Andrew Ordonez - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Andrew Ordonez
Events Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition

Andrew Ordonez serves as the event manager for the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition, producing and supporting their extensive calendar of masterclasses, performances, and residencies. He is a tubist based in the greater Los Angeles area. With extensive experience as a performer, educator, and event producer, he has worked around the world, assuming roles ranging from orchestral tubist to private instructor to audio engineer in both academic and commercial settings.

A Southern California native, Andrew earned a bachelor’s in music performance from California State University Fullerton in 2019 before going on to complete his master’s at UCLA as part of the class of 2021. Outside of his professional endeavors, Andrew enjoys skating by the beach with friends, racing down mountain roads on his street luge, and unwinding with a good book in his Whittier home.

Lindsey Beardsley
Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Professor - Music Education, Special Assistant to the Inaugural Dean for Curricular Reform
Chris Hanulik
Adjunct Professor - String Bass Performance; Principal Bass LA Phil
Wendy Caldwell
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Justin McManus
Assistant Professor - Director of Athletic Bands and Associate Director of Bands
Christoph Bull
Adjunct Professor - Organ Performance
Aubrey Foard
Continuing Lecturer - Tuba Performance
Gregory Goodall
Continuing Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Lou Anne Neill
Continuing Lecturer - Harp Performance, Harp LA Philharmonic
Juliana Gondek
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
James Bass
Professor and Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition, Director of Choral Studies
Jonathan Davis
Senior Continuing Lecturer - Oboe Performance
Camilo Cedeno
Assistant to the Chair - Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Inna Faliks
Professor - Head of Piano Performance
Victoria Kirsch
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Noel Cano Hearn
Lecturer - Alexander Technique and Music Education
Che-Yen Chen
Professor - Viola Performance
David Lefkowitz
Professor - Composition, Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Sarah Koo Freeman
Visiting Professor - Cello Performance
Richard Danielpour
Distinguished Professor; Director of Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music
Theresa Dimond
Continuing Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Catherine Gregory
Lecturer - Flute Performance, Woodwind Chamber Music, Director of the Gluck Fellowship Program
Kay Rhie
Assistant Professor - Composition
Boris Allakhverdyan
Continuing Lecturer - Clarinet Performance, Principal Clarinet LA Philharmonic
Jonathan Beard
Continuing Lecturer - Music Industry (Electronic Music) and Composition
Cheryl Lin Fielding
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Noah Meites
Continuing Lecturer - Music Theory
Rakefet Hak
Senior Continuing Lecturer - Opera UCLA
Gloria Cheng
Distinguished Adjunct Professor - Contemporary Music, Performance Studies
James Darrah
Professor - Director of Opera UCLA
William Kinderman
Distinguished Professor and Elaine Krown Klein Professor in Performance Studies
Dante De Silva
Continuing Lecturer - Composition and Music Theory
Varty Manouelian
Continuing Lecturer - Violin Performance, Violin LA Philharmonic
Amy Sanchez
Continuing Lecturer - Horn Performance
James Lent
Continuing Lecturer - Collaborative Piano
Jan Berry Baker
Professor - Saxophone, Head of Woodwinds, Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition, Special Assistant to the Dean for Faculty Mentoring
Iris Malkin
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Dwayne Milburn
Continuing Lecturer - Conducting and Composition
Ben Hong
Lecturer - Cello Performance
Shahab Paranj
Gramian-Emrani Postdoctoral Fellow in Music and Lecturer - Composition, Contemporary Concert Music
Joshua Ranz
Continuing Lecturer - Clarinet Performance
James Miller
Continuing Lecturer - Trombone Performance, Associate Principal Trombone LA Phil
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen
Assistant Professor - Music Education
Movses Pogossian
Distinguished Professor of Violin; Founder and Advisor, Armenian Music Program - Music Performance
Neal Stulberg
Distinguished Professor - Conducting, Director of Orchestral Studies, Artistic Director Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Melissa Bilal
Promise Professor in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture and Director of Armenian Music Program, Assistant Professor in Music Performance, Education & Composition
Travis J. Cross
Professor - Conducting, Director of Bands
Ian Krouse
Distinguished Professor - Co-Area Head, Composition
Nick DePinna
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Musicianship
Jens Lindemann
Distinguished Professor - Trumpet Performance
Hitomi Oba
Continuing Lecturer and Director of Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
Ji Young An
Continuing Lecturer - Violin Performance
Brendan McBrien
Lecturer - Music Education
Kaii Lee
Lecturer - Music Education
John Steinmetz
Continuing Lecturer - Bassoon Performance
Michael Dean
Professor - Voice Performance
Lucy Yates
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Peter Golub
Continuing Lecturer - Composition, Music and Film
David Kaplan
Inaugural Shapiro Family Professor in Piano Performance, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Regina Carter-Garnett
Professor - Music Performance and Global Jazz Studies
Wendy Richman
Lecturer - Performance Studies
Benjamin Smolen
Lecturer - Flute Performance
Vladimir Chernov
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance

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