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
Sumner Arano
Lecturer - Reed Making, Bassoon
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 K. 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
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
Shapiro Professor of Piano Performance - 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
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
Ji Young Kim
Assistant Adjunct Professor - Performance Studies
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
Assistant Adjunct Professor - Composition, Contemporary Concert Music, Director of the Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music
Movses Pogossian
Emeritus
Joshua Ranz
Continuing Lecturer - Clarinet Performance
Wendy Richman
Lecturer - Performance Studies, Academic Lecturer and Director of uclaFLUX
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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Yvette Janine Jackson’s radio opera ‘Harvest’ sows seeds of sound at UCLA Nimoy Theater
From the Daily Bruin: The Center for Musical Humanities hosted award-winning composer Yvette Janine Jackson with her Radio Opera Workshop at the Nimoy.
Jens Lindemann Opens Fresno Philharmonic's Season
The Munro Review: Trumpet professor Jens Lindemann performed Wynton Marsalis’s Trumpet Concerto with the Fresno Philharmonic. It is the concerto that the Grammy-nominated Lindemann has been waiting for his whole
Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary
Professor Joy H. Calico has curated a new collection of essays for Oxford University Press examining the role of childhood in opera. Featuring perspectives on opera from around the globe,