by unmmusicadmin | May 1, 2026 | Featured News
A major new operatic work by University of New Mexico Department of Music Professor Peter Gilbert has made its international debut at the renowned Schwetzingen Festspiele. Malina, composed by Gilbert with his wife Karola Obermüller (a former UNM faculty member),...
by unmmusicadmin | Mar 27, 2026 | Featured News
The University of New Mexico Department of Music will present a powerful new multimedia performance, El Sendero del Abuelo, a deeply personal and historically resonant work by UNM Mariachi faculty member Robert L. Lucero Jr. The production transforms a New Mexican...
by unmmusicadmin | Jan 21, 2026 | Featured News
Albuquerque, NM — Dr. Michael Hix, Professor of Voice and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of New Mexico, has been selected to participate in the 2026 cohort of the Leadership Innovation for Faculty Transformation (LIFT) program, a competitive...
by unmmusicadmin | Apr 28, 2025 | Featured News, Musicology
By Melissa Ríos, UNM Musicology Graduate Student & Musicology Research Assistant April 2025 April 17th marked the celebration of a decade of musicology at UNM. To celebrate the occasion, Dr. Heidi Jensen, who was the first graduate of the revamped program in 2015,...
by unmmusicadmin | Nov 21, 2024 | Featured News
Music Professor Ana Alonso-Minutti Wins Prestigious Publication Award Associate Professor of Musicology, Ana Alonso-Minutti, has been awarded the prestigious Robert M. Stevenson Award by the American Musicological Society (AMS) for her book “Mario Lavista: Mirrors of...
