News: School of Music

Jennifer Grim with flute
Arts and Culture |

Program includes Gioachino Rossini's Overture to Guillaume Tell; Ellen Taafe Zwilich's Concerto Elegia for Solo Flute and Strings; and Ludwig Van Beethoven's Symphony No. 2.

UNLV Jazz Ensemble performs on stage
Arts and Culture |

Members of the ‪‎UNLV Latin Jazz Ensemble and director Uli Geissendoerfer won the prestigious 2015 DownBeat Magazine Student Music Award for Latin Group.

UNLV Performing Arts Center logo on a window
Arts and Culture |

This debut concert of the 2015-16 season is part of the UNLV Chamber Music Series.

PAC Season poster
Arts and Culture |

Southern Nevada’s longstanding performing arts venue will feature the acclaimed Charles Vanda Master Series, The Allegro Guitar Series, and the Chamber Music Series.

Closeup of a saxophone
Arts and Culture |

The 80-member concert band of adult amateur musicians from around the country is led by the director emeritus of the U.S. Marine Band.

graduation cap and tassle
Campus News |

Among the 2,700 students expected to graduate this week, five will receive special recognition at commencement. Here's why they were selected.

Tony LaBounty
People |

Psalm 92 inspires UNLV’s longtime director of bands to put down the conducting baton and pick up the composing pen.

Signage with the UNLV logo on campus
Arts and Culture |

"Time Lapse" will live stream two simultaneous performances from UNLV and Weston College in Weston-super-Mare, England.

Brasil Guitar Duo
Arts and Culture |

Together for 15 years, Joào Luiz and Douglas Lora perform a seamless blend of traditional and Brazilian works.

Gary Cordell and Larry Ransom play trumpet at a funeral
Arts and Culture |

The Community Concert Band, UNLV's premier community-based performance ensemble, will present the concert along with the UNLV New Horizons Band and the nonprofit group TAPPS.

Figaro
Arts and Culture |

Based on Beaumarchais’ classic 18th-century play, "Le nozze di Figaro" will be sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado México
Arts and Culture |

Featuring Enrique Batíz, music director and chief conductor, with Alfonso Moreno, guitar soloist.