Peter Golub is the composer of numerous concert works, film scores, music for the theater, and ballet. Recent pieces include the cello concert, SLEEPWALKING, performed by Matt Haimovitz and the song cycle Dark Carols. Films scores include These Amazing Shadows, Frozen River, The Great Debaters, The Laramie Project and Wordplay. His music was heard in the recent Broadway production of The Heiress, starring Jessica Chastain, as well as the two-part Laramie Cycle at BAM. For the last twelve years he has been Director of the Sundance Film Music Program.
Michael Dean
Professor - Voice Performance
Camilo Cedeno
Assistant to the Chair - Department of Music Performance, Education and Composition
Alison Deane
Associate Adjunct Professor
Lindsey Beardsley
Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education and Composition
James Darrah
Professor - Director of Opera UCLA
Benjamin Smolen
Lecturer - Flute Performance
Neal Stulberg
Professor - Conducting, Director of Orchestral Studies
Arturo O’Farrill
Director, UCLA Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra; Professor
Mircea Gogoncea
Lecturer - Guitar
Shahab Paranj
Gramian-Emrani Postdoctoral Fellow in Music and Lecturer - Composition, contemporary concert music
William Kinderman
Distinguished Professor and Elaine Krown Klein Chair in Performance Studies
Brendan McBrien
Lecturer - Music Education
Joshua Ranz
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance
David Lefkowitz
Professor - Composition, Vice Chair of the Department of Music
Wendy Richman
Lecturer - Performance Studies
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen
Assistant Professor - Music Education
Jonathan Davis
Lecturer - Oboe Performance
Jan Berry Baker
Professor - Saxophone, Head of Woodwinds, Vice Chair of the Department of Music, Special Assistant to the Dean for Faculty Mentoring
Melissa Bilal
The Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture, Director of Armenian Music Program
Noel Cano Hearn
Lecturer - Alexander Technique and Music Education
Andrew Ordonez
Events Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education and Composition
Richard Danielpour
Distinguished Professor; Director of Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music
Juliana Gondek
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
James Lent
Lecturer - Collaborative Piano
Noah Meites
Lecturer - Music Theory
Aubrey Foard
Lecturer - Tuba Performance
Dante De Silva
Lecturer - Composition and Music Theory
Varty Manouelian
Lecturer - Violin Performance, Violin LA Philharmonic
Cheryl Lin Fielding
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Hitomi Oba
Lecturer and Director of Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
Jens Lindemann
Distinguished Professor - Trumpet Performance
Boris Allakhverdyan
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance, Principal Clarinet LA Philharmonic
Mildred Yi
Lecturer - Music Education
Sean McLaughlin
Piano Technician
Regina Carter-Garnett
Professor
Nick DePinna
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Musicianship
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Professor - Music Education, Special Assistant to the Inaugural Dean for Curricular Reform
James Bass
Professor and Chair of the Department of Music, Director of Choral Studies
Ryan Brown
Lecturer - Choral Studies and Music Education
Adam Gilberti
Instrument Curator
David Kaplan
Inaugural Shapiro Family Chair in Piano Performance
Herbie Hancock
Adjunct Professor
Gloria Cheng
Adjunct Professor - Contemporary Music, Performance Studies
Rakefet Hak
Continuing Lecturer - Opera UCLA
Ian Krouse
Distinguished Professor - Co-Area Head, Composition
Travis J. Cross
Professor - Conducting, Director of Bands
Lou Anne Neill
Lecturer - Harp Performance, Harp LA Philharmonic
Theresa Dimond
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Amy Sanchez
Lecturer - Horn Performance
Christoph Bull
Adjunct Professor - Organ Performance
Iris Malkin
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Victoria Kirsch
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Elisabeth Le Guin
Emerita
Chris Hanulik
Adjunct Professor - String Bass Performance; Principal Bass LA Phil
Wendy Caldwell
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Vladimir Chernov
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Che-Yen Chen
Professor - Viola Performance
Lucy Yates
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Dwayne Milburn
Lecturer - Conducting and Composition
James Miller
Lecturer - Trombone Performance, Associate Principal Trombone LA Phil
John Steinmetz
Lecturer - Bassoon Performance
Gregory Goodall
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Inna Faliks
Professor - Head of Piano
Ji Young An
Lecturer - Violin Performance
Sarah Koo Freeman
Visiting Professor - Cello Performance
Movses Pogossian
Distinguished Professor of Violin; Founder and Advisor, Armenian Music Program - Music Performance
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