Department of
Music Performance, Education & Composition
Faculty
Our Faculty
Boris Allakhverdyan
Continuing Lecturer - Clarinet Performance, Principal Clarinet LA Philharmonic
Ji Young An
Continuing Lecturer - Violin Performance
Jan Berry Baker
Associate Dean for Faculty Mentoring and Community Relations, Professor - Saxophone, Head of Woodwinds, Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
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 Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture and Director of Armenian Music Program
John Buffett
Lecturer - Choral Studies, Voice
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
Adjunct Professor Emerita - Contemporary Music, Performance Studies
Vladimir Chernov
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Travis J. Cross
Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, Director of Bands, Professor - Conducting
Richard Danielpour
Distinguished Professor; Division Head Composition; Director of Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music
James Darrah Black
Professor - Director of Opera UCLA
Jonathan Davis
Senior Continuing Lecturer - Oboe Performance
Dante De Silva
Continuing Lecturer - Composition and Music Theory
Michael Dean
Emeritus
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, 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
Associate Professor - Piano Performance
William Kinderman
Distinguished Professor and Elaine Krown Klein Professor in Performance Studies
Victoria Kirsch
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Ian Krouse
Distinguished Professor - 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
Emeritus
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
Faculty & Students in the News
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Catherine Provenzano Talks Autotune and Modern Music
From the NY Times: Autotune is ubiquitous, and Catherine Provenzano, musicologist and music industry professor, helps explain it.
A Legacy in Blue and Gold: Unveiling the new Fierberg Family Band Room
By Robert Baker Marching band is community. It is family. It is life. Just ask Joel and Karen Fierberg. Music alum Joel Fierberg marched at UCLA from 1978 to 1982.
Dean Beckerman's New Book Asks Whether Meaning in Art Can Ever Be Shared
OUT NOW: Dean Michael Beckerman’s new book, “The Doctrine of One: Personal Encounters with Film, Art and Music,” explores one of the most intriguing questions in the humanities: Can meaning