{"id":1317,"date":"2023-05-22T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/spotlight\/?page_id=1317"},"modified":"2023-12-18T19:36:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T19:36:51","slug":"performing-arts-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/spotlight\/performing-arts-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"2022-23 – School of Performing Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t
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Active Students (as of April 2023)*<\/span><\/span>
\nUndergrad majors: 395
\nUndergrad minors: 297
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2022-23 Student Credit Hours: 21,213<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Active Students (as of April 2023)*<\/span><\/span>
\nUndergrad majors: 427
\nUndergrad minors: 281
\nGraduate students: 73<\/p>\n

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The School of Performing Arts enjoyed a prolific year of music- and theatre-making. With over 300 concerts, six mainstage theatre productions, the ninth UCF Celebrates the Arts festival, our new play festival and various student projects, we positively impacted the community, spreading our artistic influence far and wide.<\/p>\n

UCF Celebrates the Arts 2023 comprised more than 40 performances, lectures, presentations and exhibits. In April, the Downtown Orlando Partnership recognized the festival with a Golden Brick Award<\/a> for the best arts event in 2022. The festival also received significant support grants from the State of Florida and the City of Orlando.<\/p>\n

Four guest conductors, including the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra\u2019s Eric Jacobsen, led our symphony concerts. Our choirs and bands performed at the Dr. Phillips Center in the fall and again during UCF Celebrates the Arts. The band program took 20 students to our partner school, Mahidol University, for a month-long residency in Thailand. The students and faculty in our renowned jazz program showcased their talent at the Jazz Education Convention, demonstrating growth in quality and enrollment. Following workshops with composer Michael Ching, UCF Opera performed a delightful modern opera<\/a> exploring the concept of \u201cspeed dating.\u201d In April, we hosted three days of high school invitationals, during which students from throughout Central Florida attended choir, band and percussion experiences, worked with professional clinicians and performed on the stage of the world-class Steinmetz Hall. UCF and Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra collaborated on the new OPUS Scholars program, which opened the doors for two outstanding UCF Music graduate students to play as members of the professional orchestra.<\/p>\n

Theatre professor Julia Listengarten received a second Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts & Wellness Innovation Award<\/a>. As part of Pegasus PlayLab 2023, she produced Building a Shared Home<\/em>, a project created in partnership with UCF\u2019s College of Community Innovation and Education and Best Buddies of Florida. The project brought together young adults with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities to devise a theatrical piece around the theme of \u201chome,\u201d fostering inclusive creative practices, raising awareness about disabilities and empowering participants.<\/p>\n

With over 300 concerts, six mainstage theatre productions, the ninth UCF Celebrates the Arts festival […] we positively impacted the community, spreading our artistic influence far and wide.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

During the 2022-23 Theatre UCF season, we engaged our theater community through exciting and creative productions.\u202fOur season included a diverse range of works: Shakespeare\u2019s romantic comedy\u202fAs You Like It<\/em>,\u202fBertolt Brecht\u2019s political parable\u202fThe Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui<\/em>, Linda Radley’s contemporary drama\u202fThe <\/em>Interference<\/em>\u202fand Steve Martin and Edie Brickell\u2019s heartfelt bluegrass musical\u202fBright Star<\/em>. We also featured an updated version of the musical Working<\/em>,\u202fwhich\u202fincluded pieces by Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda,\u202fand a TYA production of\u202fHome of the Brave<\/em>, designed and directed by our graduate. TECH-nique: A Dance Concert<\/em>\u202fshowcased the talents of students, alumni and faculty choreographers and dancers at UCF Celebrates the Arts.\u00a0Pegasus PlayLab capped the season with two world-premiere readings, the previously-mentioned Building a Shared Home<\/em>\u00a0and a fully staged production of a play premiered at the Orlando Shakes PlayFest in 2022.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thanks to a generous grant from Bruce and Jeffrey Gould in honor of their mother, students in the theatre studies program partnered with the College of Nursing to bring the magic of theatre to Nemours Children\u2019s Health<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UCF commissioned new works for band, and the UCF Symphony Orchestra premiered work from composition professor Alex Burtzos\u2019 new opera, HE Who Gets Slapped<\/em>. The Goldman composition program is thriving at full capacity, launching careers in music composition. The National Young Composers Challenge Composium, produced for the third time by UCF, featured six outstanding composers from around the U.S., with their works premiered by the Orlando Philharmonic during the spring festival. The Themed Experience program expanded to include an M.S. degree and now has five full cohorts. The first cohort graduated in May and secured positions at locations like Disney and Universal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Performing Arts faculty were recognized with a variety of honors, awards and promotions. In addition to our two Pegasus Professors, Jeff Rupert (also a Trustee Chair) and Julia Listengarten, the school boasts three winners of the 2023 Research Incentive Award (Timothy Brown, Alex Burtzos, Julia Listengarten), and two winners of the 2023 Teaching Incentive Award (Julia Listengarten, Elizabeth Horn). We congratulate four faculty members who received tenure in August (Ross Winter, Vivian Majkowski, Jesse Cook and Ben Lieser) and two instructors\/lecturers who will be promoted (Joe Gennaro, Judi Siegfried and Roberta Jensen).\u00a0 We also welcomed two new faculty members: actor John Gardiner and pianist Sun-A Park.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

UCF Celebrates the Arts 2023 was a resounding success. We hosted WUCF\u2019s 10th-anniversary concert featuring Broadway star Megan Hilty. Alumni from our musical theater program returned to perform and celebrate the retirement of Earl D. Weaver, UCF\u2019s coordinator of musical theater for the past twenty years. Featured in the line-up was Quentin Earl Darrington \u201916MFA who appeared in the original cast of the current Broadway hit, MJ<\/i>, and through the magic of a hologram box, Justin Sargent \u201908 sang a song without actually being there! We are thrilled for Abby Jaros \u201914, in the current Broadway company of Hamilton<\/i>, and who sent a backstage video that was played during the concert.<\/p>\n

We commend our students, alumni, faculty and staff for their dynamism, passion and commitment to advancing the arts. They strive to tell human stories, create moving music and push the boundaries of their art forms. Our faculty is preparing students to be influential voices for change, propelling the arts into public conversations and experiences.<\/p>\n

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Student Brings Awareness to Eating Disorders with Dance<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Abby Jaros \u201914 Blends Passions, Creates Rewarding Career<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2022 Pabst Steinmetz Award Winners<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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