Introducing the 2024 edition of the College of Communication and Fine Arts annual magazine, ‘VOICES.’ If you don’t know former JRSM professor Otis Sanford, then you’re in for a treat. Sanford recently retired from teaching – wrapping up a four-decade career that began at the newspaper in Jackson, MS and…
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By: Jake Lankford April 1. April Fool’s Day, but the warm, sunny and slightly breezy weather is fooling no one. It’s a perfect day for the inaugural Central to the Arts Festival. I arrive at the festival and my first stop is the ROAR’s table. Our job as hosts at…
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5th Annual Memphis International Piano Festival & Competition Concert will kick off this Friday, October 16 and continue through Sunday, October 18, with a virtual collegiate masterclass, awards ceremony and winners’ recital. This event will be livestreamed via Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/event/307776. See below for a full schedule. Friday, October 16th,…
The Rudi E. Schiedt School of Music will welcome the composer and performer Mario Diaz de Leon for a virtual masterclass via Zoom on Tuesday, September 1 at 4 p.m. Diaz de Leon is an assistant professor of composition with the College of Arts & Letters at the Stevens Institute…
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The Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music will host the 5th Annual Memphis International Piano Festival and Competition in a fully virtual format on October 16-18. This year’s Annual Memphis International Piano Festival and Competition is comprised of a piano competition for ages 4-19 featuring cash prizes, a virtual collegiate…
This weekend, the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music and Circle Music Center will host the Fourth Annual Memphis International Piano Festival and Competition. The event will kick off Friday, October 4, with masterclass presentations from renowned pianists Cathal Breslin of Arizona State University, Chris Guzman of Penn State University…
This Sunday, the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music will host a concert highlighting the works of various black female composers. Artina McCain, Coordinator of Piano Studies with the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, will perform a series of works from up to 10 notable black composers like Errolyn…
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