Faculty In the News
Molly Lynch's National Choreographers Initiative to Receive National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.
In the second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2015, the NEA will make a $20,000 award to Irvine Barclay Theatre in support of the National Choreographers Initiative. The NEA will make 1,023 awards totaling $74.3 million nationwide in this funding round.
NEA Chairman Jane Chu said, “The NEA is committed to advancing learning, fueling creativity, and celebrating the arts in cities and towns across the United States. Funding these new projects like the one from Irvine Barclay Theatre and the National Choreographers Initiative represents an investment in both local communities and our nation’s creative vitality.”
Molly Lynch, NCI’s founder and artistic director, commented, “It is gratifying that the NEA has recognized the National...
Flutist Nicole Mitchell looks into the future with 'Mandorla Awakening'
Everyone in jazz knows that former Chicagoan Nicole Mitchell stands among the most creative, innovative and technically accomplished flutists working today...
Jesse Colin Jackson Named Hellman Fellow
Jesse Colin Jackson was named a Hellman Fellow for 2014. Professor Jackson is one of more than 1,200 Hellman Fellows who over the last 20 years have gone on to become chairs and heads of departments, MacArthur Geniuses and faculty members with distinguished research track records.
The Hellman Fellows Program is unique in its flexibility and reach to faculty from a broad range of disciplines, supporting research in the arts, humanities, sciences, engineering, business, medicine and law.
In 1995, the founders Chris and Warren Hellman began making grants to colleges and universities in support of junior faculty research. The Hellman Fellows Program has grown to support over 100 assistant professors annually at fourteen institutions. Over 1,000 of the Hellman Fellows are from campuses of the University of California System.
2014 UC Irvine Hellman Fellows directory: http://www.hellmanfellows....
Darryl Taylor Makes History in LA Opera
Professor Darryl Taylor along with John Holiday and G. Thomas Allen make up The Three Countertenors. These gifted African-American countertenors are making their LA Opera debuts in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Never before have three African-American countertenors been in one production together on an opera stage.
For more information:
http://www.laopera.org/news/blog/Dates/2014/10/Countertenors-Make-History-in-Dido--Aeneas/
Eli Simon directs the world premiere of Clovni Extraterestri (Extraterrestrial Clowns)
ELI SIMON, Chancellor's Professor of Drama, returned to the National Theater of Romania in Cluj this fall to direct the world premiere of his original production, Clovni Extraterestri (Extraterrestrial Clowns), the second installment of his War of the Clowns saga. VINCENT OLIVIERI, Associate Professor of Drama, was the composer and sound designer for this funk-infused theatrical extravaganza. Romanian folk star, Ada Milea, was featured as the narrator and singer.
Diane Diefenderfer Presented Pilates Lecture in Japan
Lecturer of Dance Diane Diefenderfer presented lectures and workshops on “Dance and Education and Pilates Method for Physical Conditioning” at the Tsukuba Summer Institute (TSI) in Ibaraki, Japan. TSI is a week-long seminar/workshop for undergraduate and graduate students in physical education and sports sciences held at the University of Tsukuba. Diane is also a Distinguished Teacher for Pilates Anytime, an online Pilates Studio offering documentaries, interviews, workshops and classes.
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Ulysses Jenkins in Group Exhibtion at MoCADA
Associate Professor of Art Ulysses Jenkins had work in the group exhibition a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster. This group show at MoCADA was a film, video and new media exhibition that explored the ways Black bodies experiences hazards and natural disaster.
For more information on Professor Ulysses Jenkins click on the link below:
http://art.arts.uci.edu/faculty/resident-faculty/ulyssesjenkins.html
Myrona DeLaney Directed “Hello, Dolly!”
Lecturer of Drama Myrona DeLaney recently directed Hello, Dolly!, a production of the Saddleback Civic Light Opera and the Department of Theatre Arts, at the beautiful McKinney Theater on the Saddleback College Campus.
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David Brodbeck Presented at 18th Biennial International Conference in Canada
Professor and Rawlins Chair of Music David Brodbeck presented a paper entitled “Eduard Hanslick and the German Liberal Quid Pro Quo” at 18th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, held at the University of Toronto.
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Amy Bauer Speaks at International Music Conference and Conducts Research on György Ligeti
Associate Professor of Music Theory, Amy Bauer, gave the lecture “Ideology, Compositional Process, Optics and Form in Georg Friedrich Haas’ In Vain” at the VIII European Music Analysis Conference in Leuven, Belgium in September and the Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting in Milwaukee in November.
Amy Bauer received a three-month stipend from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland to conduct research on the music of György Ligeti in Fall 2015.
For more information on the VII European Music Analysis Conference:
For more information on the Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting:
https://societymusictheory.org/events/meeting2014/main
For more information on the Paul Sacher Foundation:
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