Arts

Can’t stop playing ‘Rock Band’ or ‘Guitar Hero II’? Blame your addiction on UC Irvine alumnus Chris Canfield, who helped create them.

Through his piano playing, engineering student Jared DiBartolomeo helps revive ragtime for a new generation.

Show features diverse works by seniors learning how to stage an exhibit – their own.

Drama student Jennifer Chung’s powerful singing and pared-down style have already made her a YouTube star.

From Russian guitars to classical lute, John Schneiderman plucks his way through musical history.

NPR host and classical pianist Christopher O’Riley will share the stage with UCI student musicians April 9 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Ragtime — that bright, toe-tapping piano music that flourished in bars, brothels and parlor rooms in the early 1900s — has found an unlikely promoter and practitioner at UC Irvine: a young civil engineering student named Jared DiBartolomeo. DiBartolomeo belongs to a generation that worships technology, was raised on rap and is addicted to keyboards […]

“Do not say anything against rhyme! It is a mighty goddess indeed, the deity of very secret and very ancient coincidences, and one must never let the fires on its altars burn out.” — Rainer Maria Rilke They are small in number, the writers who have come to UC Irvine to study poetry through the master’s-level Programs […]

For Eli Simon, drama department chair and professor of acting, clowning is high art.

A by-the-numbers description of UC Irvine’s homecoming festivities tells all.