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INDIVIDUAL PERFORMER REFERRALS
FOR THOSE SEEKING MUSIC INSTRUCTORS AND/OR PERFORMERS: The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music provides the names of its students and other individuals who are available to teach or perform solely as a convenience to the public and in response to public demand. All individuals providing music instruction or performing are acting as independent contractors. Their services are not endorsed or guaranteed in any way by the School or The Regents of the University of California, or their respective officers, employees, and agents; the School does not conduct background checks on listed providers. Additionally, neither the School nor The Regents is a party to any such arrangements. Any disputes that arise are strictly between the provider and the retaining party, who retains such services at his/her/its own risk.
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to be sent the link for the online application. This form will be submitted for approval to your respective area head before your information can be posted.
CHORAL SINGING AND CHORAL CONDUCTING:
1. Joshua Fishbein
Email:
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Telephone: 412-913-6584
Current school year: 3rd year DMA
Areas of performance specialization (instrument, voice type, etc.): Choral singing (Baritone); Choral conducting
Types of musical services you can provide: Sight singing/section leading in liturgical or secular vocal ensembles. Leading/conducting vocal ensembles.
Performance experience relevant to these services: Paid c'horal Singing Positions: 2 years - Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. 3 years -- Volti Chamber Choir, San Francisco. 1 year -- Chizuk Amuno Congregation, Baltimore. 2 years -- 3rd Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg. 2 years -- Congregation Beth Shalom, Pittsburgh. 2 years -- Beth Tfiloh Congregation, Baltimore. Conducting Experience: Current--Managing Director, UCLA Early Music Ensemble. 2 years -- Assistant Conductor, San Francisco Conservatory Chorus. 1 year -- Interim Music Director, Church of the Advent, San Francisco.
Geographical area within which this person will perform: Please inquire with peformer.
CLARINET:
1. Antonio Pina
Email:
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Telephone: 310-936-5437
Current school year: 2nd year MM
Areas of performance specialization: Clarinet (inluding Eb and Bass clarinet)
Types of musical services provided: Classical, Jazz, Contemporary and Pop. Has experience working with orchestral groups, jazz combos, recording sessions, television shows, weddings, chamber performances, contemporary performances, etc.
Relevant performance experience: Clarinetist/Percussionist for Comedy Central Tosh.0 television show season premiere, recording session for Matt Groening Scholarship contest, recording session for Paul Chihara's undergraduate composition program, chamber performances at the Hammer Museum, wedding performances with Gig Daddy's Entertainment Co., etc. Has recording engineering certificate from UCLA's School of Film, Television and Theater.
Geographical area within which this person will perform: Greater Los Angeles area, San Fernando Valley and Orange County
2. Dawn Marie Hamilton
Email:
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Telephone: 415-450-0195
Current year: 1st year MM
Areas of performance specialization (instrument, voice type, etc.): clarinet
Typesof musical services you can provide: solo, chamber, large ensemble, musical theater
Performance experience relevant to these services: www.dawnmariehamilton.weebly.com
Will travel within the great Los Angeles area
CLARINET & CONDUCTING:
1. Ryan Dudenbostel
email:
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telephone: 360-306-1785
Current school year: 1st year DMA student
Areasof performance specialization: Clarinet and conducting
Types of musical services provided: Soloist or section member, both in chamber and large ensemble situations. As a conductor, can rehearse and perform with ensembles of widely varying sizes and skill levels.
Performance experience relevant to these services: Broadway revival (South Pacific); Manhattan School of Music
Geographical area within which performer is prepared to perform: Based in Culver City, but can travel throughout greater Los Angeles.
FLUTE:
1. Michellel Huang
Email:
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Telephone: 408-796-8526
Current school year: 3rd year undergraduate
Areas of performance specialization (instrument, voice type, etc.): Public and private performances. Private and group lessons
Performance experience rlevant to these services: Principal player/soloist/member of variouis wind ensembles, orchestras, and chamber music groups since 2006. Private flute instructor since 2008.
Will travel anywheter in Los Angeles to perform.
ORCHESTRAL CONDUCTING:
1. Jorge Luis Uzcategui
email:
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telephone: 803-719-3083
Areas of performance specialization: Orchestral conducting, all genres.
Types of musical services provided: Orchestral conducting, all genres
Performance experience relevant to these services: Conducted LA and Berlin Philharmonic musicians, worked with Kurt Masur
Georgraphical area within which performerm is prepared to perform: Willing to travel without restriction
PIANO:
1. Sanaz Rezai
email:
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858-337-9782
Current school year: 3rd year DMA student
Areas of performance specialization: Piano
Types of musical services provided: Solo performance of "classical" piano repertoire.
Performance experience relevant to these services: Freelance performer since first years of college, throughout California.
Geographical area within which performer is prepared to perform: San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara
2. Haosi Howard Chen
Email:
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Telephone: 818-274-47784
Current school year: Junior
Areas of performance specialization: Piano(solo [concert/improv], chamber, orchestra)
Types of musical services provided: Conceretrepertoire, background music, improvisation, etc.
Performance experience relevant to these services: Glucksolo piano performances at various locations, background music for faculty center events.
Georgraphical area within which performer is prepared to perform: Los Angeles area, including but not limited to San Fernando Valley, West L.A, Downtown, Pasadena, Azusa.
PIANO AND JAZZ:
1. Dan Marschak
Email:
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510-681-8849
Current school year: 2nd year masters
Areas of performance specialization (instrument, voice type, etc.): Piano(jazz, moder, latin, pop, soul, funk, etc.). Leader of jazz ensembles of varying instrumentations.
Types of musical services you can provide: I can providebackgroundor foreground music in instrumentationsranging from solo piano to full big band. I can arrange tunes to your specifications, contract singers, and I have a portable keyboard setup if no piano is available.
Performance experience relevant to these services: Countless private and public venues with my own groups.
Geographical area within which performer is prepared to perform: In andaround Southern California metropolitan area. Charges more if gigs are further away, but has traveled as far as Temecula, Santa Barbara, and Northern California on occasion.
PIANO AND VOICE:
1. Zach Neufeld
Email:
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Telephone: 909-725-8408
Current school year: 1st year master's degree
Areas of specialization: Piano, voice (bass-baritone) composer/arranger, conductor (see instrumental performer referral page)
Types of musical services provided: Accompanying (vocal, instrumental, choral, rehearsal pianist), jazz piano, church services, weddings, receptions/special events. Can serve as church pianist, church choir director, and choir section leader. Plays classical, jazz, and pop/rock piano. Recently served as choir/soloist rehearsal accompanist for Redlands Symphony performance of Maher's 2nd. Experience with standard voice and instrumental repertoire.
Performance experience relevant to these experiences: University of Redlands Staff Accompanist 2010-2011.
Georgraphicareas within which instructor will travel: Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties; will consider Orange county also.
TRUMPET:
1. Alyssa Keene
email:
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telephone: 760-717-5227
current school year: 2nd year undergraduate
Areas of performance specialization: trumpet
Types of musical services provided: Classical performance--church performances, substituting in orchestras, etc. I am in a Brass Quintet as well. We are free to perform anywhere in Los Angeles or surrounding areas.
Performance experience relevant to these services: UCLA Philharmonia, Tanglewood Institute. Alumni, Chosen Vale
Geographical area within which performer is prepared to perform: San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange counties.
VIOLIN:
1. Simone Deleon-Jones
email:
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telephone: 206-854-3614
current school year: 2nd year master's degree student.
Areas of performance specialization: Violin
Types of musical services provided: Recording sessions, weddings, parties
Performance experience relevant to these services: Solo recitals, recording sessions, chamber music, orchestras
Geographical area within which performer is prepared to perform: West Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
2. Dorothy Wang
Email:
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Telephone: 310-729-6187
Current school year: 4th year undergraduate
Areas of performance specializatoin: Violin
Types of musical services you can provide: Recording sessions, weddings, parties, orchestra
Performance experience relevant to these services: Solo recital, recording session, chamber music, and orchestra
Geographical area within which performer is prepared to perform: West Los Angeles
VOICE:
1. Nicole Taylor
email:
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telephone: 646-309-8881
Current school year:: 3rd year DMA
Areas of performance specialization: Voice. Soprano specializing in opera, art song, cabaret, and classical musical theater. Types of musical services provided: Extensive stage and concert experience, as well as having sung for weddings, funerals, christmas, Easter, high holiday services and verious special events. Can perform with piano, guitar or chamber ensemble accompaniment, or if necessary iwtha prerecorded background track. If a piano is not available on the premises, can provide an electric piano.
Performance experience relevant to thse services: Soprano Nicole Taylor is originally from Los Angeles, CA. She is currently a doctoral student at UCLA, where she studies with Vladimir Chernov. She is a recent graduate of the masters program at The Juilliard School in New York, NY. In 2008, Ms. Taylor was a semi-finalist in the Jose Iturbi International Music Competition (Los Angeles). She has also won the Prix Coup de Coeur at the Concours International de Musique de Chambre en Lyon (France), 1st prize in the Kosciuszko Foundation Marcella Sembrich Vocal Competition, and madeher Carnegie Hall debut in 2006. Recent performances include "Porgy and Bess" at Oper Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany), Bremen Musical Theater (Bremen, Germany), Kölner Philharmonie (Köln, Germany), Nationaltheater Mannheim (Mannheim, Germany), and Komische Oper Berlin (Berlin, Germany), as well as, performance with conductor James Conlon as soprano! soloist in Zemlinsky' s Psalm 83, as part of Ring Festival LA 2010. In February 2010, she appeared with UCLA Opera Theater as Madame Lidoine in Poulenc' s "Les Dialogues des Carmelites."
Georgraphical area within which performer is prepared to perform: Los Angeles area, San Fernando Valley, Orange County.
2. India Carney
email:
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347-756-0793
Current school year: 1st year undergraduate
Areas of performance specialization (instrument, voice type, etc.): Voice (alto/mezzo-soprano)
Performance experience relevant to these services: Performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, June 2011 Arranged Star Spangled Banner (4 parts) for graduation (2011) Assistant music director for Hairspray, annual LaGuardiaArts school musical (2011) Performed for three consecutive years with the school wide New Music Ensemble (composition ensemble) performing original works. Performed as a soloist in the competitive variety show, Rising Stars for 3 consecutive years.
Geographical area within which performer is prepared to perform: Near UCLA campus, or anywhere else if means of transportation is provided.
VOICE AND CONDUCTING:
1. David W. Lee
Email:
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Telephone: 856-316-8880
Current School Year: 1st year masters
Areas of performance specialization (instrument, voice type, etc.): Voice (Bass/Baritone; choral/opera/musical/pop). Conducting (choral, wind, orchestral), Trombone.
Types of Musical services provided: Performance, substitute performer/conductor.
Performance experience relevant to these services: Many experiences.
Gographical area within which performer is prepared to perform: Los Angeles and neighboring areas.
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