October 19, 2021
Theatre Design and Production students from UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) are using their creative expertise and skills to build customized costumes for May We Help’s annual Halloween Festival. The charity organization connected CCM’s students to children with disabilities who need specialized costumes built to fit their power chairs.
November 8, 2021
Demarre McGill, Associate Professor of Flute at CCM and Principal Flutist of the Seattle Symphony sat down with Aaron Dworkin on Arts Engine for a conversation DE&I (diversity, equity and inclusion) in American music conservatories.
January 5, 2022
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music alumna Claire Mahony (BFA Make-up and Wig Design, '08) is the hair department head on "Evil," an original series on Paramount+.
December 14, 2021
Students from the Media Production Division at UC's College-Conservatory of Music won five College Student Production Awards from the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. CCM Media Production won more awards than any other program, college or university that competed in the Ohio Valley four-state region.
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.
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 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.
January 26, 2022
The Cincinnati Opera recently released recordings of excerpts from "Bulrusher," a new opera workshopped during Opera Fusion: New Works in December 2021. Watch the excerpts online.
July 11, 2022
UC College-Conservatory of Music Associate Professor of Horn Denise Tryon is the 2022 winner of The American Prize in Instrumental Performance in the professional division. Tryon was selected from applications reviewed from all across the United States.
July 5, 2022
UC College-Conservatory of Music student Dionte Mercado is one of 10 "driven students" selected for ETC's 2022 North American Fred Foster Student Mentorship Program.