Dear CFA Colleagues and Community Friends: Welcome back for the Spring 2025 semester! I hope all of you had wonderful and restorative holidays. The College of Fine Arts community has a very exciting spring semester on the horizon. Most importantly, we continue to value and encourage thinking about the concept of abundance in our educational and artistic work, and in the way we perceive life’s…
UNLV College of Fine Arts Dean Nancy Uscher is pleased to announce an exciting gift from the 22-time Grammy Award-winning, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band U2 to provide scholarship support as well as experiential educational opportunities to UNLV School of Music students. The U2:UV Music Scholarship and Experiential Fund at UNLV, a $300,000 one-time gift, will provide support for access…
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