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 of 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 Professor in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture and Director of Armenian Music Program...
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 Black
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...
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...
Faculty & Students in the News
More News
Mike Lee Brings Global Performance Career and Innovative Scholarship to Faculty
Mike Lee, an accomplished fortepianist with an international performance career, has joined The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He holds advanced degrees from Yale and Cornell and was most...
The Other March Madness
UCLA Women’s Basketball is on to the Final Four in search of its first national championship this season. But there’s more madness to March than just hoops. The National Trumpet...
Cellist Ben Hong Joins Faculty
Ben Hong, associate principal cello of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has joined the faculty as professor of cello performance.