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. [...]

UCLA Organist and professor Christoph Bull performed music by and improvisations on Bach (augmented by a laser light show) on one of the world’s two largest church pipe organs, at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, on October 23, 2009.

Professor Neal Stulberg, Director of Orchestral Studies for the Department of Music, has shared this news about a recent performance by the Shanghai Jiaotong University Orchestra’s visit, and the photos below were shared by Director Tim Rice of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music:
“On September 25 at Schoenberg Hall, the UCLA Herb Alpert School [...]

New York Times
October 8, 2009, 11:17 AM
Cast Changes in Met’s ‘Stiffelio’
By DAVE ITZKOFF

The role of Lina in the Metropolitan Opera’s coming production of Verdi’s “Stiffelio” will be shared between the American sopranos Sondra Radvanovsky and Julianna Di Giacomo. They are replacing Angela Marambio, the Chilean soprano, who has withdrawn, the Met said in [...]

Review: Opera San Jose’s ‘Manon’ takes off like a jet, then levels off
By Richard Scheinin
rscheinin@mercurynews.com
Posted: 09/13/2009 04:17:14 PM PDT
Updated: 09/13/2009 06:56:19 PM PDT
All photos by Pat Kirk.
Krassen Karagiozov as Lescaut and Alexander Boyer as the Opera San Jose’s new production of “Manon” takes off like a jet. It’s a refreshing French confection. It’s chiffon. [...]

We have just received an email from Professor Juliana Gondek about her activities during Spring Quarter and the early part of the summer. Here is what she shared with us:
“During my Spring Quarter sabbatical leave, I traveled to Italy to give a series of talks on Handel opera and teach master classes to voice [...]

We received this news from Ethnomusicology student Nolan Warden about an exciting performance in which he participated this month in the Canary Islands. He has also shared some photos of the experience.
Nolan says:
“In the first week of February, I traveled to the Canary Islands to perform in “La Pasion Segun San Marcos” by Osvaldo [...]

Professor Gary Gray–Area Chair for Winds in the Department of Music, has forwardedd this early notice of a unique upcoming concert:
THE UCLA HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC will present it’s Woodwind Faculty and special guest Professor Neal Stulberg plus outstanding Music Department students… [...]

Peter Yates, Professor of guitar in the Department of Music, will show some of the results of his recent investigations into the arpeggione (19th-century bowed guitar) in a concert at 4pm on Sunday Feb. 1st in the organ studio. He has had to build his own instrument (cruelly sacrificing a beautiful baby cello and a [...]

We are delighted to announce that HASOM has hired Cheri Quinto as Assistant to Professor Tim Rice, the Director of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Her office is in Room 2554, across from the Music and Ethnomusicology Department offices. Please drop in and introduce yourself when you have a [...]