Join the Practice-based Experimental Epistemology Research Lab for a two-day symposium, organized by The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s PEER Lab & Durham University Music Department on April 29-30, 2022. This event aims to spark conversation on how metaphorical language shapes our understanding of not only music and sound but one another and the world.
Join the Practice-based Experimental Epistemology Research Lab for a two-day symposium, organized by The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s PEER Lab & Durham University Music Department on April 29-30, 2022. This event aims to spark conversation on how metaphorical language shapes our understanding of not only music and sound but one another and the world.
The esteemed faculty of the UCLA Composition area showcase their latest original compositions, including works by faculty Peter Golub, Kay Rhie, Ian Krouse, and Richard Danielpour, with performances by notable guest artists and student musicians from the department of music.
Join us as undergraduate composition students showcase their latest works at the UCLA Spring Undergraduate Composers Concert.
Makoto Harris Takao etches out a broad narrative of the developing musical practices and identities of Japanese Christian (kirishitan) communities that began to take shape in the early decades of their formation. It also speaks to the broader need for intercultural methodologies that facilitate a more nuanced understanding of “Western” music as produced, interpreted, and reformed by entanglements of the early modern world.
The graduate-level students of the UCLA Department of Music Composition Area showcase their latest works. Join us for a variety of creative, unique, and emotive pieces.
UCLA’s woodwind chamber ensembles perform a concert of varying works, from Renaissance music to recent pieces from the 21st Century.
Featuring classic repertoire to cutting-edge new music, the UCLA Percussion Ensemble presents an array of sound and rhythm across the boundaries of genre and discipline, under the direction of percussion Area Head Theresa Dimond.
Lauded as having “consummate virtuosity” by The New York Times, percussionist Dr. Stuart Gerber presents a masterclass on the art of performing multiple percussion parts and solos for new works, coaching UCLA percussion students on solo and chamber works for percussion.
Songs of Little Saigon is a feature documentary film about Vietnamese Americans whose musical talent, hope and resilience propelled the rebuilding of their lives in Southern California after fleeing a war-torn Vietnam.
