Category: Music Performance

On November 15, 2025, Casa da Música in Porto hosted the world premiere of Gabriel Prokofiev’s Concerto for Minimoog Synthesizer and Orchestra, a groundbreaking work that bridges electronic and classical traditions. The

The opera, which revolves around a governess who encounters ghosts while acting as a caretaker for two children, experiments with themes of constantly being puppeted, said assistant director Katya Lynch. 

From the Daily Bruin: Based on Henry James’ 1898 novella of the same name, the story follows a governess sent to a remote estate to care for two children whom

What could AI do for an opera? This was a question on James Darrah’s mind as he planned his first full season of Opera UCLA. Darrah, professor of voice and

Have you ever heard the color green? How about tasted Miles Davis’s “Birth of the Cool”?  The phenomenon of experiencing something through unrelated senses is called synesthesia. Jenny Olivia Johnson,

(New York Times) Dean Michael Beckerman is the artistic advisor for the for the Bard Music Festival Martinů and His World. Martinu, a Czech composer who thrived on the artistic and

On July 1, the Solid Gold Sound welcomes a new leader. Justin McManus, most recently the director of athletic bands at the University of Connecticut, will join The UCLA Herb

With vocals and instruments echoing through Royce Hall, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music helped bring to life the June 5 inauguration ceremony for UCLA’s seventh chancellor, Julio Frenk.

On the morning of January 7, 2025, a fire had started in the Santa Monica mountains and Mia Ruhman, a fourth-year music composition major at The UCLA Herb Alpert School