Regina Carter, the acclaimed jazz violinist who has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (2007), a Doris Duke Award (2018), and honored as an NEA Jazz Master Fellow (2023), will join The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music faculty in 2024. Carter will teach courses in jazz performance and history and urban musical culture. Her teachings will also offer lessons and masterclasses for School of Music students.

Virtuoso cellist taught for twenty years at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music On Sunday, February 4, the UCLA community learned of the sudden and unexpected loss of Antonio Lysy (1963-2024). Known the world over for his virtuosic performances and astounding creativity, Lysy was a beloved colleague and teacher, mentor and friend. Lysy’s sudden

Herb Randall reviewed Weight in the Fingertips, which he calls “captivating” and “thoughtful” and “deeply wise in its contemplation of a life spent pursuing an individual musical voice true to the disparate components of her identity.” Read the full review at the LA Review of Books website.

Steve Lawrence and his wife Edye Gormé were stars in the recording studio and on television in the 1950s and 60s. In 1976 they established a scholarship in their name at UCLA to support students in the arts, and especially singers and composers. Read the New York Times obituary for the full story.

Music creation is one of the most distinguishing features of humanity. So what does it mean that AI has entered the picture? Judith Finell, lecturer in music industry at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music offers a fresh perspective on how human creativity and artificial intelligence charts new territory in music composition.

Inna Faliks, professor of piano performance, sat down with on-air host John Banther of WETA, PBS for Washington D.C., to talk piano, memoir writing, and her forthcoming album, Manuscripts Don’t Burn.