Experts Directory: Music

Ric Alviso

Department of Music
work: (818) 677-2155
email: ric.alviso@csun.edu

World music

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Music Professor Ric Alviso and His Ensemble Share Stage with Neil Young and Norah Jones

Jeffrey Auerbach

Department of History
work: (818) 677-3561
email: jeffrey.auerbach@csun.edu

Modern Britain
European imperialism, art and music
World history
World’s fairs
Author: “The Great Exhibition of 1857: A Nation on Display”

Katherine Ramos Baker

Department of Music
Director, Graduate Studies in Music
work: (818) 677-3445
email: katherine.r.baker@csun.edu
Also speaks: some Spanish

Choral music
Music education
Music education technology
Teaching strategies

Ronald M. Borczon

Department of Music
Director, Music Therapy Clinic
work: (818) 677-3174 / 3184
email: rborczon@csun.edu

Music therapy
Music therapy with adult and adolescent psychiatric clients
Music therapy with developmentally disabled clients
Music therapy with various populations
Music therapy for victims of disasters

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Peter J. Garcia

Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-3491
email: peter.garcia@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

Latin American ethnomusicology
Southwest borderlands culture
Chicana/o folklore
Member of the advisory board of the “Encyclopedia of Latina/o Folklore”
Author: “Decolonizing Enchantment: Echoes of Nuevo Mexicano Popular Musics”

Matt Harris

Department of Music
Director, Jazz Studies
work: (818) 677-3169
email: matt.harris@csun.edu

Jazz
Commercial writing/composition
Film scoring
Jingles
Music director of Disney special events

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Jeffery Izzo

Department of Music
Music Industry Studies
work: (818) 677-3184
email: jeffrey.izzo@csun.edu

Entertainment law
Music business
Music composition
Contributing author, "Music Entrepreneurship"

Jinah Kim

Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-7414
email: jinah.kim@csun.edu

Asian American and Korean American politics and culture, including the Los Angeles riots, 20th and 21st century popular culture, contemporary politics and K-pop
Asian-Latino cultural and political relations
Issues impacting undocumented Asian populations
Author: “Postcolonial Grief: Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas”

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CSUN Fellowship to Support Scholarship on Comfort Women

Garry Lennon

Department of Theatre
work: (818) 677-3086
email: garry.d.lennon@csun.edu

Costume history
Costume design
Costume/scenic designers (past and present)
Broadway musicals
Puppetry
Mask making

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CSUN Prof’s Designs Help Tell the ‘Frankenstein’ Story on Stage

Liviu Marinescu

Department of Music
work: (818) 677-6478
email: liviu7@csun.edu
Also speaks: Romanian

Contemporary classical music
Eastern European music
Romanian language, culture and politics
Communism in Eastern Europe
Immigration issues
Contemporary music styles
Post-modern trends in music
Recipient of Fromm Music Award from Harvard University

Peter J. Marston

Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-2797 / 2853
email:

The experience and communication of romantic love
Cultural study of media communication
Political arguments and debate
Popular music criticism
Popular culture censorship

“Gee” Rabe

Department of Music
work: (818) 677-3184
email: gigi.rabe@csun.edu

Ethnomusicology
Steel band performance
Accordion performance
Caribbean music—steel band and ska

John Roscigno

Department of Music
work: (818) 677-6834
email: john.roscigno@csun.edu

Conducting
Orchestral music
General music
Inter-relation of the arts
20th century art history
Interdisciplinary studies in the arts

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CSUN Student Music Groups Share Stage with World-Renowned Performers

Elizabeth Sellers

Department of Music
work: (818) 677-3191
email: elizabeth.a.sellers@csun.edu
Also speaks: German

Film scoring
Conducting ensembles
Original music for theater and dance
Session conduction

Andrew Surmani

Department of Music
Music Industry Studies
work: (818) 677-3176
email: andrew.surmani@csun.edu

Music industry
Music education
Business
Music publishing
Music products
Author, "Essentials of Music Theory," "Copyright Handbook for Music Educators and Directors," "Music Playing Cards: Classical Composers," "Music Playing Cards: Instruments" and "Mini Music Guide: Music Theory Essentials"

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CSUN Music Program Ranked Among the Top 25 by The Hollywood Reporter