The UCLA Department of Music offers a variety of events for the public's enjoyment throughout the year. Programs include faculty and student recitals and performances of high artistic accomplishment in various genres, as well as visiting artists of national and international renown. Programs are subject change. For updated information and confirmation of events, the public may call (310) 825-4761 or visit this website.

Tickets may be purchased through the UCLA Central Ticket Office by calling (310) 825-2101 or online at the CTO website: http://www.tickets.ucla.edu/. Campus parking is $10 and is available in Lot 2 for Schoenberg Hall (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues) and in Lot 4 for Royce Hall (enter the campus at Sunset Boulevard and Westwood Plaza).

A more accurate listing of Royce Hall events can be found at UCLALive: http://www.uclalive.org/calendar.asp

For more events in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, please visit the School's website at: www.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu.

For 2009-2010 Chambermusic@UCLA concerts, please click here.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Symphony Orchestra
“2009 U.S. Tour”

Fri, September 25, 8 PM
Free admission 

Two Time International Competition Gold Medal Winner -- First U.S. tour
Established in 1896, Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) has a long history of arts education. It has had its own symphonic orchestra since 1920s. Twice the winner of gold medals in the international band competition in 2001 and 2003, the Orchestra is under the direction of the world acclaimed director Cao Peng, former chief conductor of Shanghai Symphonic Orchestra.

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UCLA Philharmonia
“Africa Meets North America”

Sat, October 24, 8 PM
Free admission 

Neal Stulberg, conductor. UCLA Philharmonia performs William Banfield's "Essay for Orchestra" in conjunction with “Africa Meets North America,” an international conference co-hosted by the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.  See http://amna.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/about.htm.

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UCLA Philharmonia

Thu, October 29, 8 PM
Tickets: $12, $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)

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UCLA Wind Ensemble

Nov. 4th, 8:00 PM
Thomas Lee, conductor
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)

The UCLA Wind Ensemble performs great Russian masterworks for wind
ensemble, and the student winner of the 13th annual "What Music Means to
Me" essay contest at John Adams Middle School will conduct John Philip
Sousa's popular march "Stars and Stripes Forever."

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Undergraduate Composers

Monday, Nov. 9, 8pm, Jan Popper Theater
Free admission

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chambermusic@ucla
Vitaly Margulis, piano

Thu, November 12, 8 PM
Tickets: $12, $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)

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Hye-Won Cho, piano (DMA Recita)l

Saturday, Nov. 14, 8pm, Schoenberg Hall
Free admission

Program includes:

Liszt – Liebestraum
Liszt – Rigoletto
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite for two pianos
Schubert - Der Wanderer (solo piano and singer)
Schubert - Wanderer Fantasy (solo piano)

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UCLA Philharmonia & UCLA Chorale

Thu, November 19, 8 PM
Tickets: $15, $5 UCLA students (with ID)

UCLA Philharmonia is the featured ensemble in the inaugural public event of the new UCLA Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions. The concert is part of the Center’s Lincoln Bicentennial conference, and includes Copland's Canticle of Freedom
for chorus and orchestra (1955), and the world premiere of Lincoln Echoes, a cantata for narrator, tenor, baritone,
chorus and orchestra, based on texts by Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama, by UCLA
faculty member David Lefkowitz.

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Jubilate!: UCLA Early Music Ensemble and UCLA Brass Ensemble

Saturday, November 21
8:00 p.m.
Elisabeth LeGuin, Director
Free admission

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UCLA Symphony

Wed, December 2, 8 PM
Tickets: $12, $5 UCLA students (with ID)

Ayse Taspinar, piano; Henry Shin and Jorge Uzcategui, conductors.
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3; Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21; Balakirev: Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21.

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chambermusic@ucla
UCLA Faculty Composers
"Back to the 70s"

Thu, December 3, 8 PM
Tickets: $12, $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)

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UCLA Chorale, Chamber Singers, University Chorus & UCLA Philharmonia
Chamber Orchestra-- Handel’s “Messiah”

Sat, December 5, 8 PM
Royce Hall; parking: Lot 5
Tickets: $15, $10

Donald Neuen and Anthony Maglione, conductors; soloists TBA. Handel’s beloved oratorio, The Messiah.
UCLA Chamber Singers will provide pre-concert Carols in the Royce Hall lobby.