圣地亚哥加州大学音乐系提供了一个独特的环境，在此环境中，作曲家，表演者，即兴演奏者，计算机音乐研究人员和音乐学者都采用最重要的思想和最新技术，以突破当代音乐的界限。社区重叠的关注点揭示了一个充满传统但不断扩大的地形，令人兴奋的合作气氛和相互尊重的竞争气氛。该系享誉世界的教职员工致力于推动和激发加州大学圣地亚哥分校独特的音乐社区的活力。教师和学生经常在音乐会上，在唱片上以及在国家和国际场所一起表演。节日，座谈会和杰出的参观者营造了一个充满活力和动感的环境，可以开展协作，并研究我们这个时代背景下的新音乐领域和
The Department of Music at UC San Diego provides a unique environment in which composers, performers, improvisers, computer music researchers and music scholars engage with the most vital ideas and newest technologies in order to push the boundaries of contemporary music. The community's overlapping concerns reveal a terrain rich in tradition but constantly expanding, an atmosphere of exciting collaboration and respectful contention. The Department's world-renown faculty provides the impetus that focuses and energizes the unique UC San Diego musical community. Faculty and students frequently perform together in concerts, on recordings, and at national and international venues. Festivals, colloquia and distinguished visitors create a stimulating and kinetic environment for collaboration and for the investigation of new musical frontiers and of music in the context of our time.