Peter Golub is the composer of numerous concert works, film scores, music for the theater, and ballet. Recent pieces include the cello concert, SLEEPWALKING, performed by Matt Haimovitz and the song cycle Dark Carols. Films scores include These Amazing Shadows, Frozen River, The Great Debaters, The Laramie Project and Wordplay. His music was heard in the recent Broadway production of The Heiress, starring Jessica Chastain, as well as the two-part Laramie Cycle at BAM. For the last twelve years he has been Director of the Sundance Film Music Program.
Peter Kazaras
Distinguished Professor - Director of Opera UCLA
David Lefkowitz
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Music
Noah Meites
Lecturer
Theresa Dimond
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Herbie Hancock
Adjunct Professor; LA Phil Guest Artist
William Kinderman
Elaine Krown Klein Chair in Performance Studies, Professor
Wendy Caldwell
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Aubrey Foard
Lecturer - Tuba Performance
Alison Deane
Associate Adjunct Professor
Boris Allakhverdyan
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance; Principal Clarinet LA Philharmonic
James Miller
Lecturer - Trombone Performance; Associate Principal Trombone LA Phil
Victoria Kirsch
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Elisabeth Le Guin
Emeriti
Arturo O’Farrill
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Jonathan Davis
Lecturer - Oboe Performance
David Brennan
Lecturer
Che-Yen Chen
Professor - Viola Performance
Gregory Goodall
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Juliana Gondek
Distinguished Professor, Voice Performance
Dante De Silva
Lecturer
Ian Krouse
Distinguished Professor
Inna Faliks
Professor - Head of Piano
Michael Dean
Professor, Voice Performance
Iris Malkin
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Gloria Cheng
Adjunct Professor - Contemporary Music, Performance Studies
Christoph Bull
Adjunct Professor - Organ Performance
Dwayne Milburn
Lecturer
Neal Stulberg
Professor
Joshua Ranz
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance
Denis Bouriakov
Lecturer - Flute Performance; Principal Flute LA Philharmonic
Jan Berry Baker
Professor of Saxophone, Vice Chair of the Department of Music, and Special Assistant to the Dean for Faculty Mentoring
John Steinmetz
Lecturer - Bassoon Performance
Travis J. Cross
Professor
Varty Manouelian
Lecturer - Violin Performance; Violin LA Phil
James Bass
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Richard Danielpour
Professor
Amy Sanchez
Lecturer - Horn Performance
Adam Gilberti
Lecturer - Music Education/Woodwinds
Jens Lindemann
Distinguished Professor of Trumpet
Movses Pogossian
Distinguished Professor of Violin; Founder and Advisor, Armenian Music Program - Music Performance
Hitomi Oba
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Cheryl Lin Fielding
Lecturer - Vocal Diction, Vocal Coaching
Erin Bouriakov
Lecturer - Flute Performance
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen
Assistant Professor--Music Education
Brendan McBrien
Lecturer--Music Education
Antonio Lysy
Professor - Cello Performance and Strings Area Head
Lou Anne Neill
Lecturer - Harp Performance; Harp LA Phil
Nick DePinna
Lecturer--Introduction to Musicianship
Ji Young An
Lecturer - Violin Performance
Vladimir Chernov
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
David Kaplan
Assistant Professor - Piano Performance
Chris Hanulik
Adjunct Professor - String Bass Performance; Principal Bass LA Phil
Rakefet Hak
Lecturer - Music Director of the UCLA Opera Workshop
Wendy Richman
Lecturer
Lucy Yates
Lecturer - Vocal Diction, Vocal Coaching
James Lent
Lecturer
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Professor and Special Assistant to the Inaugural Dean for Curricular Reform
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