Tiffany Ta

Tiffany developed her love for music by playing piano duets with her five sisters, which evolved into earning a BM in piano performance at CSU Long Beach. While working on an MM in music theory at the University of Kansas, she co-founded the Asian Classical Music Initiative, an organization devoted to the promotion and presentation of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander music. She is now a PhD student of music theory at UC Santa Barbara where she is the recipient of the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. She is particularly interested in studying musical semiotics, and the intersections of music with disabilities studies and feminist studies. Tiffany is currently working on a chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Global Music Industry Studies (forthcoming 2025) and has presented at conferences such as the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Music and the Moving Image, the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, and Music Theory Southeast.