FLUX Contemporary Music Ensemble - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

FLUX

Contemporary Music

Ensemble

UCLAFLUX

uclaFLUX

Course Information:
Music C175/485

Director: Gloria Cheng

uclaFLUX is devoted to the performance of chamber music from the 20th and 21st centuries. We explore and embrace new performance approaches and techniques associated with the dynamic, ever-evolving languages of contemporary music. In preparing to perform and produce quarterly concerts, students learn innovative modes of expression, interact directly with composers, and develop skills in concert promotion, production, and entrepreneurship. Repertoire is chosen according to enrollment, though pre-formed groupings are welcomed. Interested students must be in attendance on Day One, when instrumentalists, singers, and conductors are invited to audition.

Meet the Director

Lecturer - Performance Studies, Academic Lecturer and Director of uclaFLUX
Wendy Richman
Violist Wendy Richman is celebrated for her compelling sound and “absorbing,” “fresh and idiomatic” interpretations with “a brawny vitality” (The New York Times, The Washington Post). As soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player, she has performed at major venues across the …
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Oct 28 Wed
8:00pm
Free
chamber-music, contemporary
Faculty Artist Series: The Theoreticals Return
Bold new music from the UCLA theory faculty kicks off our Faculty Artist Series this year. From soulful violin to electronic samples, from classical quintet to improvised duos, this concert …
Schoenberg Hall Learn More
Oct 30 Fri
8:00pm
Free
classical, contemporary
UCLA Wind Ensemble - American Anthems
As the United States celebrates its semiquincentennial, the UCLA Wind Ensemble opens its season with a program exploring America’s triumphs and tragedies. The concert opens with Robert Jager’s festive Esprit …
Schoenberg Hall Learn More
Nov 1 Sun
4:00pm
Free
chamber-music, contemporary
Steve Reich @ 90: A Concert Celebrating the Visionary American Jewish Composer
Please join the Milken Center for a 90th birthday celebration featuring the music of Steve Reich, one of the leading composers of our time, and a paradigmatic musician of American …
Schoenberg Hall Learn More
Inna Faliks’s New Album a Top Classical Pick
From Cultural Attaché: Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 arranged for four hands is critic Craig Byrd’s top pick this week. Byrd writes that Faliks manages “to do the impossible: provide all …
Jens Lindemann Opens Fresno Philharmonic's Season
The Munro Review: Trumpet professor Jens Lindemann performed Wynton Marsalis’s Trumpet Concerto with the Fresno Philharmonic. It is the concerto that the Grammy-nominated Lindemann has been waiting for his whole …
Lily Chen-Hafteck Receives UCLA Global Education Award
Professor Lily Chen-Hafteck won a Global Education Award to develop a master’s in global music education.