Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) performed as a guest artist at the Arizona Bach Festival in Phoenix. Lee, a harpsichordist, joined soloists from across the country in a program of concertos in the Vivaldian tradition.

Amy Brown (Music) presented at the Computer Using Educators (CUE) Conference in Palm Springs, California, over spring break. 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…

Amy Brown (Music) presented a session at the 2025 Ohio Music Educators Association Annual Conference titled, "Parachute Play, the Musical Way: Engaging Movement and Playing with a Splash of AI." The presentation centered around the theme in Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G Major (Surprise), II. "Andante."  Aimed at teaching elementary…

Katrina Liu (Teaching and Learning) and Richard Miller (School of Music), together with their colleague Michael K. Thomas (Educational Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago), published a new book, Preparing White Teachers for Anti-Racist Education: Critical Reflection and Generativity for Transformative Praxis. This research-based guide from…

Stephen Caplan's (Music) "Concert Review" of the Lonarc Trio's two performances at the International Double Reed Society conference was published in the Fall/Winter issue of Double Reed News, the magazine of the British Double Reed Society.

Nick Carozza (Music) will compete as a national finalist in the MTNA Young Artist Woodwind Competition. He earned this opportunity after winning the Nevada State and Southwest Regional Division of the MTNA Young Artist Woodwind competition. A second-year D.M.A. student at UNLV, Carozza has been studying oboe for 14 years and is currently a…

Ligia Verduga (Music) is a DMA student in the UNLV flute studio of John McMurtery. She has been invited to Sofia, Bulgaria, for the Moyse International Flute Competition on June 29, 2025, to present a lecture on her research topic "Ecuadorian Influences on the Flute Repertoire." Furthermore, the organizers of the competition have invited her to be…

The University of West Georgia presented excerpts from Linda Lister's (Music) opera "State of Grace October 24-25, 2004." The scenes were part of the UWG Opera Workshop performance, "The Doors of Life," presented on the main stage of the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts. Composer/librettist Lister directed the opera's premiere at UNLV in…

Gregory Koenig (Music) presented Transformative guitar education: Funds of knowledge, border crossing, and the guitar at the 2024 University of Buffalo International Guitar Research Conference. 

Gregory Koenig (Music) presented Guitar class: An opportunity for transformative music education at the National Association for Music education 2024 biannual music research and teacher education conference. 

Linda Lister (Music) had her song "Ariel Ambitions," from the song cycle Pleas to Famous Fairies, performed at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Soprano Hannah Winston sang the song on the concert Peabody Songbook Series: A Woman's Point of View.

Amy Brown (Music) was a featured presenter for the Professional Learning Network Series, Back to School: Classroom Management Tips and Tricks, hosted by the American Orff Schulwerk Association. The presentation, "Proactive Management: Preparing Instead of Reacting," covered planning, rapport, and engagement for elementary music specialists as they…