Events for May 2026 – Page 94 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

The Artist Body — Film Premiere + Concert

A documentary about important keys of the creative process and how to develop your own voice as an artist. Directed by Grammy Award-winning Percussionist/Composer/Filmmaker Arturo Stable, one of our Global Jazz Studies percussion instructors.

Guitar Master Class with Aaron Larget-Caplan

Join us for a masterclass by Aaron Larget-Caplan, whose collaborations with composers, multi-media capabilities, publications, and concert organizing skills will inspire our students. Of particular recent interest are Aaron’s electro-acoustic collaborations with local and national composers. 

UCLA Symphonic Band Informal Concert

The UCLA Symphonic Band presents an informal concert of band favorites in the Schoenberg Music Building Band Room beginning at 4 p.m. Guest conductors include DMA student Michael James and MM student Nicholas Junker.

Aperture Duo Performs Works in Progress By UCLA Composition Students

The Aperture Duo visits the Department of Music for a residency with our Composition faculty and students. The residency is in three parts, with tonight being the first segment of the residency and showcasing performances of works in progress by our student composers. In January of 2023, the ensemble returns to the School for a pair of concerts, one featuring student works and the other featuring faculty pieces and works from the Duo’s repertoire.

Decoda presents: A Reimagined Dance Suite

Decoda, the affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall, is a New York based collective of virtuoso chamber musicians equally passionate for performance and community engagement. As part of a residency at the Herb Alpert School of Music to work with chamber music students and participants of the Gluck program, they perform this chamber music program of works by Stravinsky, Rameau, Dvorak, and Valerie Coleman.

Distinguished Lecture by Amy Cimini: Maryanne Amacher’s Houses for Strange Life: Friendship, Citation and Some Returns to the Science Question 

Join distinguished lecturer Amy Cimini, associate professor of music at UC San Diego in the Integrative Studies Area, as she delivers a talk titled “Maryanne Amacher’s Houses for Strange Life: Friendship, Citation and Some Returns to the Science Question.” Maryanne Amacher was a multidisciplinary artist whose practice and research inquiry into auditory experience raises complex