January 3, 2023

UC College-Conservatory of Music Interim Dean Jonathan Kregor has announced the addition of acclaimed hornist Margaret Tung to the college’s roster of distinguished performing and media arts faculty members. Hailed as “masterly” in the Chicago Classical Review and “spot on at every moment” in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Tung begins her appointment as CCM Associate Professor of Horn on Aug. 15, 2023.

June 21, 2022

The summer high school Musical Theatre Workshop at UC's College-Conservatory of Music dedicated Monday's activities to share a curriculum focused on social justice, commemorating Juneteenth.

April 17, 2023

Lighting Design and Technology students at UC's College-Conservatory of Music put their creativity on bright display during their Light Art Festival, presented outside in the CCM circle and inside the atrium on April 21-23, 2023.

June 16, 2023

Watch the CCM Jazz Orchestra and guest artist Ashlin Parker, trumpet, perform at Cincinnati's National Underground Railroad Freedom Center; originally performed and recorded on March 3, 2023. A companion to the Freedom Center’s Black History Month programming, the New Orleans Mardi Gras Concert is a celebration of music and culture. Learn more about the Freedom Center: https://freedomcenter.org/

January 2, 2024

Many students at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music balance a rigorous performance schedule with their studies — pushing the boundaries of traditional classroom experiences to turn CCM stages into their own creative laboratories. In orchestral performances, one could consider the conductor as the "lead scientist" who guides the ensemble during a concert, but Michael Patterson explains the magic on stage is a group effort.

September 25, 2023

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music has once again been named as one of Playbill’s “Big 10.” Ranked as one of the top star-producing institutions in the nation, CCM was represented by at least 24 alumni performing on Broadway stages during the ’22-23 season.

November 20, 2023

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music congratulates Steven Cahn, Professor of Music Theory, on his receipt of the prestigious 2023 Outstanding Publication Award. Representing the highest honor awarded by the Society for Music Theory, this distinction was given to Cahn’s recent article “Schoenberg, Al-Kindī, and the Unbound Braid: A Rendezvous in Barcelona a Thousand Years in the Making” (Musical Quarterly, vol. 104, nos. 3–4, 2021).

February 23, 2024

The New York Times recently featured the East Coast premiere of "Blind Injustice," an opera based on true exonerations achieved by the Ohio Innocence Project. The production opened on Feb. 16 , 2024, at Peak Performances at Montclair State University. Premiered in 2019 at Cincinnati Opera, the opera was first workshopped through Opera Fusion: New Works (OF:NW), a collaboration between Cincinnati Opera and UC College-Conservatory of Music.

March 7, 2024

Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) have announced the next opera to be workshopped through their joint program, Opera Fusion: New Works (OF:NW): Lalovavi, with music by Kevin Day, libretto by Tifara Brown, and stage direction and dramaturgy by Kimille Howard.

March 11, 2024

UC College-Conservatory of Music provides high caliber performing arts opportunities for youth, teens and adults during the summer months. From week-long day camps to multi-week residencies, CCM Prep's Summer Programs offer students of all ages the opportunity to work with our world-class faculty, along with renowned guest artists, all at the state-of-the-art CCM Village.