Events for April 2026 – Page 88 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

From Silence: An Evening with UCLA Graduate Composers

This concert features a vivid program of new music by our graduate composers. The program will include works by Austin Ali, Carlos Durán, Robby Good, John Hollywood, Qiren Lu, Morgan Moss, and Sergey Nesterov. Click here to read the full concert program.   This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund.

Textures of Dreams: An Evening with UCLA Undergraduate Composers

This concert features a vibrant program of new music by our undergraduate composers. The program will include works by Yoni Fogelman, Harrison Garff, Celina Kintscher, Jahan Raymond, Mia Ruhman, Sydney Wang, and Jonathan Wu.   This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows,

Woodwind Chamber Music Winter Concert

The Winter Woodwind Chamber Music Concert features over 50 performers in 11 different ensembles performing works by Carl Nielsen, Joseph Haydn, Jeff Scott, Leoš Janáček, Antonín Dvorák, Georg Philipp Telemann, Robert Muczynski, Yvonne Disports, David Maslanka, Alfred Ahl, and Francis Poulenc.   Collaboration is at the heart of The UCLA Woodwind Chamber Music program and students work together to

2023 UCLA Piano Marathon – Piano Transcriptions!

The yearly UCLA Piano Marathon features all the piano students from the piano studios of Inna Faliks and David Kaplan in a themed, evening-long concert. This year’s theme is “Piano Transcription!” – re-purposed for solo and duo piano. This celebration of the glory of the piano ranges from Liszt transcriptions of Schubert to our own

An Evening with R. Carlos Nakai and William Eaton

Join Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai and guitarist/luthier William Eaton for a dual lecture, joint conversation, and musical demo. Areas of discussion will include the negotiative aspects of collective improvisation, the practice of duetting across musical traditions, and the complex relationships between performer and instrument. WILLIAM EATON Eaton designs and builds innovative guitars and

Learning (With) Software: Listening to and Making Contemporary Recordings

This workshop is designed to introduce researchers to the main tools musicians and audio engineers use to make recordings. Expert audio engineer and pedagogue Jasmine Chen (Haim, Syd) will demonstrate and demystify some of the standard DAWs, and work with the audience to explore some of the features, constraints, and technical detail of digital recording. Catherine Provenzano,

Listening Intersectionally to Gentrification in Washington, D.C.

Gentrification is often considered through a visual lens, where development, progress, and neighborhood change are seen. But what does gentrification sound like? In this talk, Allie Martin outlines a framework of “intersectional listening” in order to explore what gentrification sounds like in Washington, DC, specifically how Black people throughout the city are experiencing gentrification as a sonic, racialized process.