Events for July 2026 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Opera | Black | Queer — Day 3

A Symposium at UCLA October 1-3, 2026 This three-day symposium welcomes scholars, practitioners, and students to join the international Black Opera Research Network (BORN) for papers, a workshop, a performance, and the North American premiere of an opera film. Highlights include a performance by composer Yvette Janine Jackson and her Radio Opera Workshop ensemble; a

Opera | Black | Queer — Day 2

A Symposium at UCLA October 1-3, 2026 This three-day symposium welcomes scholars, practitioners, and students to join the international Black Opera Research Network (BORN) for papers, a workshop, a performance, and the North American premiere of an opera film. Highlights include a performance by composer Yvette Janine Jackson and her Radio Opera Workshop ensemble; a

Opera | Black | Queer — Day 1

A Symposium at UCLA October 1-3, 2026 This three-day symposium welcomes scholars, practitioners, and students to join the international Black Opera Research Network (BORN) for papers, a workshop, a performance, and the North American premiere of an opera film. Highlights include a performance by composer Yvette Janine Jackson and her Radio Opera Workshop ensemble; a

2026 Commencement

We are proud to present the class of 2026. For all the information about commencement, follow the link to the commencement landing page.

Piano Works of Koharik Gazarossian

Join us for the Feminist Armenian Research Collective’s (FemARC) Third Workshop, New Directions in Music, Arts, and Performance Studies, which will be held at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s Schoenberg Music Building on May 26–27, 2026. See the workshop webpage and details here! On May 26th, panels will run all day in the Green

CANCELLED: Multimodal Racialization in Transborder Oaxacan Philharmonic Bands: Hand Gesture, Multilingual Speech, and Sonic Codes as Communicative Infrastructure

This event has been cancelled. Abstract: This paper examines the multimodal communicative ecology of transnational Oaxacan philharmonic bands: the integrated system of hand gesture, multilingual speech, and instrumental signaling that enables ensembles of 20-35 musicians to coordinate performances without a conductor. Drawing on ethnographic research since 2014 with musicians and educators across California and Oaxaca,