UC Davis music department composition alumnus Gabriel José
Bolaños (PhD 2016) will join the music faculty
at Arizona State University starting Fall of 2019. His recent
music engages with theories of ecological listening: how our
sense of hearing evolved primarily to interpret our environment.
Gabriel José Bolaños (b. 1984 Bogotá, Colombia)
is a Nicaraguan-American composer of solo, chamber, orchestral
and electronic music. He holds a PhD in composition from UC Davis
and a BA from Columbia University. He is currently an Assistant
Professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the
Arts, School of Music, Dance and Theater at Arizona State.