Lindsey Beardsley
Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Lindsey joined The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in the Fall of 2023. She has over 10 years experience working in higher education, including in positions at the University of South Dakota and the American Musical and the Dramatic Academy Los Angeles. Her professional work has always centered on supporting artists in an academic setting, anchored by a strong belief in the importance of arts education.
Outside of work, Lindsey enjoys baking, shopping for vintage finds, and spending time with her family and friends.
Victoria Kirsch
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
James Lent
Continuing Lecturer - Collaborative Piano
Aubrey Foard
Continuing Lecturer - Tuba Performance
Boris Allakhverdyan
Continuing Lecturer - Clarinet Performance, Principal Clarinet LA Philharmonic
Movses Pogossian
Distinguished Professor of Violin; Founder and Advisor, Armenian Music Program - Music Performance
Catherine Gregory
Lecturer - Flute Performance, Woodwind Chamber Music, Director of the Gluck Fellowship Program
Varty Manouelian
Continuing Lecturer - Violin Performance, Violin LA Philharmonic
Jonathan Beard
Continuing Lecturer - Music Industry (Electronic Music) and Composition
Rakefet Hak
Senior Continuing Lecturer - Opera UCLA
Dwayne Milburn
Continuing Lecturer - Conducting and Composition
Cheryl Lin Fielding
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Noah Meites
Continuing Lecturer - Music Theory
Kevin Cornwell II
Choral TA
Che-Yen Chen
Professor - Viola Performance
Jens Lindemann
Distinguished Professor - Trumpet Performance
Chris Hanulik
Adjunct Professor - String Bass Performance; Principal Bass LA Phil
Neal Stulberg
Distinguished Professor - Conducting, Director of Orchestral Studies, Artistic Director Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Wendy Caldwell
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Professor - Music Education, Special Assistant to the Inaugural Dean for Curricular Reform
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen
Assistant Professor - Music Education
Melissa Bilal
Promise Professor in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture and Director of Armenian Music Program, Assistant Professor in Music Performance, Education & Composition
Peter Golub
Continuing Lecturer - Composition, Music and Film
Andrew Ordonez
Events Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
John Steinmetz
Continuing Lecturer - Bassoon Performance
Camilo Cedeno
Assistant to the Chair - Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Dante De Silva
Continuing Lecturer - Composition and Music Theory
Gregory Goodall
Continuing Lecturer - Percussion Performance
David Lefkowitz
Professor - Composition, Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Hitomi Oba
Continuing Lecturer and Director of Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
David Kaplan
Inaugural Shapiro Family Professor in Piano Performance, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Herbie Hancock
Adjunct Professor
Gloria Cheng
Distinguished Adjunct Professor - Contemporary Music, Performance Studies
Jan Berry Baker
Associate Dean of Faculty Mentoring and Community Relations, Professor - Saxophone, Head of Woodwinds, Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Travis J. Cross
Professor - Conducting, Director of Bands
Lucy Yates
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Joshua Ranz
Continuing Lecturer - Clarinet Performance
Brendan McBrien
Lecturer - Music Education
Jonathan Davis
Senior Continuing Lecturer - Oboe Performance
Inna Faliks
Professor - Head of Piano Performance
James Darrah
Professor - Director of Opera UCLA
Vladimir Chernov
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Richard Danielpour
Distinguished Professor; Director of Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music
Nick DePinna
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Musicianship
Juliana Gondek
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Lou Anne Neill
Continuing Lecturer - Harp Performance, Harp LA Philharmonic
Amy Sanchez
Continuing Lecturer - Horn Performance
Iris Malkin
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Justin McManus
Assistant Professor - Director of Athletic Bands and Associate Director of Bands
Mircea Gogoncea
Lecturer - Guitar
Michael Dean
Professor - Voice Performance
Shahab Paranj
Gramian-Emrani Postdoctoral Fellow in Music and Lecturer - Composition, Contemporary Concert Music
James Bass
Professor and Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition, Director of Choral Studies
Elisabeth Le Guin
Emerita
Ian Krouse
Distinguished Professor - Co-Area Head, Composition
William Kinderman
Distinguished Professor and Elaine Krown Klein Professor in Performance Studies
Regina Carter-Garnett
Professor - Music Performance and Global Jazz Studies
Christoph Bull
Adjunct Professor - Organ Performance
James Miller
Continuing Lecturer - Trombone Performance, Associate Principal Trombone LA Phil
Wendy Richman
Lecturer - Performance Studies
Noel Cano Hearn
Lecturer - Alexander Technique and Music Education
Ji Young An
Continuing Lecturer - Violin Performance
Benjamin Smolen
Lecturer - Flute Performance
Theresa Dimond
Continuing Lecturer - Percussion Performance
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