The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Faculty, 2007 – 2008

Francisco Aguabella
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Afro-Cuban music
Münir Beken
Assistant Professor – Ethnomusicology
World music theory and composition
Jack Bishop
Lecturer – Ethnomusicology
Global pop; music and media
Olivia Bloechl
Assistant Professor – Musicology
Early modern music cultures of France, England, and colonial North America
George Bohanon
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Jazz performance, trombone; Jazz Combo
Bill Booth
Adjunct Associate Professor – Music
Trombone
Roger Bourland
Professor – Music, Music Department Chair
Theory and composition
Durrell Bowman
Adjunct Professor – Musicology
Rock, film music, American and Canadian traditions
Murray Bradshaw
Professor Emeritus – Musicology
Music of the Baroque; the symphony
Tara Browner
Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology and American Indian Studies
Native North American music and dance; Native North American contemporary music; musical imagery of Indians in popular culture; indigenous concepts of music theory; American music
Kirk Brundage
Lecturer – Ethnomusicology
Music of Brazil
Christoph Bull
Visiting Assistant Professor – Music
Organ
Kenny Burrell
Professor – Ethnomusicology, Director of Jazz Studies
Jazz performance, improvisation, composition, and jazz history. Guitar.
Clayton Cameron
Lecturer – Ethnomusicology
Jazz performance, percussion; Jazz Combo
Mark Carlson
Adjunct Assistant Professor – Music
Composition/Theory
Amy Catlin
Lecturer – Ethnomusicology
Folk and Classical Music of South Asia
Gloria Cheng
Lecturer – Music
Performance practice
Vladimir Chernov
Professor – Music
Voice
Paul Chihara
Professor – Music; HEAD, Composition Area
Theory and composition
Malcolm Cole
Professor Emeritus – Musicology
Opera; Classical and Romantic periods; emigré composers
Frank D’Accone
Professor Emeritus – Musicology
Music of the Italian Renaissance
Jonathan Davis
Lecturer – Music
Oboe
Michael Dean
Assistant Professor – Music
Voice
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
Professor – Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Department Chair
African and African American music; West African fiddle music; gospel music; music historiography; urbanism; cross-cultural issues; identity; change and transformation; the musician
Alessandro Duranti
Professor – Anthropology Chair, Department of Anthropology
Ethnography of Jazz
Sarah Eyerly
Adjunct Professor – Musicology
18th century American music; improvisation; early hymnody
Robert Fink
Associate Professor – Musicology
Minimalism, popular music, post-modernism, groove-based popular music, music and technology, psychoanalysis and the hermeneutics of absolute music, Stravinsky and the intersection of cultural and music-analytical theory.
Charles Fox
Lecturer – Music
Composition
Heather Gold
Lecturer – Music
Choral music in America
Juliana Gondek
Professor – Music, HEAD of Voice Division
Voice
Marie Louise Göllner
Professor Emeritus – Musicology
Medieval music
Gary Gray
Professor – Music
Clarinet
Jesus Guzman
Lecturer – Ethnomusicology
Music of Mexico
Rakefet Hak
Lecturer – Music
Opera Studio
Judith Hansen
Adjunct Assistant Professor – Music
Vocal music
Christopher Hanulik
Adjunct Professor – Music
String bass
Charley Harrison
Lecturer – Ethnomusicology
Jazz Ensemble
Tamir Hendelman
Lecturer – Ethnomusicology
Jazz keyboard harmony, jazz theory, improvisation
Gordon Henderson
Professor – Music Vice-Chair, Department of Music
Marching Band
Frank Heuser
Associate Professor – Music
Music Education
Richard Hudson
Professor Emeritus – Musicology
Keyboard traditions
Nazir Jairazbhoy
Professor Emeritus – Ethnomusicology
Folk and Classical Music of South Asia
Birgitta Johnson
Lecturer – Ethnomusicology
Cultural history of rap
Jennifer Judkins
Adjunct Assistant Professor – Music
Assistant Director of Bands; bibliography; DMA Advisor
Abhiman Kaushal
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Music of North India (tabla)
Peter Kazaras
Visiting Professor – Music
Director of Opera
Roger A. Kendall
Professor – Ethnomusicology, Systematic Musicology, Director of the Systematic Musicology Lab
Music perception and cognition; musical timbre and the process of musical communication; perceptual relationships among natural and synthetic orchestral instruments; musical meaning in film; experimental research design; computer applications
Cheryl L. Keyes
Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
American music with a specialty in African American music; popular music; rap/hip-hop music; popular music theory; gender; performance theory
Shujaat Husain Khan
Visiting Professor – Ethnomusicology
Music of North India (sitar)
Don Kim
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Music of Korea
James Kippen
Visiting Professor– Ethnomusicology
Music of India
Raymond Knapp
Professor – Musicology, Musicology Department Chair
Mahler, Haydn, Mozart, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, nationalism, musical allusion, music and identity, absolute music, film and American musicals.
Ian Krouse
Professor – Music
Theory and Composition
Kobla Ladzekpo
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Music of Ghana
Elisabeth Le Guin
Associate Professor – Musicology
Baroque cellist and founding member of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the Artaria String Quartet, she has conducted research on the musical theater in 18th-century Madrid and classical cellist Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini.
D. Thomas Lee
Professor – Music
Director of Bands and Conductor, UCLA Wind Ensemble
David Lefkowitz
Associate Professor – Music
Theory and composition
Tamara Levitz
Associate Professor – Musicology
Musical modernism in Europe and the Americas, the Weimar Republic, American experimentalism, Cuban modernism, Avant-Garde music after 1945, modern dance, Stravinsky, John Cage, Kurt Weill, and popular music of the 1960s.
Chi Li
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Music of China
Jens Lindemann
Professor – Music
Trumpet
Steve Loza
Professor – Ethnomusicology
Music of Latin America, Mexico, the Caribbean; identity and marginality; Chicano/Mexican music in Los Angeles.
Antonio Lysy
Professor – Head of Strings – Music
Cello
Margaret Lysy
Lecturer – Music
Strings
Maureen Mahon
Associate Professor – Anthropology
Ethnography of black rock
Vitaly Margulis
Professor – Music
Piano
Doug Masek
Adjunct Professor – Music
Saxophone
Kanae Matsumoto
Lecturer – Music
Accompanying
Susan McClary
Professor – Musicology
Cultural criticism of music, both the European canon and contemporary popular genres, including subjective experiences as expressed through music across eras as diverse as early seventeenth century and late twentieth century.
Kevin Miller
Lecturer – Ethnomusicology
Indian diaspora
Roberto Miranda
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Jazz performance, bass
Judy Mitoma
Professor — World Arts and Cultures and Director, Center for Intercultural Performance
Intercultural performance, public festivals, dance
Charles Moore
Lecturer – Ethnomusicology
Jazz, trumpet
Mitchell Morris
Associate Professor – Musicology
Fin-de-siècle music, Russian and Soviet music, 20th century American music, opera, rock, disco and soul, gay/lesbian studies and musical ethics.
Barbara Morrison
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Jazz performance, vocals
Lou Anne Neill
Lecturer – Music
Harp
Donald Neuen
Professor – Music
Choral conducting & Choral Studies Director
Daniel M. Neuman
Professor – Ethnomusicology
Music of India, especially Hindustani and Rajasthan regional traditions; social organization of musical specialists; anthropology of music; multimedia applications in ethnomusicology; geographical approaches to the study of music traditions.
Brian O'Connor
Adjunct Assistant Professor – Music
French Horn
Richard O'Neill
Lecturer – Music
Viola
Charles Owens
Lecturer – Ethnomusicology
Jazz Combo
Mitchell Peters
Lecturer – Music
Percussion
Ankica Petrovic
Adjunct Professor – Ethnomusicology
Folk music of Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean and Bosnian Music
Movses Pogossian
Visiting Professor – Music
Violin
Walter Ponce
Professor – Music
Piano
Ruth Price
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Jazz performance, vocals
Colin Quigley
Professor – World Arts and Cultures
Ethnomusicology / Ethnochoreology
A. J. Racy
Professor – Ethnomusicology
Music of the Middle East; music of the Arab world including Egypt, Lebanon, and the Gulf region; theory of ethnomusicology; organology; music, mysticism, and trance rituals.
Gilbert Reaney
Professor Emeritus – Musicology
Medieval Music
Helen Rees
Professor – Ethnomusicology
Music of China; music and politics in East Asia; ritual music in Yunnan Province, China.
Timothy Rice
Professor – Ethnomusicology, and Associate Dean for Research andAcademic Affairs, School of the Arts and Architecture
Bulgarian and Macedonian folk and traditional music; music cognition, politics and economics of music, musical symbolism, ethnoaesthetics, individual agency in culture; music education.
James Roberson
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
African American Music
Bobby Rodriguez
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Jazz performance, trumpet
William Roy
Professor – Sociology
Sociology of music, music and politics
Peter Rutenberg
Lecturer – Music
The Art of Listening
Roger Savage
Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology, Systematic Musicology
20th century musical aesthetics; the philosophy of music; hermeneutics; critical theory
Mary Ann Schliff
Lecturer – Music
Music Education (Winter/Spring 2008)
Anthony Seeger
Professor – Ethnomusicology and Director – Ethnomusicology Archive
Amerindian music of Latin America; Anglo-American folk music; music of protest and struggle in the U.S.; archives; the recording industry; music and ethnicity; music and politics; music education.
Patrick Sheridan
Lecturer – Music
Tuba
Mary Simonson
Adjunct Professor – Musicology
19th and 20th century opera and dance; feminist theory; performance
Jennifer Snow
Visiting Assistant Professor – Music
Piano/Accompanying
Russell Steinberg
Lecturer – Music
Composition/Theory
John Steinmetz
Lecturer – Music
Bassoon
Robert Stevenson
Professor Emeritus – Musicology
Music of the Americas and the Iberian peninsula
Sheridon Stokes
Senior Lecturer – Music
Flute
Neal Stulberg
Lecturer – Music
Conducting; conductor of the UCLA Philharmonia
Benjamin Suchoff
Adjunct Professor – Ethnomusicology
Bela Bartok’s life and work
Guillaume Sutre
Visiting Professor – Music
Violin (Winter and Spring 2008)
Timothy D. Taylor
Professor – Ethnomusicology and Musicology Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Musicology
Popular musics, world music, cultural theory.
Elizabeth Randell Upton
Assistant Professor – Musicology
Medieval music; film music
Ivan Varimezov
Visiting Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Music of the Balkans
Tsvetanka Varimezova
Visiting Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Music of the Balkans
Steven Venz
Lecturer – Music
Music Education (Fall 2007)
Elijah Wald
Adjunct Professor – Musicology
Blues, Narcocorrido music, world music
Robert Walser
Professor – Musicology
Jazz and other American popular music.
Christopher Waterman
Professor – World Arts and Cultures and Dean, School of the Arts and Architecture
Music of Africa and the Americas, popular music, jazz
Michele Weir
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Jazz performance, vocals
I. Nyoman Wenten
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Music of Bali
Anthony Wilson
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Jazz performance, guitar
Gerald Wilson
Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
Jazz history
Robert Winter
Professor – Music
Performance practice, Beethoven, hypermedia teaching tools, Dvorak in America
Peter Yates
Adjunct Assistant Professor – Music
Guitar

Departments

  • Ethnomusicology
    • World Music
    • Jazz Studies
    • Systematic Musicology
  • Music
    • Performance
    • Composition
    • Music Education
  • Musicology
    • Music History
    • Popular Music Studies