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: Charley Harrison Combo Salim Washington Combo UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed by Charley Harrison
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 Roberto Miranda Jazz Combo directed by Clayton Cameron Charles Mingus Ensemble directed
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 Michele Weir Jazz Combo directed by Charley Harrison Jazz Combo directed by
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.
Jazz saxophone great David Murray will be featured in a solo concert.
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and Ciro Zoppo Award recipient Jakub Rompczyk for an evening featuring the music of the Hollywood composer-duo Walter Jurmann and Bronislaw Kaper. This event is made possible thanks to Rosemary, Adriana and Gian Zoppo. The Ciro Zoppo Graduate Student Award provides students the opportunity to
The UCLA Robert U. Nelson Lecture Series, hosted by the Center for Musical Humanities, presents Angélica Negrón as part of the Reconsidering Music, Technology, and Gender symposium. Angélica Negrón is a Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist. She writes music for voices, orchestras, and film as well as robots, toys, and plants. Angélica is known for playing with the
The ways sounding technologies contribute to the articulation of musical lives and social selves has been a growing area of scholarly interest over the past several decades. Considerations of music technologies’ and tools’ material affordances, attendant social practices, cultural codings, and political ecologies have been taken up by scholars in musicology, gender studies, media studies,
Internationally acclaimed composer and harpist Anne LeBaron marks her illustrious tenure at CalArts with a retrospective concert at UCLA’s Lani Hall, on Wednesday, February 7, at 7 PM. The program, encapsulating four decades of pioneering music, will be followed by an enlightening talkback and reception. The evening unfolds around LeBaron’s lifelong passions, weaving a tapestry
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Salimishah Tillet will discuss the inner life and far-reaching influence of musician and civil rights icon, Nina Simone. Reception to follow. Salamishah Tillet is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Africana Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University, Newark, and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing critic-at-large at the New York Times. She
