Faculty Artist Series - Celebrating Movses Pogossian - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
May 27 Wed
8:00pm
Free
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Faculty Artist Series – Celebrating Movses Pogossian

chamber-music, classical, contemporary
Schoenberg Hall Watch Livestream

We invite you to celebrate Distinguished Professor Movses Pogossian in his final recital at UCLA. Pogossian’s titanic influence—as a recording and touring artist, a soloist and chamber musician, and a dedicated champion of new voices in the musical arts—leaves a rich and enduring legacy.

The program will feature beloved classics alongside world premieres of three works written for the occasion by Andrew McIntosh, Niall Tarō Ferguson, and Gabriela Lena Frank.

Program highlights include:

  • Ferdinand the Bull for violin and narrator by Alan Ridout, performed with Music Education students
  • Armenian classics performed with the VEM String Quartet, Ensemble in Residence of the UCLA Armenian Music Program (founded by Movses Pogossian)
  • Prelude to Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, performed by the Camarades String Ensemble, accompanied by a large-screen original film by Alik Barsoumian
  • The Adagio from Beethoven’s String Quartet, Op. 127, with Varty Manouelian, Che-Yen Chen, and Ben Hong
  • “The Gigue Suite,” a set of dances in the gigue style for unaccompanied violin by J.S. Bach, György Kurtág, and three world premieres

This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows, who established a generous endowment at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music to make programs like this possible. We are proud to celebrate this program as part of the 2025-26 Dobrow Series.

PARKING

Self-service parking is available at UCLA’s Parking Structure #2 for events in Schoenberg Music Building and the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center. Visitor parking is marked by a green circle and the letter “P” and is on the lower levels (do not go up the ramp to levels 3-7). Costs range from $4 for 1 hour to $15 for all day. Evening rates (after 4 p.m.) are $3-$5 for 1 to 2 hours and $10 for all night. Learn more about campus parking.

ACCESSIBILITY

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is eager to provide a variety of accommodations and services for access and communications. If you would like to request accommodations, please do so 10 days in advance of the event by emailing ADA@schoolofmusic.ucla.edu or calling (310) 825-0174.

PHOTOGRAPHY

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music welcomes visitors to take non‐flash, personal‐use photography except where noted. Share your images with us @UCLAalpert / #UCLAalpert on Twitter + Instagram + Facebook

FOOD & DRINK

Food and drink may not be carried into the theaters. Thank you!

Acknowledgment

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.

We would also like to acknowledge the impact on our city and community of the recent wildfires and their aftermath. We believe that art and scholarship can provide comfort in times of great suffering.

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