September 13, 2021
UC’s College-Conservatory of Music offers dozens of different general studies and arts elective courses in spring 2022. These credit-granting courses are open to all UC students and cover a wide range of topics including dance, movies and media, music and theatre arts!
December 10, 2021
CCM Musical Theatre has a tradition of welcoming their first-year students with a showcase. However, for the class of 2024, the pandemic had other plans. Determined to make this performance happen, faculty and students adapted to create a virtual performance entitled, “Wake Up,” in which newcomers were featured monologues and performances shot in various locations across Cincinnati.
October 18, 2021
The University of Cincinnati’s Cincinnati Talent Acceleration Program is providing nontraditional students with training in tech and a path to higher education, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
February 17, 2022
Cincinnati Opera recently announced that it was awarded a $1.3 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In addition to providing key financial support for a new artistic initiative by Cincinnati Opera to commission operas that celebrate Black stories, the gift will also fund the continuation of Opera Fusion: New Works, the groundbreaking workshop program from Cincinnati Opera and CCM that supports the development of new operas.
March 1, 2022
Ciara Alyse Harris (CCM Musical Theatre BFA ‘18) spoke with Broadway World about her role as Alana Beck in the national tour of "Dear Evan Hansen." She began as the understudy for Alana and Zoe and was recently reintroduced to the stage as a leading lady in the tour, which is slated to run at the Dayton Live Schuster Center in Dayton, Ohio on March 8-13, 2022.
February 16, 2022
Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into CCM performances courtesy of the new Backstage at CCM documentary series. In the debut episode of CCM's new series of mini documentaries, viewers can follow along as soprano Emma Marhefka, a first-year Master of Music student in Voice Performance at CCM, transforms into the character of Susanna from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
March 14, 2022
CCM Professor of Piano and Artist-in-Residence Awadagin Pratt was one of three recipients of $100,000 in grant funding from the Sphinx Organization. Sphinx describes itself as a social justice organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts, with a strong focus on classical music.
April 27, 2022
CCM’s recent production of "The Marriage of Figaro" (Le nozze di Figaro, 1786) is now available for on-demand viewing as part of the CCMONSTAGE Online Archives series. This iconic opera, which was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, was originally performed live in Corbett Auditorium on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021. Stream both parts of the opera below.
April 25, 2022
The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Jazz program will compete in the Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jack Rudin Jazz Championship in early 2022.
May 23, 2022
Tim Steigerwald, president of Messer Construction, spoke with the host of Construction Brothers Podcast about improvements in the construction industry and the growing role of co-op. Stegerwald called out UC’s role in co-op, the university is ranked in the top four of schools providing co-op experiences for students nationally.