Accomplishments: School of Music
Voice professor Andre Chiang (Music) sings Escamillo with Opera Western Reserve in their production of Carmen on November 17. This season celebrates Opera Western Reserve’s twentieth season in Youngstown, Ohio, providing mainstage opera and outreach performances for the community.
Chiang was also invited to give a master class during the…
Amy Brown (Music) was nominated and selected as Nevada Society of Innovators and Digital Educators (NVSIDE) Outstanding Teacher of the Year!
The Outstanding Teacher of the Year award "recognizes a classroom teacher and Computer Using Educator (CUE) member who has made a noteworthy contribution to educational technology in a classroom…
Stephen Caplan's (Music) two part article, "Ninety Percent Mental, the Other Half is Physical! Perspectives on Teaching Movement to Musicians" has been published in The Double Reed, Vol. 46, #2 and #3. The Double Reed is the journal of the International Double Reed Society. Caplan's article explains research about attentional focus cues by UNLV's…
Joshua Thomas (Music-Voice), first-year Artist Diploma candidate, was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition - Utah District on Nov. 4, 2023. He will next compete at the Regional level in Denver, Colorado, in February 2024. This competition was established to identify early career opera singers and provide development funding and…
Associate professor John McMurtery (Music) performed in the 2023 U.N. Day Concert as part of United Nations Day. The program took place at the General Assembly Hall at the United Nations building in New York City. Under the theme of "The Frontlines of Climate Action," the concert presented the power of the human spirit to combat the…
Amy Brown (Music) presented a session at the Fall Computer Using Educators (CUE) conference in Stockton, California, (October 21-22, 2023). The session was titled, "Keep"ing Your Sanity and focused on how to use Google Keep to encourage active listening and notetaking skills for 2nd-12 grade students. Participants listened, responded, and…
Marta Plominska and Dawid Mzyk (both Music) 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.
Plominska is a Polish flutist who completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in music performance at…
Linder Lister's (Music) musical compositions were performed by the National First Ladies' Library and Museum on Oct. 15. The world premiere performance, titled, "East Wing Songs Volume II," featured a lecture-recital format. The premiere was made possible through a Missouri State University faculty research grant, and supported by the…
UNLV post-doctoral faculty Marta Plominska (Music) recently performed at the Chicago Flute Club Festival. Accompanied by UNLV faculty members John McMurtery and Dawid Mzyk(both Music), Plominska curated a program celebrating the remarkable contributions of female composers as part of her Post-Doc project. The festival showcased works by Jennifer…
Associate professor Kimberly G. James and assistant professor André Chiang (both Music) performed leading roles in the world premiere of the opera, Behold the Man (Fowler, Flack), with Opera Las Vegas on September 30 and October 1. Several current music students, alumni, College of Fine Arts administrator Ashley Stone, choral conductor…
Associate professor Kimberly G James, DM, (Music) presented a workshop titled, "From Small Straws to Big Singing: Moving Beyond Theory," which addressed a practical application of semi-occluded vocal tract tools (e.g. small coffee straws) in the field of classical singing. This workshop was presented at the hybrid Pan American Vocology Association…
Linda Lister (Music - Voice) was a guest speaker for the Awaken Your Voice Summit.