Isrea Butler (Music) recently won a Grammy for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album as part of the Count Basie Orchestra for "Basie Swings the Blues." "I'm excited to be a part of this incredible album with this stellar group of musicians," Butler says of the experience, "Thanks to The Count Basie Orchestra! And thank you Count Basie! As Count…

Yen-Soon Kim (Hospitality), Daniel Sahl (International Gaming Institute), and SJ Kim (Entertainment Engineering & Design) organized the 8th International XR-Metaverse Conference, hosted at UNLV. This annual immersive tech event revolved around the captivating themes of XR and the Metaverse. Its primary goal was to forge connections between…

As part of her postdoctoral project, Marta Plominska, along with Dawid Mzyk and Liz Valvano (all Music), performed at the Opening Concert of The College Music Society Southwest Conference in Stockton, CA. Their program titled 'Emotional Connections: Evocative Duets by Women Composers' included pieces by Adrienne Albert, Jessica Rudman, and Nicole…

Marta Plominska (Music) recently performed at Columbus State University in a Guest Artist Recital alongside pianist Susan Hoskins. As part of her Post-Doc project, Plominska curated a program celebrating the contributions of female composers. She actively advocates for recognizing women in the music industry and has been featured in the Music of…

Postdoctoral scholars Marta Plominska and Dawid Mzyk (Fine Arts) were invited to present at the Florida Flute Festival in Orlando this weekend. Their performance featured the composition, "Wail," by American composer Nicole Chamberlain for flute and trombone, contributing significantly to their ongoing postdoctoral research. Notably, Chamberlain…

Andre Chiang and Olivia Yokers (both Music) gave a set of master classes, lectures, and workshops around the Southeast this past week. The pair visited the University of Alabama to give a Chekhov workshop, Belmont University to give lectures on vocology and body work, the University of Mississippi to give a master class and Chekhov workshop, and…

Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) presented "Over the Horizon," a paper drawn from her research on the concomitant rise of Las Vegas and military surveillance technology in the 1990s and 2000s at the Center for Communication and Culture, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon). The project seeks to examine theories of vision and urban growth…

Stephen Caplan's (Music) article, "Face the Music: New Frontiers for Training Facial Muscles," was published in The Double Reed, the journal of the International Double Reed Society. 

Stephen Caplan's (Music) article, "Better Practice for Better Performance," was published in the winter issue of "Piano Magazine."

Susanna Phillips Newbury's (Art) 2021 book, The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate and the Making of Global Los Angeles, was reviewed in the latest issue of Art Bulletin, published by the College Art Association (CAA). The book was previously a finalist for CAA's Charles Rufus Morey Award.

Linda Lister (Music) presented a session at the National Opera Association conference in Tempe, Arizona, along with graduate students Claudia Affan and Olivia Yokers. The session was titled "New Arias/New Topics For Women/By Women." This session spotlighted selected arias from three new operas by living American composers Emily Clements and…

André Chiang (Music-Voice) presented at the National Opera Association National Conference with a session titled, “Cupboard Love: A True Crime Comedy by Madeleine Dring.” The session covered the one act opera Cupboard Love in terms of its potential for ease of production along with a performance of the piece. Chiang and colleagues from across the…