News: School of Music

graduation cap and tassle
Campus News |

Among the 2,700 students expected to graduate this week, five will receive special recognition at commencement. Here's why they were selected.

Tony LaBounty
People |

Psalm 92 inspires UNLV’s longtime director of bands to put down the conducting baton and pick up the composing pen.

Signage with the UNLV logo on campus
Arts and Culture |

"Time Lapse" will live stream two simultaneous performances from UNLV and Weston College in Weston-super-Mare, England.

Brasil Guitar Duo
Arts and Culture |

Together for 15 years, Joào Luiz and Douglas Lora perform a seamless blend of traditional and Brazilian works.

Gary Cordell and Larry Ransom play trumpet at a funeral
Arts and Culture |

The Community Concert Band, UNLV's premier community-based performance ensemble, will present the concert along with the UNLV New Horizons Band and the nonprofit group TAPPS.

Figaro
Arts and Culture |

Based on Beaumarchais’ classic 18th-century play, "Le nozze di Figaro" will be sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado México
Arts and Culture |

Featuring Enrique Batíz, music director and chief conductor, with Alfonso Moreno, guitar soloist.

Montreal Guitare Trio
Arts and Culture |

The Montreal Guitare Trio performs as part of the UNLV Performing Arts Center's Allegro Guitar Series in the Doc Rando Recital Hall of the Beam Music Center.

Gary Cordell and Larry Ransom play trumpet at a funeral
Business and Community |

When a trio of Rebels learned that the anthem "Taps" was often piped into funerals, they launched a nonprofit to bring the appropriate gravitas to ceremonies honoring veterans.

Joe Williams
Arts and Culture |

Special guests include Jack Jones, Clint Holmes, and more.

2CELLOS
Arts and Culture |

Duo 2CELLOS is breaking down boundaries between classical and popular music.

Annual Nevada Entertainer/Artist Hall of Fame cover photo
Arts and Culture |

This year's ceremony honors Dr. Keith Boman, arts advocate; Gary Nelson, director; and Paul Curtis Steelman, architect.