Kevork Andonian, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Music, has let us know that he had his composition Rhapsody played at Carnegie Hall recently, at a concert sponsort by the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU), which has a mission to preserve and promote Armenian identity and heritage through educational, cultural and humanitarian programs. [...]

Jeff Kryka has forwarded his comments on the 2008 ASCAP film and television scoring workshop mentioned in the September 11th blog. Here is what he has to say:
“I was admitted into the 20th Anniversary of ASCAP’s prestigious Film
and Television Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis. There were around
300 international applicants for this workshop, but only [...]

Jeff Kryka–a graduate student in composition with the Department of Music, has recently participate in an ASCAP workshop on film scoring, as reported in Variety You can read about the daily activities of Jeff and the other composers at the workshop on Variety’s website at: http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=ev_ascap

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

Here’s a request we had yesterday from Ryan Svendsen, a sophomore trumpet major in the Music Department:
Hi,
I am entering in a National Sigma Nu performing arts competition via Youtube. In my video, I pay tribute to famous Sigma Nu alumni by playing their songs or songs affiliated with them. The more views I [...]

As some of you may know, Prof. Roger Bourland in the Music Department and Prof. Mel Shapiro in the Theater Department have been working very hard all year at collaborating on a new musical, “Homer in Cyberspace.” Funding for the production has been provided by a grant from Artsbridge here at UCLA. Information [...]

On March 14th, the Music Department’s Senate faculty had an all-day planning retreat at May’s Landing, the wonderful Malibu property left to the University by Genevieve and Philip May. The Mays purchased a cottage on the bluffs of Point Dume in 1959, when there were only 3 houses on the point. Today it [...]

Last summer I went to Sophia, Bulgaria, for a performance of my Symphony Istanbul Tales by the Sophia Philharmonic.
Symphony Istanbul Tales is very personal to me. The themes that comprise the work were first composed during my days as a student at a European-Turkish style conservatory in my native city of Istanbul. I started [...]