The Daily Bruin surveyed students across campus, including global jazz studies major Nathan Puopolo and music industry student Joshya Gupta. “I get to learn from industry top professionals,” said Gupta.

The Shofar and the Student

Trumpet Student Remy Ohara’s sounding of the shofar resonated across the globe. Read the full story by PJ Grisar in The Forward.

Student Spotlight, Summer 2023

Bruins at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music have had a busy summer. Check out what they've been up to!

Ethnomusicology Student Lauded by Kennedy Center

Isabel Folkers was only four when she unwittingly chanced upon her career trajectory. The occasion was a house party at the home of an Irish family. The band had finished

UCLA Opera Student Mattia Venni Reviewed in the New York Times

The Rose Theater at Lincoln Center staged concerts of Donizetti’s “Poliuto” and Luigi Ricci’s “Crispino e la Comare” in July. Starring in the role of Crispino was UCLA undergraduate Mattia

Transfer Student Blazes Trails for Others

Antonio Estrada dreamed of going to a big university, big in every way. Raised in Sacramento, Estrada was encouraged by his parents to be the first in his family to

For 2023 Undergraduate Student Commencement Speaker, Community is Key

When Yeremiya Wright arrived at UCLA in the Fall of 2019 as a first-year student, he was unaware that a global pandemic was literally right around the corner. Nor was

Doctoral Student Breana McCullough Connects Baroque Music and Native American Voices

McCullough has been an apprentice with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado in 2022-23. She collaborated with the orchestra on their winter concert, re-envisioning a French carol to elevate indigenous

Master's student Damon Zavala wins Sphinx Orchestral Futurist Fellowship

The National Orchestral Institute + Festival in partnership with the National Philharmonic and the Sphinx Organization has just awarded their 2023 Futurist Fellowships, and first-year viola performance master’s student Damon

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