#Jan Berry Baker

Long-running and influential online magazine Textura has just released its top 20 lists for classical and jazz recordings of 2024. Coming in at number three on the list for quartet, ensemble or

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is proud to share that faculty and alumni were well represented at this year’s GRAMMY Awards. In all, twelve faculty and four alums

Yi-Ting Lu, a Chicago-based composer from Taiwan, has been selected as the winner of UCLA Library’s Resonate 2024: An Open Access Call for Scores, for her composition, “An Unopened Seashell.” Lu will receive

The Anne LeBaron Portrait Concert (Wednesday, Feb. 7, 7:00 p.m., Lani Hall) will feature a number of top artists. Jan Berry Baker, saxophone professor, headed over to KPFK Radio to

African Americans have a formidable, if underappreciated, presence as composers in the modern classical music world. Atlanta and Los Angeles based Bent Frequency, led by UCLA saxophonist Jan Berry Baker,

Renowned cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason opened the LA Philharmonic’s season. The orchestra also delivered a stirring rendition of Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Uirupurú, which featured extensive solos by UCLA faculty Jan Berry Baker

On Tuesday, May 16, Jens Lindemann and the Matt Catingub JazzPops Orchestra took to the stage of the Catalina Bar & Grill, a storied Hollywood club that has played host

An important step in decolonizing classical music, as George Lewis recently opined, is encouraging ensembles to commission new music from a diverse array of composers. In its 2022-23 season, the Bent Frequency Duo (Jan Berry Baker, saxophone and Stuart Gerber, percussion) have featured new commissions by Lewis, African American composer Alvin Singleton, and Singaporean+ composer emily koh.

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