All Bartok program featuring duo-pianists Walter Ponce and Jon Robertson with Mitch Peters and Jennifer Judkins, percussion. Featured works include Stained Glass by David Gillingham, Hook by Graham Fitkin, and Michael Burritt's The Doomsday Machine .
Admission is free.
The winner of the UCLA Concerto Competition will be the featured soloist. The orchestra will also perform Elgar's Enigma Variations . He has also done extensive studio work with artists including Quincy Jones, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Bill Conti, Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder, among others. He is also very active in the television and film industry, performing, composing and arranging scores for various shows and feature films. Ranier is a member of the UCLA Jazz Studies faculty, teaching jazz piano, harmony and arranging.