The UNLV 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 UNLV 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 UNLV, 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 UNLV Chamber Music concert, students with a valid Rebel Card receive one FREE ticket! Subject to availability. UNLV 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 (UNLV 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 (UNLV 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,…
UNLV Dance, in collaboration with Red Desert Dance Ensemble, are featured at the opening of the Akropoditi Dancefest in Syros Greece. A new 8 minute work, “Alice”, will be presented at an outdoor venue in Ermoupolis July 7, 2023 and later that evening the new work “To The Left of Center”, will be featured at the Evanthia Kairi Theater. Sophie Cheeseman, UNLV Music composition…
Alex Stopa, who received both an MM and a DMA from the UNLV College of Fine Arts and currently teaches in the percussion area of the School of Music, was a two-time winner at the 49th Annual Pacific-Southwest Emmy Awards for his original composition Spiral in the categories of ‘Arts and Entertainment’ and ‘Director – Short Form Content.’ “I’m thrilled and…