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.

Andre Chiang, DMA, PAVA-RV (Music - Voice) presented a workshop at the Hybrid Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA) Symposium. The workshop was titled, "Opening the Lower Range for Voice Users Using the 'Moan'." The audience for the symposium is international in scope and appeals to all vocology adjacent fields such as speech-language…

Andre Chiang, DMA, baritone (Music - Voice Faculty), is performing the role of Il Conte in Le nozze di Figaro in Landlocked Opera’s inaugural collaboration with the Missouri Symphony in Columbia, Missouri. The performances are on Sept. 9 and 10 in the historic Missouri Theatre. During the rehearsal process of the opera, Chiang also gave a lecture…

Marta Plominska (Music) was recently awarded an Aspire2STEAM scholarship. Aspire2STEAM.org 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). Plominska is a post-doctoral fellow in flute performance at UNLV,…

Stephen Caplan's (Music) article, "Eviter la Perte Auditive," was recently published in La Lettre du Hauboïste, the journal of the Association Française du Hautbois. This is a translation of Caplan's article, "Avoiding Hearing Loss," which was published in 2022 in The Double Reed.

Amy Brown (Music) was an invited presenter for the 2023 AstroKnot Festival. "The AstroKnot Festival, powered by PNC, is all about tying Space Age Ideas to our current pedagogy using design and invention. Our goal with this conference is to encourage and foster creativity, curiosity, and collaboration in order to demonstrate strategies we can use…

Professor Stephen Caplan (Music) was a featured performer and teacher for the Ostrava Oboe Master Classes, held at the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. He joined other international faculty for a week of teaching, coaching, and performing with oboe students from around the world.