We just heard this week about Brian Vu’s win at the Mondavi competition. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE COMPETITION WEBSITE Congratulations, Brian!

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 the [...]

Principal Guest Conductor Nipatdh Kanchanahuta joined the UCLA Wind Ensemble on March 2, 2011, performing “Chakra” by Narong Prangcharoen in Schoenberg Hall on the UCLA campus. Nipatdh Kanchanahuta is the Conductor of the Wind Symphony at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand. Composer Narong Prangcharoen has taught in the Western Music Department of Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, [...]

We have heard this morning from Antonio Lysy, Professor of cello, that two UCLA students have won top prizes at the local Edith Knox Competition. He says “I wanted to bring your attention to some excellent news about two of our students being prize winners in the finals of the recent Edith Knox Performance Competition. [...]

We’ve recently heard from Voice grad Doug Carpenter that he has had a string of excellent successes. He writes: “Hello Everyone! Last week I won 1st place and the people’s choice award at the Long Beach Mozart Festival Competition. Yesterday was even better… I won the gold medal at the America Traditions Competition in Savannah, [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

This is a little bit late at getting posted, but we did receive a note from Professor of Violin Guillaume Sutre, who adjudicated this prestigious violin competition, whichtook place in Paris this last November, between November 6th and 15th. You can read all about this event the Concours website: http://www.concours-long-thibaud.org/en-gb/le-concours-de-violon/. Here is a lovely photo [...]

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, [...]

In 2010-2011, the Fischoff Winner’s Tour will take a different and exciting turn. Both Gold Medal winners from the Senior Division of the 2010 Fischoff Competition, the Old City String Quartet and the Angeles Saxophone Quartet, will be invited back for a new Double Gold Tour. This is an enlargement of the annual Grand Prize [...]