UCSB Summer Music Festival 2018

The UC Santa Barbara Department of Music will present the third annual UCSB Summer Music Festival on Friday, August 17 and Saturday, August 18, 2018 on the UCSB campus. Sponsored by the UCSB Office of Summer Sessions, the festival will feature performances by the Grammy Award-nominated Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, violist and UCSB Music alumnus Jonathan Morgan, Gamelan Sinar Surya, Adelfos Ensemble, Mariachi Las Olas de Santa Barbara, UCSB Carillonist Margo Halsted, and UCSB Music graduate students. Other festival highlights include an Interactive Multimedia Exhibition presented by graduate students from the Media Arts and Technology program and the Department of Music, a Children’s Concert featuring various festival artists, and world premiere performances by the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet of works by UCSB graduate composers. The events will be presented free of charge at several venues across the UCSB campus including the Music Department’s Karl Geiringer Hall and Music Bowl, the Multicultural Center Theater, Storke Tower, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts’ Digital Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

Sponsored by the UCSB Office of Summer Sessions and co-presented by the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Department of Music, Division of Humanities & Fine Arts (HFA), and MultiCultural Center.