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.
FLUX
Contemporary Music
Ensemble

uclaFLUX
Course Information:
Music C175/485
Director: Gloria Cheng
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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Upcoming (and Related) Performances
EXPLORE ALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC EVENTS
Nov 15 Sun
2:00pm
Free
Free
chamber-music, classical, contemporary
Fall Saxophone Studio Recital It’s a saxophone Tour de France! From early works by Elsa Barraine, Fernande Decruck and Darius Milhaud to Roger Boutry’s mid-century Divertimento to Vincent David’s exploration of contemporary techniques and …
Ensemble Room: Ostin Music Center Learn More
Nov 16 Mon
3:00pm
Free
Free
chamber-music, contemporary, lectures-symposia
Jonathan Hepfer, Percussionist: "Sisyphus as Artist" Join us for the second of six workshops as part of the Modal Interchange: Conversations on 21st-Century Performance Practices series with Jonathan Hepfer, percussionist and artistic director of Monday Evening …
Room 1344 Learn More
Nov 16 Mon
7:30pm
Free
Free
chamber-music, classical, contemporary
Fall Graduate Composers Concert Join us for a night of new music composed by UCLA Graduate composition students! Among one of the most competitive schools for composition in the country, Herb Alpert School …
Schoenberg Hall Learn More
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From the Daily Bruin: music theory faculty reprised their pandemic-era concert with the 2026 follow-up “Theoreticals Return.” Faculty performed new music from Dante De Silva, Nick DePinna, David Lefkowitz, Dwane …
Nick DePinna's Orpheus Reignited Receives its World Premiere
Orpheus Reignited will be performed Wednesday, November 11, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. at Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA.
Regina Carter Speaks Up and Stages a Comeback
From Strings Magazine: Jazz violinist Regina Carter on overcoming an injury and fighting the stigma of performer injuries.