UCLA Camarades (“The Music of Friends”) is the title given to the chamber music program that is guided and driven by the String Department. It offers superior coaching to all ensembles incorporating strings, from trios to octets, with a special consideration to the rich string quartet literature. These endeavors of study and instruction are crowned
UCLA Symphony, our remarkable all-campus orchestra, presents its third concert of the 2025-26 season. 108 musicians strong, Symphony is led by graduate conducting majors and features graduate performance-major soloists. It draws its membership from every corner of the campus and plays to packed Hall Schoenberg audiences.
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for an evening of chamber music highlighting members of the woodwind family.
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for an evening honoring legendary Iranian composer Ahmad Pejman.
Composer-Pianist-Arranger-Gramophone magazine reviewer known as much for his wit and eloquence as for his original piano composition, Jed Distler shares an evening of performance, improvisation and conversation
UCLA Early Music Ensemble presents “Susanna’s Tears: Storytelling through Consorts and Lute Songs” The UCLA Early Music Ensemble demonstrates the unique sonorities of various historical instrument families in homogenous consorts of violas da gamba, recorders, historical brass, shawms, crumhorns, and voices accompanied by lutes and harpsichord. Come experience multiple settings of such popular tunes as
Dr. James Lent leads his class of pianists in a varied concert featuring works for piano duet, piano duo, piano quartet, violin and piano, voice and piano, piano concertos, and other unique combinations.
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as we welcome Anthony Marwood for a violin and chamber music masterclass. About Anthony Marwood: Anthony Marwood enjoys a wide-ranging international career as a soloist, director, and chamber musician. Recent solo highlights include performances with the Hallé Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Concerto Budapest,
The Palisades Charter High School Wind Ensemble, conducted by UCLA alumnus Peter Ye, joins the UCLA Wind Ensemble for a Sunday afternoon concert in Schoenberg Hall. The Pali band plays works by Paul Dukes, John Philip Sousa, John Mackey, Peter Mennin, and Bruce Yurko. The UCLA Wind Ensemble opens the second half of the concert
Hormoz Farhat—composer, ethnomusicologist, and educator—was a pioneering figure in the academic field of Iranian music. In 1959, he founded The Music of Persia Performance Group, the first university-based ensemble dedicated to Persian music, and later became the first Iranian scholar to lecture on Iranian music at UCLA. He served as Professor and Head of the Music
