Category: Composition Alumni
UCLA Alums Jake Heggie and Angel Blue win Musical America Worldwide Awards
Jake Heggie (BM 1984, MA 2005) was named Composer of the Year and Angel Blue (MM 2008) was named Vocalist of the Year by the coveted Musical America Worldwide Awards.…
Jake Heggie, Composer and Alum, to Give 2024 Commencement Address
By Robert Baker By any measure, 2023 was good to Jake Heggie. He had several high-profile world premieres, including his new opera Intelligence with the Houston Grand Opera and his…
Graduate Commencement Speaker Robby Good, Composer and Collaborator
Robby Good was an undergraduate at UCLA when a friend of his pitched him an idea for a musical: Imagine a future where the Disney Corporation thawed the frozen head…
Composition Alumnus Stephen Spies wins Emmy
The 2nd Annual Children & Family Creative Arts Emmy Awards for 2023 were announced on December 16 and broadcast over two days. One of the biggest winners was Netflix’s live-action…
Diār Caps a Week of Events about the Music of Iran
On Sunday, May 21, a capacity crowd at Schoenberg Hall heard Diār, a concert of Iranian music curated by new postdoctoral scholar Shahab Paranj. Diār featured traditional Persian music as…
Composition Alumnus to Score ‘Lady and the Tramp’
Joseph Trapanese M.A. '08, known for composing the scores for such films as "The Greatest Showman" and the landmark rap biopic "Straight Outta Compton," will write the score for the live-action adaptation of "Lady and the Tramp."
New Scholarship Honors Composer James Horner
Gift Celebrates Life of UCLA Alumnus and Supports Music Composition Students
Broadway World - Inna Faliks Performs World Premiere by Richard Danielpour at The Wallis
READ: The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents UCLA pianist Inna Faliks performing a world premiere by UCLA composer Richard Danielpour and works by Rodion Shchedrin, Schumann and Chopin in her Wallis debut on Sunday, May 12, 2019.
Artforum – PASSAGES - Dennis Johnson (1938-2018)
READ: Remembering Minimalist Composer and UCLA Alumnus, Dennis Johnson. "I WAS WALKING DOWN THE HALL on the second floor of the music building at UCLA when I heard someone playing the Webern Variations for Piano. I was surprised that anyone in the UCLA music department knew who Webern was, so I opened the door and there was this young man sitting at the piano. He turned out to be Dennis Johnson." – La Monte Young