":64,"alt":93},"10350603","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_fullscreen/Jillian-Risigari-Gai_IMG_2108.jpeg","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_375xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Jillian-Risigari-Gai_IMG_2108.jpeg 375w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_960xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Jillian-Risigari-Gai_IMG_2108.jpeg 960w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1280xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Jillian-Risigari-Gai_IMG_2108.jpeg 1280w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1920xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Jillian-Risigari-Gai_IMG_2108.jpeg 1920w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_2560xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Jillian-Risigari-Gai_IMG_2108.jpeg 2560w",3840,"Jillian Risigari-Gai / Photo Credit: Alfredo Rolando Ortiz",[26,26],"Jillian Risigari-Gai",{"dataId":95,"captionTitle":96,"captionText":97,"sortOrder":98,"item":99},"10350764","Contemporary Art Song and Mental Health: A Collaborative Commission","Sadie Habas, a master’s student in voice performance, will collaborate with composer Matt Smith and poet Alex Tchaykov to produce a new art song for mezzo-soprano and piano exploring the emotional and embodied dimensions of anxiety.",4,[100],{"dataId":101,"src":102,"srcset":103,"height":104,"width":22,"title":105,"focalPoint":106,"kind":63,"type":64,"alt":107},"10350615","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_fullscreen/Edvard_Munch_-_Anxiety_-_Google_Art_Project-SADIE-HABAS.jpg","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_375xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Edvard_Munch_-_Anxiety_-_Google_Art_Project-SADIE-HABAS.jpg 375w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_960xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Edvard_Munch_-_Anxiety_-_Google_Art_Project-SADIE-HABAS.jpg 960w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1280xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Edvard_Munch_-_Anxiety_-_Google_Art_Project-SADIE-HABAS.jpg 1280w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1920xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Edvard_Munch_-_Anxiety_-_Google_Art_Project-SADIE-HABAS.jpg 1920w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_2560xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Edvard_Munch_-_Anxiety_-_Google_Art_Project-SADIE-HABAS.jpg 2560w",3301,"Edvard Munch's Anxiety",[26,26],"Edvard Munch's painting titled \"Anxiety\"",{"dataId":109,"captionTitle":110,"captionText":111,"sortOrder":112,"item":113},"10350765","New Work for the UCLA Contemporary Jazz Ensemble in Celebration of AAPI Heritage Month","Hitomi Oba, continuing lecturer and director of the UCLA Contemporary Jazz Ensemble will lead a commission of a big band piece by composer Ennis Harris. The piece will draw upon Harris’ Filipino heritage and is based on the poem “Ennui” from a collection by Luis G. Dato, one of the first Filipino poets to write and publish in American English. The project will include a workshop with Harris and culminate in a performance at the ensemble’s spring concert marking AAPI Heritage Month.",5,[114],{"dataId":115,"src":116,"srcset":117,"height":118,"width":22,"title":119,"focalPoint":120,"kind":63,"type":64,"alt":121},"10350627","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_fullscreen/Ennis-Harris-Blue-Headshot-1-HITOMI-OBA.jpeg","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_375xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Ennis-Harris-Blue-Headshot-1-HITOMI-OBA.jpeg 375w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_960xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Ennis-Harris-Blue-Headshot-1-HITOMI-OBA.jpeg 960w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1280xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Ennis-Harris-Blue-Headshot-1-HITOMI-OBA.jpeg 1280w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1920xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Ennis-Harris-Blue-Headshot-1-HITOMI-OBA.jpeg 1920w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_2560xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Ennis-Harris-Blue-Headshot-1-HITOMI-OBA.jpeg 2560w",2012,"Ennis Harris / Photo Credit: Lauren Desberg",[26,26],"Ennis Harris",{"dataId":123,"captionTitle":124,"captionText":125,"sortOrder":126,"item":127},"10350766","Liminality of Timbral Composition \u003C > Improvisation","Robert Reigle, lecturer in ethnomusicology, will present a concert by the ensemble Intangible, featuring gamin (Korean winds), Reigle on saxophone, Tim Feeney on percussion and Jeff Schwartz on double bass, premiering a new work by composer/performer Ulrich Krieger. The project explores timbral innovation through Korean traditional, avant classical, improvisational, avant folk, and Arab traditional trajectories, with select scores made available open access.",6,[128],{"dataId":19,"src":20,"srcset":23,"height":21,"width":22,"title":129,"focalPoint":130,"kind":63,"type":64,"alt":24},"Liminality of Timbral Composition \u003C > Improvisation, Intangible & Ulrich Krieger / Photo Credit: Robert Reigle, Laura Agudelo Cuartas",[26,26],{"dataId":132,"captionTitle":133,"captionText":134,"sortOrder":135,"item":136},"10350767","Opera | Black | Queer","Joy H. Calico, professor of Musicology and department chair, will organize an international symposium interrogating the intersections of three contested terms: opera, black, and queer. The program will feature papers by scholars from North America, Europe, and Africa, the North American premiere screening of the South African opera film “Nkoli: The Vogue Opera” presented by composer Philip Miller and music director Tshegofatso Moeng, and a presentation by composer and sound artist Yvette Janine Jackson on her fixed-media radio operas. The symposium is presented in collaboration with the Black Opera Research Network (BORN).",7,[137],{"dataId":138,"src":139,"srcset":140,"height":22,"width":22,"title":141,"focalPoint":142,"kind":63,"type":64,"alt":143},"10350650","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_fullscreen/Nkoli_PR_image-JOY-CALICO.jpg","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_375xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Nkoli_PR_image-JOY-CALICO.jpg 375w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_960xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Nkoli_PR_image-JOY-CALICO.jpg 960w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1280xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Nkoli_PR_image-JOY-CALICO.jpg 1280w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1920xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Nkoli_PR_image-JOY-CALICO.jpg 1920w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_2560xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Nkoli_PR_image-JOY-CALICO.jpg 2560w","Nkoli PR image / Photo credit: Mark Lewis",[26,26],"Male dancer posing",{"dataId":145,"captionTitle":146,"captionText":147,"sortOrder":148,"item":149},"10350768","Firebirth: Kindling the Sounds of Resilience in Los Angeles","Michele Yamamoto and Emmie Head, doctoral studies in musicology, will organize Firebirth Los Angeles, a community centered event responding to the January 2025 Palisades and Altadena fires. The program will feature “Firebirth,” a new work for violin and piano by Will Rand, performed with violinist Grace M. Alexander alongside a discussion on fire ecology, safety and rebuilding with KCRW’s Chris Douridas, Jessica Schwartz, UCLA associate professor of musicology and music industry; Liz Koslov, UCLA assistant professor of urban planning, environment and sustainability and sociology; and Kim Yu, a Caltech fire safety specialist and member of the Altadena Town Council.",8,[150],{"dataId":151,"src":152,"srcset":153,"height":154,"width":22,"title":155,"focalPoint":156,"kind":63,"type":64,"alt":157},"10350755","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_fullscreen/Firebirth_Scale-EMMIE-HEAD.jpg","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_375xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Firebirth_Scale-EMMIE-HEAD.jpg 375w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_960xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Firebirth_Scale-EMMIE-HEAD.jpg 960w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1280xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Firebirth_Scale-EMMIE-HEAD.jpg 1280w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1920xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Firebirth_Scale-EMMIE-HEAD.jpg 1920w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_2560xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Firebirth_Scale-EMMIE-HEAD.jpg 2560w",1920,"Mural by wemok_art / Photo credit: Michele Yamamoto",[26,26],"Mural by wemok_art",{"id":159,"typeHandle":43,"richText":160,"sectionTitle":12},"10350769","\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">The Davise Fund Awards selection committee included Blair Black, music teaching and research services librarian; Ciara Brewer, music access services assistant; Jamie Hazlitt, director of Arts, Music, and Powell libraries, and Matthew Vest, music inquiry and research librarian.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Other funding opportunities through the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.library.ucla.edu/about/programs/hugo-and-christine-davise-fund-for-contemporary-music/\">Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music\u003C/a> include \u003Ca href=\"https://www.library.ucla.edu/about/programs/resonate/\">Resonate: An Open Access Call for Scores Series\u003C/a>, which will be open for submissions later this year.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https://www.library.ucla.edu/visit/locations/music-library\">More information about the Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>",{"id":162,"typeHandle":43,"richText":163,"sectionTitle":12},"10350801","\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Header photo: Liminality of Timbral Composition < > Improvisation, Intangible & Ulrich Krieger. Photo credit: Robert Reigle / Laura Agudelo Cuartas\u003C/em>\u003C/p>",1778057341994]