Category: Music
College of Fine Arts News
When Coronavirus Emptied the Streets, Music Filled Them
A singer-songwriter anthropologist who has been experiencing Italy’s COVID-19 quarantine reflects on how pandemic-inspired songs connect people and reveal shifting power dynamics. By KRISTINA JACOBSEN, SAPIENS MAR 2020 Since a quarantine was imposed in parts of...
UNM music professor awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
José Luis Hurtado, is one of the 2020 winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship By Mary Beth King April 13, 2020 Composer and pianist José Luis Hurtado, an associate professor in The University of New Mexico’s Department of Music in the College of Fine Arts, is one of the...
The 42nd Annual Zia Marching Band Fiesta 2019 Results
The Zia Marching Band Fiesta 2019 was held on Saturday, October 19, with more than 15,000 in attendance on a perfect fall day at the Dreamstyle Stadium. This is one of the most prestigious marching band events in the Southwest. It featured 26 high school bands from...
UNM professors take the stage in Granada
Their performance, Nueva Música de Nuevo México, will connect new music from New Mexico with an international audience, and bring selected John Donald Robb Field Recordings of historical New Mexican folk music back to Spain as part of the world premiere of a new composition.
Watch: John Marchiando – The Trumpet Virtuoso
Praised as one of the finest trumpeters of his generation, UNM’s John Marchiando is the assistant professor of trumpet at The University of New Mexico
Watch: Michael Anthony – Hollywood’s Go-To Guitarist
For over 20 years, jazz guitarist Michael Anthony was one of Hollywood’s “go-to” musicians. Now Anthony teaches jazz guitar at the College of Fine Arts.
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