January 30, 2012
UCF Theatre faculty members Julia Listengarten and Vandy Wood (publishing under M. Van Duyn Wood), along with former faculty member Megan Altruz have published a compilation of essays, "Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice." The process took six years and includes twenty-two contributors including Chair/Artistic Director of the Theatre Department at UCF Christopher Niess and…
January 11, 2012
Former Distinguished Professor of Music Louis Roney will be inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He joins such legendary artists as Ray Charles, Ernest Hemingway and Zora Neale Hurston. Roney was football captain at Winter Park High School and honor graduate of Harvard University before serving four years in the U.S. Navy during…
November 22, 2011
Jeff Rupert has been invited to perform at the Midwest Clinic, an international band and orchestra conference, on December 15 in Chicago. Performing with the Downers Grove South High School Jazz Band, Rupert will be a featured soloist along with Rowan University’s Dennis DiBlasio. Both Rupert and DiBlasio toured with Maynard Ferguson and currently direct…
October 28, 2011
The University of Central Florida’s production of The Pajama Game won’t just be a showcase for actors. The classic musical also will be a creative channel for fine arts students who are taking the lead on many of the behind-the-scenes elements, from the costumes and choreography to the set design and lighting. Those roles traditionally…
October 28, 2011
On the longest day of the year, public spaces across the five buroughs of New York City erupt with sound during the Make Music New York festival—and UCF’s percussionists were there to join in on the celebration. The festival is an innovative approach to making music—it’s a free celebration of sound, where 460 cities across…
October 28, 2011
Michael Marinaccio, who received his B.F.A.–Acting in 1998 from the University of Central Florida, has been hired as the producer for the Orlando Fringe Festival. Michael has contributed greatly to the Central Florida theatre community since his days at the university, working on and off stage with local theatres including the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, the…
October 19, 2011
Dr. Laszlo Marosi will shortly be en route to Argentina as guest conductor of the Banda Sinfónica de la Provincia. The band, together with two choirs, the Coro Polifónico de Córdoba and the Coro "Delfino Quirici", and four soloists will perform the Requiem by Frigyes Hidas. The performance will take place in the "Teatro Libertador"…
September 26, 2011
On September 28th Dr. Laszlo Marosi flies to Cordóba, Argentina where he has been invited to take part in the First International Conference of Conductors, Composers and Performers of Youth Bands. Among his duties will be a masterclass on score presentation and rehearsal technique. He will also direct the conference youth band in the closing…
August 31, 2011
It was the “BRPPBBBB” sound that blasts from a trumpet—“so appealing to a 5th grader”— that got Donny Allen hooked on music. Today, as the director of the Marching Knights and the Jammin’ Knights, it is music’s power to inspire and connect that keeps him playing his passionate tune. “94% of our band members are…
August 15, 2011
On Sunday evening, September 11, UCF Music faculty members Kimberly Saunders Randall and Thomas Potter will be featured soloists in a special concert to remember and honor those who perished on “9-11” ten years ago. This First United Methodist Church of Orlando Chancel Choir and orchestra concert, entitled “We Remember Them,” is free of charge…