Join pianist, music director, and Steinway Artist Ric’key Pageot performing and discussing his new educational initiative and documentary project “Classic Black” celebrating Black excellence in Classical music showcasing historically significant symphonic composers of African descent spanning the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Montreal-born pianist, accordionist, producer, composer, music director and Steinway Artist Ric’key Pageot will

Concert featuring jazz artist and political activist Keith LaMar, who is an African American man on death row falsely accused of murder in the Lucasville Prison Uprising in Youngstown, OH.  He has caught international attention and has become a symbol of the injustices of the Criminal Justice System.  A symphonic work by UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology graduate student Dexter Story was commissioned for this historic concert. The concert will also feature the Freedom First Ensemble featuring Albert Marquès and new UCLA Global Jazz Studies faculty member Salim Washington on saxophone.

A concert by the Anirudh Varma Collective (AVC), a contemporary Indian classical ensemble from New Delhi, India. It is led by pianist, composer & producer, Anirudh Varma.

In 1971, a white, Jewish, former ballerina chose to have a child with the famous Black jazz musician Roy Ayers, fully expecting and agreeing to his absenteeism. Like Roy, Nabil became deeply involved in the music industry, first as a musician, and currently as the President of Beggars Group USA. The title of Nabil’s memoir

In partnership with Angel City Jazz, Piano Spheres, and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Grammy-winning faculty pianist Gloria Cheng launches her latest commissioning project: Root Progressions (named for a seminal jazz theory method). The intent is to bridge two genres steeped in experimentation and exploration—jazz and contemporary classical music—yet perennially divided by genre

Tenor Issachah Savage is the featured artist of the second annual Judith L. Smith Voice Recital Series, celebrating talented vocalists and the distinguished tenure of UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Founding Dean Judith Smith. Issachah will join us again on October 31st to hold a masterclass for students of the Department of Music.

Concert by Indian sarod player Ustad Irfan Mohammad Khan.

On Friday, November 17, the Armenian Music Program presented A Celebration of Aram Khachaturian’s 120th Birth Anniversary.  Internationally acclaimed pianists Armine Grigoryan (Director of the Aram Khachaturian Museum in Yerevan) and Sona Barseghyan engaged the audience in a lecture and concert in celebration of Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian’s 120th birth anniversary. The Armenian Music Program

In celebration of the 190th anniversary of Thailand-U.S. diplomatic relations, eighteen master musicians and dancers from the Royal Thai Fine Arts Department will perform khon (masked dance drama) in Schoenberg Hall.

Ersi Arvizu and her band of friends will be featured in a lecture on January 20, 2024, from 3-5pm and a concert from 8-10pm. Ersi Arvisu is well-known as a singer who gained prominence as a member of the band El Chicano and for her contributions to the Chicano rock and Latin rock genres.

Join the Armenian Music Program for a festive concert in celebration of the launch of their 4-CD set Serenade with a Dandelion. The concert will showcase the best of Armenian art music, from hallowed classics to world premieres and feature world-class artists: violinists Varty Manouelian, Andrew McIntosh, Kristapor Najarian and Movses Pogossian, violist Che-Yen Chen,

This event will feature award-winning musician and composer Patrice Rushen in a dialogue with highly acclaimed jazz violinist Regina Carter. The event will culminate in a solo piano performance by Patrice Rushen.

Join us for the Fourth Annual Day of Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture presented by the Armenian Music Program. The Armenian Music Program at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music provides an in-depth exploration of Armenia’s rich musical heritage, with a focus on its classical traditions. A hallmark of the school’s innovative leadership in