Alexandra Grabarchuk, a third-year graduate student in the Department of Musicology, traveled to Finland in early December to present some of her pre-dissertation work at the Sibelius Institute’s Radical Music History Symposium.  Alexandra’s project explores radical art rock of the Soviet Union from the mid-‘70s, focusing on the complicated relationships between songwriters and the official [...]

Guillaume Sutre, Professor of Music and Head of Chamber Music, has informed us of upcoming performances of the Ysaÿe Quartet. See below for a detailed listing of the performances. For more information on the Ysaÿe Quartet, check out their website.
Quatuor Ysaÿe
Manchester (GB) 14.01.2012, Sat – 19:30 h
venue
Royal Northern College of Music 124 Oxford [...]

UCLA violinist Boryana Popova, who recently completed her DMA, and pianist Dr. James Lent performed a recital at the Pierce College on December 1, 2011. The program included pieces by Stravinsky, Kurtag, Cherkin, and Piazzolla. Both, Boryana and James shared that they had a wonderful experience.
The following article was published by Pierce College following [...]

On October 29, 2011 Kevork Andonian’s arrangement of Astor Piazzolla’s “Libertango” was performed by the Los Angeles Dream Orchestra at Zipper Hall as part of their debut concert.  The orchestra was founded by Daniel Suk who is also a Doctoral Candidate at HASOM. UCLA voice professor Vladimir Chernov and former UCLA vocal student Erin Wood [...]

Joshua Fishbein, a 2nd-year PhD student in music composition at UCLA, has recently won the Raymond W. Brock Memorial Student Composition Contest of the American Choral Directors Association. This contest is an opportunity for young composers to showcase their talents and have their work presented at an ACDA conference. Selected nationally, Fishbein’s work will be [...]

Roméo et Juliette photos by Robert Millard
Music Department professors Vladimir Chernov and Michael Dean (Chair of the Music Department) will be appearing in the L.A. Opera’s upcoming production of Charles Gounod’s tale of the famous star-crossed lovers, Roméo et Juliette. The conductor for this production will be Placido Domingo.
Professor Dean, as an “L.A. [...]

Photo credit: Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times
For those who missed the great article in the Los Angeles Times about Prof. Cheng’s recent concert:
The late composer Luciano Berio called his small but potent book of Harvard lectures “Remembering the Future.” And that seemingly paradoxical phrase informed Gloria Cheng’s nearly all-British Piano Spheres program Tuesday night at the [...]

We heard this week from Music Department clarinet professor par excellence, Gary Gray about his recent performance with the Pacific Serenades Quartet:
Here’s a photo taken at our performance of Robert Aldridge’s “Three Folk Songs” for clarinet & string quartet @ the International Clarinet Association’s Festival @ CSUN Northridge which was August 3–7.
The Pacific Serenades Quartet [...]

We have recently heard the following from Jean-Louis Rodrigue about the success of the play The Syringa Tree:
My dear friends,
I hope you’re enjoying the last days of summer. I’m really happy to give you great news:
On the 24th and 25th of September The Syringa Tree, the Obie, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle award winning [...]

Unseen Secrets, a choral work by composition PhD student Joshua Fishbein, was recently performed during the Awards Banquet at Chorus America’s National Conference in San Francisco. Performed and commissioned by the Oakland-based chorus WomenSing, Unseen Secrets was composed under the mentorship of acclaimed composer Libby Larsen as part of WomenSing’s Youth-Inspiring-Youth Composition Competition. WomenSing, [...]