Melissa Bilal
The Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture, Director of Armenian Music Program
Melissa Bilal is a sociocultural anthropologist and historian specializing in music and performance studies, gender and sexuality studies, and memory studies. Her ethnographic research explores the role of music in the transmission of Armenian memory in Turkey, while her archival research is focused on the musical and intellectual history of Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire and early republican Turkey. Her most recent book manuscript is the co-authored volume Feminism in Armenian: An Interpretive Anthology (forthcoming 2025) which unearths the lives and works of twelve Armenian feminist writer-activists in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman contexts. Bilal is currently working on a biography of pianist and composer Koharik Gazarossian (1907-1967).
Ph.D. Music (Ethnomusicology), University of Chicago; M.A. Sociology, Boğaziçi University; B.A. Sociology, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.
Noah Meites
Lecturer - Music Theory
David Lefkowitz
Professor - Composition, Vice Chair of the Department of Music
John Steinmetz
Lecturer - Bassoon Performance
Nick DePinna
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Musicianship
Juliana Gondek
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Chris Hanulik
Adjunct Professor - String Bass Performance; Principal Bass LA Phil
Michael Dean
Professor - Voice Performance
Travis J. Cross
Professor - Conducting, Director of Bands
David Kaplan
Inaugural Shapiro Family Chair in Piano Performance
Iris Malkin
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Wendy Caldwell
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Lucy Yates
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Dante De Silva
Lecturer - Composition and Music Theory
Peter Golub
Lecturer - Composition, Music and Film
Lou Anne Neill
Lecturer - Harp Performance, Harp LA Philharmonic
Benjamin Smolen
Lecturer - Flute Performance
James Bass
Professor and Chair of the Department of Music, Director of Choral Studies
Jonathan Davis
Lecturer - Oboe Performance
Regina Carter-Garnett
Professor
Noel Cano Hearn
Lecturer - Alexander Technique and Music Education
Joshua Ranz
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance
Hitomi Oba
Lecturer and Director of Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
Arturo O’Farrill
Director, UCLA Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra; Professor
Herbie Hancock
Adjunct Professor
James Miller
Lecturer - Trombone Performance, Associate Principal Trombone LA Phil
James Lent
Lecturer - Collaborative Piano
Victoria Kirsch
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen
Assistant Professor - Music Education
Gregory Goodall
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Cheryl Lin Fielding
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Ian Krouse
Distinguished Professor - Co-Area Head, Composition
Inna Faliks
Professor - Head of Piano Performance
Amy Sanchez
Lecturer - Horn Performance
William Kinderman
Distinguished Professor and Elaine Krown Klein Chair in Performance Studies
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Professor - Music Education, Special Assistant to the Inaugural Dean for Curricular Reform
Jens Lindemann
Distinguished Professor - Trumpet Performance
Camilo Cedeno
Assistant to the Chair - Department of Music Performance, Education and Composition
Rakefet Hak
Continuing Lecturer - Opera UCLA
Neal Stulberg
Professor - Conducting, Director of Orchestral Studies
Aubrey Foard
Lecturer - Tuba Performance
Movses Pogossian
Distinguished Professor of Violin; Founder and Advisor, Armenian Music Program - Music Performance
Mircea Gogoncea
Lecturer - Guitar
Varty Manouelian
Lecturer - Violin Performance, Violin LA Philharmonic
Andrew Ordonez
Events Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education and Composition
Sarah Koo Freeman
Visiting Professor - Cello Performance
Che-Yen Chen
Professor - Viola Performance
Richard Danielpour
Distinguished Professor; Director of Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music
Boris Allakhverdyan
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance, Principal Clarinet LA Philharmonic
Jan Berry Baker
Professor - Saxophone, Head of Woodwinds, Vice Chair of the Department of Music, Special Assistant to the Dean for Faculty Mentoring
Wendy Richman
Lecturer - Performance Studies
Adam Gilberti
Instrument Curator
Dwayne Milburn
Lecturer - Conducting and Composition
Ji Young An
Lecturer - Violin Performance
Elisabeth Le Guin
Emerita
Brendan McBrien
Lecturer - Music Education
James Darrah
Professor - Director of Opera UCLA
Alison Deane
Associate Adjunct Professor
Christoph Bull
Adjunct Professor - Organ Performance
Vladimir Chernov
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Theresa Dimond
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Ryan Brown
Lecturer - Choral Studies and Music Education
Lindsey Beardsley
Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education and Composition
Shahab Paranj
Gramian-Emrani Postdoctoral Fellow in Music and Lecturer - Composition, contemporary concert music
Sean McLaughlin
Piano Technician
Gloria Cheng
Adjunct Professor - Contemporary Music, Performance Studies
Mildred Yi
Lecturer - Music Education
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