Department of
Music Performance, Education & Composition
Faculty
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Boris Allakhverdyan
Continuing Lecturer - Clarinet Performance, Principal Clarinet LA Philharmonic
Ji Young An
Continuing Lecturer - Violin Performance
Jan Berry Baker
Professor - Saxophone, Head of Woodwinds, Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition, Special Assistant to the Dean for Faculty Mentoring
James Bass
Professor and Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition, Director of Choral Studies
Jonathan Beard
Continuing Lecturer - Music Industry (Electronic Music) and Composition
Melissa Bilal
Promise Professor in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture and Director of Armenian Music Program, Assistant Professor in Music Performance, Education & Composition
Christoph Bull
Adjunct Professor - Organ Performance
Wendy Caldwell
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Noel Cano Hearn
Lecturer - Alexander Technique and Music Education
Regina Carter-Garnett
Professor - Music Performance and Global Jazz Studies
Che-Yen Chen
Professor - Viola Performance
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Professor - Music Education, Special Assistant to the Inaugural Dean for Curricular Reform
Gloria Cheng
Distinguished Adjunct Professor - Contemporary Music, Performance Studies
Vladimir Chernov
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Travis J. Cross
Professor - Conducting, Director of Bands
Richard Danielpour
Distinguished Professor; Director of Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music
James Darrah
Professor - Director of Opera UCLA
Jonathan Davis
Senior Continuing Lecturer - Oboe Performance
Dante De Silva
Continuing Lecturer - Composition and Music Theory
Michael Dean
Professor - Voice Performance
Nick DePinna
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Musicianship
Theresa Dimond
Continuing Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Inna Faliks
Professor - Head of Piano Performance
Cheryl Lin Fielding
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Aubrey Foard
Continuing Lecturer - Tuba Performance
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen
Assistant Professor - Music Education
Mircea Gogoncea
Lecturer - Guitar
Peter Golub
Continuing Lecturer - Composition, Music and Film
Juliana Gondek
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Gregory Goodall
Continuing Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Catherine Gregory
Lecturer - Flute Performance, Woodwind Chamber Music, Director of the Gluck Fellowship Program
Rakefet Hak
Senior Continuing Lecturer - Opera UCLA
Herbie Hancock
Adjunct Professor
Chris Hanulik
Adjunct Professor - String Bass Performance; Principal Bass LA Phil
David Kaplan
Inaugural Shapiro Family Professor in Piano Performance, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
William Kinderman
Distinguished Professor and Elaine Krown Klein Professor in Performance Studies
Victoria Kirsch
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Sarah Koo Freeman
Visiting Professor - Cello Performance
Ian Krouse
Distinguished Professor - Co-Area Head, Composition
Elisabeth Le Guin
Emerita
David Lefkowitz
Professor - Composition, Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
James Lent
Continuing Lecturer - Collaborative Piano
Jens Lindemann
Distinguished Professor - Trumpet Performance
Iris Malkin
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Varty Manouelian
Continuing Lecturer - Violin Performance, Violin LA Philharmonic
Brendan McBrien
Lecturer - Music Education
Justin McManus
Assistant Professor - Director of Athletic Bands and Associate Director of Bands
Noah Meites
Continuing Lecturer - Music Theory
Dwayne Milburn
Continuing Lecturer - Conducting and Composition
James Miller
Continuing Lecturer - Trombone Performance, Associate Principal Trombone LA Phil
Lou Anne Neill
Continuing Lecturer - Harp Performance, Harp LA Philharmonic
Hitomi Oba
Continuing Lecturer and Director of Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
Shahab Paranj
Gramian-Emrani Postdoctoral Fellow in Music and Lecturer - Composition, Contemporary Concert Music
Movses Pogossian
Distinguished Professor of Violin; Founder and Advisor, Armenian Music Program - Music Performance
Joshua Ranz
Continuing Lecturer - Clarinet Performance
Wendy Richman
Lecturer - Performance Studies
Amy Sanchez
Continuing Lecturer - Horn Performance
Benjamin Smolen
Lecturer - Flute Performance
John Steinmetz
Continuing Lecturer - Bassoon Performance
Neal Stulberg
Distinguished Professor - Conducting, Director of Orchestral Studies, Artistic Director Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Lucy Yates
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
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2025-26 Season Brings Exciting Programming to Los Angeles and Beyond
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s 2025–26 season offers something for everyone, with over 200 public concerts, recitals and panel discussions at UCLA and throughout the community. True to
Thomas Hodgson Launches Music and Data Journal with UC Press
University of California Press is launching Music and Data, an annual, thematic, online-only journal, in 2026 under the co-editorship of Thomas Hodgson, University of California, Los Angeles, and Rujing Stacy Huang,