Congratulations to UNLV School of Music composition professor, Dr. Jennifer Bellor, who was recently named the recipient of the 2025 Regents' Creative Activities Award. "This honor is so well deserved," said Dean Nancy Uscher. "Dr. Bellor contributes to our college and community, as well as to the national and global arts communities, in such generous and special ways. Congratulations and brava!"
The inaugural alumni mini-residency, this year in the School of Music, will rotate among academic units each year. Friday April 11, 2025 Doc Rando Recital Hall 10-10:40 a.m. Masterclass with students from the UNLV String Division 10:45-11:30 a.m. Viola Recital Rizwan Jagani, viola Katie Leung, piano
On February 20, at 7:30 PM, the Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall transformed into a vibrant stage of global artistry during the 2025 UNLV Lunar New Year Concert. Directed by Tianxi Wen—a dedicated doctoral candidate in orchestral conducting, conductor, Yangqin performer, and one of the concert’s composers—the evening was a groundbreaking celebration of cultural diversity and creative collaboration.…
Grace-Haeun Kim, an alumna of the School of Music and currently enrolled in SoM's Artistic Diploma Program, has won first prize in the prestigious Golden Classical Music Awards international competition. "Grace-Haeun Kim made us proud once again! Please join me in offering my enthusiastic congratulations to this talented laureate," says Kim's UNLV professor Mykola Suk, "I am…
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…