Students

Eda Er is a composer, sound artist, and singer currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her artistic pursuits primarily revolve around exploring expressivity and narrativity in her music. Drawing upon a diverse range of mediums, including singing, composition, analogue and digital electronics, video, theatricality, and storytelling, she creates a multifaceted and immersive musical experience.

Aditi Raja is an undergraduate researcher at CNMAT. She is currently a student at UC Berkeley studying Computer Science and Music.

Nathan Corder is an Oakland-based composer of works for electronics, objects, and arrays of people.

Luke Dzwonczyk is an M.A./Ph.D. student in music at UC Berkeley, and has been an active member of CNMAT since his time as an undergraduate. His current research interests include computational creativity, audio generation with neural networks, and sound visualization. He created interactive instruments for the Berkeley Dance Project 2022, and has published papers on computer-assisted orchestration.

The music of Curtis Rumrill explores the intersection of literary form and modern chamber music. His works with writer, naturalist and visual artist Zachary Webber tell darkly comic stories of animals in desperate or violent predicaments.

Andrew Harlan (b. 1995) is an experimental composer and bassist based in Berkeley, California. His music has been featured in festivals such as Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, Valencia International Performance Academy, Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice, and Wellesley Composers Conference. 

Selim Göncü finished his bachelor studies in composition at the University Mozarteum of Salzburg, graduating in 2012. He also served as assistant to the department for composition in Mozarteum for two years.

Jeremy Wexler is a composer and drummer from New York, USA currently residing in Kraków, Poland. With a background in rock, electronic, and classical music, Jeremy’s compositions draw from an eclectic range of influences including spectral music, impressionism, sonorism, jazz, drum ’n bass, and cinematic sound design. He aims to create vividly colorful music that encompasses a vast emotive landscape within acoustic and electroacoustic mediums.

Composer and trumpeter, Oren Boneh, is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley where he works with Franck Bedrossian, Edmund Campion, Ken Ueno and Cindy Cox. His music has been performed by ensembles such as Ensemble Divertimento, Ensemble Meitar, Vertixe Sonora, Ensemble Regards, Ensemble Pentaèdre, the Playground, Ensemble Transmission, Ensemble Reconsil and Architek Percussion.