Events for April 2026 – Page 81 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Panel on Recovering Los Angeles’ Hidden Music Histories: Electronic Dance Music, Space & Place

The panel will address how they came to EDM, create safer spaces for their communities, negotiate the line between visibility and surveillance of queer and people of color, and how club spaces foster creative communities. The intention of the panel is to raise awareness about the aesthetic contributions of Los Angeles’s queer and communities of color to EDM, archiving marginalized communities, and the praxis of carving out space in hostile terrains.

Tributes, UCLA Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band Spring Concert

For their final concert of the academic year, the UCLA Symphonic Band and UCLA Wind Ensemble present a concert of all-American music, celebrating connections between composers and recognizing two leaders in the field as they retire from professorial positions. The UCLA Symphonic Band opens with Michael Markowski’s Shadow Rituals, winner of the first Frank Ticheli Composition Contest

MUSE, 4th Annual Conference

MUSE, an undergraduate research journal for music studies at UCLA, invites you to its fourth annual conference! The four authors published in our Spring 2023 general issue will present their work, followed by a Q&A. This event is free and open to the public. Panelists: Lauren Park (Swarthmore College), “White Heather Club: A Twentieth-Century Taste

New Beginnings: An Evening with UCLA Graduate Composers

This concert is an exciting collection of new music by our graduate composers, featuring works by Austin Ali, Andreas Apostolou, Madeline Barrett, Carlos Durán, Robby Good, Morgan Moss, Sergey Nesterov, and Pedro Osuna.     This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows,

Music Alive in the Archive: An Exploration of Kulintang Music in the Danongan Kalanduyan Collection at UCLA

Join the UCLA academic community and Filipinx American performing artists at a symposium to celebrate the launch of the UCLA Danongan Kalanduyan Collection, which brings the rich living heritage of indigenous Philippine music to California. This collection honors Danongan Kalanduyan (1947-2016), kulintang master musician and NEA National Heritage Fellow, who taught and performed with virtually

Armenian Music Program Presents Artur Avanesov, in Concert

Under the auspices of the 3rd Annual Day of Armenian Music at UCLA, the Armenian Music Program hosts internationally acclaimed pianist and composer Artur Avanesov (Armenia). He will be joined by Varty Manouelian, Movses Pogossian, and the VEM Ensemble for an afternoon concert that features works by Avanesov, Khosrovidukht, Gazarossian, Toumajan, Mirzoyan, and 2023 Mansurian Composition