- UNLV Chamber Music Series Offers Students Free Rush Tickets During 2023-24 Academic YearFREE student rush tickets are available for the 2023-2024 academic year! One hour before each UNLV Chamber Music concert, students with a valid Rebel Card receive one FREE ticket! Subject to availability. UNLV Chamber Music Series September 21, 2023 @ 7:30 pm/WindSync October 26, 2023 @ 7:30 pm/ Bookend I (Faculty Concert) February 8, 2024 @ 7:30 pm/For the End of Time (Faculty…
- School of Music Alumna Wins 2023 Gena Branscombe Project AwardThe Gena Branscombe Project is proud to award its 2023 Composer Scholarship to Brittney Benton (UNLV Music, 2022). She is driven by storytelling and imagery and her music takes you on a journey through a lush melodic and harmonic soundscape, filled with personality at every turn. Brittney holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Composition with a Minor in Music Technology from the University of…
- CFA Around the World: Oboe Master Classes at the University of Ostrava in the Czech RepublicProfessor Stephen Caplan (UNLV Music) taught for a week at the 2023 Ostrava Oboe Master Classes held at the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. His students Taylor Crawford (Artist Diploma 2023) and Isabella Westlake (junior, Bachelor of Music Performance) attended as well thanks to generous funding from the College of Fine Arts. Main Image: Pictured are Dusan Foltyn, Taylor,…
- CFA Around the World: UNLV Students, Alumni, Faculty Featured at Akropoditi DanceFest in GreeceUNLV Dance, in collaboration with Red Desert Dance Ensemble, are featured at the opening of the Akropoditi Dancefest in Syros Greece. A new 8 minute work, “Alice”, will be presented at an outdoor venue in Ermoupolis July 7, 2023 and later that evening the new work “To The Left of Center”, will be featured at the Evanthia Kairi Theater. Sophie Cheeseman, UNLV Music composition…
- UNLV Alum & Adjunct Music Professor Wins Two Pacific-Southwest Emmy AwardsAlex Stopa, who received both an MM and a DMA from the UNLV College of Fine Arts and currently teaches in the percussion area of the School of Music, was a two-time winner at the 49th Annual Pacific-Southwest Emmy Awards for his original composition Spiral in the categories of ‘Arts and Entertainment’ and ‘Director – Short Form Content.’ “I’m thrilled and…
- Passing of Alumnus and Announcer Dr. Harvey Allen GodorovDr. Harvey Allen Godorov, UNLV alumnus earning both his masters and Ph.D., and the Star of Nevada Marching Band announcer for 42 years, passed on June 8 at 91. His four children Adam, Dory, Jordan, and Marissa also earned degrees at UNLV. Dr. Allen was awarded the Koep Medallion by Dean Uscher during the 2018 UNLV College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame. Dr. Allen was a…
- School of Music Student Wins First Place at Classical Singing CompetitionUNLV voice student Christian Shelton recently won first place in the University category at the Classical Singer Vocal Competition 2023. You may remember in 2021, job-search company Indeed hired Shelton as the voice of their Big Game ad. Christian, a voice performance major and student of Dr. Alfonse Anderson, was contacted by a Southern California advertising agency after one of…
- UNLV Faculty, Alumni & Students to Perform 'La Traviata' at Judy Bayley TheatreWhen Opera Las Vegas presents the upcoming Giuseppe Verdi masterpiece La Traviata, it will include among its stars UNLV alumna Cecilia Violetta López (Violetta), voice teacher André Chiang (Baron Douphol), and current students Courtney Schwalbe (Flora Bervois), and Chase Gutierrez (Marchese d’Obigny). Lighting and projections are designed by alumna Catherine Pratt. Audiences will…