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 […]

We have hears this from Professor Juliana Gondek about her former student Shannon Haley:
“I’ve just gotten word that one of my former undergraduate voice students, Shannon Haley, has released a new CD of country western love songs, “Someday Soon”, which has received a rave review from one of the top internet country music sites. Her […]

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 […]

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 […]