Assistant Professor of Trombone Chris Buckholz has released his third solo CD, Versatility, a double album of classical and jazz. It includes a recording of Richard Peaslee’s Arrows of Time with the University of New Mexico Wind Symphony, jazz originals and standards, classical works for tenor and alto trombone, a new edition of Frederick Innes’s 1880 composition The Sea-Shells Waltz, and classical improvisations. Buckholz’s previous recordings include an album of jazz originals, Muse, and the 2010 classical album À la Albéniz on Albany Records.
Dr. Maxine Thévenot selected to participate in the Jeanne Demessieux Centennial Tribute
Dr. Maxine Thévenot, Instructor of Organ, here at the UNM Department of Music, was one of 14 women organists selected to participate in the Jeanne Demessieux Centennial Tribute. To commemorate the virtuoso French organist, Jeanne Demissieux. Dr. Thévenot was selected...
Alonso-Minutti receives prize for ‘Voces del desierto’ composition
Ana Alonso-Minutti, associate professor of Music and faculty affiliate of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at The University of New Mexico, was recently awarded the biennial 2021 Robert M. Stevenson Prize from The Society for Ethnomusicology for her...
‘I’m Possible’ autobiography featuring UNM music professor Dr. Richard White now on sale
A Story of Survival, a Tuba, and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream By Jayla Acosta From the streets of Baltimore, Maryland to the campus of The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, Associate Professor, Dr. Richard White (R.A.W. Tuba) continues to make headlines....