Accomplishments: School of Music
David Weiller (Music) returned to the College Light Opera Company (CLOC) in Falmouth, Massachusetts, to conduct a production of The Desert Song, a popular 1926 American operetta by Sigmund Romberg. In its 49th season, CLOC is one of the oldest and most respected summer-stock theater companies in the country. It is a community in which young…
Linda Lister (Music) presented a lecture at the 2017 International Congress of Voice Teachers in Stockholm, Sweden, earlier this month. Titled "Sizeism and Singing: Obesity and Anorexia from Opera to Pop," her lecture examined views on high and low weight through discussion of the issues faced by singers like Deborah Voigt, Jessye Norman, Maria…
Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) presented his research on George Frideric Handel's oratorio Joseph and His Brethren at the prestigious Hallische Händel-Festspiele (Halle Handel Festival). Each year, an international group of Handel specialists gathers in Halle, the city of the composer's birth, to share research on a given theme. This year's…
Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) presented his research at the biennial meeting of the American Handel Society (AHS) at Princeton University in April. The AHS is North America's most prestigious scholarly society devoted to the study of Handel's life and works, and its meeting attracts scholars from around the world. Lee's paper was on the…
Michael Spicer (Music) won a prestigious 2017 DownBeat Magazine Student Music Award for outstanding performance in the Graduate College Jazz Composition Category.
The UNLV Wind Orchestra has received numerous outstanding reviews for its latest CD, The Return. (This is the Wind Orchestra's 10th release for label Klavier, and its 19th since it began releasing music in 1994.) Fanfare recently interviewed director Thomas Leslie (Music) about the wind orchestra program and its tremendous success both…
UNLV Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Dave Loeb (Music), won first place at the prestigious 2017 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival, tying with the University of the Arts from Philadelphia. UNLV Jazz will perform in September in the Monterey Jazz Festival. Dean Nancy Uscher and all of the College of Fine Arts are extremely proud of these…
David Loeb (Music) was honored as a guest performer and featured presenter at the 2017 Las Vegas Philharmonic Gala at Reynolds Hall in the Smith Center on Feb. 9. UNLV's director of jazz studies, Loeb also conducted the Show Stoppers Orchestra for Lady Gaga's performance in the Encore Theater at The Wynn Hotel in December. In addition, he was the…
Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) has just had his critical edition of the harpsichord works of Pierre Nicolas La Font published by A-R editions as part of its "Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era." This publication was also the recipient of an award from the James R. Anthony Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded…
Linda Lister and UNLV Opera Theatre (both Music) won second place in the Musical Theatre Division of the National Opera Association Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition. Lister serves as director of UNLV Opera.
UNLV Jazz Ensemble I (Music) has been invited, through a rigorous audition process among some of the top university jazz ensembles in the nation, to compete as a finalist in the 2017 College Big Band Division at the prestigious Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival, in Monterey, California. Other…
Jennifer Bellor (Music) composed a piece, "Chase the Stars," that recently was awarded The American Prize in the orchestra category. Written for soprano, rapper, flute, bass clarinet, string quartet, percussion, electric guitar, electric bass, and drums, "Chase the Stars" was commissioned by ShoutHouse in 2015, and Bellor later recorded the…