To the Promised Land: Facilitating Mutual Healing Through Dialogue is a two-part discussion exploring the role music can play in building bridges of understanding, furthering social justice and promoting healing across communities. It is a continuation of the series, “Conversations on Music and Justice”, intended to explore these issues while inviting our national audience to participate in the discussion.
What role can music play in building bridges of understanding, furthering social justice and promoting healing across communities? This online three-part series, “Conversations on Music and Justice”, is intended to explore all of these issues while inviting our national audience to participate in the discussion.
The UCLA Wind Ensemble presents its first concert of winter quarter, joined by the community based Los Angeles Winds, Stephen Piazza, conductor. The program is anchored by musical works inspired by visual art. The UCLA Wind Ensemble opens the concert with Zhou Tian’s Petals of Fire, a response to Cy Twombly’s 1989 painting of
We are excited to welcome Sofya Gulyak to our David L. Abell Piano Master Series for Winter, 2023. Sofya Gulyak’s resume includes prizes from many prestigious piano competitions: she is a first-prize winner of William Kapell International Piano Competition in the U.S., Maj Lind Helsinki International Piano Competition in Helsinki, Tivoli Piano Competition in Copenhagen,
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.
