This special evening features two of LA’s leading new music performance groups, Bridge to Everywhere and Salastina, and UCLA ethnomusicologist Katherine Lee, a featured speaker who explores how analyses of sound and music can offer reappraisals of past events and contemporary cultural phenomena.
To celebrate the different forms that love can take, Compose LA presents an evening concert featuring a program of work by LA’s most exciting composers in Love Notes, featuring Kaleidoscope, a conductor-less orchestra, and UCLA musicologist Shana Redmond as speaker.
UCLA student big bands directed by world-class jazz artists will be performing well-known jazz standards as well as compositions by the faculty directors and the students.
UCLA student jazz combos perform standards and original works, with special guests the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble at UCLA.
Using Yamaha Disklavier Remote Lesson Technology over the internet, Professor and head of piano Inna Faliks will be teaching in real time from UCLA’s Recording Studio in the Ostin Music Center to a student at a school in China.
Musicologist Hedy Law, an authority on the musical cultures of 18th century France, will discuss her work on music and pantomime in French music of the period at this lecture presented by the Department of Musicology.
The Department of Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series welcomes Harvard University musicologist Kate Van Orden. A distinguished scholar of music in Early Modern Europe, Van Orden will speak about aspects of globalism and migration as seen in the music of early 16th century Italy.
Roberto Prosseda, one of the most exciting and innovative pianists in the world today, presents a mini-recital of music by Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn. Following the recital, the renowned Italian pianist will teach three of UCLA’s piano students in a masterclass.
Armenia’s foremost living composer’s 80th anniversary is celebrated by a day-long Symposium. Featured speakers include composer/pianist Artur Avanesov (Armenia), Artistic Administrator of Seattle Symphony Elena Dubinets, Director of Lark Musical Society Vatsche Barsoumian and Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies at UCLA, Prof. Peter Cowe.
Armenia’s foremost living composer’s 80th anniversary is celebrated during a gala concert featuring several of Mansurian’s masterworks, along with the works of his close friends Arvo Part, Alfred Schnittke, and Valentin Silvestrov.
