UCLA to launch concert series April 4

The UCLA Department of Music offers a variety of events for the public's enjoyment throughout the year. Programs include faculty and student recitals and performances of high artistic accomplishment in various genres, as well as visiting artists of national and international renown.

Programs are subject to change. For updated information and confirmation of events, the public may call 310-825-4761 or visit www.music.ucla.edu.

Tickets may be purchased through the UCLA Central Ticket Office by calling 310-825-2101 or visiting www.tickets.ucla.edu.

Campus parking for Schoenberg Hall is available in Lot 2 (enter campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues); parking for Macgowan Hall is available in Lot 3 (enter campus at Hilgard Avenue and Wyton Drive); and parking for Royce Hall is available in Lot 5 (enter campus at Sunset and Westwood boulevards). All-day parking ($9) and short-term parking (payable at pay stations) are available at various campus locations.

PERFORMANCES

Saturday, April 4 7 p.m.
UCLA Philharmonia
Neal Stulberg, conductor
Schoenberg Hall
Free
As part of the Duke Ellington's 110th Birthday Anniversary Festival of Music at UCLA (April 4–5), the UCLA Philharmonia will perform specially selected extended works by Ellington, with special guest, renowned vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater. Jens Lindemann, trumpeter and director of a new student brass ensemble, will play Ellington compositions, and Ellington's "Music for String Quartet," arranged by Paul Chihara, will be featured. Solo guest artists: pianist Tom Ranier, vocalist Bill Henderson, percussionist Clayton Cameron, and guitarist and UCLA Jazz Studies director Kenny Burrell. For more information and a complete schedule of Ellington Festival events, visit www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu or www.friendsofjazz.ucla.edu.

Friday–Saturday, April 17–18 Wednesday, April 22 Friday–Saturday, April 24–25 8 p.m.
Opera UCLA: Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas"
James Darrah, director Peter Rutenberg, conductor Macgowan Hall
Little Theater
Tickets: $17 general, $15 seniors (55 and over), $7 students (with ID)
Henry Purcell's English Baroque opera "Dido and Aeneas" (c. 1689), directed by M.F.A. candidate James Darrah and conducted by Peter Rutenberg, centers on the doomed romance between the fugitive Trojan warrior Aeneas and Dido, the queen of Carthage. The production is by the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, in collaboration with the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Monday, April 20 8 p.m.
UCLA Percussion Ensemble
Mitchell Peters, director
Schoenberg Hall
Free
This event will feature the premiere of the winning composition from the 2008–09 UCLA Percussion Ensemble Composition Contest and other works, including Tom Gauger's "Portico" and Nigel Westlake's "Omphalo Centric Lecture."

Thursday, April 23 8 p.m.
UCLA Philharmonia
Neal Stulberg, conductor
Schoenberg Hall
Tickets: $10, $5 seniors and students (with ID)
The program features the winners of the 2009 Atwater Kent Concerto Competition — Jack Kent (trumpet) and Stephanie Ou (piano) — and will include Neruda's Concerto in E flat Major for Trumpet and Strings, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor") Op. 73, Strauss' "Don Juan" Op. 20 and Hindemith's "Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber."

Wednesday, May 13 8 p.m.
UCLA Wind Ensemble — "Winter in Spring"
Thomas Lee, conductor
Robert Winter, guest conductor
Schoenberg Hall
Tickets: $10, $5 seniors and students (with ID)
Robert Winter will conduct the UCLA Wind Ensemble in John Adams' "Short Ride in a Fast Machine," an exhilarating minimalist composition by one of new music's most acclaimed composers. The program will also include George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," Respighi's "Feste Romane" and Sweelinck's variations on "Mein junges Leben hat ein End."

Thursday, May 14 8 p.m.
Mark O'Connor, violinist and composer
Schoenberg Hall
Tickets: $15, $7 seniors and students (with ID)
Mark O'Connor, a Grammy-winning violinist, cellist and pianist and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music's artist-in-residence for 2008–09, and friends perform a multifaceted program together. O'Connor is widely recognized as one of the most gifted contemporary composers in America and one of the brightest talents of his generation. The New York Times called his work "one of the most spectacular journeys in recent American music."

Wednesday–Thursday, May 20–21 8 p.m.
Opera UCLA: Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel"
Scott Dunn, conductor
Peter Kazaras, stage director
Schoenberg Hall
Tickets: $10; $5
UCLA faculty, seniors and students (with ID) This semi-staged concert performance with the UCLA Philharmonia is conducted by Scott Dunn, associate conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. "Carousel," with tunes such as "If I Loved You," "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "June is Bustin' Out All Over," is one of Richard Rodgers' master scores.

Wednesday, May 27 8 p.m.
UCLA Symphony and University Chorus
Stephen Karr and Henry Shin, conductors
Schoenberg Hall
Tickets: $10, $5 seniors and students (with ID)
This symphonic program, conducted by graduate students in orchestral conducting, will feature Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet: Overture-Fantasy," Leonard Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E minor ("From the New World") Op. 95.

Wednesday, June 3 8 p.m.
University Chorus
Graduate student conductors
Schoenberg Hall
Tickets: $10, $5 seniors and students (with ID)
This event offers a varied program of choral works from the Renaissance to the present day, featuring graduate students in choral conducting.

Saturday, June 6 8 p.m.
UCLA Chorale, Angeles Chorale and UCLA Philharmonia — Haydn's "The Creation"
Donald Neuen, conductor
Courtney Taylor, soprano
Daniel Suk, tenor
Steve Pence, baritone
Royce Hall
Tickets: $40, $30, $20
For the 200th anniversary of the death of the "father of the symphony," Franz Joseph Haydn, one of the most prominent classical composers, the Angeles Chorale, the UCLA Chorale and the UCLA Philharmonia will perform "The Creation," with stirring choruses and rapturous arias illuminating the words of Genesis, Psalms and Milton's "Paradise Lost."