Amy Brown (Music) presented a Table Talk at the Learning for the Future Conference titled, "Data-Driven In"Formative" Assessment." Participants discussed various ways of gathering data to analyze student progress and learned about using formative.com as an assessment tool for students of all ages.   

Andre Chiang (Music) has and will perform with Florida State University Opera, Opera Philadelphia, OperaDelaware, and at home with Opera Las Vegas. Chiang was a late add to sing the Forester in Janáček‘sThe Cunning Little Vixen in Czech on April 5 and 7. He then sings the Commissioner in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with Opera Philadelphia on…

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) published a review article in BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute. The article examines Mark Kroll's Bach, Handel, Scarlatti (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which provides a reception history of these three composers in nineteenth-century England.  

Amy Brown (Music) presented Parachute Play at the Las Vegas Urban Chapter of Kodaly Educators (LUCKE) Chapter Workshop. In addition to the Kodaly method, participants experienced musical literacy using multiple methods of music education philosophies (Orff and Dalcroze). Using Edvard Grieg's, In the Hall of the Mountain King, members…

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) published a "Guide to the Larry Fotine Music Collection." This publication serves as an index to the large archive, made available through the Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center, of the composer and jazz band leader Larry Fotine (1911–1990). Born Lawrence Constantine Fotinakis in Camden, New Jersey, this son of a…

Isrea Butler (Music) recently won a Grammy for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album as part of the Count Basie Orchestra for "Basie Swings the Blues." "I'm excited to be a part of this incredible album with this stellar group of musicians," Butler says of the experience, "Thanks to The Count Basie Orchestra! And thank you Count Basie! As Count…

As part of her postdoctoral project, Marta Plominska, along with Dawid Mzyk and Liz Valvano (all Music), performed at the Opening Concert of The College Music Society Southwest Conference in Stockton, CA. Their program titled 'Emotional Connections: Evocative Duets by Women Composers' included pieces by Adrienne Albert, Jessica Rudman, and Nicole…

Marta Plominska (Music) recently performed at Columbus State University in a Guest Artist Recital alongside pianist Susan Hoskins. As part of her Post-Doc project, Plominska curated a program celebrating the contributions of female composers. She actively advocates for recognizing women in the music industry and has been featured in the Music of…

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…

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."

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…