Amy Brown (Music) had a book signing at the American Orff Schulwerk Association National Conference in Lexington, Kentucky, to promote her K-5 resource for elementary music teachers, Magical Moments Through the Eyes of the Diverse Learner.

A team of faculty, students, and alumni from the UNLV School of Music joined Vegas City Opera and the Las Vegas Sinfonietta for a performance of Handel's Semele. Handel composed this work as an oratorio, to be performed in a concert format, but its story of seduction, betrayal, and tragedy has proved popular throughout the twentieth and…

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) presented a performance practice masterclass at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. Lee worked with woodwind students and faculty. Presiding from the harpsichord, Lee coached and accompanied more than a dozen performers on baroque flute, modern flute, and bassoon. The presentation focused on French baroque…

Amy Brown (Music) recently presented at the Silver State Tech Conference. The session's title was "AI and Music: Student Creativity Using a Hands-On Approach." Attendees participated from the point of view of their high school or college students and wrote down facts they must recall for tests or exams. Using Generative AI, these points were used…

Amy Brown (Music) recently presented at the Silver State Tech Conference. The session's title was "AI and Music: Exploring Creativity and Pedagogy." Participants used AI to create cognitive integrated song parodies to reinforce specific learning intentions in their English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Science content areas. A few…

Amy Brown's (Music) article, "Student-to-Student Discourse in the Orff Schulwerk Classroom," was published in the fall 2025 issue of the Orff Echo. 

Amy Brown (Music) has published a new book for K–5 music specialists, Magical Moments: Through the Eyes of the Diverse Learner. This 16-song collection features both original and arranged compositions, with specific accommodations included to support all learners in the elementary music classroom.    

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) published three items in the A-R Music Anthology, a peer-reviewed, online collection of articles, essays, scores, and commentaries praised by critics as "rich and nimble" and "the music resource of the future." Lee is a frequent contributor to this publication; his recent essays provide commentaries…

Professor Linda Lister (Music) has an article published in the September/October 2025 issue of the Journal of Singing titled, "The Prolific Song Output and Seasonal Sehnsucht of Franz Schubert and Taylor Swift." The article juxtaposes the 19th century German lieder composer and the 21st century country/pop songwriter, exploring a common…

Kimberly G James (Music) was elected to the board of directors for the Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA) and will serve as the Western Region Governor. PAVA's mission is to advance the scientific and interdisciplinary study of vocalization across species. PAVA fosters vocology in all countries of the Western Hemisphere through research…

The UNLV Jazz Ensemble I received Graduate College Large Jazz Ensemble Outstanding Performance in the 2025 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards. In addition, one of our students in the UNLV Joe Williams Jazz Scholarship Quartet, bassist Ed Lacala, received a Graduate College Outstanding Soloist Award. This competition is considered among the…

DMA oboe student and P.T.I. Nicholas Carozza (Music) is heading to Colorado for a sold out performance at the Saddlehorn Amphitheater on the Colorado National Monument for National Parks week. Nick will perform with Justin G. Russell Jr. on double bass. The duo will perform music from the renaissance to modern day, including a world premiere by…