Events for August 2026 – Page 16 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Music Alive in the Archive: Celebrating the Music and Legacy of Hua Wenyi

Join us for an evening celebrating the legacy, acquisition, and digitization of the Hua Wenyi Collection at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. Hua Wenyi (1941–2022) was one of the most influential Kunqu opera performers of her generation. Born and trained in Shanghai, she rose to prominence as a leading dan (refined female-role) performer and later served

uclaFLUX Spring Concert

Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for the final uclaFLUX concert of the 2025-2026 academic year. uclaFLUX is devoted to the performance of chamber music from the 20th and 21st centuries. We explore and embrace new performance approaches and techniques associated with the dynamic, ever-evolving languages of contemporary music. In preparing to perform

UCLA Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band

The UCLA Symphonic Band, comprising talented students from across the university, performs works by UCLA alumnus and lecturer Dwayne S. Milburn, John Mackey, and Julius Fučík, closing the first half of the concert with a suite from Joe Hisaishi’s acclaimed score to the Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli classic animated film My Neighbor Totoro.   The UCLA

Camarades

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 Spring 2026 Concert

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.