School of Music

CalArts faculty, musician, and sound engineer Emily Evans didn’t miss a beat when the COVID pandemic sent faculty hustling to redesign classes for remote learning. Evans leaned into the challenge and her past experience to introduce Production as Composition for BFA3s, 4s, and MFAs. The...

Singer, Tony Award-nominated actress, and CalArts alum Condola “Dola” Rashad releases Space Daughter: Behind the Magic, a mini-documentary that provides insight into the creative process of her critically acclaimed visual EP, Space Daughter. The documentary will be...

As this difficult year comes to a close, The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts has a silver lining to share with the CalArts community and beyond. For the first time, the lineup of visiting artist talks from this semester’s CalArts Jazz Forum are available on YouTube.  Helmed by Jazz...

On Friday, Dec. 18, students from CalArts’ Choreographers & Composers course will present their final works over Zoom. Choreographers & Composers is co-taught by David Rosenboom and Dimitri Chamblas, deans of The Herb Alpert School of Music and The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance,...

Downtown Los Angeles-based experimental performance venue Automata has announced its latest edition of artist residencies. The fall/winter 2020-21 residencies feature six resident artists, five of whom are CalArtians: Benni Quintero (Film/Video BFA 20), Ramona Apthorp (Art BFA 19), Susan Simpson...

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On Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 4 pm PST, the Twisted Spruce World Music Foundation presents the virtual premiere of the interdisciplinary project Parts, Together, composed by Azariah Felton (Music MFA 21) and set to animation by Chia-Hsin Lee (Film/Video BFA 20).  The work features the talents of...