James K. Bass, GRAMMY®-winning singer and conductor, is professor and chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition, and director of choral studies at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He is the associate conductor for the...

Baritone John Buffett enjoys a versatile career lending his “warm tone and ringing top notes” (Salt Lake Tribune) to music from the early baroque through the 21st century.  Recent solo engagements include Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the Flagstaff Symphony,...

Wendy Caldwell, a native of Canada, graduated with her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, receiving the Birks Medal in Music as the top graduate. She went on to study at the University of...

Internationally renowned Russian baritone Vladmir Chernov joined the Music Department faculty at UCLA In January 2006 as a Professor of Vocal Studies. Vladimir Chernov was born in a small village near the city of Krasnodar in southern Russia. Although there...

Kevin Cornwell II is a second-year graduate student in Choral Conducting at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Before arriving at UCLA, Kevin served with Julian Goods as Co-Interem Choral Director for the Detroit School of Arts in Detroit,...

James Darrah joined The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music faculty as the director of Opera UCLA in 2024. Darrah is a GRAMMY Award-nominated director and of opera, theater and film who has become known for a singular cinematic elegance...

Michael Dean, Professor of Voice Performance at UCLA, has performed to great acclaim worldwide in both concert and operatic repertoire, appearing in leading bass-baritone roles with many of the leading opera houses of the U.S. and Europe. He has made...

“Warm, grand, and rich”, Cheryl Lin Fielding’s pianism has been praised by the New York Sun, and throughout the world. Her performances have taken her to major venues including Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Merkin...

Juliana Gondek is a renowned vocal pedagogue whose success with students has been informed by a more than 40-year performance and recording career on the world’s most celebrated opera, symphony, festival, and recital stages. She has starred in both soprano...

After pursuing studies at the Hartt and Manhattan Schools of Music on full scholarship, Ms. Hak apprenticed as coach/pianist with the Merola Opera Program. She then joined the Lindeman Young Artist development Program and the Metropolitan Opera music staff as...

Victoria Kirsch is a Southern California-based collaborative pianist and vocal coach known for creating and performing innovative programs, including staged art song/poetry programs and concerts based on museum exhibitions (USC Fisher Museum of Art for Visions and Voices, Getty Center,...

Israeli born Mezzo-Soprano, Pianist and Vocal Coach Iris Malkin graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music with a Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance and an Artist Diploma in Piano – with a Vocal Coaching emphasis. Iris has performed widely both as a...

After apprenticeships at Ravinia and Aldeburgh, and appearances with the New-York Collegium and at the Boston Early Music Festival, Miss Yates made her Italian singing debut as Violetta in a Franco Zeffirelli/Plácido Domingo production of La traviata (Teatro Verdi di...