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
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.
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
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
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.
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 event will present unique perspectives on various forms of hate from the lens of sound studies, drawing on diverse fields to examine a wide range
Join us for a one-day symposium event that celebrates the music of Undine Smith Moore and the choral tradition from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Widely considered the “Dean of Black Women Composers,” Undine Smith Moore was a Professor at Virginia State University, one of the first public HBCUs, where she taught piano and theory,
Join us for an evening of Hindustani classical music featuring Sumeet Anand in concert. Sumeet belongs to the Darbhanga Dhrupad vocalist tradition, a centuries-old family of musicians from North Bihar in India. Dhrupad is the oldest surviving genre of Hindustani classical music. Some trace its origin to the tradition of Chhanda-prabandha, and it is believed
UCLA Philharmonia’s final concert of the season features Ravel’s evocative Rhapsodie Espagnole, Shostakovich’s spiky Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring Ryan Jia, the Atwater Kent Competition Winner soloist. The program will also feature Arnold Schoenberg’s opulent orchestration of Brahms’ Quartet for Piano and Strings in G minor, Op. 25. This event is made possible by the
The UCLA Wind Ensemble is joined by the Mira Mesa High School Wind Ensemble from San Diego, conducted by Jeanne Christensen. Mira Mesa has the largest band program in the San Diego Unified School District, and notable recent performances include a 2024 tour to Washington, D.C., and the 2022 Tournament of Roses Parade. The UCLA
