School of Music

On Saturday, March 5, cellist, composer, and CalArts alum Chris Votek (Music BFA 08) presents Singing Strings of the East...

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City announced on Tuesday, Jan. 25, the 63 artists and collectives that will participate in the upcoming Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept. Several CalArtians are included in the 80th iteration of a series...

On Saturday, Jan. 15, The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts invites viewers to reimagine musical performance and pedagogy in Futures of Music, a 90-minute in-person experience at REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles. The performance is organized and created by Volker Straebel, dean of The...

CalArts alum Ryan Bancroft (Music BFA 11, MFA 13) made his highly anticipated debut as chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on Wednesday, Dec. 8. Bancroft led the orchestra for the 2021 Nobel Prize Concert in front of a live, in-person audience at the Konserthuset...

Composer Ulrich Krieger, longtime faculty member of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, has released his latest album, 236 Strings, a collection of instrumental ambient pieces and electro-acoustic soundscapes crafted on a piano. It’s a change of pace for the musician, whose main...

Composer Ulrich Krieger, longtime faculty member of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, has released his latest album,...

On Friday, Dec. 3, the Dog Star Orchestra presents an evening of experimental music with Green Hour or Gray Future at the Wende Museum in Culver City, Calif.  The orchestra was founded in 2005 by composer and guitarist, Michael Pisaro-Liu, faculty in The Herb Alpert School of Music at...