Trombonist and president of the Jazz Outreach Initiative Curt Miller and his wife Eliane, a former 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ dance instructor, recently made a generous gift to the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Division of Jazz and Commercial Music. The gift will be used for endowed scholarships and studio upgrades. "On behalf of the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ School of Music, Jazz and Commercial Music Division, I am honored to extend our heartfelt gratitude to…
Joshua Thomas, first year Artist Diploma candidate in the Voice Area of the School of Music, was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition - Utah District. He will next compete at the Regional level in Denver, CO in February 2024. This competition was established to identify early career opera singers and provide development funding and exposure to industry professionals. Along with…
The League of American Orchestras has formed a Student Leadership Council, the first in the organization’s 81 years, to provide a platform for the League to better understand and integrate the voices of young people into its work and support the growth of student engagement within the orchestra field. The new Council is part of a renewed commitment to grow participation by young people and…
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ College of Fine Arts postdoctoral scholar Ivan Ivanov and faculty member Richard Miller's book, Leonardo Balada and Surrealism in Music, has been published by Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. As the College of Fine Arts' first 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ postdoctoral scholar, the Bulgarian-born Dr. Ivanov was engaged in research, teaching and creative activities; including grant writing,…
Dr. Marta Plominska and Dr. Dawid Mzyk have been chosen as recipients of the prestigious 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Doctoral Graduate to Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Program, making them the first recipients from the College of Fine Arts in the program's history. Dr. Marta Plominska is a Polish flutist who completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Performance at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ in Spring 2023. She is now a Postdoctoral…
The Violin/Viola 'Duo Novae' (associate professors Ambroise Aubrun and Kate Hamilton) were recently on a tour of New Zealand and Australia during which they gave recitals, masterclasses, and presented lectures in Dunedin, Sydney, and Melbourne. They worked with faculty and students from the University of Otago, the Sydney Conservatorium, and the Melbourne String Academy. In other news, Auburn’s…
The National First Ladies’ Library and Museum hosts the world premiere of a new set of musical compositions inspired by the First Ladies of the United States at 2 p.m. on Sunday, October 15 in Canton, Ohio. The performance, titled East Wing Songs Volume II, features a lecture-recital format and will be performed by mezzo soprano Ann Marie Daehn, Professor at Missouri State…
Dear College of Fine Arts Colleagues: It is my great pleasure to welcome all of you back to campus for the 2023-24 academic year and a new chapter of life for all of us! This is always a hopeful and meaningful time of new beginnings for our students, faculty and staff. This fall, in particular, the college is approaching the future with significant accomplishments that have taken place over the…