Viet Cuong (Music), visiting assistant professor in composition, was recently awarded the 2023 Frederick Fennell Composition Prize at the national College Band Directors National Association conference for his magnificent new work, Vital Sines. He received $10,000 in prize money.

Adam Schroeder (Music), saxophone professor and assistant director of UNLV jazz, was recently awarded a fully-funded grant from the Nevada Arts Council for performing artists in their funding cycle for Jan. 1-June 30, 2023. This grant will help bring to fruition a celebration of the music of jazz trumpet and jazz educator legend, Mr. Clark Terry,…

Michael Bublé and his team of musicians, including UNLV professor Adam Schroeder (Music), won a Grammy in the category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for his record "Higher." This marks his second Grammy win over the past three years.  Schroeder is an assistant professor of saxophone and assistant director of UNLV jazz.

The UNLV Concerto Competition was held January 26, and the winner was Ana Elisa Portes Lima (Music, College of Fine Arts) - Mezzo Soprano, DMA student of music professor Kimberly James. Her repertoire was Maurice Ravel's  “Sheherezade." The judges — professors Taras Krysa, DeAnne Letourneau, and Richard Kravchak — were…

Faculty member Andre Chiang, DMA, and recent graduate Valentine Baron, DMA, (both Music - Voice) presented different sessions at the 68th National Opera Association Annual Conference in Houston, TX. The sessions were titled, “Do That, Too: Honoring Your Whole Creative Self On and Off the Opera Stage” and the 2020-22 Dissertation Competition winner…

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) has received the Ruth Solie Prize from the North American British Music Studies Association. The organization gives this award biennially for what it deems “the most outstanding article on a subject in British music” published over the previous two years. The prize committee praised Lee’s “meticulous scholarship” and “…

Thanks to professor Diego Vega (Music), select UNLV string students performed at the Latin Grammy Award ceremony on Nov. 17, 2022.  "This is a very rare and unique opportunity only available to students at UNLV's School of Music," said Vega. "Our students were ecstatic to be part of this prestigious event."

André Chiang, D.M.A., (Music, Voice) recently performed the title role in Gianni Schicchi with Opera Mississippi on October 27, 28, and 29 in Natchez and Jackson, MS. He also opens a production of La bohème performing Marcello with Opera Western Reserve in Youngstown, Ohio, on November 11.  Opera Mississippi is beginning…

The National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia will perform the world premiere of DMA associate professor Diego Vega's (Music) ballet Espíritu de Pájaro on November 4 and 5, a work they commissioned to him in 2018. This premiere will take place at Teatro Colón in the city of Bogotá, with choreography by Álvaro Restrepo, and music direction by…

Tradition-Innovations in Art, Design, and Media Education Panel Kimberly G. James (Music), Kymberly Mellen (Theatre), Phillip Zawarus (Architecture), Olga Townsend (UNLV Art Alumna), Adam Paul (Film), Julian Kilker (JMS), Timothy Jones (Music), Morgan Iommi (NSC), Alethea Inns (OIT), and Yvonne Houy (College of Fine Arts) presented on "tradition…

UNLV College of Fine Arts Dean Nancy J. Uscher has begun her term as president of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD). ICFAD is a vehicle through which members share information and ideas that enhance the leadership of deans and associate deans, provosts and associate provosts, university presidents and other arts…

Amy Brown (Music) presented a session to K-12 educators titled, Gamifying Assessments: Where Do I Begin? at the Silver State Technology Conference in Las Vegas in September 2022. The focus of this session was to compare and contrast the popular assessment sites so that educators could decide which tool would best fit their classroom needs for…