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 [...]

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 [...]

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, winner [...]

Pablo Hopenhayn, a graduate student pursuing an interdisciplinary in the School of the Arts and Architecture, has shared news of his required final project, which is the creation of a company which brings together all of the things he learned in my major: classical and jazz composition, violin performance, sound engineering and music industry. He [...]

Most of you will remember from former years the Music Department’s cello professor Antonio Lysy (winner of this year’s Latin Grammy for his CD Antonio Lysy at the Broad–Music from Argentina); Link to a recent review can be found at: http://www.antoniolysy.com/2011/?page_id=27. He is continuing his ongoing sponsorship of a very special music festival in Siena, [...]

Kevork Andonian, Music graduate student in composition (whom we have blogged about several times) sent us the following email about his summer activities–glad you are keeping busy, Kevork! “Kevork Andonian, UCLA PhD Candidate in Music Composition, had his composition for flute and marimba entitled A Longing For Joy performed at this year’s “Piccolo Spoleto Festival” [...]

Professor Juliana Gondek has shared some news about some of her students’ activities (and alumni) this summer: “Here’s some summer news about some of my students: UCLA Voice alumna Khori Dastoor is singing the role of “Mabel” in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR. This production [...]

Peter Yates, professor of guitar in the Music Department, sent in this short note about his summer activities: “My summer begins with performances on bowed guitar (arpeggione) at the Los Angeles Guitar Festival, and then moves on to various recording projects. These include “Four Bagatelles” for two guitars by UCLA MFA alumnus Buzz Gravelle, “Five [...]

We have received an interesting update from Tamir Hendelman, who also appears to have an exciting summer planned. After another exciting year at UCLA, this June he will be recording his fourth CD with the Jeff Hamilton Trio, a follow-up to last fall’s Symbiosis, which topped the Jazzweek charts. Also on the summer schedule: A [...]

We have heard from Musicologh Ph.D. Student Jeremy Mikush about his fun and wide-ranging summer activities. Here is a quick blog about what he is doing this summer: Jeremy Mikush, a Ph.D. candidate in the Musicology Department, has been in France since early June practicing his French and doing research in Paris for an article [...]