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