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The New Music Industry Program at UCLA
The Music Industry Program
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music now has the UC system's only music industry program. With more than one quarter of job postings for the industry in California, this is the premiere place to study and experience the music industry.
The Music Industry Program
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music offers a diverse 2023-2024 season that traverses musical worlds
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music offers a diverse 2023-2024 season that traverses musical worlds
Read About the 2023-24 Season
The new 2023-24 concerts and events season at the School of Music reinvents modern styles, elevates discussion of the craft, and celebrates musical traditions around the globe.
Read About the 2023-24 Season
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Gustavo Dudamel to Receive UCLA Medal in Ceremony at Schoenberg Hall
On May 7, LA Philharmonic Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel will receive the UCLA Medal, the university’s highest honor given to an individual of extraordinary accomplishment. The UCLA Medal will be presented by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block in a ceremony at Schoenberg Hall at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. As part of
Ray Knapp Wins Distinguished Teaching Award
Ray Knapp, distinguished professor of musicology and humanities, has won the UCLA Faculty Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award for 2023-24. Knapp is one of six faculty selected by the award committee from a large field of extraordinary nominees across the university. “Ray Knapp’s thirty-five year record of teaching excellence has been a defining constant in our
Ashley Dao Wins Campus-Wide Leadership Award
Musicology major Ashley Dao is one of three undergraduates who has won the student leadership award from the UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. She is the first student from The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music to receive the award. But her biggest moment may have been born of failure. “We were coming
Apr
19
2024
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‘The Living Legacy Project – Akha Oral Tradition School’ Imparting Ancestral Songs, Stories, and Ceremonies to Akha Youth
Welcome to Ban Saen Suk in the mountains of Northern Thailand, where each week twenty-two Akha boys and girls are inspired by six Master Akha Musicians who impart the ancestral songs, instruments, stories, and instrument craftsmanship they learned as children from their families.
Apr
24
Wed
1:00pm
Free
Free
lectures-symposia, world-music
Unearthing Sounds from the Archive: Joseph Lenherr’s Field Recordings of Indigenous Music of Taiwan
By examining the fieldnotes and content of twenty-six audiotape reels, this talk provides an overview of the Joseph Lenherr Collection of Taiwanese music at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive.
Apr
24
Wed
8:00pm
Free
Free
classical, contemporary
Alexander Boldachev in Residence - Recital of Faculty and Student Compositions
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as we welcome back Alexander Boldachev for the exciting conclusion of his residency with a recital of faculty and student compositions featuring the harp. About Alexander: Alexander Boldachev is a virtuoso-harpist, composer, exclusive artist of Italian harp house Salvi Harps, initiator of the World Harp Day,
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