School of Music
Swingle won the Second Annual Arts Innovation Award for his original composition, Saturn-10 Split, that combines the unusual sounds from a bowling ball with the software Max/MSP/Jitter, which is a visual programming language for music and multimedia. The piece follows the journey as the bowling ball slowly rises away from the surface of Earth into the far reaches of space. [READ FULL POST]
Concerts Under the Stars is an annual outdoor concert series featuring an eclectic mix of music from Colorado and beyond, presented at UNC's historic Garden Theatre! The 2018 lineup includes UNC Bluegrass Faculty, The Burroughs, Mariachi Aztlán and Ballet Folklorico, Colorado Jazz Orchestra, Hal Aqua and the Lost Tribe, and Paa Kow. [READ FULL POST]
UNC Jazz Studies students and ensembles are the recipients of 11 DownBeat Student Awards for 2018! [READ FULL POST]
Professors Ludek Drizhal and Ken Womble engage music and theatre students in a new kind of collaboration at UNC: a short film. The 15-minute production, "Morris," will be shot this April in Greeley and screened in the fall. [READ FULL POST]