We invite you to celebrate Distinguished Professor Movses Pogossian in his final recital at UCLA. Pogossian’s profound influence—as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and beloved teacher—leaves a rich and enduring legacy. This recital offers a snapshot of his musical and pedagogical passions, bringing together students and close colleagues to celebrate the music he loves. The program spans beloved classics and world premieres of three works written for the occasion by Andrew McIntosh, Niall Tarō Ferguson, and Gabriela Lena Frank. Program highlights include: Ferdinand the Bull for violin and narrator by Alan Ridout, performed with Music Education students Armenian classics performed with the VEM String Quartet, Ensemble in Residence of the UCLA Armenian Music Program (founded by Movses Pogossian) Prelude to Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, performed by the Camarades String Ensemble, accompanied by a large-screen original film by Alik Barsoumian The Adagio from Beethoven’s String Quartet, Op. 127, with Varty Manouelian, Che-Yen Chen, and Ben Hong “The Gigue Suite,” a set of dances in the gigue style for unaccompanied violin by J.S. Bach, György Kurtág, and three world premieres