Events for December 2025 – Page 5 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

UCLA Fall Jazz 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. Tonight’s concert will feature the following groups: Gluck Combo, directed by Duane Benjamin Commercial Studio Music Ensemble, directed by Duane Benjamin Jazz Combo,

UCLA Fall Jazz 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. Tonight’s concert will feature the following groups: Jazz Combo, directed by Charley Harrison Jazz Combo, directed by Regina Carter UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed

UCLA Fall Jazz 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. Tonight’s concert will feature the following groups: Charles Mingus Ensemble, directed by Hitomi Oba Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, directed by Hitomi Oba

Loy Krathong Festival

Experience Thai traditional music and dance with us. Take part in a variety of engaging activities and games for a chance to win exclusive prizes! At the Inverted Fountain, UCLA Location has changed to Ostin Recording Studio Evelyn & Mo Ostin Music Center, Room #150 (Across from the Evelyn & Mo Ostin Music Café) FLYER

From Field To Clinic: Notes From One Ethnomusicologist’s Journey

Lecture by Kathleen Van Buren, PhD Director for Humanities in Medicine at Mayo Clinic Abstract: In this presentation, I will share perspectives on my journey as an applied and medical ethnomusicologist across academic and public sector spaces. The talk is structured as a series of notes and perspectives on: my personal journey to date, the

Music of China, Fall Concert

The UCLA Chinese Music Ensemble, directed by Chi Li, performs its annual Fall concert featuring traditional and contemporary music, including Chinese opera aria, zheng unison, qin unison, folk dance, and silk-and-bamboo music. PROGRAM – COLOR PROGRAM – BLACK & WHITE

Fall Undergraduate Composers’ Concert

Join us for a night of new music composed by UCLA undergraduate composition students. Among one of the most competitive schools for composition in the country, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music boasts performances of music written by ferociously talented and exceptionally gifted young composers. Please come support their endeavors as we kick off

Lullabies Around the Jewish World

Join Cantor Elizabeth Shammash and pianist David Sparr as they take us on a journey around the Jewish world in the form of lullabies and bedtime songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino. The program includes well-known favorites such as “Rozhinkes mit Mandlen” and “Numi Numi” and takes us into new territory as well. Come to

Assaf Shelleg: about Jews; New Affordances in Contemporary Music

New music written by or about Jews no longer abides by exoticisms, national paraphernalia, or the prestige of “art music.” Instead, growing disillusioned with (or disinterested in) ideological apparatuses and tropes of Otherness, composers navigate through signs associated with Judaism while introducing new ethnographies in the form of fieldwork recordings, simulations of their oral behavioral