Author: Robert Baker

Opera UCLA to premiere this new opera May 17, 19, 21 & 23 at the Freud Playhouse at UCLA Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour found the inspiration he needed for his new opera in Las Vegas. It was mid-February of 2020 and he had been invited to give a series of lectures and masterclasses at

What are you getting your mother for Mother’s Day? A card, chocolates, flowers, perhaps a bottle of champagne? Well, what about endowing a scholarship in her name? This year, two alumnae of UCLA’s school of music had scholarships endowed in their names by their sons. Dana Gordon established the Diane K. Gordon Memorial Undergraduate and

UCLA music composition student and pianist Sydney Wang boarded a plane bound for Indiana this past March. The destination: Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. The objective: record a 40-minute long album of Leonard Bernstein’s music on the composer’s own piano. Executive produced by Wang’s longtime collaborator Henry Thuss, an audio engineering student at Indiana

When Musicology professor Thomas Hodgson isn’t founding new peer-reviewed journals devoted to exploring music and data (yes, that’s right), he’s recording with his band Stornoway. And they have just released a new single. Stream the single now. We are delighted to be able to release an absolutely stunning new arrangement of our most recent single

Endowed funds help support students at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and across the university. Read their stories and learn more about supporting funds that directly support our students.

Ray Knapp, distinguished professor of musicology and humanities, has won the UCLA Faculty Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award for 2023-24. Knapp is one of six faculty selected by the award committee from a large field of extraordinary nominees across the university. “Ray Knapp’s thirty-five year record of teaching excellence has been a defining constant in our

Musicology major Ashley Dao is one of three undergraduates who has won the student leadership award from the UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. She is the first student from The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music to receive the award. But her biggest moment may have been born of failure. “We were coming

A new wave of talent is here, and they want you to hear them.  “Pass the Aux” is the second-annual live presentation of capstone projects by students in the music industry program at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. A line-up of twenty-five students will perform, speak, showcase short films and make multimedia presentations

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s mariachi ensemble has been operating for over sixty years, and is the first ensemble of its kind in an American university. CNN En Español profiled our iconic Mariachi group, which has been making music for over sixty years at America’s number one public university.