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

The academic head at MIT Media Lab will discuss his large-scale tech opera productions.   On the heels of a triumphant debut of his latest opera “Schoenberg in Hollywood” internationally acclaimed artist-innovator Tod Machover will share insights into his groundbreaking approach to the marriage of creativity and technology on Wednesday December 6 at 6 p.m. at

Tracy Cox, alumna of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, will make her Met debut in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, from November 3 to December 2, 2023. Cox will sing the roles of Social Worker and Reporter Number One. Cox completed her bachelor’s degree in music performance in 2008, and