UCLA Dept. of Music offers concerts and more beginning Jan. 20

The UCLA Department of Music is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this winter. 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.

For ticketed events, contact the UCLA Central Ticket Office at 310-825-2101 or www.tickets.ucla.edu.

Campus parking is available for $10 (all-day); short-term parking is also available (payable at pay stations). For events at Schoenberg Hall and the UCLA Powell Library Rotunda, park in Lot 2 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues).

CONCERTS & PRODUCTIONS

Thursday, Jan. 20 8 p.m.
UCLA Philharmonia: 'All-Star' Concert
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Tickets: $12; $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The UCLA Philharmonia presents its sixth annual "All-Star" Concert, an evening of concerto performances featuring UCLA's finest student soloists, including Young Ah Ha (piano), Eric Lee (cello), Sara Marsh (clarinet), Goni Eshed (trumpet), Ariel Campos (marimba), Alice Dickinson (voice), Ryan Weston (alto saxophone) and Luke Santonastaso (violin).

Friday, Jan. 28 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
UCLA Chorale and Chamber Singers present: Bach Night
UCLA Powell Library Rotunda
Free
This program features "Christ lag in Todesbanden," BWV 4; "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft," BWV 50; and "Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott," BWV 80.

Friday, Feb. 11 8 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons'
UCLA Powell Library Rotunda
Free
UCLA freshmen string students perform a popular annual showcase of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" and other concertos, with the participation of the string faculty.

Sunday, Feb. 13 6 p.m.
UCLA Camarades
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Bing Theater, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
Free
UCLA Camarades returns to LACMA's prestigious "Sundays Live" series to perform Erich Zeisl's Suite for String Quartet and Johannes Brahms' String Sextet in B Flat Major, Op. 18.

Tuesday, Feb. 15 8 p.m.
chambermusic@ucla presents
'It's a Woodwind World 5'
Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Music Building
Tickets: $12; $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
UCLA woodwind faculty and outstanding music department students present an eclectic program including the music of Nielsen and Piazzola, with other surprises to be announced. Performers include Sheridon Stokes (flute), Jonathan Davis (oboe), Gary Gray (clarinet), John Steinmetz (bassoon), Douglas Masek (saxophone) and Chris Cooper (horn).

Friday, Feb. 18, 8 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 20, 2 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 26, 2 p.m.
Opera UCLA and UCLA Philharmonia present
Poulenc's 'Dialogues of the Carmelites'
Peter Kazaras, stage director
Neal Stulberg, conductor
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Tickets: $12; $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
One of the most justly celebrated operas of the 20th century, Francis Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites" follows a young woman’s spiritual journey from fear to faith during the French Revolution. The shattering final scene has stunned audiences ever since the work's premiere in 1957. The fully staged production will be sung in French with English subtitles. All productions of Opera UCLA are made possible through the generous support of the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation.

Tuesday, March 1 8 p.m.
chambermusic@ucla presents
UCLA Faculty Composers
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Tickets: $12; $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
UCLA faculty artists, students and guests will perform an array of works by faculty composers from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music's department of music, representing 20 years of creative output. Featured composers include Roger Bourland, Mark Carlson, Paul Chihara, Ian Krouse and David Lefkowitz.

Wednesday, March 2 8 p.m.
UCLA Wind Ensemble with Nipatdh Kanchanahuta
Nipatdh Kanchanahuta and William Plenk, guest conductors
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Tickets: $12; $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The program features works by Narong Prangcharoen, Kitti Kuramanee, Ira Hearshen, John Mackey, Satoshi Yagisawa and His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.

Wednesday, March 9 8 p.m.
UCLA Symphony
Helen Chon, Amber Kim and Rebecca Lord, conductors
Courtney Jones, trumpet
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music
Building Tickets: $12; $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The UCLA Symphony will perform Beethoven's Overture to "Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus," Op. 43; Hummel’s Concerto for Trumpet in E flat; Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia"; Verdi’s Triumphal March and Ballet Music from "Aida"; and Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."

Thursday, March 10 8 p.m.
UCLA Philharmonia
Neal Stulberg, conductor
Movses Pogossian, violin
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Tickets: $12; $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The program includes Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta"; Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. Posth.; and Suite from "The Miraculous Mandarin," Op. 19.

Saturday, March 12 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
UCLA Chamber Singers University Chorus UCLA Chorale
Winter Concert
Rebecca Lord, Donald Neuen and graduate students, conductors
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Tickets: $12; $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The UCLA Chamber Singers, the University Chorus and the UCLA Chorale present a varied program of choral repertoire.

Sunday, March 13 6 p.m.
UCLA Philharmonia
Neal Stulberg, conductor
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Bing Theater, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
Free
The UCLA Philharmonia returns to LACMA's prestigious "Sundays Live" series to perform Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta" and Suite from "The Miraculous Mandarin," Op. 19.

COMING IN SPRING 2011

Saturday, April 16 8 p.m.
UCLA Philharmonia — Music by Arturo Márquez
Neal Stulberg, director
Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Ave., Los Angeles
Tickets: $36, $31, $27, $15
The UCLA Philharmonia makes its Disney Concert Hall debut, performing a program of world music in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Ethnomusicology at UCLA. The concert will feature the music of Regents' Lecturer and Mexican composer Arturo Márquez, as well as performances by ensembles from the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.