University of California - Santa Barbara

From an institution that began life dedicated to training the next generation of music educators, to what is now a multi-faceted department with a fully established research and professional graduate program with degrees in composition, ethnomusicology, musicology, music theory, and performance, the UC Santa Barbara Department of Music has produced many hundreds of graduates who have distinguished themselves both nationally and internationally.

Wesley Arai, Charles Asche, Dr. John Ballerino , Paul Bambach, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Paul Berkowitz, William Booth, Janet Bourne, Benjamin Brecher, Tim Cooley, Jill Felber, Kyra Folk-Farber, Neil Garber, Sarah Gibson, Breana Gilcher, Dr. Steven Gross, John Hajda, Dr. Ruth Hellier, Nicholas Jurkowski, Derek Katz, Natasha Kislenko, Jennifer Kloetzel, Robert Koenig, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Maxim Kuzin, Nicole Lamartine, Benjamin Levy, Hugo Macario, Scott Marcus, Dustin McKinney, Jonathan Moerschel, Jonathan Nathan, Richard North, David Novak, João Pedro Oliveira, Bahram Osqueezadeh, David Paul, Andy Radford, Lee Rothfarb, Sue Rudnicki, Martha Sprigge, Stefanie Tcharos Stefanie Tcharos, Andrew Tholl, Ertan Torgul.