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.
UNM Music Department welcomes one of Mexico’s most prominent composers, Federico Ibarra Groth
The UNM Music Department is proud to welcome one of Mexico’s most prominent composers, Federico Ibarra Groth, for a short residency under the auspices of the Music from the Americas Concert Series.
Free Drumset Clinic hosted by John Riley
John has a Bachelor of Music degree in jazz education from the University of North Texas and a Master of Music in jazz studies from Manhattan School of Music. He is on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music, and SUNY Purchase, and is an Artist in Residence at Amsterdam Conservatory, Holland.
Musicology Colloquium Series: The Black Pacific: Music, Race, and Indigeneity in Australia and Papua New Guinea
From the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ tour of Australasia in the 1890s to Snoop Dogg’s visit to Brisbane in 2014, the last century has seen ongoing, intensive intersections between Indigenous and African Diasporic musicians and activists in the Southwestern Pacific.