2025 Panelists
Pages
| Name |
Genre |
Year | Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ursula Oppens | Music | 2000 |
pianist, professor, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, and New York |
| Mark Swed | Music | 2009 |
chief music critic, The Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, CA |
| Derek Bermel | Music | 2019 |
Composer, Performer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Brooklyn, NY |
| John Corbett | Music | 2002 |
producer, presenter, improvisor, professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL |
| Miya Masaoka | Music | 2021 |
composer, sound artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, Associate Professor, Director, Sound Art Program, Columbia University
New York |
| Olly Wilson | Music | 2001 |
composer, professor of music, University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA |
| Nina Sun Eidshem | Music | 2011 |
vocalist, assistant professor, Department of Music, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA |
| Derek Bermel | Music | 2018 |
musician and composer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Brooklyn, NY |
| Vijay Iyer | Music | 2019 |
Composer-pianist, Professor, Harvard University, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York, NY |
| Pamela Madsen | Music | 2010 |
composer, artistic director, New Music Festival; professor, Cal State Fullerton
Laguna Beach, CA |
| Jon Jang | Music | 2002 |
composer/pianist/improvisor, Meet The Composer New Resident
San Francisco, CA |
| David Harrington | Music | 1998 |
violinist and artistic director, Kronos Quartet
San Francisco, CA |
| George Lewis | Music | 2011 |
composer, Case Professor of American Music, Columbia University
New York, NY |
| Francis Davis | Music | 2003 |
author, critic, contributing editor, The Atlantic Monthly
Philadelphia, PA |
| Dohee Lee | Music | 2018 |
performer, composer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Oakland, CA |
| Pamela Z | Music | 2019 |
Composer/Performer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
San Francisco, CA |
| Miya Masaoka | Music | 2010 |
musician, composer, media artist, faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College
New York, NY |
| George E. Lewis | Music | 1998 |
composer, trombonist and professor of music, University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA |
| John King | Music | 2017 |
composer, Herb Alpert Award winner
New York, NY |
| Steven Schick | Music | 2003 |
percussionist, professor of music, University of California, San Diego; artistic director, Centre International de Percussion de Genève
San Diego, CA |
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