Events for April 2026 – Page 92 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

The Meeting Room as Fieldwork Site: A Short Introduction to Survival Skills for Ethnomusicologists

Huib Schippers is the Regents’ Professor at UCLA for the Fall quarter, and here to share everything he’s learned in a 40-year career including initiating, supporting, and running music initiatives and institutions in The Netherlands, Australia, Nepal, The Gambia, and the US, where he helped revitalize the iconic record label Smithsonian Folkways (2016-2020).

Hear + Việt + Film, a Symposium on Music in Trans-Vietnamese Film, Day Two

Hear + Việt + Film: a Symposium on Trans-Vietnamese Music in Film is a two-day event bringing together scholars, filmmakers, and composers for a critical reassessment of music in Vietnamese film. Featuring lecture panels, film screenings, and Q&A sessions, the event seeks to bridge transnational as well as transdisciplinary perspectives on this global medium. It

UCLA Big Band Concert

The World Jazz and Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble and the Charles Mingus Ensemble will be performing well-known jazz standards as well as compositions by the faculty directors and the students.

uclaFLUX Fall Concert

Join us for a dynamic evening of modern music performed by the uclaFLUX contemporary music ensemble, which is devoted to the performance of chamber music from the 20th and 21st centuries. uclaFLUX explores and embraces new approaches and techniques associated with the myriad of ever-evolving languages of contemporary music.

UCLA Camarades Fall Concert

Comprised of UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s acclaimed string faculty and its most gifted students, UCLA Camarades is a versatile chamber ensemble that ranges from duos to full string orchestra. Since its inception in 2009, Camarades ensembles have performed at numerous chamber music series and venues throughout Los Angeles.