January 12, 2017
Thomas Potter, UCF voice teacher and opera director, will sing the lead baritone role of “Tonio” in Leoncavallo’s famous opera Pagliacci (the clowns) with the Imperial Symphony Orchestra at the Branscomb Auditorium in Lakeland, FL on Saturday, January 21. I am very happy to be able to perform this amazing opera by Leoncavallo. I sing…
December 2, 2016
Sunday’s concert by the UCF Wind Ensemble, which will feature a marimba concerto by Dean Jeff Moore of the College of Arts & Humanities as soloist, has a new venue and time. The free concert will be 5-7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, at Timber Creek High School, 1001 Avalon Park South Blvd., Orlando. The ensemble…
November 29, 2016
On Friday, November 11th, members of the UCF Marching Knights and our Music Fraternities and Sororities participated in the Fall Classic Opening Ceremonies for the Special Olympics Florida State Fall Classic. The Special Olympics Florida State Fall Classic is the culminating celebration and competition for athletes, partners, and coaches participating in cheerleading, gymnastics, powerlifting, softball,…
November 17, 2016
Three weeks after earning her degree a semester early in December 2014, Abby Jaros sat on her bed alongside her parents in a packed up apartment. All at once, Jaros realized the leap she was about to take in moving to New York City to pursue a career in theater. She questioned herself: Is this…
November 17, 2016
Laszlo Marosi, associate professor at UCF, has been honored with several prestigious music awards from international organizations over the past year. Marosi is no stranger to the world. Born in Hungary, where he later studied at the Liszt Academy of Music, Marosi has worked and performed in South Africa, Israel, Japan, England, the United States…
November 2, 2016
UCF’s Flying Horse Big Band will perform with five-time Grammy nominee Ira Sullivan on Friday, November 4. The premier ensemble of the university’s jazz studies program, the Flying Horse Big Band is under the direction of Pegasus Professor Jeff Rupert, director of Jazz Studies. Ira Sullivan is a world-renowned multi-instrumentalist, playing trumpet, flugelhorn, peck horn,…
October 31, 2016
Associate professor Nora Lee García recently performed at the 5th International Flute Convention hosted by the Maurice-Ravel Conservatory in Levallois, France. García was the only U.S.-born artist invited to play at the prestigious event. She performed Claude Bolling’s “Picnic Suite” with acclaimed guitarist Rene Izquierdo, professor at the University of Milwaukee. In addition to directing…
October 28, 2016
Theatre UCF opens Caryl Churchill’s time shifting comedy Cloud 9 on Thursday, November 10, in UCF’s Black Box theater. The play, a parody of the Victorian Empire’s sexual rigidity, runs through November 20. Cloud 9 takes place in Colonial Africa in the first act, and later moves to a modern London. The play focuses heavily…
October 20, 2016
In October, UCF Music faculty and percussionist Dr. Thad Anderson will give two free performances of Northbound, a travel soundtrack he composed based on a light rail trip. The performances will take place on Thursday, October 27 on the UCF campus and Sunday, October 30, at the Timucua Arts White House. Northbound is a live…
October 18, 2016
Award-winning performer Michael Feinstein takes his seat behind the Steinway Piano and accompanies Kyle Laing, a student in UCF’s musical theatre program, on Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Love Look Away,” while an audience of Laing’s peers and professors listens intently. The performance, part of a larger master class session led by Feinstein and part of the…