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The Herb Alpert School of Music will use the fund to contribute to research, scholarship and programs in the field at the undergraduate, graduate and faculty levels.

The National Medal of Arts recipient and nine-time Grammy winner will receive the campus’s highest honor on June 16.

The program started in 2001 with 36 participants from disadvantaged homes in Los Angeles. Eight years later, Martin was at the White House to receive the nation’s highest honor for an arts-based youth program.

Thanks to the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, more than 60 recordings of performances by trumpeter, composer and bandleader Don Ellis (1934-1978) are now available for your online listening pleasure.

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music joins the international music community with a program of chamber works, panels and lectures honoring Adams as he turns 70.

An internationally renowned team of musicians, composers, computer scientists, visual artists and fashion designers redefine the classical concert experience.

Judith Smith has been appointed founding dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA’s newest school and the first school of music to be established in the University of California system.

Lineup features more than two dozen performances by student ensembles as well as programs and master classes by faculty artists, composers, scholars and guest artists.

A 45-minute set of original music written by the members of the ensemble from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA will be followed by an open jam session.

The new livestreamed interview series called “Office Hours” will launch Jan. 19 and showcase prominent artists and entertainment executives sharing wisdom and advice.

Jazz, classical, world music, and composition faculty and staff at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music are among the artists who contributed to projects recognized by the Recording Academy with 2017 Grammy nominations.

The jazz guitar great celebrated his 85th birthday with a concert that raised money for an endowed chair in his name.

“Far From Moscow” festival will bring together popular and classical music artists, film, cuisine and graphic art from Russia, the Ukraine and the Baltics.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's Department of Theater has announced its upcoming Mainstage theater season for the academic year 2016-17, which includes "Carrie the Musical," an adaptation of the popular Stephen King novel "Carrie."

The World Arts and Cultures professor is renowned worldwide for his innovative treatments of classical material.

Farzad Amoozegar-Fassaie and other musicians in a free performance at the Fowler Museum at 6 p.m., Oct. 5.

All proceeds from “The Kenny Burrell 85: Artist, Legend, Legacy" concert will help establish an endowed chair in jazz studies in Burrell’s name at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

The 20-time Grammy Award-winning guitarist comes to Royce Hall for the first time in 14 years.

UCLA representatives traveled to Bangkok to offer a cultural treasure in gratitude for support.

Students in “Intro to Oceanography” spoof music videos for the sake of science.

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television professor Myung Hee Cho helped create a new musical show for Shanghai Disney's fairytale castle.

As a part of the UCLA Health Initiative, the Semel Institute’s Mindful Music program offers free musical performances to relax one’s mind.

On Thursday at 8 p.m., trombonist Michael Vlatkovich and his band of versatile improvisers will perform in the Hammer Museum’s courtyard as part of the museum's 11th annual Jazz POP series of free concerts.  

The UCLA faculty member and university organist recorded music for the movie on the world's largest functional church pipe organ.

Professor Shana Redmond connects the language and themes of slave narratives with the song Jay-Z released in response to the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.