Join us as the UCLA Philharmonia opens its 2023-24 season with a special Halloween program. Come in costume (the orchestra and conductor will!) and experience a spectacular night of eerie music, silent films accompanied by the Royce Hall organ and other scary surprises! Christoph Bull, organ Michelle Rice, narrator Yuki Izumihara, animation design Neal Stulberg,

Composer and inventor Tod Machover, faculty at the MIT Media Lab in Boston will discuss his large-scale opera/tech collaborations, MIT’s City Symphony projects, the implications of AI for creativity and ownership, as well as the possibilities for user-personalized music for health/wellbeing contexts.   Called “America’s most wired composer” by The Los Angeles Times and a “musical

We are excited to welcome venerable pianist and educator Gilbert Kalish to our David L. Abell Piano Masters Series for Fall 2023. This performance will be preceded by a Masterclass with UCLA Piano students on 12/7 in Lani Hall from 6:00-7:30pm. About Gilbert Kalish: Gilbert Kalish leads a musical life of unusual variety and breadth. As

UCLA student combos and ensembles directed by world-class jazz artists will be performing well-known jazz standards, contemporary works, and pop songs, as well as compositions by the faculty directors and the students. Tonight’s concert will feature the following groups: Jazz Combo directed by Charley Harrison The UCLA World Jazz and Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble directed by

Join us for the 19th annual All-Star Concert

Join us for the String Area’s annual Vivaldi concert, featuring first year students as soloists against the backdrop of Powell Library’s historic Rotunda. UCLA Camarades (“The Music of Friends”) is the title given to the chamber music program that is guided and driven by the String Department. It offers superior coaching to all ensembles incorporating

Alan P. Merriam once remarked on the presence of a few scattered teachers in SEM working at the cusp of ethnomusicology, and had referred to them as “sandbox ethnomusicologists.” More recently, there appears to be change of heart within the field of ethnomusicology that includes attention to (1) the musical agency of children (and as such, children as important contributors to the study of music in cultures and communities), (2) teachers as collaborators with ethnomusicologists in school and community work, and (3) research by ethnomusicologists and educators together on pedagogical approaches to the development of intercultural understanding in and through music. I offer observations of ethnomusicology’s evolving commitment, often through collaborative efforts with teachers, to understanding and activating on questions of music, education, and culture for learners of every age, experience, and circumstance.

Continuing a tradition begun in 1960, the Department of Ethnomusicology draws on its incredible collection of world musical instruments to present its annual Spring Festival of World Music.

Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy recorded a variety of musics throughout India. Their research was designed to supplement Arnold Bake's fieldwork. These audiovisual recordings and images are now available online.

Join us for the Fourth Annual Day of Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture presented by the Armenian Music Program. The Armenian Music Program at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music provides an in-depth exploration of Armenia’s rich musical heritage, with a focus on its classical traditions. A hallmark of the school’s innovative leadership in