About this Artist

UCLA PHILHARMONIA is the flagship orchestra of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and one of Southern California’s premiere training orchestras. Since 2005, Philharmonia has been led by Professor and Director of Orchestral Studies Neal Stulberg. Highlights of his tenure have included performances of Mahler, Bruckner, Nielsen, Honegger, Lutosławski and Dutilleux symphonies; Duke Ellington’s Harlem; a concert/lecture co-sponsored by the UCLA Departments of Music and Evolutionary Biology titled Messiaen’s Birds: The Greatest Musicians, featuring Grammy Award-winner and UCLA faculty pianist Gloria Cheng; a gala performance of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus at Los Angeles’ historic Wilshire Boulevard Temple; Royce Hall birthday tributes to famed guitarist Kenny Burrell; biennial Schoenberg Hall concerts in collaboration with the Hear Now festival featuring programs of works by Los Angeles-area composers; annual appearances on the Sundays Live series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theater; a Getty Center revival of Edward Curtis’ ground-breaking 1914 silent film In the Land of the Head Hunters with its restored original score, annual productions with Opera UCLA and three commercial CDs: a Yarlung Records release of previously-unrecorded orchestral works by Viennese émigré composer Eric Zeisl; a world-premiere Sono Luminus recording of Mohammed Fairouz’s Symphony no. 2 (Poems and Prayers) and his clarinet concerto, Tahrir; and a Naxos CD of Ian Krouse’s Armenian Requiem.