Category: Music Performance, Education and Composition

From the Armenian Mirror-Spectator — The UCLA Vem String Quartet, during a spring tour sponsored and planned by the Tekeyan Cultural Association (TCA) and the UCLA Armenian Music Program, gave

Available on Apple Music, Spotify, and Bandcamp, Nick DePinna’s new work “Sentiments of JUSTICE, HUMANITY, COURAGE, and PEACE” takes its name from a 1775 essay printed in the Pennsylvania Journal

The Chancellor’s Council on the Arts featured four members of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s class of 2026 in its magazine celebrating UCLA arts graduates.

From The Armenian Mirror-Spectator: Ani Sinanyan (2022), currently touring internationally as a solo violinist for the Piano Rhapsody concert series, took time from her schedule to perform at a public

From BBC Magazine: Conductor Euan Shields remembers the profound influence of his late teacher, the American cellist Antonio Lysy. I first met Antonio Lysy at my undergraduate cello audition for

Available on Apple Music, Spotify, and Bandcamp, Nick DePinna’s “Orpheus Reignited” is a bold new recording inspired by the statue of Orpheus overlooking Fort McHenry. The piece reimagines Francis Scott

Kay Kyurim Rhie’s compositions are known for their boldness and timbral expressiveness. Her works have been commissioned by leading ensembles, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Rhie, associate professor of composition

Opera UCLA’s Iphigénie en Tauride will be staged on Thursday, May 14 and Saturday, May 16 at 8:00 p.m. at Schoenberg Hall. Fresh off the world premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s

Noah Meites, composer and continuing lecturer in music theory, has just released his new album “Counting” with New Focus Records. This collection of chamber music “chronicles his vibrant artistic voice