Events for December 2025 – Page 25 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Bokani Dyer – A Glimpse into the World of South African Jazz

Bokani Dyer pays a visit to UCLA and the Global Jazz Studies Department to present a workshop and connect with young musicians. The event will be a multi-media presentation looking into a distinct dialect of the jazz language to familiarise audiences with the rich tradition of the music, its leading figures, the social contexts and

The Brass Band of the King: Armenians in Ethiopia

The co-organizers, UCLA HASOM Armenian Music Program and Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History, present The Brass Band of the King: Armenians in Ethiopia, a lecture by Dr. Boris Adjemian. This is a part of an event series co-sponsored by the Promise Armenian Institute. To attend this lecture virtually on March 6 at

UCLA Gluck Musicians Year End Showcase Concert

The Gluck End of Year Showcase Concert features performances from many different UCLA Gluck Ensembles for an audience of K-12 students from partner schools throughout the Los Angeles area.   Since 1996, the UCLA Gluck Fellows Music Program has been the beneficiary of a generous grant from the Max H. Gluck Foundation, which enables our

Music of China Winter Concert

The UCLA Chinese Music Ensemble, directed by Chi Li, performs its annual Winter concert featuring traditional and contemporary music, including Chinese opera aria, zheng unison, qin unison, folk dance, and silk-and-bamboo music. PROGRAM Introduction to Chinese Instruments used in this performance: Dizi: a transverse bamboo flute equipped with six finger holes, a mouth hole, and

The Selma Moidel Smith Recital Featuring Davide Di Rienzo

The Selma Moidel Smith Recital series celebrates and honors former UCLA music student Selma Moidel Smith. This year’s recital features Davide Di Rienzo, an exceptional piano doctoral student in the School of Music who will perform works by Selma Moidel Smith, Franz Liszt, and Kaitlin Webster-Zuber.   Learn more about Selma Moidel Smith on her

Opera UCLA – Cabaret 2025 (Afternoon Performance)

An original and devised cabaret evening from the artists of Opera UCLA that showcases the vocal students in a genre bending devised performance that blends the music of Kurt Weill with the texts of Bertolt Brecht and others. Showtimes are 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.   Opera UCLA is designed to provide students in the Voice