Mrs. Carol Block, music-loving wife of our Chancellor Gene Block, has been hosting a series of recitals for the last two years at the Chancellor’s residence featuring artists from different departments. Another such recital took place May 27th, and featured Music Department DMA violin student Ji Young An and DMA piano student Young Ah [...]

On June 3rd the art song class of Judith Hansen presented an outstanding and extraordinary concert of all-Russian art songs, by such great Russian composers as Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Glinka, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Voloshin. Most of these songs are seldom performed in this country, but with the able coaching of Professor Vladimir Chernov, who assisted [...]

Christina, who graduated from UCLA with an MM in Voice, has won a prestigious award–she is the first participant in the Deborah Voigt/Vero Beach Opera Foundation’s Protegee Mentoring program. Please read the artcle by Peter Pringle in its entirety in the TC Palm news at: http://tcpalm.com/news/2009/may/28/voigt-selects-protegee-to-mentor-for-program/.
Congratulations, Christina!

As many of you know, Professor Guillaume Sutre of the UCLA Department of Music is also the first violin of the renowned Ysaye Quartet.
He writes:
“A few weeks ago, the Guarneri quartet was canceling its farewell tour in Europe because of health issues of one of the members. Their manager asked us [...]

Just another reminder–Woodwind World is almost upon us. Prof. Gary Gray has provided the attached photo of participants:

Back row, left to right: Professors Jonathan Davis, Gary Gray, John Steinmetz, and Brian O’Connor
Front row, left to right: Justin Takamine, bassoon, Theodosia Roussos, oboe, Jackie Hancock, horn, and Virginia Figuereido, clarinet
“It’s a Woodwind World III”
Wednesday [...]

We thought you might be interested in reading a couple of the recent reviews of Opera UCLA’s production of Le Nozze de Figaro. Photos are courtesy of Mona Lands.
From reviewer Carrie Delmar for Opera Online:
Opera UCLA scores big with Mozart’s
‘Le Nozze di Figaro.’ WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
OPERA UCLA
FEBRUARY 6, 2009 By: Carie J. [...]

We received this news from Ethnomusicology student Nolan Warden about an exciting performance in which he participated this month in the Canary Islands. He has also shared some photos of the experience.
Nolan says:
“In the first week of February, I traveled to the Canary Islands to perform in “La Pasion Segun San Marcos” by Osvaldo [...]

We have just received the following review, written by Richard Scheinin of the Mercury News,mentioning UCLA voice major Khori Dhastoor with much enthusiasm.
Opera San Jose’s new production of “Cosi fan tutte” is a winner. It’s about love, lust and sexual manipulation: Mozart’s opera is a modern opera, and the new production gets that. It’s classy [...]

Graduate composition student Kevork Andonian shared this news with us when we sent out a request for blogging materials–it may be a little bit late, but is still great news!
On May 30th, 2008, Kevork Andonian’s piece entitled A Longing For Joy was premiered by world-renowned flutist Marc Grauwels and virtuosic marimbist Sarah Mouradoglou at a [...]

Professor Lysy sent us the photo below of himself and Canadian pianist Jane Coop perform in Victoria, British Columbia , as a part of a seven concert tour of the province, playing the complete cycle of the sonatas by Beethoven. This particular concert occurred last week on January 29th.