August 11, 2020
UC College-Conservatory of Music Sound Design and Technology student Alena Milos is a 2020 recipient of the Pat MacKay Diversity in Design Scholarship, presented by Questex's Live Design International (LDI) in partnership with TSDCA and USITT.
August 11, 2020
Downtown’s Christ Church Cathedral dedicated a new C.B. Fisk organ Opus 148 in their Centennial Cathedral in 2018. To learn more about this special instrument, WVXU’s Alexander Watson recently spoke with UC College-Conservatory of Music Professor of Organ and Harpsichord Michael Unger and David Pike, head tonalist from C. B. Fisk Organ Builders.
July 28, 2020
Watch CCM faculty and alumni perform in 'Cincinnati Opera at 100' special
September 30, 2020
Out of over 200 applicants, 12 conductors made it to La Maestra competition, including three CCM alumni: Tong, Maria Fuller (MM Orchestral Conducting, ’19; AD Opera Coaching, ’17; MM Piano Performance, ‘15) and Jiajing Lai (MM Orchestral Conducting, ‘15). Lai also advanced to the semi-final round.
October 6, 2020
UC College-Conservatory of Music alumna Jordan Pollard (MM Jazz Studies, ’14) recently spoke to Cincinnati Spectrum News 1 network about her experience teaching at the Cincinnati Music School during the pandemic.
September 30, 2020
Southern Methodist University's DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research, recently released the 2020 Arts Vibrancy Index Report, which measures the hotbeds of America's arts and culture. For the first time in the annual report's history, Cincinnati made the top-20 large metropolitan area list.
October 6, 2020
The Wind Symphony at UC's College-Conservatory of music reunites on the Corbett Auditorium stage to present a socially-distanced virtual performance. Led by Director of Wind Studies Kevin Michael Holzman, the concert features works by Kevin Day, Andrea Tarrodi, Samuel Barber, Joaquin Rodrigo and Richard Strauss.
October 5, 2020
UC College-Conservatory of Music Classical Guitar student Luke Jackson gives a couch concert as part of the Distilled Theatre Company's virtual concert series.
October 5, 2020
UC College-Conservatory of Music alumna Randa Minkarah (BFA Broadcasting, ’82) co-founded Resonance AI, which was recently named one of TechCrunch’s Top Picks for Disrupt 2020, a conference (held virtually this year) that promotes tech startups in a variety of categories.
October 19, 2020
In 2019, UC College-Conservatory of Music student and now alumna Caroline Sackleh (DMA Bassoon Performance, ’20) created a music collective that focuses on highlighting the skills of women musicians and performing the works of living composers. With that vision in mind, New Downbeat was born. The ensemble now boasts over 20 performers and six affiliated composers, most of whom are CCM students or alumni.