Clarinet Professor Gary Gray has let us know that on Monday, June 30th of this year, he was honored to be able to give a clarinet recital at the annual convention of the Music Teachers Association of California, held this year at the Marriott and Convention Center in Riverside, California. He performed works by […]

We have heard from student Matt Sandler, who is this year’s official blographer for the Music Department’s Summer Chamber Music Institute for high school students. Here is what he has to say:
“With the UCLA Summer Chamber Music Institute well on its way, this year’s participants have been on a whirlwind musical adventure thus far. […]

Over the 4th of July weekend, Professor of Trumpet Jens Lindemann performed at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, collaborating with Professor Don Neuen’s Cathedral Choir in a great rendition of “America the Beautiful.” You can watch the piece performed online at the Crystal Cathedral’s website at: http://www.crystalcathedral.org/hour_of_power/index.php.
Find the clip of the trumpet […]

We have heard from Music Department professor Gary Gray that he was guest artist and faculty at Margaret Thornhill’s Claremont Clarinet Festival, which was held from June 9th - 15th at Pomona College. MM Student Tanitra Flenaugh from UCLA also participated.

Gary Gray, left, with Margaret Thornhill, Director of the festival, and Michele Zukovsky, 1st […]

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 […]