09 Aug 2023
Clinton receives Steinway Hall of Fame honor
Lincoln, Neb.--Glenn Korff School of Music Professor of Piano Mark Clinton will be inducted into the Steinway & Sons Teacher Hall of Fame at the historic Steinway factory in New York in October.
04 Aug 2023
Cornhusker Marching Band Exhibition is Aug. 18
Lincoln, Neb.--The Cornhusker Marching Band will hold its annual exhibition concert on Friday, Aug. 18 at 7 p.m. in Memorial Stadium. The event is free and open to the public.
Fans attending the exhibition should enter Memorial Stadium through Gate 3 (southwest entrance) and Gate 11 (northwest entrance). The gates will open at 6 p.m.
04 Aug 2023
Learn to play the piano through Community Piano Experience
Lincoln, Neb.—Have you always wanted to play the piano? Or have you forgotten how to play piano since you were a child? Join Lincoln’s Community Piano Experience (CPE), a group piano class offered as an outreach of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music piano pedagogy program.
This program offers group piano classes that center on helping students develop basic music reading and piano-playing skills. Designed specifically for adults, this program offers classes at beginning and intermediate levels.
03 Aug 2023
White a finalist for The American Prize
Lincoln, Neb.--Tyler White, professor of composition and director of orchestras in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music, is one of 17 finalists for The American Prize in the division of Composers (opera/theater/film/dance-professional division) for his opera “The Gambler’s Son.” Winners will be announced later this year.
25 Jul 2023 By Kristina Jackson, University Communication and Marketing
Carson EMA grads get opportunity of a lifetime through Lola partnership
Lincoln, Neb.--A team of Huskers helped bring “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” to the big screen, part of a growing partnership between the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and Lola Visual Effects.
20 Jul 2023
Doyle playing for National Repertory Orchestra
Lincoln, Neb.--Alec Doyle, a senior cello performance major in the Glenn Korff School of Music, is spending the summer playing in the National Repertory Orchestra (NRO), a training orchestra for young professionals and college students.
19 Jul 2023
Beck selected as 2023 Emerging Artist
Lincoln, Neb.--Casey Beck, a third-year Master of Fine Arts student in ceramics in the School of Art, Art History & Design, is among 21 ceramic artists nationally chosen as 2023 Emerging Artists by “Ceramics Monthly” magazine.
There were more than 760 applicants to this year’s annual Emerging Artist competition.
18 Jul 2023
Lied Center Piano Academy student performances are July 21
Lincoln, Neb.--The Lied Center for Performing Arts is hosting the fifth annual Lied Center Piano Academy July 17-21, led by Marguerite Scribante Professor of Piano Paul Barnes, who serves as artistic director.
The academy is designed for students entering grades 9 through their first year of college and is tailored to serious intermediate and advanced students interested in gaining professional-level instruction and guidance to raise their performance level and understanding of piano music.
13 Jul 2023 By Scott Schrage, University Communication and Marketing
Award-winning furniture-maker finds fit, freedom in school of art
Lincoln, Neb.--Joseph Holmes is very much the dovetail joint he casually references in conversation: timeless throwback, angular, utilitarian and urbane in equal measure, built-to-purpose but in search of a fit. Eschewer of nails and bolts and screws, purveyor of connection via chisel and wood.
13 Jul 2023
Next Carson Center, Black Public Media fellows cohort announced
Lincoln, Neb.--The Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and Black Public Media (BPM) have announced the second cohort of their new residency program for creative technologists, called the Black Public Media Residency at the Carson Center.
The program just recently received a $40,000 award from the National Endowment for the Arts’ Grants for Arts Projects program.
This year’s recipients are Eboni Zamani, J. Bird Lathon and Conrad Burgos, who developed creative technology projects while they were in residence at the Carson Center July 10-21.