Events for October 2026 – Page 4 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Winter Jazzfest, Concert 1

UCLA student combos and ensembles directed by world-class jazz artists will be performing well-known jazz standards, contemporary works, and pop songs, as well as compositions by the faculty directors and the students.

Fall Jazzfest, Concert 2

UCLA student combos and ensembles directed by world-class jazz artists will be performing well-known jazz standards, contemporary works, and pop songs, as well as compositions by the faculty directors and the students.

Spring Jazzfest, Concert 1

UCLA student combos and ensembles directed by world-class jazz artists will be performing well-known jazz standards, contemporary works, and pop songs, as well as compositions by the faculty directors and the students.

Winter Jazzfest, Concert 3

UCLA student combos and ensembles directed by world-class jazz artists will be performing well-known jazz standards, contemporary works, and pop songs, as well as compositions by the faculty directors and the students.

Fall Jazzfest, Concert 3

UCLA student combos and ensembles directed by world-class jazz artists will be performing well-known jazz standards, contemporary works, and pop songs, as well as compositions by the faculty directors and the students.

Fall Jazzfest, Concert 1

UCLA student combos and ensembles directed by world-class jazz artists will be performing well-known jazz standards, contemporary works, and pop songs, as well as compositions by the faculty directors and the students.

Spring Jazzfest, Concert 3

UCLA student combos and ensembles directed by world-class jazz artists will be performing well-known jazz standards, contemporary works, and pop songs, as well as compositions by the faculty directors and the students.

Screening: The Gathering: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz

The Gathering: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz chronicles a multi-generational music project started in 2005 by Jesse Sharps, one of the great composers to come out of the progressive improvised music scene of Los Angeles and an early bandleader of Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. It focuses on the Leimert Park district …

Gender Amplified at 20: Two Decades of Amplifying Change | DAY 2

A two-day convening celebrating 20 years of Gender Amplified’s work advancing women and gender-expansive persons in music production, audio engineering, and emerging music technologies. The event will bring together students, artists, educators, producers, technologists, and industry leaders through performances, workshops, panels, demonstrations, and community engagement opportunities.

Jonathan Hepfer, Percussionist: “Sisyphus as Artist”

Join us for the second of six workshops as part of the Modal Interchange: Conversations on 21st-Century Performance Practices series with Jonathan Hepfer, percussionist and artistic director of Monday Evening Concerts, who will join Wendy Richman (Academic Lecturer and Director of uclaFLUX at UCLA) in a conversation about how to develop as a working artist. …