Peter Golub is the composer of numerous concert works, film scores, music for the theater, and ballet. Recent pieces include the cello concert, SLEEPWALKING, performed by Matt Haimovitz and the song cycle Dark Carols. Films scores include These Amazing Shadows, Frozen River, The Great Debaters, The Laramie Project and Wordplay. His music was heard in the recent Broadway production of The Heiress, starring Jessica Chastain, as well as the two-part Laramie Cycle at BAM. For the last twelve years he has been Director of the Sundance Film Music Program.
Sarah Koo Freeman
Visiting Professor - Cello Performance
Wendy Richman
Lecturer - Performance Studies
Inna Faliks
Professor - Head of Piano Performance
Neal Stulberg
Professor - Conducting, Director of Orchestral Studies
Wendy Caldwell
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Rakefet Hak
Continuing Lecturer - Opera UCLA
Hitomi Oba
Lecturer and Director of Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
Dwayne Milburn
Lecturer - Conducting and Composition
Cheryl Lin Fielding
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Christoph Bull
Adjunct Professor - Organ Performance
Victoria Kirsch
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Professor - Music Education, Special Assistant to the Inaugural Dean for Curricular Reform
Melissa Bilal
The Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture, Director of Armenian Music Program
Joshua Ranz
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance
Noel Cano Hearn
Lecturer - Alexander Technique and Music Education
Andrew Ordonez
Events Manager - Department of Music
David Lefkowitz
Professor - Composition, Vice Chair of the Department of Music
Vladimir Chernov
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Che-Yen Chen
Professor - Viola Performance
Herbie Hancock
Adjunct Professor
Gloria Cheng
Adjunct Professor - Contemporary Music, Performance Studies
Nick DePinna
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Musicianship
Aubrey Foard
Lecturer - Tuba Performance
Arturo O’Farrill
Director, UCLA Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra; Professor
Ryan Brown
Lecturer - Choral Studies and Music Education
Ian Krouse
Distinguished Professor - Co-Area Head, Composition
Regina Carter-Garnett
Professor
Travis J. Cross
Professor - Conducting, Director of Bands
Kevin Cornwell II
Choral TA
Boris Allakhverdyan
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance, Principal Clarinet LA Philharmonic
Movses Pogossian
Distinguished Professor of Violin; Founder and Advisor, Armenian Music Program - Music Performance
Benjamin Smolen
Lecturer - Flute Performance
Varty Manouelian
Lecturer - Violin Performance, Violin LA Philharmonic
Mircea Gogoncea
Lecturer - Guitar
Richard Danielpour
Distinguished Professor; Director of Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music
Dante De Silva
Lecturer - Composition and Music Theory
James Darrah
Professor - Director of Opera UCLA
James Lent
Lecturer - Collaborative Piano
David Kaplan
Inaugural Shapiro Family Professor in Piano Performance
Camilo Cedeno
Assistant to the Chair - Department of Music
Jan Berry Baker
Professor - Saxophone, Head of Woodwinds, Vice Chair of the Department of Music, Special Assistant to the Dean for Faculty Mentoring
Noah Meites
Lecturer - Music Theory
Theresa Dimond
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Elisabeth Le Guin
Emerita
Chris Hanulik
Adjunct Professor - String Bass Performance; Principal Bass LA Phil
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen
Assistant Professor - Music Education
John Steinmetz
Lecturer - Bassoon Performance
Jens Lindemann
Distinguished Professor - Trumpet Performance
James Bass
Professor and Chair of the Department of Music, Director of Choral Studies
Brendan McBrien
Lecturer - Music Education
William Kinderman
Distinguished Professor and Elaine Krown Klein Professor in Performance Studies
Jonathan Davis
Lecturer - Oboe Performance
Juliana Gondek
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Amy Sanchez
Lecturer - Horn Performance
Mildred Yi
Lecturer - Music Education
Ji Young An
Lecturer - Violin Performance
Gregory Goodall
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Shahab Paranj
Gramian-Emrani Postdoctoral Fellow in Music and Lecturer - Composition, contemporary concert music
James Miller
Lecturer - Trombone Performance, Associate Principal Trombone LA Phil
Lou Anne Neill
Lecturer - Harp Performance, Harp LA Philharmonic
Michael Dean
Professor - Voice Performance
Lucy Yates
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Lindsey Beardsley
Manager - Department of Music
Alison Deane
Associate Adjunct Professor
Iris Malkin
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
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