Life After SCU
Music and Political Science double major headed to Stanford Law to pursue space law.
For music minor Jared Shimada ’16, MS ’18, playing his trumpet in music ensembles gave him a scheduled mental release from the technical demands of engineering.
His return to campus for the Sinatra Series marks a full-circle moment of performing and teaching at the place where he began his classical music journey.
Riley Carpenter ’25 found a well-rounded education at Santa Clara, designing cutting-edge superconducting thin-film dark matter sensors while pursuing his passions in the humanities and arts.
Today, the Guggenheim fellow and professor at the Peabody Institute performs alongside live instrumentalists, using technology to manipulate sounds in real time to create a vibrant sonic universe.
Nicolás Lell Benavides ’10 shares how his Santa Clara experience and passion for composition led to the creation of his largest project to date: “Dolores.”
From concrete formwork construction to a music doctorate scholar, Isaac Raven ’15 has put his SCU degrees to work!
Erin Pearson ‘05 was recruited to play soccer for Santa Clara University but her passion for music pulled her in a different direction.
Experimental artist Sam Pluta: ‘I wanted to be able to invent my own type of music’
Josephine Huynh ‘12 helps patients nearing death