Performing Arts Director Performs in Chicago
March 07, 2014 Professor Jeff Moore traveled to Chicago to perform Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich at the University of Illinois in Chicago. The ensemble is made up of faculty members from various schools in Illinois, Michigan, New York, Texas and Florida.
Jeff Moore Performs Post-Minimalist Concert in Syracuse
March 07, 2014 Professor Jeff Moore traveled to Syracuse, New York to perform on a post-minimalist percussion ensemble concert that included Steve Reich’s Mallet Quartet, Peter Garland’s Apple Blossom and the New York premiere of Mark Mellits’s Gravity at Storers Auditorium on the Onondaga Community College campus. The ensemble included OCC faculty members...
Performing Arts Director performs and teaches in Australia
March 07, 2014 Professor Jeff Moore was invited to present master classes, clinics, and to perform in concert at the PAS Australia National Drums and Percussion Summer Camp at the University of Adelaide-Elder Conservatory of Music. Moore was among several international percussionists and pedagogues invited from Australia, Austria, and America, including Nebosja Zivkovic...
Director interviewed for Australian Percussion Magazine
March 07, 2014 Professor Jeff Moore was interviewed for an article in Australia’s DRUMscene Magazine, released in January 2014. In the article Professor Moore discusses his background and percussion career. In addition, he discussed the topics for his upcoming sessions at the Australian National Drums and Percussion Camp in Adelaide, Australia.
Jeff Moore interviewed for Orlando Arts Magazine
March 07, 2014 Professor Jeff Moore was interviewed for an article in Orlando Arts Magazine, November/December 2013 issue. In the article he discusses his new position as Director and the goals for the newly formed School of Performing Arts.
Jeff Moore’s Second Percussion Method Book and CD package is Released
March 07, 2014 Professor Jeff Moore second percussion method book and CD package, Fundamental Drumstick Control was published by Alfred Publishing Company, Van Nuys, CA.
Professor Moore teaches at a Yamaha Sounds of Summer Clinic
March 07, 2014 Professor Jeff Moore was the featured clinician at the Yamaha Sounds of Summer Camp at UCONN (University of Connecticut) in Storrs.
New Percussion Ensemble arrangement by Jeff Moore published
March 07, 2014 Alfred Publishing Company, located in Van Nuys, California published Professor Jeff Moore’s percussion ensemble arrangement, A Beatles Medley: 1963-‘64. Professor Moore has over 20 percussion ensemble and steel drum arrangements published and distributed internationally by Alfred.
Gallery to Host Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
March 05, 2014 With artworks that blend photography and sculpture, to those that challenge personal beliefs, and others that play on memories, the 2014 Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition will be shown March 6-21 at the UCF Art Gallery. Seven artists will be featured in the “Down the Rabbit Hole” show that...
UCF CAH promotes Creative Careers through Florida IT Performance Grant
March 03, 2014 The Creative Career Speaker Series is a collaboration between the UCF College of Arts and Humanities (CAH) and UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design (SVAD), recipients of a Florida IT Performance Grant. Rudy McDaniel, Assistant Dean for Research and Technology for the College, noted that “the Speaker Series was...
Destined for the Stage
March 03, 2014 Thanks to having three sisters who liked watching musicals, Rob Stack, ’07, grew up watching them too. As a kid, he found himself drawn to Grease 2. “I know. It’s a horrible movie with a campy, cliché depiction of high school,” he says. “But, I loved every minute of it....
Theatre Lecturer Receives Life @ UCF Award
February 27, 2014 Theatre Lecturer Sybil St. Claire is a recipient of the 2014 Life @ UCF Award for UCF Women Faculty Excellence in Academic Partnerships. She was awarded for the creation of interACTionZ: a queer youth theatre for social change. interACTionZ is a partnership between Theatre UCF, the Zebra Coalition, the Orlando...
UCF Film Wins Best Documentary Award
February 26, 2014 The film The Committee won the award for Best Documentary at the Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Sanford on Feb. 15. The Committee was directed by faculty members Lisa Mills and Robert Cassanello. The 24-minute documentary was produced during the fall 2011 semester by a Honors Advanced Documentary Workshop...
Theatre UCF Student Wins Regional Competition for Dramaturgy, Advances to Nationals
February 14, 2014 University of Central Florida student Elle Sullivan has won the Southeast regional competition for dramaturgy at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and will be heading to Washington D.C. to compete at the national level this spring. Sullivan, a junior majoring in Theatre Studies and minoring in Music, says...
UCF Alum Flourishes on New York Art Scene
February 13, 2014 In a culture that tends to fixate on fame and fortune, it is easy to overlook the real success achieved by everyday people living their dream. UCF alum Elana Eda Rubinfeld is one of those people. After graduating from UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design, Elana moved to New...
Texts and Tech Program Hosts Workshops on How Learning Works
February 12, 2014 UCF Texts and Technology hosted two workshops for the program’s Graduate Teaching Associates. Led by Eric Main, Associate Director of UCF’s Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning, the sessions were based on the book How Learning Works: Seven Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan Ambrose, et al. The workshops...
InMedia publishes Mauer article
February 12, 2014 An article by Barry Mauer entitled “Control Room and the Staging of War” was recently published by InMedia, a french Journal of Media and Media Representations. Read the article online here. InMedia documents the study of media and media representations in the English-speaking world. The journal focuses on press, photography,...
UCF Collaborates with ROBOTIS in Robotics Workshop
February 11, 2014 On January 18 at the annual Otronicon expo in the Orlando Science Center, UCF’s HCI Lab and CREATE teamed up with ROBOTIS to hold an inaugural teacher’s workshop for STEAM learning with robots (http://hci.cah.ucf.edu/roboticsworkshop). ROBOTIS is known globally for making stand outs in the field of robotics. In 2011, DARwIn-OP,...
UCF Students Send Holiday Greetings in Spanish to U.S. Troops
February 11, 2014 During the fall semester, students in Yilaisa Seijas’s Spanish 1120 and 1121 courses created holiday cards in Spanish to send to women and men serving abroad. Custom greeting cards were mailed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations. Seijas’s students were recognized by the president and co-founder of For the Troops,...
Amelia Mackarey receives 2014 Order of Pegasus Award
February 10, 2014 Congratulations to Amelia Mackarey, a recipient of the 2014 Order of Pegasus Award. This award is the most prestigious award given by UCF. Amelia is an undergraduate major in both English/Literature and Biomedical Sciences and is working with Dr. James Campbell on her HIM thesis Representation and Imagination of the...