Aspiring producers, managers, and artists in UCLA’s new Music History and Industry program present Drop the Needle: Remixing the Music Industry, a showcase for the degree’s Senior Capstone projects in research, entrepreneurship, and creativity. Highlights will include many musical performances, first listens to recordings, presentations about student-built software companies and record labels, and research papers
How does a discipline like musicology age? What habits of mind over time calcify into dogma and which tools begin to rust from un-use? How many forking paths can a discipline take before it runs out of fuel? What if there simply is nothing left to say and ultimately no one willing to listen? Is
World-renowned saxophonists Arno Bornkamp (Netherlands) and Kenneth Tse (USA) will provide a masterclass for students of the saxophone. Kenneth Tse Widely recognized as one of the world’s leading classical saxophonists, Kenneth Tse is certainly one of the instrument’s outstanding proponents on any saxophone aficionado’s short list. He burst on the scene in 1996 as the winner of the
Global Jazz Studies piano student Nick Krauel presents a senior recital. To view this recital online, please click “Watch Livestream.”
The imperatives for the work of museums arising from the central aims of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement have informed discussion and debate in these organizations in Britain in recent years. Underpinning many of the initiatives for action are the guidelines in the UK’s Museums Association’s “A Decolonising Toolkit for Museums.”
Please join us for an evening celebrating Iranian music. This innovative concert, curated by Shahab Paranj, features both pure Persian classical music and contemporary compositions influenced by that rich tradition. Iranian virtuoso musicians Sohrab Pournazeri and Pejman Hadadi join Shahab Paranj and the Iranshahr String Quartet in premieres of four new compositions by Richard Danielpour, Ian
Pearl Vaynman, a voice student of Vladimir Chernov, and Tina Shigeyama, an oboe student of Jonathan Davis, present a Third Year Undergraduate recital. Please click the “Watch Livestream” link to view this recital online. This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows, who
This program by the UCLA Early Music Ensemble explores music from the Spanish Empire during the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. Our musical storytellers will depict feelings of love, loss, and power[lessness] on both inter-personal and national levels as a consequence of Spanish colonialism
“UCLA Camarades (“The Music of Friends”) is the title given to the chamber music program that is guided and driven by the String Department. It offers superior coaching to all ensembles incorporating strings, from trios to octets, with a special consideration to the rich string quartet literature. These endeavors of study and instruction are crowned
The UCLA Chinese Music Ensemble, directed by Chi Li, performs its annual winter concert featuring traditional and contemporary music, including Chinese opera aria, zheng unison, qin unison, folk dance, and silk-and-bamboo music.
