DMA student Olivia Yokers, MM student Claudia Affan, and alumna Emily Clements (BM 2021) will present at the 2024 National Opera Association conference to be held in Tempe, AZ. Session details: New Arias/New Topics for Women/By Women This session spotlights selected arias from three new operas by living American composers Emily Clements and Linda Lister; namely, Letters to Lily,…
Music professor Alfonse Anderson has been invited to teach at the National Association of Teachers who Sing (NATS) intern program as a Master Voice Teacher for Summer 2024. Teachers are selected by invitation only. and have demonstrated an exceptional level of teaching. Recently Anderson was awarded Teacher of the Year Award at the 2023 NATS CWR Regional…
The 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Division of Jazz & Commercial Music is pleased to announce its Fall 2023 Concert Series. 9/13, 7:00pm Joe Williams Scholarship Combo Clark County Library 10/1, 3:00pm Jazz Ensemble I CD release 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Ham Hall 10/7, 12:30pm Latin Jazz Ensemble Summerlin Library 10/11, 7:00pm Jazz Ensemble II Clark County Library…
Aspire2STEAM.org, which provides educational scholarships and mentoring to young women and girls who are working toward careers that require education in science, tech, engineering, the arts, or math (STEAM), has awarded Marta Plominska an ASPIRER scholarship. Marta is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Flute Performance at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, having just completed her Doctorate in Flute Performance, also at…
Josephine Balfour-Oatts has given CFACoLab's IS IT ART? a five-star review in the Scotsman newspaper! She writes: "Nine characters. One gallery. An empty pedestal. Two questions: is it the greatest work in the history of art? Or is it nothing at all? Devised by CFACoLab - a collective of actors, dancers, composers, visual artists and designers - Is…
FREE student rush tickets are available for the 2023-2024 academic year! One hour before each 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Chamber Music concert, students with a valid Rebel Card receive one FREE ticket! Subject to availability. 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Chamber Music Series September 21, 2023 @ 7:30 pm/WindSync October 26, 2023 @ 7:30 pm/ Bookend I (Faculty Concert) February 8, 2024 @ 7:30 pm/For the End of Time (Faculty…
The Gena Branscombe Project is proud to award its 2023 Composer Scholarship to Brittney Benton (51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Music, 2022). She is driven by storytelling and imagery and her music takes you on a journey through a lush melodic and harmonic soundscape, filled with personality at every turn. Brittney holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Composition with a Minor in Music Technology from the University of…
Professor Stephen Caplan (51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Music) taught for a week at the 2023 Ostrava Oboe Master Classes held at the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. His students Taylor Crawford (Artist Diploma 2023) and Isabella Westlake (junior, Bachelor of Music Performance) attended as well thanks to generous funding from the College of Fine Arts. Main Image: Pictured are Dusan Foltyn, Taylor,…