The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Faculty, 2009 – 2010
- Francisco Aguabella
- Adjunct Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology
- Afro-Cuban music
- Münir Beken
- Assistant Professor – Ethnomusicology
- World music theory and composition
- 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
- Roger Bourland
- Professor – Music, Music Department Chair
- Theory and composition
- 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
- Robert Fink
- Associate Professor – Musicology, Musicology Department Chair
- 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
- Juliana Gondek
- Professor – Music, HEAD of Voice Division
- Voice
- 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
- 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
- Raymond Knapp
- Professor – Musicology
- 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, Musicology Department Vice Chair
- 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 – Music
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Helen Rees
- Professor – Ethnomusicology
- Music of China; music and politics in East Asia; ritual music in Yunnan Province, China.
- Timothy Rice
- Professor – Ethnomusicology, and Director – UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
- 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
- Roger Savage
- Associate Professor – Ethnomusicology, Systematic Musicology
- 20th century musical aesthetics; the philosophy of music; hermeneutics; critical theory
- 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
- 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
- Guillaume Sutre
- Professor – Music
- Violin
- Timothy D. Taylor
- Professor – Ethnomusicology and 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
- Robert Walser
- Professor – Music
- 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
- Robert Winter
- Professor – Music
- Performance practice, Beethoven, hypermedia teaching tools, Dvorak in America
- Peter Yates
- Adjunct Assistant Professor – Music
- Guitar
Departments
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Ethnomusicology
- World Music
- Jazz Studies
- Systematic Musicology
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Music
- Performance
- Composition
- Music Education
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Musicology
- Music History
- Popular Music Studies