Join UCLA alumna Vanessa Vasquez for a discussion and Q&A hosted by Peter Kazaras, Director of Opera UCLA, before her live-stream performance in Seattle Opera’s Songs of Summer recital series.
Acclaimed slam poet Saul Williams joins musicologist Shana L. Redmond in conversation, exploring the cultural resonance of Paul Robeson, arts legacies and the political urgency of the present.
Internationally renowned bass-baritone Bryn Terfel joins students in the Voice & Opera area of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in a discussion and Q&A.
The Spring 2020 Collaborative Piano Class shares highlights of its virtual collaborations for the Spring Quarter
Audiovisual archives around the world are adapting to new realities while working to acquire, describe, preserve, and make accessible fragile and historic recordings.
The Music of China Ensemble, directed by Chi Li, performs a Zoom concert featuring traditional and contemporary music, including Chinese opera aria, folk song, folk dance, Zheng music, Qin music, Yangqin solo, Dizi solo, Liuqin solo, Quintet, and silk-and-bamboo music.
Join Metropolitan Opera soprano and UCLA alumna Angel Blue for a discussion and Q&A hosted by Peter Kazaras, Director of Opera UCLA, before Angel’s performance in Seattle Opera’s first recital of the Songs of Summer series.
Composer Bruce Adolphe — known to millions of Americans from his public radio show Piano Puzzlers, which has been broadcast weekly on Performance Today since 2002 — has created a substantial body of chamber music and orchestral works inspired by science, visual arts, and human rights. Mr. Adolphe is also the resident lecturer and director of family concerts for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller is a nationally known composer whose most recent synagogue compositions were published in the collection, “Azamrah, Songs of Benjie Ellen Schiller” in 2019 by Transcontinental Music.
Galeet Dardashti, a vocalist and scholar, is the first woman to continue her family’s tradition of distinguished Persian-Jewish musicianship. She has earned a reputation as one of the most innovative performers of Jewish music today.
