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…
UNLV 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 UNLV 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 UNLV 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 UNLV 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…
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…