School of Music

Tonight (Thursday, May 7), CalArts alums Ellen Reid (Music MFA 11) and Juan Pablo Contreras (Music BFA 10), along with fellow composers Sarah Gibson, and Peter Shin, are in conversation for a virtual salon hosted by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s (LACO) Sound Investment commissioning...

A new video by the Los Angeles contemporary art museum The Broad celebrates the impact of late longtime faculty CalArts members James Tenney and John Baldessari (Chouinard 59) on Los Angeles’ art landscape. Organized by faculty Madeline Falcone (Music MFA 13), the video explores...

CalArtians are prominently featured in a recent article by The New York Times about reVox, a series of multimedia art installations that remixes oral histories of various musicians and composers, commissioned by Yale University’s Oral History of American Music (OHAM). Co-curated by Jack Vees...

Composer Alex Buck (Music DMA 23) was named the first prize winner of Musicworks’ 2019 Electronic Music Composition Contest for his composition Screaming Trees.  Musicworks, a Toronto-based avant-garde music magazine, selected the haunting and multilayered composition in which Buck explores...

The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts has been named in Billboard’s 2020 ranking of the best music business schools. “The students entering college this fall will shape the music industry of the future,” claimed the ranking. “These are the schools that will make certain they’re ready.”...

Now that CalArts’ spring semester is underway, faculty and students are addressing the current COVID-19 quarantine era in creative ways, making art—as a salve for the soul or to help make sense of it all. Composer, violist and conductor Eyvind Kang, Mel Powell Chair and coordinator of the...

Ajay Kapur, associate provost for Creative Technologies and faculty of The Herb Alpert School of Music, was interviewed in a recent Forbes article about the impact of open sourcing on the music industry. Kapur, who also serves as the director of the Music Technology: Interaction, Intelligence...