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.
Jonathan Davis
Lecturer - Oboe Performance
Lou Anne Neill
Lecturer - Harp Performance, Harp LA Philharmonic
William Kinderman
Distinguished Professor and Elaine Krown Klein Chair in Performance Studies
Christoph Bull
Adjunct Professor - Organ Performance
Amy Sanchez
Lecturer - Horn Performance
Dante De Silva
Lecturer - Composition and Music Theory
Gloria Cheng
Adjunct Professor - Contemporary Music, Performance Studies
Lucy Yates
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Andrew Ordonez
Events Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education and Composition
Juliana Gondek
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Aubrey Foard
Lecturer - Tuba Performance
Travis J. Cross
Professor - Conducting, Director of Bands
Brendan McBrien
Lecturer - Music Education
Peter Golub
Lecturer - Composition, Music and Film
Ian Krouse
Distinguished Professor - Co-Area Head, Composition
Cheryl Lin Fielding
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
James Miller
Lecturer - Trombone Performance, Associate Principal Trombone LA Phil
Mildred Yi
Lecturer - Music Education
Elisabeth Le Guin
Emerita
Peter Kazaras
Distinguished Professor - Director of Opera UCLA
Herbie Hancock
Adjunct Professor
Dwayne Milburn
Lecturer - Conducting and Composition
Arturo O’Farrill
Director, UCLA Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra; Professor
David Kaplan
Inaugural Shapiro Family Chair in Piano Performance
Victoria Kirsch
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Sean McLaughlin
Piano Technician
Varty Manouelian
Lecturer - Violin Performance, Violin LA Philharmonic
Joshua Ranz
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen
Assistant Professor - Music Education
Hitomi Oba
Lecturer and Director of Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
Nick DePinna
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Musicianship
Lindsey Beardsley
Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education and Composition
David Lefkowitz
Professor - Composition, Vice Chair of the Department of Music
Iris Malkin
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Neal Stulberg
Professor - Conducting, Director of Orchestral Studies
Camilo Cedeno
Assistant to the Chair - Department of Music Performance, Education and Composition
Jens Lindemann
Distinguished Professor - Trumpet Performance
Michael Dean
Professor - Voice Performance
James Darrah
Professor
Wendy Caldwell
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Shahab Paranj
Lecturer and Postdoctoral Scholar - Composition, contemporary concert music
Alison Deane
Associate Adjunct Professor
Ryan Brown
Lecturer - Choral Studies and Music Education
John Steinmetz
Lecturer - Bassoon Performance
James Lent
Lecturer - Collaborative Piano
Adam Gilberti
Instrument Curator
James Bass
Professor and Chair of the Department of Music, Director of Choral Studies
Boris Allakhverdyan
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance, Principal Clarinet LA Philharmonic
Lily Chen-Hafteck
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Benjamin Smolen
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Regina Carter-Garnett
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Richard Danielpour
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Vladimir Chernov
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Gregory Goodall
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Chris Hanulik
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Wendy Richman
Lecturer - Performance Studies
Ji Young An
Lecturer - Violin Performance
Jan Berry Baker
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Che-Yen Chen
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Inna Faliks
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Movses Pogossian
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Mircea Gogoncea
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Theresa Dimond
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Rakefet Hak
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Noah Meites
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Sarah Koo Freeman
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