Music Department visiting professor Gloria Cheng, who has taught for us in several areas, has a new interview on YouTube in which she discusses differences between playing for performance and for recordings, as well as her well-known interest in contemporary music. You can see, and listen to, the interview at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHQ0HX3yl3E

The Department of Music’s Professor Antonio Lysy would like us to know about the 20th Anniversary of a music festival in Italy with which he has been associated for many years. Incontri de Terra in Sienna will take place from July 25th - August 3rd in Siena Italy, and will feature some of the […]

Grand Prize Winner of the Carmel Music Society Piano Competition
Trinity Lutheran Church, Manhattan Beach
Friday, May 2, 2008 - 12:15-12:45 p.m. - Free

JUDY HUANG piano
Pianist Judy Huang was Grand Prize Winner of the 2004 Carmel Music Society Piano Competition. She made her debut solo recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in 2006 and was asked […]

On April 13, 2008, Vienna Opera coach and conductor David Aronson and his wife, soprano Sylvia Greenberg (bios below), gave a remarkable master class for UCLA voice majors. Sylvia and David were in Los Angeles for a LACMA Bing Theater recital the night before, and were able to fit the class in before heading […]

Photograph by Beth Coller. Courtesy of the L.A. Times
A talented ingenue L.A. Opera’s soprano, Angel Joy Blue, in L.A. Opera’s costume shop, was born to sing.
By Laurie Winer, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 6, 2008
When she was born, Angel Joy Blue’s father, Sylvester Blue, held her up and noticed that she had a […]

Here’s a request we had yesterday from Ryan Svendsen, a sophomore trumpet major in the Music Department:
Hi,
I am entering in a National Sigma Nu performing arts competition via Youtube. In my video, I pay tribute to famous Sigma Nu alumni by playing their songs or songs affiliated with them. The more views I […]

As some of you may know, Prof. Roger Bourland in the Music Department and Prof. Mel Shapiro in the Theater Department have been working very hard all year at collaborating on a new musical, “Homer in Cyberspace.” Funding for the production has been provided by a grant from Artsbridge here at UCLA. Information […]

Professor Olivia Bloechl
We have just learned that Professor Olivia Bloech has been awarded an ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, which will fund a year’s leave and enable her to write her second book, The Politics of Memory in French Baroque Opera. Research for the book will take her to archives in Paris, Marseilles, […]

Fast-rising soprano Khori Dastoor is thrilled to return to her hometown of Pasadena for a second performance with Cal Phil. (We hope you caught her appearance as Gretel in last season’s presentation of Hansel and Gretel at the Ambassador Auditorium.) Currently, Khori is a principal artist in residence with Opera San José, where her recent […]