Events for December 2025 – Page 32 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

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Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for the final uclaFLUX concert of the 2024-2025 academic year. This year’s program will include: John Psathas, Spike Steve Reich, Quartet Ge Gan-ru, Si, for clarinet, violin, and piano Pierre Boulez, Improvisation sur Mallarmé II Louis Andreissen, Workers Union uclaFLUX is devoted to the performance of chamber

Collaborative Piano Spring Class Concert

Dr. James Lent leads his class of pianists in a varied concert featuring works for piano duet, piano duo, piano quartet, violin and piano, voice and piano, piano concertos, and other unique combinations. This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows, who established

Inna Faliks & Friends: Faculty Artist Recital

Celebrating Ravel’s 150th birthday, UCLA professor and head of piano Inna Faliks performs his iconic, fiendishly difficult masterwork Gaspard de la Nuit, written in response to the poetry of the symbolist poet Aloyisius Bertrand. This triptych of Ondine, Le Gibet and Scarbo will be preceded by a performance of Ravel’s sonata for violin and piano

New Orford String Quartet – Masterclass

Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as we welcome the New Orford String Quartet for a masterclass focused on chamber music.   About the New Orford String Quartet: Four musicians with equally stellar pedigrees formed the New Orford String Quartet with the goal of developing a new model for a touring string quartet.

Spring Student Composers’ Concert

The most ambitious concert yet by undergraduate and graduate composers of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Featuring: Lunar Bow, Kaitlin Webster-Zuber Arctic (The Endangered Animal Project), SiHyun Uhm Symphony of the Sun, I; “Totality,” Austin Ali A Divine Presence, Yoni Fogelman The Sun in My Heart, III. The Body A Tree, Madeline Barrett

8th Annual Robert U Nelson Lecture: A Conversation with Michael Abels

The UCLA Robert U. Nelson Lecture Series, hosted by the Center for Musical Humanities, presents A Conversation with Michael Abels. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Abels’ latest original score is for the series STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE on Disney Plus, featuring the original song “The Power Of Two” which Abels co-wrote with Grammy-winners Victoria Monet and

Resonance and Remembrance: The Violin in Holocaust Cinema

This lecture explores the symbolic and emotional role of the violin in Holocaust cinema. Dr. Kathryn Agnes Huether offers deeper insights into the violin’s impact on the narrative and emotional landscape of Holocaust memory, examining its symbolic significance within the broader context of Holocaust representation in film. A reception in the Green Room will follow.

POSTPONED: Symposium on Sound and Hate Studies

This event has been postponed. It will not be taking place on January 17. Please refer back to this page for updates about rescheduling.   This half-day symposium at UCLA will explore the intersection of sound and hate, focusing on how auditory experiences can propagate, resist, and reflect social animosities. Through discussions and lectures, the