DMA student Olivia Yokers and UNLV alumna Dr. Bonita Bunt (DMA 2017) won the first place Jury Award in the 2025 National Opera Association Poster Session at the national conference held in Savannah, GA January 5-8, 2025. The poster paper is entitled "Opera Pedagogy from Studio to Stage: Merging the Methods of Michael Chekhov, Rudolf Laban, and Body Mapping to Train the Emerging…
Professor Emeritus Virko Baley is the winner of Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music, 2024, in the professional division, for "Music for Emily Dickinson". Baley was selected from applications reviewed throughout the United States. Among the many contests of The American Prize, the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music is unique. It…
Dean Nancy J. Uscher recently announced the first endowed chair in the college. UNLV Director of Jazz Studies Dave Loeb now holds The David Mulkey, M.D. & Laura Taylor Mulkey Endowed Chair in Jazz and Commercial Music made possible through a legacy gift. David, a lifelong music aficionado who began playing trumpet in junior high school, has long held an interest and an appreciation in…
This year's National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) District competition was held on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at UNLV. Participants came from Southern Utah, Southern Nevada, and Southern California. Below are all of our School of Music winners! Congratulations! College Freshman and Sophomore Men category: First Pace: Anthony Erbella Apodaca (UNLV--student of Alfonse…
Grace-Haeun Kim, an alumna of the School of Music who is currently enrolled in the Artistic Diploma Program and studied with Mykola Suk, has won the First Prize in the Ariano International Online Piano Competition out of Italy. Congratulations!
Curious about the future of Vegas' cultural community? KNPR spotlights up-and-coming kids on the block, all of whom are busy trailblazing paths in music, dance, art, and filmmaking locally. Below are links to the UNLV spotlights. Visual Artist: Haide Calle Filmmaker: Jaden Dickson Singer: Christian Shelton
The College of Fine Arts recently visited with representatives from Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua in Chihuahua, Mexico to discuss a collaborative mural project representing friendship that will be displayed in each city simultaneously. Set to be unveiled in March, the project will feature identical murals in both North Las Vegas and Chihuahua. “I am thrilled to know that students…
The UNLV Star of Nevada Marching Band was invited to be part of the Southern Nevada Water Authority's Fall watering restriction campaign. The video shoot was conducted in June and you can soon see the ads on television, radio, and print this fall.