February 23, 2016
The B.A. program is perfect for students wanting a foundation to pursue a career or further study in musicology, arts administration, music history, music criticism, music therapy and more. This degree has a liberal arts emphasis and flexible curriculum.
February 8, 2016
Clarinetist Julian Bliss will visit UCF for three events including the UCF Wind Ensemble concert on Friday, Feb.26, and UCF Clarinet Day and the Youth Band of Orlando concert on Saturday, Feb. 27. Bliss has performed in the world’s leading venues and festivals as a soloist and chamber musician. The musical explorer started playing clarinet…
February 2, 2016
UCF Celebrates the Arts 2016 – a free festival of music, performances and visual displays – combines an abundance of arts and talent that would weigh down an actual marquee. The festival, which is all open to the public, will reprise its second season April 8-16 at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts…
February 2, 2016
Alondra Bahls, BME/BM student, received an Arts Advocacy Award from the Florida Higher Education Arts Network on January 26. The award was presented at the state capitol in Tallahassee for National Arts Advocacy Day. Alondra was also asked to play a duet with another award recipient from the University of Florida. In addition, José Fernández,…
January 20, 2016
Australian native James Morrison, who has performed for two U.S. presidents and the Queen of England will now join the UCF Jazz Professors for a concert at the University of Central Florida’s Visual Arts Building auditorium, on Tuesday, Jan. 26. The concert, hosted by the UCF School of Performing Arts will be a medley of…
January 5, 2016
Piano Professor Yun-Ling Hsu was invited to perform a cultural exchange piano recital at the magnificent historical Sala Ignacio Cervantes Concert Hall in Havana, Cuba in November 2015. Invited by Dr. Miriam Escudero, the Cuban Director of Musical Heritage Cabinet Esteban Salas (from Office of the Historian of Havana), Hsu performed a program with varied…
October 23, 2015
Collega-Menti: Live from Palermo was recently released on CD, featuring the Bellini Conservatory Symphony Orchestra directed by Laszlo Marosi. Published by Wicky EMW of Milan, Italy, it is the third album release of 2015 featuring Marosi. Marosi recorded with the orchestra which is based in Sicily. The program contains music from contemporary Italian composer Nunzio…
September 30, 2015
On Saturday, October 3, flutist Nora Lee Garcia will perform a recital entitled “Music of the Americas” with guitarist Rene Izquierdo at the University of Central Florida Rehearsal Hall at 8:00 p.m. The recital celebrates Latin heritage and includes music from Cuba, Brazil, and Argentina. Garcia, who is of Puerto Rican descent, says she likes…
August 26, 2015
Nora Lee García was recently invited to perform with Keith Koons and George Weremchuk at the ClarinetFest Madrid, Spain in July 2015. Recently García presented and performed at the National Flute Convention 2015 held in Washington, D.C. August 2015. Her graduate senior student Ariana Stark was the Assistant Coordinator at the Young Artist Competition 2015…
August 26, 2015
Eladio Scharrón and Laszlo Marosi are pleased to announce their recently released album Héroes. The recording presents more than thirty years of works premiered, commissioned by, or dedicated to Scharrón by an international group of composers including Antonio Ruiz-Pipó, Jorge Morel, Alberto Rodríguez-Ortiz, UCF’s Stella Sung, and others. In addition, Ruiz-Pipó’s Third Concerto for Guitar…