Events for April 2026 – Page 38 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

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

UCLA Philharmonia at Disney Hall

As part of its Spring 2025 Mahler Grooves Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has invited several Southern California training orchestras to perform Mahler on the Disney Hall stage throughout the day and evening of Sunday, March 2.  At 5 PM that day, UCLA Philharmonia will perform Mahler’s monumental Sixth Symphony (“Tragic”), conducted by UCLA Director of

Winter Saxophone Studio Recital

Join the UCLA Saxophone Studio for an evening of chamber music featuring undergraduate and graduate students in the studio of Jan Berry Baker. Works by Kristin Kuster, Robert Muczynski, Astor Piazzolla, Stacy Garrop, Edison Denisov, Catherine McMichael, Alfred Desenclos, and Rebecca Clarke. This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical

Faculty Artist Series: Schubertiade

Nine members of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music faculty join together for a celebratory program of chamber music, inspired by the tradition of Schubertiade, in which friends gather to share music and joy. Curated by piano faculty David Kaplan, the program features the “Trout Quintet” by Schubert, as well as by music for