Timothy Rice is a Professor in the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, the only such department in the country. He will present outstanding student ensembles and performers representing the breadth of the School’s teaching in classical music, jazz, and world music. Professor Rice specializes in the traditional music of the Balkans, especially from the Slavic-speaking nations of Bulgaria and Macedonia. Recently Professor Rice received a medal called the “Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius, second degree” from Bulgaria’s President Georgi Purvanov in a ceremony at the Presidency in Sofia. His published research studies musical cognition, politics and music, meaning and music, mass media, music teaching and learning, and, more generally, theory and method in ethnomusicology. He has written two books on Bulgarian music, which he came to through an early interest in dance, as well as numerous articles in major journals such as Ethnomusicology and Journal of American Folklore.

            Professor Rice is also Director of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, which was founded in November, 2007, with a major grant from the Herb Alpert Foundation. It takes a universal approach to the teaching of music from every time period and every place in the world, and it balances the art of music making with sophisticated scholarship about the meaning of music in culture and society.

            We will be honored to have Professor Rice share these interests with us, and hear his students perform. Refreshments will be served following the program.

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