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BRUIN GRAMMY NOMINATIONS! Congratulations to faculty and alums of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music who have been nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.  Music Industry faculty member Erik

Steve Dyer, the South African multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, visited The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music the week of October 27 with his quartet Aaron Rimbui (piano), Jimmy Mngwandi

Forty years after the African music festival Freedom Melody challenged apartheid, an artist brings the songs of resistance and humanity to the stage On Wednesday, October 29, The UCLA Herb

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s 2025–26 season offers something for everyone, with over 200 public concerts, recitals and panel discussions at UCLA and throughout the community. True to

The year 2025-26 academic year kicked off for The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music on Wednesday evening of September 24th with a Fall welcome. Students, faculty and staff met

Founded in 1994, the Music Partnership Program has brought music lessons to young students in the Los Angeles area. The program is supported entirely through generous philanthropy, including from the

By any measure, the 2024-2025 academic year brought extraordinary challenges, among which were two historic fires that forced an evacuation of UCLA in January. Ever resilient, the stalwart students 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

In December 2024, just before the start of Spring Semester, Wade Dean received some bad news. At the time, He was teaching courses in music theory and jazz history at