Theatre UCF Students Create Promo for Upcoming Season
August 27, 2012 Theatre students Michael Dritto and Samantha Salerno created a promotional video about Theatre UCF’s 2012-13 season. It premiered at an annual reception for theatre patrons and aired again for theatre students at an all-department assembly on the first day of fall classes. The video not only informs the public about...
Voice Undergraduate Awarded National Scholarship
July 17, 2012 Amber Farish, an undergraduate student of UCF’s Voice program, has been awarded a $2000 Scholarship for the 2012/13 academic year by Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. The award, in honor of Phyllis Dobbins Holt, was awarded to only three students in the country. From SAI: “There were many outstanding applications...
UCF Students and Alumni at Aspen Music Festival
July 16, 2012 Rachelle Jenkins, a 2011 UCF graduate with a BM in Horn Performance, is featured at the 2012 Aspen Music Festival on a Student Spotlight Banner. Rachelle is in her third season at the Aspen Music Festival and holds a New Horizon Fellowship, the most prestigious student award given at the...
Potter to Teach and Perform in Europe
June 19, 2012 UCF Opera director Thomas Potter travels to Germany to teach at Music Theater Bavaria this summer to teach voice, German diction, the International Phonetic Alphabet, and to assist in the directing of several opera scenes. Additionally, Professor Potter will be singing a 90 minute guest artist recital in the Blaue Quelle Performance Hall in...
2012 Music Scholarship Winners and ΠΚΛ Inductees
May 04, 2012 The UCF Music Department recognizes the 2012 Special Music Scholarship winners and Pi Kappa Lambda inductees. Pi Kappa Lambda is an honors society for undergraduate students, graduate students, and professors of music in higher education. 2012 Performance Excellence Award Winner Joshua Herrington 2012 Presser Foundation Scholarship Winner Nick Buonanni 2012...
Theatre UCF Summer Season is Sexy, Mysterious
April 09, 2012 Each summer, Theatre UCF brings three productions to its stages. In 2012, the University of Central Florida program is presenting No Sex Please, We’re British; Deathtrap; and Spike Heels. No Sex Please, We’re British is a comedy by Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot. A straight-laced newlywed couple innocently order Scandinavian...
Yonetani Performs with Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo in First American Tour
April 02, 2012 Ayako Yonetani will perform with the Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo as they present their first American tour. As a part of a celebration for the Japan-U.S. Cherry Blossom Centennial, the group will play at the Verizon Hall in Philadelphia on April 27, National Gallery in Washington, Harvard University’s Sander’s Theater in...
Yonetani Performs at Japanese Embassy in Panama
March 27, 2012 Ayako Yonetani recently performed in Panama at an event commemorating the one-year anniversary of Japan’s Tsunami/Earthquake. Yonetani played the famous Bach Chaconne from Solo Partita No. 2. The Japanese Embassy hosted the event on March 9, 2011 at the Museo del Canal. Guests included the Vice President of Panama, the...
Koelble’s Relentless Curiosity About Music
March 20, 2012 As you take the steps down into the belly of Tanqueray’s, an underground bar in Downtown Orlando, you come across a smoky jazz haven adorned with Christmas lights and a wall of mirrors that makes the cramped venue appear twice as big. Cast in a shroud of blue and red...
Theatre UCF Brings Home National Honors
March 05, 2012 Two Theatre UCF actors have been recognized by the National Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF) for performances given in 2011. Kevia Goins, a junior in the BFA Acting program at UCF, was awarded “Distinguished Performance by an Actress” for her role as Black Mary in Gem of the Ocean....
Potter to Sing with Sarasota Opera
February 23, 2012 Voice faculty Thomas Potter will sing the role of the Old Doctor in Samuel Barber’s dramatic opera VANESSA with Sarasota Opera. With a libretto written by Gian Carlo Menotti, the performances [March 10, 13, 15, 18, 21, and 24] will be sung in English with English supertitles. Tickets for the...
Nora Lee García joins world-class musicians for idyllic workshops
February 10, 2012 Internationally renowned flutists Deirdre Manning and Nora Lee García-Velázquez are collaborating on two unique workshops. This summer, they are offering weeklong experiences in the foothills of the French Pyrenees and in the quaint lobstering village of Winter Harbor. Participants will spend a week of intensive study with classically trained flutists...
UCF Flute Student Wins 3rd Prize at Annual State Competition
February 03, 2012 UCF flute player Kate Nichols recently won third prize at the Florida Flute Association’s annual College Young Artist Competition. She performed Pierre Sancan’s Sonatine for Flute and Piano on Friday, January 27, 2012 at the association’s annual convention. Kate is a junior in the UCF Flute Studio, pursuing a degree...
UCF Theatre Faculty Members Publish Book on Practical Theatre Theory
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...
Opera singer Louis Roney to be inducted into Florida Artists Hall of Fame
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...
Rupert to perform at Midwest Clinic
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...
Students take behind-the-scenes lead in Pajama Game
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...
Percussion students join NYC music festival
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...
Theatre UCF Alumnus Michael Marinaccio Appointed Producer of Orlando Fringe Festival
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...
Donny Allen featured by UCF Today
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%...