music

The jazz legend mentored musicians, and in this spirit the virtuoso grad students study with modern masters like Herbie Hancock and Kenny Burrell, and in turn share their expertise with thousands of students in local schools.

“Pitch Perfect 2” making you crave a cappella? Check out these performances by Bruin groups.

A little-known piano in Schoenberg Hall, a gift from the estate of actor Edward G. Robinson, bears the signatures of some of the 20th century’s greatest composers and musicians.

The Ralph J. Bunche Center will host a conversation with John Densmore, writer, actor and drummer for the iconic rock group, The Doors, from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13 at the Faculty Center Hacienda Room.

The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents a free two-part concert of Anatolian and classical Persian music at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 7.

UCLA's Bridges East and West Music Festival, May 2-8, is a cultural exchange and collaboration between musicians from China and the United States. 

Spring Sing, an annual showcase for talented students, features a top-tier selection of performers who compete for top honors. This year's event will be held May 16 at Pauley Pavilion.

Raymond Knapp has been selected for the 2015 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. Knapp will complete a one-month residency in Bogliasco, Italy, where he will complete his latest book on Haydn and American popular music.

India Carney, a senior at UCLA and a singer at major campus events, was selected as one of 20 finalists vying to win the eighth season of NBC’s “The Voice.”

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month in April with a series of free events presented by UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.

On the UCLA campus, a conference, a film series and a new opera commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Love of punk music and a passion for activism inspire a UCLA musicology professor who studies the nuclear legacy of the Marshall Islands and plays guitar in a band.

Su Yin Mak, an internationally known music theorist and a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has joined the UCLA music department as a visiting scholar.

Magnetic media, which are deteriorating, make up half of the holdings in archive. To save the most significant materials that are relevant to California the archive has begun posting them online.

Kal Raustiala writes in an op-ed that the jury was incorrect and that copyright law is intended to create incentives for artists to produce new creative works, not ensure basic fairness.

These old songs in UCLA’s Sheet Music Collection show that love songs aren’t what they used to be.

UCLA Musicology will open the floodgates of Bruin faculty and student musical talent Thursday, Jan. 29 with “UCLA Sings!” The free concert launches a two-day conference.

Using a series of weekly 30-minute concerts held in various campus locations, Mindful Music, a community project that features some of UCLA’s most talented music students, aims to shed light on how music impacts personal stress levels.

Some of the world’s most talented, up-and-coming young jazz musicians call UCLA home as students and fellows of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.

Jens Lindemann, professor of trumpet at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music was named to the Order of Canada for his skill as a world-renowned trumpet soloist.

The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture offers more than 150 public events for winter 2015.

The new music building on campus is alive with the sounds of students learning, practicing, studying and socializing. UCLA video.

'Sounds of the Season' will be presented by the UCLA choral program on Saturday, Dec. 13, 8 p.m., at Schoenberg Hall.

UCLA professor emeritus of music Roger Bourland, a renowned composer and musician, will premiere his grand opera,  “La Paloma y el Ruiseñor,” at the Teatro Angela Peralta in Mazatlán, Mexico, on Nov. 14.

Natividad “Nati” Cano, Grammy-winning mariachi leader and former director of the Music of Mexico Ensemble at UCLA, died Oct. 3. Cano played a major role in bringing mariachi music from local cafes to concert halls around the world.