In February, 2011 Kevork Andonian’s new piece for piano entitled “Echoes from a Distant Land” was performed in three European cities at concerts and masterclasses spearheaded by “Young Music Project”, a new music organization founded by composers Hervé Legrand and Thomas Malarbet. Kevork received funding from the Herb Alpert Student Opportunity Fund to attend [...]

Composer/conductor Dwayne Milburn
Dwayne Milburn, a Ph.D. graduate of the Music Department’s composition program, has premiered a new work with the local chamber music program Pacific Serenades, directed by Professor Mark Carlson of the UCLA Music Department
They were both interviewed recently by John Rabe for KPCC. Listen to the entire interview (not long) at:
http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2011/01/22/pacific-serenades-celebrates-25-years-of-music/

We’ve just received the following press release from the National Lutheran Choir–congratulations Josh!:
NATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR
ANNOUNCES CHORAL COMPETITION WINNER
JOSHUA FISHBEIN
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota . . . The National Lutheran Choir (“NLC”) is pleased to announce that May the Words of My Mouth by Joshua Fishbein has been chosen as the winner of the NLC’s 25th Anniversary Choral Competition. [...]

We have more news from busy composer Kevork Andonian. He writes:
Composition by UCLA PhD Candidate Kevork Andonian performed in Toronto, Canada and on a subsequent multi-city tour in Spain
“A Longing for Joy”, a composition by Kevork Andonian originally written for flute and marimba and released on the Naxos music label earlier this year, [...]

We have received the following from Professor Bourland, Chair of the Department of Music:
“Come celebrate the work of Zelda Rubinstein in perhaps the last great film you have yet to see her featured in; CAGES (90min). This one-time screening is to benefit the Blind Childrens Center (www.blindchildrenscenter.org), Zelda’s favorite charity organization that she became actively [...]

What first strikes me about John Cale as he comes onstage is his hair. A full rainbow of color sits atop his head. And these colorful locks bestow an unearthly quality to an otherwise unassuming figure. Having acknowledged our applause in kind, soft-spoken words, he bangs out a D minor chord at [...]

Just received from Music Department professor Neal Stulberg, Director of Orchestral Studies:
“On July 24, 2010 at Mannes College in New York, I was honored to participate in a daylong centennial tribute to Leonard Shure (1910-1995), a magnificent American pianist and one of my formative teachers. The symposium included sessions about Shure’s recordings, showings of master [...]

If you have seen the commercials released immediately after the launch of the iPad, you have seen (very briefly) a pair of hands playing the piano. Those hands belong to Music Department Chair, Professor Roger Bourland.

If you’d like to watch the whole commercial, visit this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fihOmQY-JxY&feature=player_embedded

Kevork Andonian our prolific and very busy composition PhD student, has announced the July 1st release of his piece for flute and marimba entitled “A Longing For Joy” on the Naxos record label recorded by flutist Marc Grauwels and marimbist Sarah Mouradoglou. Kevork wrote the piece while pursuing his doctoral studies in composition at [...]

We have just heard from Music Department Professor Juliana Gondek about her upcoming summer activities. She shared the following information and photo:
“I’ll be premiering the Voice/piano version of Bruce Babcock’s “This Is What I Know: Four Poems of Dorothy Parker” on July 5, 2010 at the Music Teachers’ Association’s Annual Convention at the [...]