Join filmmaker Varda Bar-Kar and Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra founder Arturo O’Farrill for a screening of the documentary Fandango at the Wall. The documentary, which aired on HBO in 2022, follows multi-Grammy Award winners Arturo O’Farrill and Kabir Sehgal, as they prepare to record a live album at the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The project is inspired by the annual Fandango Fronterizo Festival, which
Fred Frith—multi-instrumentalist, composer, and pioneer of the extended electric guitar—has been active for many years in the fertile margins of new music. Deeply involved in the art and craft of improvisation since the late 1960s, he has also maintained a strong connection with his roots in rock and folk music, through bands like Henry Cow,
As the culmination of their Fall 2022 residency, Aperture Duo presents two evenings of new sounds for violin and viola. Featuring thirteen world premieres by UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music students and faculty.
Lecture by Dr. Sonia Tamar Seeman, who is a graduate of UCLA’s Department of Ethnomusicology and is currently an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music. Dr. Seeman explores issues of musicking as laboring activity through the lens of four Turkish Romani professional musician families from the late 19th century to the present.
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.
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.
The Charles Mingus Ensemble and the Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, both directed by Hitomi Oba, and the UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed by Charley Harrison will be performing well-known jazz standards, popular songs, and compositions by faculty directors and students.
Soprano Tony Arnold will perform a recital of new works for voice composed by UCLA composition students.
Global Jazz Studies saxophone player Zane St. Andre Jackson presents a senior recital.
World-renowned percussionist Lisa Pegher takes part in a residency with students of the UCLA Composition area culminating in a concert of their works specially composed for and performed by Lisa. Also on the program will be the premiere of “Lacrimae Angeli,” written by the co-chair of the UCLA Composition area, Richard Danielpour. Professor Danielpour is the Susan G. Covel and Mitchel D. Covel, M.D., Chair in Music (2021–2024)
