#Hitomi Oba
Meiji University Hosts UCLA Jazz Musicians
Meiji University hosted UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music faculty performing Latin jazz at its Surugadai on March 21. Featured faculty included Regina Carter-Garnett, Clayton Cameron, Nick DePinna, Abhiman Kaushal,...
Album Drop: Noah Meites, "Counting"
Noah Meites, composer and continuing lecturer in music theory, has just released his new album “Counting” with New Focus Records. This collection of chamber music “chronicles his vibrant artistic voice...
Musicians turn the Big Dipper into an ‘Interstellar Cantata,’ with Help from NASA
“L.A. Signal Lab” is a collective of musicians, including Hitomi Oba, global jazz studies and music department saxophonist. Mark Swed reviewed their Koreatown premiere of “URSA: an interstellar cantata” for...
LA Times - Review: Edgy jazz crosses over to classical, or is it the other way around?
READ: UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music studio faculty Boris Allakhverdyan, Denis Bouriakov, Chris Hanulik and Joshua Ranz appeared as part of an L.A. Phil Green Umbrella program at Walt Disney Concert Hall, curated by Herbie Hancock, a UCLA professor since 2013 and the L.A. Phil's creative chair for jazz. The program also featured alumnus and lecturer Hitomi Oba’s chamber work “Aina.” ...