Stories from the HeART of Music in New Mexico

Christoph Wagner & Paula Corbin Swalin Faculty FeaturesChristoph Wagner always wanted to play the cello. The new assistant professor of cello at the University of New Mexico, Wagner started playing when he was six. Wagner says he watched his sister play the cello...

Celebrating art of mariachi during Hispanic Heritage Month & onwardBy Savannah Peat October 08, 2023UNM News Minute It’s not just a song, an album or an artist. It’s not simply a genre, or something you hear walking through a plaza or a restaurant. It is so much...

UNM Voice/Opera Alumni Enjoying Great SuccessBy Michael Hix Soprano Lydia Grindatto (BM Voice Performance 2018) and Baritone Jonathan Patton (MM Voice Performance 2020) are enjoying successes nationwide on the opera stage. Grindatto is currently completing her Artist...

MacArthur Fellowship awarded to UNM alum Raven ChaconPulitzer Prize winning Diné composer and sound artist Raven Chacon, who earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in music at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded the prestigious MacArthur Genius Grant. To read...

Dr. Hurtado wins the Morelia Composition Competition for OrchestraDr. José Luis Hurtado, Prof. of Music Theory and Composition at the UNM Department of Music, won the National Morelia Composition Competition for Orchestra / Concurso de Composición Orquestal de...

UNM Associate Professor of Music Dr. Ana Alonso-Minutti Releases New Book, Mario Lavista: Mirrors of Sounds, 2023By Lilly Porter, October 30, 2023Dr. Ana Alonso-Minutti’s new book, Mario Lavista: Mirrors of Sounds, has just been released by Oxford University...

The Music from the Americas presents: “UNACCOMPANIED, Personal Stories of Immigration and American Identity The Music from the Americas presents “UNACCOMPANIED: Eight New Works for Solo Cello 
Exploring Personal Stories of 
Immigration and American Identity.” This...

Welcome new Assistant Professor of Cello, Christoph Wagner who makes the strings sing   Originally published in the Daily Lobo on August 20, 2023, by Addison Key, Culture Editor at the Daily Lobo ____ Christoph Wagner always wanted to play the cello. Wagner is...

UNM Music’s Dr. Kristin Ditlow celebrates the release of her CD Passages, 18 pieces of music which trace a journey "Kristin has a new recording out which I highly recommend. Her solo recording on the Affetto label is titled, “Passages — solo piano works inspired by...