UCLA organ professor Christoph Bull demonstrates the 1981 Noack tracker organ at the UCLA organ studio, including pedals, couplers and a build-up from soft to full organ. Live painter Norton Wisdom interprets the music.

UCLA organ professor Christoph Bull demonstrates the 1981 Noack tracker organ at the UCLA organ studio, starting with the manuals.

UCLA organ professor Christoph Bull joins UCLA students Hitomi Oba (tenor saxophone) and Nick DePinna (trombone) in “Triangular Improvisation” at 1st Organ Studio Strawberry Jam on June 11, 2008, at the UCLA organ studio. Live painter Norton Wisdom interprets the music. The organ is a 1981 Noack tracker.
The performance was filmed and recorded by UCLA [...]

UCLA organ professor Christoph Bull and UCLA saxophone student Hitomi Oba play Bach’s “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme”, re-arranged for organ and tenor saxophone, at 1st Organ Studio Strawberry Jam on June 11, 2008, at the UCLA organ studio. Live painter Norton Wisdom interprets the music. The organ is a 1981 Noack tracker. The [...]

We have received the following great news about two of our graduates–Monica Covitt, BA Education 2009, and Penelope Turgeon, DMA Performance 2009. Please see the two press releases, below.
LOS ANGELES RESIDENT AND UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES GRADUATE MONICA COVITT SELECTED AS FALL 2009 INTERN AT THE KENNEDY CENTER
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The John. F. [...]

UCLA Organist and professor Christoph Bull performed music by and improvisations on Bach (augmented by a laser light show) on one of the world’s two largest church pipe organs, at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, on October 23, 2009.

Professor Neal Stulberg, Director of Orchestral Studies for the Department of Music, has shared this news about a recent performance by the Shanghai Jiaotong University Orchestra’s visit, and the photos below were shared by Director Tim Rice of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music:
“On September 25 at Schoenberg Hall, the UCLA Herb Alpert School [...]

New York Times
October 8, 2009, 11:17 AM
Cast Changes in Met’s ‘Stiffelio’
By DAVE ITZKOFF

The role of Lina in the Metropolitan Opera’s coming production of Verdi’s “Stiffelio” will be shared between the American sopranos Sondra Radvanovsky and Julianna Di Giacomo. They are replacing Angela Marambio, the Chilean soprano, who has withdrawn, the Met said in [...]

Review: Opera San Jose’s ‘Manon’ takes off like a jet, then levels off
By Richard Scheinin
rscheinin@mercurynews.com
Posted: 09/13/2009 04:17:14 PM PDT
Updated: 09/13/2009 06:56:19 PM PDT
All photos by Pat Kirk.
Krassen Karagiozov as Lescaut and Alexander Boyer as the Opera San Jose’s new production of “Manon” takes off like a jet. It’s a refreshing French confection. It’s chiffon. [...]

We have just received an email from Professor Juliana Gondek about her activities during Spring Quarter and the early part of the summer. Here is what she shared with us:
“During my Spring Quarter sabbatical leave, I traveled to Italy to give a series of talks on Handel opera and teach master classes to voice [...]