Denis Bouriakov has been playing the flute since he was 8 years old, and Thursday he will take his talents to the UCLA Philharmonia in his first performance as a faculty member. A Russian musician who has been the principal flute of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra since 2015 Bouriakov also works as a lecturer […]
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Dancer explores borders, colonization through multimedia performance
Salia Sanou said he is all too familiar with borders generated by colonizers and the impact they’ve had in the region. His knowledge of such man-made boundaries has guided his work as a dancer from Burkina Faso, using movement to explore the ideas of borders and territory, he said. During periods of colonization, European countries […]
Second Take: Taylor Swift’s political advocacy engages typically inactive demographic
Nov. 6 – Taylor Swift is ready for it. On Oct. 7, Swift posted on her Instagram, urging her followers to register to vote in the upcoming midterm elections and informing them she would be voting for Democrat Phil Bredesen for the U.S. Senate – a far cry from her apolitical past. Swift joins a […]
Student musician to shake up genres, instruments in Fowler Out Loud performance
Joseph Aleshaiker was walking along Frenchmen Street, New Orleans, when he got an idea for a song. He then returned home and began to write “Frenchmen Street,” inspired by his experience entering bars along the road, each with different musicians performing different genres. The fourth-year civil engineering student will perform the song as his opener […]
DJ sister-duo NERVO to feature in ‘Office Hours’ music industry series Wednesday
This post was updated Oct. 19 at 12:12 p.m. Grammy-winning artists will provide students with an insider’s look into the music industry. Conversation and a Q&A with DJ sister-duo NERVO will jumpstart the Music Industry Committee at UCLA’s 2018 “Office Hours” series Wednesday at the Jan Popper Theater in the Herb Alpert School of Music. […]
Eclectic band to bring Indian, Puerto Rican rhythms to student concerts
Bruce Lee’s martial arts philosophy influences Kune Do, a band which incorporates a multitude of different styles of music. The band was first created by Atticus Reynolds and fourth-year cognitive science student Ram Eshwar Kaundinya when they realized the similarities between traditional Indian rhythms and Puerto Rican rhythms. Though the band, ranging between three to […]
Musician’s unique performance blends Armenian folk, jazz improvisation
Tigran Hamasyan reimagined his native homeland of Armenia through a traditional, folk-inspired jazz performance Sunday evening. Hamasyan, a pianist and composer, performed a 90-minute jazz piano recital in Royce Hall to a packed audience. The program focused on selections from Hamasyan’s two most recent albums “For Gyumri“ and “An Ancient Observer,” characterized by a fusion […]