Daniel Seeff is going for a Grammy for the second year in a row. Seeff, the program director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, contributed to albums that have been nominated for Grammys alongside Beyoncé, Rihanna and Bruno Mars for two years in a row. Read more...

Photo: Daniel Seeff, who has previously contributed to Anderson. Paak’s Grammy-nominated album, “Malibu,” cowrote and contributed instrumentals to R&B musician Ledisi’s song “Shot Down.” The song is part of the album “Let Love Rule,” which is nominated for Best R&B Album at the 60th annual Grammy Awards. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)

The UCLA Guitar Ensemble will be playing old music in a new setting as part of the Fowler Out Loud series. Members of the ensemble will showcase Latin American music at Fowler Out Loud, a concert series in which UCLA students perform at Fowler Museum. Read more...

Photo: Music students Hanna Yocute, Aaron Dozal and Juan Rivera will perform Latin American music at Fowler Out Loud, in collaboration with the exhibit, “Axé Bahia: The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis,” which highlights the cultural identity of the Brazilian city of Salvador. (Rachel Hefner/Daily Bruin)

Inna Faliks’ Soviet Union household only had three rooms for seven people and no telephone – but it did have music. Growing up, Faliks’ parents encouraged a creative childhood that included reading books and cultivating interest in music. Read more...

Photo: Inna Faliks, a concert pianist and UCLA professor of piano, will perform the protest composition “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” at the Jacaranda Concert Series on Saturday. Frederic Rzewski composed the piece in the 1970s during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. (Photo by Mackenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin, Photo Illustration by Ludi Zhu)