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 […]

Found recently on Youtube is a performance by our own Music Department Professor Vitaly Margulis–Enjoy!

Fast-rising soprano Khori Dastoor is thrilled to return to her hometown of Pasadena for a second performance with Cal Phil. (We hope you caught her appearance as Gretel in last season’s presentation of Hansel and Gretel at the Ambassador Auditorium.) Currently, Khori is a principal artist in residence with Opera San José, where her recent […]

From Prof. Movses Pogossian:
I am very proud of the splendid performance given by the UCLA student string quartet this past Saturday, March 15th, 2008, at the USC’s Town & Gown. The occasion was a high profile Symposium on Armenian Music, organized by the USC Friends of Armenian Music. The panelists were renowned Armenian composer […]