The UCLA Marching Band is used to traveling, but 2023 turned out to be special. For a week in October, the Solid Gold Sound toured Taiwan and performed as an honored guest in Taiwan’s National Day celebrations at the invitation of President Tsai Ing-wen. For many Bruins, the trip was a life-changing experience. More than

Just in time for the holidays, the UCLA Chamber Singers have released "The Everlasting Flame," composed by undergraduate composer Yoni Fogelman and conducted by doctoral student Troy Robertson. The piece features Alaina Stark on the harp.

MIT Media Lab faculty member and Musical America’s 2016 Composer of the Year gave a two-hour presentation at the Herb Alpert School of Music. Titled “Collaborative Composing: Sharing Authorship with People and AI,” the event explored the utility of generative artificial intelligence for music composition and production.

The Daily Bruin reported on composition students’ world premieres by Grammy Award-winning soprano Hilá Plitmann.

When the LA Times wants to understand the Taylor Swift phenomenon, they turn to UCLA’s Music Industry faculty. Professor Bob Fink helped explain how popular music and cultural phenomena become part of a rigorous curriculum.

Cesar Favila, assistant professor of Musicology, has just published his first book. Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain breaks new ground in its imaginative approach to recovering the lives of women who sang devotional music in Catholic churches. Oxford University Press has published the book in hardback. The UCLA Library has partnered with the