Today we received this news from Prof. Douglas Masek about an upcoming summer activity:

I have a very cool summer concert coming up Sunday, July 3 at LACMA (Los Angles County Museum of Art). I will be performing with pianist, Bryan Pezzone, and with my saxophone quartet ( Encore Saxophone Quartet). We’ll be playing [...]

The UCLA Drumline performed in Nagoya, Japan at the 27th Annual Ekitopia Festival Parade in May 2010. Fourteen members of the twenty-eight member drumline traveled on the all expense paid trip that included a side trip to Kyoto. Funding for the trip came from the Ekitopia* Festival, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Student [...]

Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje is professor and chair of the Ethnomusicology Department at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Professor DjeDje is author of the 2008 book, Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures, which won the Alan Merriam Prize. The award, given by the Society for Ethnomusicology to [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]