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 [...]

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. [...]

Over the 4th of July weekend, Professor of Trumpet Jens Lindemann performed at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, collaborating with Professor Don Neuen’s Cathedral Choir in a great rendition of “America the Beautiful.” You can watch the piece performed online at the Crystal Cathedral’s website at: http://www.crystalcathedral.org/hour_of_power/index.php.
Find the clip of the trumpet [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]