Events for April 2026 – Page 74 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Harvey Sachs – Schoenberg: Why He Matters

Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as we kick off the celebration of Arnold Schoenberg’s Sesquicentennial Celebration with a talk by renowned scholar Harvey Sachs on his new book Schoenberg: Why He Matters.   About Harvey: Harvey Sachs was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received much of his musical training in his home

Discovering Your Why, Recital and Lecture with Saxophonist Nathan Mertens

Join Dr. Jan Berry Baker and her studio as they welcome saxophonist Nathan Mertens to the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Mertens will spend the afternoon working with UCLA saxophone students before presenting an evening lecture-recital in the Ostin Ensemble Room on “Mission Statements: Creating Your Artistic Why.”   About Nathan: US-based saxophonist, Nathan Mertens

Disklavier Remote Piano Masterclasses with Zheijiang Conservatory in China

Join Professor Inna Faliks as she leads a masterclass with students from the Zheijiang Conservatory in China, linked together remotely through the Yamaha Disklavier Remote Lesson technology housed in the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center’s Recording Studio. About the Technology More than 30 years of continuous innovation has created an acoustic piano that can faithfully reproduce

Disklavier Remote Piano Masterclasses with Zheijiang Conservatory in China

Join Professor Inna Faliks as she leads a masterclass with students from the Zheijiang Conservatory in China, linked together remotely through the Yamaha Disklavier Remote Lesson technology housed in the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center’s Recording Studio. About the Technology More than 30 years of continuous innovation has created an acoustic piano that can faithfully reproduce

Pathways in Early Music Conference: From HIP to HIP (Historically Inclusive Performance), Day 2

The Early Music Revival of the mid-twentieth century invigorated scholars, instrument makers, and performers in the search for sounds of a past implicitly understood to be white and European. With roots in lively cultures of musical amateurism in England and the Netherlands, “Historically Informed Performance” (or HIP) brought professionals and the self-taught together in a

Vocal Vision Awards

Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for the 2024 installment of the Vocal Vision Awards Competition!   Designed to reward excellence for singing in English, this competition features both graduate and undergraduate Vocal Performance majors, in a thrilling and varied program of opera, art song, and Broadway hits. The Vocal Vision Awards were

Pathways in Early Music Conference: From HIP to HIP (Historically Inclusive Performance), Day 1

The Early Music Revival of the mid-twentieth century invigorated scholars, instrument makers, and performers in the search for sounds of a past implicitly understood to be white and European. With roots in lively cultures of musical amateurism in England and the Netherlands, “Historically Informed Performance” (or HIP) brought professionals and the self-taught together in a

Collaborative Composing: Sharing Authorship with People and AI

Composer and inventor Tod Machover, faculty at the MIT Media Lab in Boston will discuss his large-scale opera/tech collaborations, MIT’s City Symphony projects, the implications of AI for creativity and ownership, as well as the possibilities for user-personalized music for health/wellbeing contexts.   Called “America’s most wired composer” by The Los Angeles Times and a “musical