School of Music
Leadership
The Dean of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Dean
Michael Beckerman Michael Beckerman is Dean of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He is a leading music historian and public intellectual. His groundbreaking studies of Central European composers have been…
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Academic Leadership
Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, Associate Professor - Musicology
Jenny Olivia Johnson Jenny Olivia Johnson (b. 1978 in Santa Monica, CA) is a composer, sound artist, music scholar, and associate professor of musicology at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Her…
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Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology, Director of World Music Center (Music of China, Intangible Cultural Heritage in East Asia)
Helen Rees Helen Rees is a specialist in Chinese music, which she studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as a British Council scholar (1987–1989). She has conducted extensive field and archival…
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Associate Dean of Faculty Mentoring and Community Relations, Professor - Saxophone, Head of Woodwinds, Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Jan Berry Baker Canadian American saxophonist Jan Berry Baker has performed as a concerto soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician on many of the world’s great stages. Recent engagements have taken her across the…
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Professor and Chair of Musicology
Joy H. Calico Joy H. Calico is professor of musicology and chair of the Department of Musicology. Her scholarship focuses on interdisciplinary Cold War cultural politics, opera since 1900, and Arnold Schoenberg. Her…
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Professor and Chair – Music Industry, Professor - Musicology And Humanities (History and Analysis of Popular Music, Internships And Industry Partnerships), Director Of The Berry Gordy Music Industry Center
Robert Fink Robert Fink is Professor of Musicology and Music Industry, and the director of the Berry Gordy Music Industry Center. Trained as a music theorist and musicologist, his primary areas of…
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Professor and Chair of Global Jazz Studies
Salim Washington Salim Washington is a composer and multi instrumentalist, playing tenor sax, flute, oboe and bass clarinet. He has played and recorded with many of the luminaries of the art form,…
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Professor and Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition, Director of Choral Studies
James Bass James K. Bass, GRAMMY®-winning singer and conductor, is professor and chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition, and director of choral studies at The UCLA Herb Alpert…
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Inaugural Shapiro Family Professor in Piano Performance, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
David Kaplan David Kaplan, pianist, has been called “excellent and adventurous” by The New York Times, and praised by the Boston Globe for “grace and fire” at the keyboard. He has appeared…
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Administrative Leadership
Andrea Arias
Chief Financial Officer
Sandra T. Flores
Director of Academic Personnel
Luis Henao
Director of Music Technology and Production, Director of the Recording Studio
Dawnyelle Addison
Manager - Music Industry Program
Lindsey Beardsley
Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition