Comprehensive cultural activities, public performances, and educational outreach are at the core of our community engagement programs. Not only do students gain out-of-classroom learning experiences, they enrich the Los Angeles community by presenting educational performances to more than 150 schools, libraries, senior centers and other venues throughout Los Angeles County, connecting music to more than 10,000 community members and mentoring and inspiring over 600 inner-city youth at local partnership sites.
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Community Engagement Programs
Gluck Fellows Outreach Program Learn More
Since 1996, the Max H. Gluck Foundation has enabled our finest UCLA music students to offer free educational performances at over 150 schools, libraries, senior centers, and other nontraditional venues throughout Los Angeles.
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Hancock Institute Jazz Outreach Program Learn More
Fellows of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz at UCLA share their talent with future generations of musicians by presenting clinics and masterclasses, and performing at community and international events, as well as teaching private lessons to local students.
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Music Partnership Program Learn More
For over two decades, the Music Partnership Program has enabled UCLA music students to provide music training and mentoring to talented at-risk youth in Los Angeles’ most underserved communities, inspiring hundreds of inner-city youth across partnership sites.
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The UCLA PEER Lab Learn More
An experimental research Lab dedicated to decolonizing data, methodology, and analysis through creative practice.
At the UCLA PEER Lab, we study the creative processes involved in everyday, traditional, and emerging practices. We pay attention to how oppressed groups and individuals survive, pursue knowledge, and express joy through music and sound. And, acknowledging storytelling as the root of cultural appropriation, we take an active part in which stories are told, and who gets to tell them.
At the UCLA PEER Lab, we study the creative processes involved in everyday, traditional, and emerging practices. We pay attention to how oppressed groups and individuals survive, pursue knowledge, and express joy through music and sound. And, acknowledging storytelling as the root of cultural appropriation, we take an active part in which stories are told, and who gets to tell them.
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VEM Ensemble Learn More
The UCLA VEM Ensemble, the graduate ensemble at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, is the cornerstone of the Armenian Music Program at UCLA, which, thanks to generous donor support and the assistance of the Lark Music Society, endeavors to raise awareness and celebrate the richness and diversity of Armenian musical tradition.
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Gluck Showcase Concert Thrills Young Audience
When 500 elementary and secondary students arrived at Schoenberg Hall at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for the 2023 Gluck Fellows Showcase Concert, few may have thought they would have work to do. But when Mathew Harget stepped to the mic, he set things straight. “This is UCLA,” he told the young audience.
Third Annual Day of Armenian Music to Feature Noted Armenian Composer, Artur Avanesov
In 2013, the Armenian Music Program was launched at UCLA with a single ensemble-in-residence, the string quartet VEM. The ensemble performed on campus and conducted a few outreach programs in what were admittedly modest beginnings. A lot has changed in ten years. When the program hosts its third-annual Day of Armenian Music on May 26