UCLA Department of Music Theory and Composition professor Mark Carlson has let us know that two of his seminal works, View from the Hilltop for clarinet, string trio, and piano, and his Piano Quartet. In addition, excerpts will be played from his Hall of Mirrors.. Please read all about this upcoming performance at: http://www.coloradochamberplayers.org/events/mark_carlson

For those of you interested in great performances of contemporary music under the direction of acclaimed Grammy-winning pianist Gloria Cheng, please plan to attend the upcoming concert of UCLA’s Contempo Flux Contemporary Music Ensemble. ———————————- The Contempo Flux Spring 2012 chamber music concert will be held on Sunday, June 10th, at 2:00. Our moveable program [...]

We have heard some great news from composition grad Drew Schnurr–the film “Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist”, produced and directed by Peter Jay Brown and with music by Drew Schnurr, has premiered internationally and will be released in the U.S. on April 22nd–Earth Day. He has provided the following information: CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO-TERRORIST, a film [...]

Kevork Andonian was one of five composers selected for the 2012 Emerging Composer-Director Match-Up Programme jointly organized by the Screen Composers Guild of Canada and the Canadian Film Centre (CFC).  This programme takes place annually in Toronto and is akin to the ASCAP Television and Film Scoring Workshop held every summer in Los Angeles.  Kevork was [...]

On October 29, 2011 Kevork Andonian’s arrangement of Astor Piazzolla’s “Libertango” was performed by the Los Angeles Dream Orchestra at Zipper Hall as part of their debut concert.  The orchestra was founded by Daniel Suk who is also a Doctoral Candidate at HASOM. UCLA voice professor Vladimir Chernov and former UCLA vocal student Erin Wood [...]

Joshua Fishbein, a 2nd-year PhD student in music composition at UCLA, has recently won the Raymond W. Brock Memorial Student Composition Contest of the American Choral Directors Association. This contest is an opportunity for young composers to showcase their talents and have their work presented at an ACDA conference. Selected nationally, Fishbein’s work will be [...]

Photo credit: Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times For those who missed the great article in the Los Angeles Times about Prof. Cheng’s recent concert: The late composer Luciano Berio called his small but potent book of Harvard lectures “Remembering the Future.” And that seemingly paradoxical phrase informed Gloria Cheng’s nearly all-British Piano Spheres program Tuesday night [...]

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 [...]

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” [...]