Brendan McBrien
Lecturer - Music Education

Brendan McBrien grew up in Sunnyvale, California where he began his musical training on the French horn in 4th grade. He moved to Southern California to attend California State University, Long Beach, receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music composition and conducting.
For over 30 years he played professionally in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas playing for symphony, television, movie, and theater orchestras. Brendan is an active composer and his many compositions and arrangements for band and orchestra are performed worldwide and published with the Alfred, Warner Brothers, Kendor, and Kjos Music Companies. In early 2024 he was commissioned to compose the opening work for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance at the Henry and Renee Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa California.

Brendan began teaching in the Irvine Unified School District in 1988 and has been the director of bands and orchestras at Irvine High School, Venado Middle School, and most recently Rancho San Joaquin Middle School. In June of 2022, he retired from the Irvine USD after 34 years of teaching.
Brendan is an active adjudicator, clinician, and honor group conductor who has served six terms on the board of the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association. He has presented many workshops at both state and local conventions and has received several awards including Middle School Teacher of the Year for the Irvine Unified School District and Orange County Department of Education. He currently teaches Music Arranging, Brass Methods, and supervises student teachers at California State University, Long Beach. He is also a lecturer in music education in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music where he teaches Instrumental Methods. Decidedly, Brendan’s greatest joy is being married to his wife of 36 years, Karen, and father to his sons Kevin, and Patrick, and daughter Megan.

James Bass
Professor and Chair of the Department of Music, Director of Choral Studies
Arturo O’Farrill
Director, UCLA Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra; Professor
David Kaplan
Inaugural Shapiro Family Chair in Piano Performance
Varty Manouelian
Lecturer - Violin Performance, Violin LA Philharmonic
Dwayne Milburn
Lecturer - Conducting and Composition
Noel Cano Hearn
Lecturer - Alexander Technique and Music Education
James Miller
Lecturer - Trombone Performance, Associate Principal Trombone LA Phil
Nick DePinna
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Musicianship
Lou Anne Neill
Lecturer - Harp Performance, Harp LA Philharmonic
Melissa Bilal
The Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture, Director of Armenian Music Program
Jens Lindemann
Distinguished Professor - Trumpet Performance
Joshua Ranz
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance
Lucy Yates
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Wendy Caldwell
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Shahab Paranj
Gramian-Emrani Postdoctoral Fellow in Music and Lecturer - Composition, contemporary concert music
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
Aubrey Foard
Lecturer - Tuba Performance
Theresa Dimond
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Christoph Bull
Adjunct Professor - Organ Performance
Rakefet Hak
Continuing Lecturer - Opera UCLA
Jan Berry Baker
Professor - Saxophone, Head of Woodwinds, Vice Chair of the Department of Music, Special Assistant to the Dean for Faculty Mentoring
Kay Rhie
Assistant Professor - Composition
Inna Faliks
Professor - Head of Piano Performance
Mildred Yi
Lecturer - Music Education
Camilo Cedeno
Assistant to the Chair - Department of Music
Gloria Cheng
Adjunct Professor - Contemporary Music, Performance Studies
James Darrah
Professor - Director of Opera UCLA
Travis J. Cross
Professor - Conducting, Director of Bands
Victoria Kirsch
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen
Assistant Professor - Music Education
Lindsey Beardsley
Manager - Department of Music
Iris Malkin
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Michael Dean
Professor - Voice Performance
William Kinderman
Distinguished Professor and Elaine Krown Klein Chair in Performance Studies
Richard Danielpour
Distinguished Professor; Director of Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music
Peter Golub
Lecturer - Composition, Music and Film
Movses Pogossian
Distinguished Professor of Violin; Founder and Advisor, Armenian Music Program - Music Performance
Jonathan Davis
Lecturer - Oboe Performance
Noah Meites
Lecturer - Music Theory
Cheryl Lin Fielding
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Ian Krouse
Distinguished Professor - Co-Area Head, Composition
Boris Allakhverdyan
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance, Principal Clarinet LA Philharmonic
Hitomi Oba
Lecturer and Director of Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
Che-Yen Chen
Professor - Viola Performance
Ji Young An
Lecturer - Violin Performance
Dante De Silva
Lecturer - Composition and Music Theory
Vladimir Chernov
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Ben Hong
Lecturer - Cello Performance
David Lefkowitz
Professor - Composition, Vice Chair of the Department of Music
James Lent
Lecturer - Collaborative Piano
Alison Deane
Associate Adjunct Professor
Gregory Goodall
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Andrew Ordonez
Events Manager - Department of Music
Ryan Brown
Lecturer - Choral Studies and Music Education
Wendy Richman
Lecturer - Performance Studies
John Steinmetz
Lecturer - Bassoon Performance
Juliana Gondek
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Sarah Koo Freeman
Visiting Professor - Cello Performance
Benjamin Smolen
Lecturer - Flute Performance
Amy Sanchez
Lecturer - Horn Performance
Neal Stulberg
Professor - Conducting, Director of Orchestral Studies

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