New Music Faculty!! Welcome Nicole Mitchell & JoVia Armstrong
UVA Welcomes New Music Faculty: Nicole Mitchell & JoVia Armstrong! Read more about them here!!
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Charlottesville Symphony Announces 2022-23 Concert Season
A violin concerto, a Beethoven symphony, a choral masterwork, folk tunes, dances, a sonic exploration of the cosmos and more! – Charlottesville Symphony Music Director Benjamin Rous has curated a 2022-23 season that will delight nearly every musical taste.
A Gift with Resonance
When Christine Moore (Engr ’92) came to the University of Virginia, it was with the plan to become an electrical engineer like her father and a hope to continue playing her flute. “I quickly realized that electrical engineering wasn't the best fit for me,” she remembered. She switched her major to chemical engineering and discovered the tremendous musical opportunities at UVA.
2021-22 Arts Council Libraries Grant: Making Noise and Reconnecting after COVID
Making Noise, a performance series that originated in 2014 by Music Librarian Matthew Vest, has hosted a number of dramatic, musical, and dance performances over the years. Vest said, “[Making Noise] makes the library itself a locus of the types of scholarly and artistic conversations that typically happen in non-library spaces, simply by inviting music and noise into a controlled environment.”
Music Faculty Member Earns a Guggenheim
Leah Reid, an Assistant Professor of Music Composition, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Provided by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career scholars and artists who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exhibit exceptional creative ability in the arts while exhibiting great promise for their future endeavors.
UVA Chamber Singers Performance in Defiant Requiem Project
The University of Virginia Chamber Singers joined ensembles from five other universities and conductor Murry Sidlin for a special performance of the Verdi Requiem, as part of the Defiant Requiem project.
Arts on the Hill: 2022 Battle of the Bands
FIRST-EVER Arts on the Hill: Battle of the Bands | April 14, 2022
A Day on Grounds With A.D. Carson, Professor of Hip-Hop
Spend a day in the life of A.D. Carson, assistant professor of hip-hop and the Global South.
The Art of Success: for Many College Alumni, Arts Degrees Have Paved the Path to Success in a Wide Range of Careers
Many of UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences alumni with degrees in studio arts, drama or music go on to successful careers in arts and entertainment, in the world’s great museums or educating the next generation of creative minds. However, the number of arts majors who become leaders in business, law, technology and other areas suggests that the skills they learned in the studio and on the stage are helping them thrive in a wide range of pursuits.
Will Smith's Brain-snap Oscars Slap Flipped the Script on His Image, Which Suits the Bias
Dr. A.D. Carson believes Will Smith's reputation should ultimately remain intact.
New Democracy Initiative Lab Explores Creative Advocacy
As a collective of students, researchers, lawyers, artists and community partners, participants in the Sound Justice Lab will work across the boundaries of their individual disciplines and institutions to examine the impact narrative storytelling and audio-visual media can play in advocating for underrepresented individuals and communities and in shaping claims for justice for those whose stories and voices are often excluded from legal or institutional proceedings.
Student Spotlight: Lauren Schmidt
When Lauren Schmidt, a double major in chemistry and music in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, is feeling a bit high strung, she tunes up and tunes in to her inner sense of calm. Since her first year at UVA, she has found release – and community – as a violinist with the Charlottesville Symphony, one of the few faculty-student-community member symphonies in the country.