Accomplishments: College of Fine Arts
Michael Spicer (Music) won a prestigious 2017 DownBeat Magazine Student Music Award for outstanding performance in the Graduate College Jazz Composition Category.
The UNLV Wind Orchestra has received numerous outstanding reviews for its latest CD, The Return. (This is the Wind Orchestra's 10th release for label Klavier, and its 19th since it began releasing music in 1994.) Fanfare recently interviewed director Thomas Leslie (Music) about the wind orchestra program and its tremendous success both…
UNLV Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Dave Loeb (Music), won first place at the prestigious 2017 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival, tying with the University of the Arts from Philadelphia. UNLV Jazz will perform in September in the Monterey Jazz Festival. Dean Nancy Uscher and all of the College of Fine Arts are extremely proud of these…
David Loeb (Music) was honored as a guest performer and featured presenter at the 2017 Las Vegas Philharmonic Gala at Reynolds Hall in the Smith Center on Feb. 9. UNLV's director of jazz studies, Loeb also conducted the Show Stoppers Orchestra for Lady Gaga's performance in the Encore Theater at The Wynn Hotel in December. In addition, he was the…
Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) has just had his critical edition of the harpsichord works of Pierre Nicolas La Font published by A-R editions as part of its "Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era." This publication was also the recipient of an award from the James R. Anthony Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded…
Linda Lister and UNLV Opera Theatre (both Music) won second place in the Musical Theatre Division of the National Opera Association Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition. Lister serves as director of UNLV Opera.
UNLV Jazz Ensemble I (Music) has been invited, through a rigorous audition process among some of the top university jazz ensembles in the nation, to compete as a finalist in the 2017 College Big Band Division at the prestigious Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival, in Monterey, California. Other…
Jennifer Bellor (Music) composed a piece, "Chase the Stars," that recently was awarded The American Prize in the orchestra category. Written for soprano, rapper, flute, bass clarinet, string quartet, percussion, electric guitar, electric bass, and drums, "Chase the Stars" was commissioned by ShoutHouse in 2015, and Bellor later recorded the…
Susanna Newbury (Art) has published a lead essay in Incendiary Traces, the catalog accompanying an exhibition on view at the Pomona College Museum of Art through May 14. Her essay, "The Intimate Technology of Remote Vision," addresses the visual rhetoric of remote warfare from the work of the 18th and 19th century artist Francisco de Goya to…
Janelle M. Evans (Film) is the author of a paper, "Understanding the Other, Without 'Othering': An Exploration of the Unique Qualities and Properties of Science Fiction (SF) as the Best Means for Exploring and Improving Social Inequity," which has been accepted for publication by Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, an interdisciplinary…
The UNLV film department hosted its annual 48-Hour filmmaking challenge Nov. 18-20. The event was open to the public and brought UNLV Film students, alumni and local filmmakers together in a race against the clock, forcing them to write, shoot and edit five-minute short films in just 48 hours. The teams drew from a collection of prompts —…
UNLV Opera Theatre and director Linda Lister (both Music) have been selected as a finalist in the Musical Theatre Division of the National Opera Association collegiate opera scenes competition and will be traveling to Santa Barbara, California, for the final competition in January.