School of Music News
The School of Music offers excellent undergraduate and graduate degree programs for students pursuing careers in composition, conducting, jazz studies, music education, and performance. More than 400 music majors study under the guidance of dedicated artist/performers, master teachers, and respected international scholars.
Current Music News
Proceeds from this live-streamed concert benefit the UNLV Performing Arts Center to offset costs incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The third in the PAC series of student performances features bassist Alyssa D'Anduono.
Alumnus Eric Whitacre's YouTube sensation Virtual Choir is the creative project that had been planning for the pandemic moment for 10 years.
The concert opens a series of student performances live-streamed from the Performing Arts Center.
The recording, available for download on BandCamp, receives a rave review from Jazz Times Magazine in its upcoming November issue.
Honors education major will be using her experiences to inspire a new generation of students.
Music In The News
This powerful program began with the premiere of Las Vegas resident Jennifer Bellor’s 898 Hildegard, a piece for orchestra and chorus that intertwines excerpts from the medieval composer Hildegard von Bingen’s chants “O Vis Eternitatis” and “O Gloriosissimi Lux Vivens Angeli.” Next, the orchestra performed Schumann’s profound and touching Overture, Scherzo and Finale followed by Brahms’ immensely popular German Requiem featuring the Las Vegas Master Singers, UNLV Concert Singers & Chamber Chorale, and soloists Alisa Jordheim and Will Liverman.
The Grammy-nominated UNLV Wind Orchestra has released its latest CD, “Quaternity.”
When Clinton Williams took over as band director at Rancho High School in Las Vegas in 2013, it had almost nothing.
The School of Music at UNLV is among the top in the nation for bachelor's degrees in music, according to a new study.
Clark County Public Arts’ recent open call for abstract art produced more than 42 works by local artists. Judged by guest curator and artist Valentin Yordanov, the pieces can be viewed in “Existing in Thought” through March 4 at the Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive.
Showing that the classic Las Vegas variety extravaganza maintains a heartbeat, a show with that very title is moving into the old Jubilee Theater.
