Campus ensembles
35 campus ensembles at UCLA.
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African American Music Ensemble
The African American Music Ensemble performs a diverse range of vocal repertoire including spirituals, gospel, freedom/Civil Rights songs, and other works by African-Diasporic composers.
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Afro-Cuban Ensemble
The Afro-Cuban Ensemble concentrates on African-derived musical traditions of Cuba, emphasizing drumming alongside vocals, brass, strings, piano, and bass in son conjunto and related formats.
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Armenian Music Ensemble
The Armenian Music Ensemble focuses on the study and performance of Armenian traditional musical styles and repertoires, supported by the Armenian Music Program's mentor-student fellowship program that pairs…
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Brass Ensemble
The Brass Ensemble is a large chamber music ensemble open to all brass players, focusing on brass performance technique and repertoire from brass quintet to instrument choirs, with one on-campus concert per…
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Charles Mingus Ensemble
The Charles Mingus Ensemble provides a workshop environment where students from jazz, world, and classical disciplines integrate compositional and improvisational traditions, drawing on Charles Mingus's…
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Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
The Contemporary Jazz Ensemble studies and performs contemporary jazz repertoire spanning diverse musical aesthetics with an emphasis on living composers, regularly engaging directly with visiting artists and…
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Early Music Ensemble
The Early Music Ensemble is dedicated to vocal and instrumental music from historical periods prior to 1800, with particular emphasis on Western repertories not usually covered by other UCLA ensembles…
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Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble
The Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble experiments with different world music styles and traditions, blending diverse instruments and improvisational approaches, often performing student compositions.
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Jazz Combos
Jazz Combos offers several small-group jazz performance sections (vocal and instrumental) each quarter within the Global Jazz Studies program, giving students combo-format performance experience.
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Klezmer Music Ensemble
The Klezmer Music Ensemble focuses on the performance and style of Klezmer musical traditions, learning through active listening spanning pre-WWII European and American klezmer through the klezmer revival and…
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Music and Dance of Ghana Ensemble
The Music and Dance of Ghana Ensemble performs music and dances from several cultures in southern Ghana (Akuapem, Akan, Ga, Ewe), concentrating on drum patterns, songs, and dances with complex polyphonic…
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Music of Bali Ensemble
The Music of Bali Ensemble features Balinese gamelan gong kebyar music and dance, known for fast tempos, abrupt textural changes, and costumed dancers performing stories from the Ramayana.
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Music of China Ensemble
The Music of China Ensemble performs Kun opera arias, silk-and-bamboo music, folk dances, zheng zither music, and modern compositions for traditional Chinese instruments, with group lessons on instruments such…
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Music of India Ensemble
The Music of India Ensemble focuses on the performance of North Indian classical music on sitar and tabla, teaching students ragas and talas through group instruction in an oral tradition.
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Music of Java Ensemble
The Music of Java Ensemble centers on Central Javanese gamelan music, a percussion-dominated ensemble featuring tuned bronze gongs, metallophones, drums, flutes, zither, vocals, and spiked fiddle, known for…
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Music of Korea Ensemble
This performance ensemble introduces students to Korean traditional folk music genres, aesthetics, and performance styles, taught orally with group lessons on multiple Korean instruments such as danso, piri…
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Music of Mexico Ensemble
The Music of Mexico Ensemble features mariachi music from various regions of Mexico (son jalisciense, son huasteco, bolero, ranchera, huapango), familiarizing musicians with mariachi repertoire, technique, and…
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Music of Persia Ensemble
The Music of Persia Ensemble focuses on the performance of Persian classical music, including the radif and vocal tasnifs, taught orally in a group setting with options to study setar, tar, tombak, and daff.
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Music of Thailand Ensemble
Students in the Music of Thailand Ensemble learn distinctive regional Thai music traditions (central, Lanna, and Isaan) on mallet percussion, bowed and plucked strings, and flutes, along with Thai notation…
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Music of Tibet Ensemble
The Music of Tibet Ensemble explores traditional and contemporary Tibetan music, song, and dance, much of which is participatory. Participants learn group songs, Tibetan opera, and may learn the dranyen…
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Music of Turkey Ensemble
In the Music of Turkey Ensemble, students learn to perform vocal and instrumental repertoire from Turkish art music, fasil, folk, and other regional genres, studying theoretical concepts such as makam and usul.
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Old-Time String Band
The Old-Time String Band Ensemble (formerly the Anglo-American Ensemble) performs traditional rural American music, including Appalachian fiddle and banjo, Mid-West fiddle tunes, Cajun/Creole fiddle…
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UCLA Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
The UCLA Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra uses the jazz big-band format plus Latin percussion instruments, designed for students in the Global Jazz Studies interdepartmental program to train as professional jazz…
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UCLA Bruin Marching Band ("Solid Gold Sound")
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music's marching band and one of the largest, most diverse student organizations on campus (250+ members across 100+ majors, about 87% non-music-majors), performing at every home…
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UCLA Chamber Singers
UCLA Chamber Singers is a 32-40 voice mixed choir representing the highest level of ensemble singing at UCLA, performing choral-orchestral works with UCLA Philharmonia in Royce Hall and collaborating with…
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UCLA Chorale
UCLA Chorale is a roughly 110-voice mixed choir open to all students at UCLA, singing a variety of languages and styles and developing choral musicianship. It occasionally combines with Chamber Singers to…
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UCLA Guitar Ensemble
Founded in the late 1960s, the UCLA Guitar Ensemble is a learning laboratory for sight-reading, composition, and repertoire exploration that also performs quarterly concerts on and off campus, drawing…
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UCLA Jazz Orchestra
The UCLA Jazz Orchestra plays jazz standards and student compositions in a big-band format, primarily serving students in the Global Jazz Studies interdepartmental program.
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UCLA Percussion Ensemble
The Percussion Ensemble provides students the opportunity to perform percussion ensemble literature, presenting one public performance each quarter. It is open to all percussion, music education, and music…
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UCLA Philharmonia
UCLA Philharmonia is the flagship orchestra of the Herb Alpert School of Music and one of Southern California's premiere training orchestras, performing core symphonic, operatic, and contemporary repertoire…
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