Regents' Lecturers

2003-04 Awards

Maryanne Amacher
A composer, performer, and multi-media artist. An innovator in exploring sonic telepresence, Amacher is known internationally for her dramatic architectural staging of music and sound. Amacher has become a master of controlling sound that is comparatively ‘faint’; yet produces a new sense of location and orientation. Her visit will complement the Powering Up/Powering Down conference on women and technology.

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Bob Becker
A member of the Steve Reich Ensemble having premiered and recorded every major work that includes percussion by Steve Reich since the group’s inception. Becker is also the founding member for what is considered the first percussion ensemble, NEXUS. He has been percussionist for the Marlboro Music Festival and timpanist with the Marlboro Festival Orchestra under Pablo Casals.

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Dr. Richard Florida
Author of the groundbreaking book "The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure Community, and Everyday Life". Dr. Florida has been acclaimed by the New York Times and other major media for showing how some of the most profound changes in our workplace and culture stem from the rise of creativity as an economic force.  Dr. Florida is a Visiting Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.

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Habib Koité
Internationally acclaimed Malian musician and recording artist whose unique brand of border-crossing music will be featured in the AAASRP’s tenth anniversary celebration and African guitar festival. Songlines Magazine describes Koité as, "…one of the most interesting musicians to have emerged from Mali in the 1990’s. What sets him apart from other Malian musicians is his reflective, semi-acoustic, contemporary interpretations of various ethnic traditions from around the country."

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Dr. Bernard Meyerson
Vice President of the IBM Technology Group, Dr. Meyerson is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering.  His pioneering SiGe work made IBM the leading chip provider for the telecommunications industry.  He will give a general public lecture on the status of microelectronics and computer technology and a technical seminar on his areas of expertise to students and faculty.  He will hold office hours and will talk with students about industry expectations in a meeting to be organized by the ECE Graduate Student Council.  He will also meet with Faculty and industry representatives in this area. 

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Sam Rivers
A multi-instrumentalist (sax/flute/piano) and jazz/improvising legend, having played with everyone from Miles Davis and Billie Holiday to Cecil Taylor. More recently, his large ensemble compositions and recordings were nominated for two Grammy awards, and he led the group performances at Lincoln Center. A concert performance is planned in the Mandeville Auditorium for a public performance.

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Robert Sadin
Mr. Sadin studied at the Julliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and was a former member of the Princeton University faculty. Mr. Sadin conducted the premiere of Wynton Marsalis' Jazz: 6 ½ Syncopated Movements for the New York City Ballet, and Wayne Shorter's Dramatis Personae, a 17-piece chamber orchestra.  He produced Herbie Hancock’s Grammy award-winning 1998 album Gershwin’s World, and shared a Grammy with Hancock and Stevie Wonder for their arrangement of W.C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues”. He maintains an active career as conductor, arranger, and record producer. April 29, 2003 Port Folio Weekly article by Jim Newsom

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Pamela Z
Ms. Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist. Her visit with complement the, Powering Up/Powering Down conference that is being organized by the Department of Music's graduate students. The conference will explore the role of women in technology and the arts. Ms. Z. has composed commissioned works for the new music chamber ensembles the Bang On a Can Allstars, the California E.A.R. Unit, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and the St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra. She currently produces "Z Programs." an ongoing series of interdisciplinary events in which her own work has been featured with that of other artists doing experimental work in various genres.

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