Inna Faliks and select UCLA grad piano students participate in a masterclass exchange with students and faculty from Seoul Natl University using Yamaha Disklavier technology.
To kick off the Still Waiting speaker series, the School of Music is proud to welcome prominent and provocative democratic intellectual, Cornel West in conversation with Arturo O’Farrill, Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
Join Sarah Bunin Benor, Co-Author of “Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps” (2020), and sociologist Dan Lainer-Vos as they discuss the role of music in how camps infuse Hebrew in Jewish summer camps.
Join us as we celebrate the 97th birthday of the National Heritage Fellowship Award-winning, legendary Ladino singer and songwriter, Flory Jagoda. Together we’ll enjoy a 45 minute concert packed with lovely Ladino songs and stories from La Nona (Ladino for “The Grandmother” and one of Flory’s official titles) from her 2012 appearance at the Richmond Folk Festival, accompanied
Sit back and enjoy a holiday concert with the UCLA Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, led by grammy-winning maestro Arturo O’Farrill!
UCLA FLUX contemporary music ensemble presents student performances prepared over the quarter.
Join Daniel Kahn, the Detroit-born, Berlin-based troubadour, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and inaugural recipient of the Theodore Bikel Artist-in-Residence by the Ashkenaz Foundation, as he engages with attendees and shares the inspirations behind his compositions.
Contextualizing the persecution and exoticization of Roma, this talk by a Romani activist/scholar and a non-Romani ally explores the possibilities and limits of musical activism, tracing the impetuses and challenges it poses.
Gerard Edery is one of the world’s foremost experts in the wide-ranging music of the Sephardic Diaspora. Learn about Edery’s work as he engages with attendees and explores the inspirations behind his compositions.
The music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran has been praised as “gloriously human”; “compelling not only for its white-hot emotional content but for its intelligence and compositional clarity.” Learn about Ran’s work as she engages with attendees and explores the inspirations behind her compositions.
