Wendy Caldwell - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Wendy Caldwell
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching

Wendy Caldwell, a native of Canada, graduated with her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, receiving the Birks Medal in Music as the top graduate. She went on to study at the University of Toronto where she obtained her Artist Diploma.

Ms. Caldwell has coached and been a collaborative artist at Acadia University, University of Illinois at Chicago, California State University at Long Beach, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena City College, and UCLA. At Pasadena City College, she was principal accompanist and Music Director of PCC Opera for over 10 years. Currently Ms. Caldwell is a collaborative artist and vocal coach at both UCLA and CSULB, as well as a very busy freelance accompanist in the Los Angeles area, performing regularly in recital with both student and professional musicians. She has been a staff pianist for the National Flute Convention and has performed in recital with such artists as Carol Wincenc and Robert Langevin. Ms. Caldwell has also been a
Guest Artist at Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Alaska and at Cal State Summer Arts in Monterey and Fresno.

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

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