Postdoctoral scholars Marta Plominska and Dawid Mzyk (Fine Arts) were invited to present at the Florida Flute Festival in Orlando this weekend. Their performance featured the composition, "Wail," by American composer Nicole Chamberlain for flute and trombone, contributing significantly to their ongoing postdoctoral research. Notably, Chamberlain…

Andre Chiang and Olivia Yokers (both Music) gave a set of master classes, lectures, and workshops around the Southeast this past week. The pair visited the University of Alabama to give a Chekhov workshop, Belmont University to give lectures on vocology and body work, the University of Mississippi to give a master class and Chekhov workshop, and…

Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) presented "Over the Horizon," a paper drawn from her research on the concomitant rise of Las Vegas and military surveillance technology in the 1990s and 2000s at the Center for Communication and Culture, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon). The project seeks to examine theories of vision and urban growth…

Stephen Caplan's (Music) article, "Face the Music: New Frontiers for Training Facial Muscles," was published in The Double Reed, the journal of the International Double Reed Society. 

Stephen Caplan's (Music) article, "Better Practice for Better Performance," was published in the winter issue of "Piano Magazine."

Susanna Phillips Newbury's (Art) 2021 book, The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate and the Making of Global Los Angeles, was reviewed in the latest issue of Art Bulletin, published by the College Art Association (CAA). The book was previously a finalist for CAA's Charles Rufus Morey Award.

Linda Lister (Music) presented a session at the National Opera Association conference in Tempe, Arizona, along with graduate students Claudia Affan and Olivia Yokers. The session was titled "New Arias/New Topics For Women/By Women." This session spotlighted selected arias from three new operas by living American composers Emily Clements and…

André Chiang (Music-Voice) presented at the National Opera Association National Conference with a session titled, “Cupboard Love: A True Crime Comedy by Madeleine Dring.” The session covered the one act opera Cupboard Love in terms of its potential for ease of production along with a performance of the piece. Chiang and colleagues from across the…

On October 26, Stefano Boselli (Theatre) presented the paper, “The Balcony, The Pope, and The Screens: Jean Genet’s Unsettling Perspectives on the Society of the Spectacle,for the “Drama and Society I” session at the PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) Conference “Shifting Perspectives” in Portland, Oregon. In his plays The…

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) published a review article in College Music Symposium 63, no. 2, the journal of the College Music Society, a "consortium of college, conservatory, university, and independent musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines of music." Lee's article reviews Discovering the Classical String Trio, a…

Voice professor Andre Chiang (Music) sings Escamillo with Opera Western Reserve in their production of Carmen on November 17. This season celebrates Opera Western Reserve’s twentieth season in Youngstown, Ohio, providing mainstage opera and outreach performances for the community.  Chiang was also invited to give a master class during the…

Amy Brown (Music) was nominated and selected as Nevada Society of Innovators and Digital Educators (NVSIDE) Outstanding Teacher of the Year!  The Outstanding Teacher of the Year award "recognizes a classroom teacher and Computer Using Educator (CUE) member who has made a noteworthy contribution to educational technology in a classroom…