MEDIA ADVISORY
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music features a world premiere of Serenade with a Dandelion. This live concert event showcases internationally-renowned musicians performing a curated selection of top Armenian composers’ work, all featured on a new 4-CD set.
Hailed as a “game changer,” “a five-star recording,” and a “treasure trove of fine and compelling music,” Serenade with a Dandelion is among the most ambitious Armenian music recording projects ever completed. Conceived as a continuation of the ongoing recordings of Armenian music in the Modulation Necklace Series, the new CD features music by legends Komitas Vardapet and modern-day master Tigran Mansurian, as well as cutting-edge new composers. Spanning acentury of music, this is “a powerful and beautiful testament to Armenia’s rich musical legacy.”
WHAT
Serenade with a Dandelion in Concert
WHEN
March 4, 2024, at 7:00pm
WHERE
Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Also, via livestream (livestream link available on event page)
WHO
Violinists Varty Manouelian, Andrew McIntosh, Kristapor Najarian and Movses Pogossian, violist Che-Yen Chen, cellist Coleman Itzkoff, pianist Steen Vanhauwaert, saxophonist Jan Berry Baker, UCLA’s VEM String Quartet, and composer Artur Akshelyan (visiting from Armenia).
INFO
For more information, visit: ucla.edu/event/armenian-music-serenade-with-a-dandelion/
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is committed to engaging with the communities that make up the Los Angeles metropolitan area. We believe that our exceptionally rich cultural diversity expresses itself in vibrant musical cultures that are at once global and local. The critical praise that has accompanied the release of Serenade with a Dandelion speaks to the immense reach of this music which has found audiences well outside of Armenia and the Armenian community. This unique concert is free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE UCLA HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music prepares students for twenty-first century music careers. Home to renowned musical scholars, music industry experts and world-class musicians, educators and composers within one institution, the school of music offers students an interdisciplinary education that prizes music performance and scholarship while also emphasizing active engagement in the greater Los Angeles community. Esteeming all musical traditions as vital expressions of an evolving global society, the school of music boasts over 40 musical ensembles performing music from around the globe.
Founded as a stand-alone school of music in 2008 with a naming gift of $30 million from Herb Alpert, the school originally comprised the departments of ethnomusicology, music, and musicology and are now joined by interdisciplinary programs in global jazz studies and music industry, and the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance. Herb Alpert School of Music graduates and faculty members are recipients of prestigious MacArthur fellowships, Grammy Awards, and Emmy Awards, and are leaders as composers, musicians, educators, scholars, and innovators in the music industry. Learn more at www.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu