Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts

🎶 Exciting News for Future Huskers! 🎶

Are you passionate about music or dance? The Glenn Korff School of Music at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers a variety of degree programs to help you achieve your dreams! Whether you're interested in:

🎓 Bachelor of Music Education (BME)
🎓 Bachelor of Music (BM)
🎓 Bachelor of Arts in Music (BA)
🎓 Bachelor of Arts in Dance (BA)

An audition is required for all incoming music and dance majors and minors who want to take lessons. Plus, our auditions are an excellent opportunity to be considered for music and dance scholarships! 🎉

After applying to UNL, email [email protected] to schedule your audition. Be a part of our Fall 2025 class and enjoy our new, state-of-the-art music building, featuring:

🎶 An elegant 300-seat recital hall
🎶 Rehearsal halls of various sizes for the Cornhusker Marching Band, the opera program, and ensembles like percussion, jazz, orchestra, choir, and chamber music
🎶 A cutting-edge digital recording facility

You’ll also get to perform and learn in the beautifully renovated Kimball Recital Hall, enhancing your educational experience in a world-class environment. Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity!

Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Dan Novy, who is the head PI on a Grand Challenges Planning Grant titled "Thinking Outside the Box (plot): Cultivating a Culture of Creative Data Visualization."

Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Ash Eliza Smith is a team member on the Planning Grant titled "Smart and Connected Long Term Care Ecosystem with Robotic Caregiver."

For more information on this year's Grand Challenges grants, visit the Office of Research and Innovation's blog at https://go.unl.edu/nc90.

UNL | Nine Grand Challenges projects awarded | Office of Research and Innovation Bold, audacious research ideas that will improve the lives of current and future generations of Nebraskans have been funded through the Grand Challenges Catalyst Competition.

🎟️✨ Attention, Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Students! Don't miss out on world-class performances at LLied Center for Performing Arts

Thanks to the Doris Lehr Endowment Fund for Student Tickets, Fine and Performing Arts majors receive THREE complimentary tickets (up to $90 in value per ticket) per semester to any Lied-sponsored event at the Lied Center!

Only students who have a major in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and who pay the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Fund A activity fee are eligible for this program. Vouchers can't be redeemed for the same performance and must be used for three distinct performances. This discount is only redeemable online.

Read more about the program and access the code to get your free tickets at https://go.unl.edu/acix.

Screens are installed for Hard-Wired Wonderland - an immersive experience created by Jinku Kim. Tickets are free but you must reserve a time at NebraskaRep.org.

Thirteen students in the emerging media arts program traveled to London from May 18 to June 8 for the study abroad course, “Story Abroad in London,” led by Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Ash Eliza Smith.

It was the third year for the course.

“Because we are an emerging media arts program, every year is different,” Smith said. “Technology and culture change at such a rapid pace that all three years of our trip, so far, have varied widely. The lines of what is immersive, spatial, XR, cinema, theater and storytelling shift, and we are able to question, critique and explore these edges in London. For our studio course, being in London is being in a large laboratory or arts incubator where the city is the classroom.”

For more on the trip, visit https://go.unl.edu/rs6g.

Photo: Students attend a real-time spatial audio workshop with L-Acoustics at Disguise as part of the Story Abroad in London course this summer. Photo courtesy of Ash Eliza Smith.

🗓️ Countdown to Liu Shiming Retrospective! 🗓️

Get ready for an extraordinary art experience with “Liu Shiming: Life, Death & In-between,” running from Sept. 3-26, 2024, at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery. The exhibition features moments of life, and pieces of lore that have been immortalized by this influential sculptor.

Join us on Friday, Sept. 6 for a special panel discussion at 4 p.m. featuring insights from Liu Shiming Foundation Curator Fran Kaufman and Professor of Art Santiago Cal and an opening reception from 5-7 p.m. . 🗣️🎉

📍 Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Richards Hall, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
📅 Sept. 3-26, 2024
🕛 Mon-Thurs, 12-5 p.m.
🎟️ Free admission

Tickets are on sale now for our 2024-2025 Season titled Twisted Plots. Tickets at NebraskaRep.org.

Francisco Souto, Cather Professor of Art and Director of the School of Art, Art History & Design, attended the opening of the 2024 Venice Biennale in April, where he is exhibiting his work.

The Venice Biennale is an international cultural exhibition hosted in Venice, Italy, by the Biennale Foundation and includes art and architecture exhibitions, as well as music, dance and film festivals.

Souto’s work is included in the European Cultural Centre’s biennial of contemporary art exhibition titled “Personal Structures,” which is on display through Nov. 24.

Souto is the first Nebraska artist to show at the Venice Biennale, the world’s largest and most prestigious art exhibition.

To learn more, visit https://go.unl.edu/o2m8.

Photo by Report Arch | Andrea Ferro Photography.

Forty Huskers—20 first-year students and 20 transfer students—have been selected to join the latest cohort of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.

This is the sixth cohort for the center, which opened in the fall of 2019. There will be 146 emerging media arts majors this fall.

While 31 of the 40 students hail from Nebraska, this year’s cohort also includes students from Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, South Dakota and India.

Learn more at https://go.unl.edu/wrj6.

Sixteen students from the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film studied this summer at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, England, from May 25-June 15. The course was led by Assistant Professor of Practice Ann Marie Pollard.

“This program allows students to encounter some of the top-tier theatre in the world, to experience living as actors in a major international city, and, uniquely, to pair up with actors-in-training in London,” Pollard said. “At every turn, there’s an opportunity to set sights higher and to infuse the remainder of their time at UNL with greater commitment and drive.”

Jackson Wells, a senior acting major, said he has a new outlook on acting from this trip.

“The classes and workshops were so deep and detailed that spending three weeks in them was incredibly enlightening and opened new doors in my acting ability I never knew were closed,” he said. “This trip was so significant for me in my career. I’m so excited to go back to school for my last year to put everything I learned to use, as well as to use those new skills when I graduate and enter the workforce.”

For more on the trip, visit https://go.unl.edu/njsu.

The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts welcomes the first cohort of students to the Global Arts Academy this fall.

The Global Arts Academy aims to recruit world-class students through a curated four-year program that will immerse a cohort of both international and domestic students in a transformative academic and co-curricular experiences.

The three international students in the first cohort come from India, Nepal and Vietnam and will be studying graphic design, emerging media arts and acting. They will be joined by four domestic students from Colorado, Nevada and Nebraska, who are studying dance, music and theatre (B.A.).

Learn more at https://go.unl.edu/4xsy.

Welcome back, Huskers! We hope everyone has a great first day of classes and a productive fall semester!

Have you always wanted to play the piano? Or have you forgotten how to play piano since you were a child? Join Lincoln’s Community Piano Experience (CPE), a group piano class offered as an outreach of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music piano pedagogy program.

The beginning level meets on Tuesdays starting on Sept. 17. The intermediate level meets on Thursdays starting on Sept. 19.

For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/y6e9. The registration deadline is Monday, Aug. 26.

The Cornhusker Marching Band will hold its annual exhibition concert tonight, Friday, Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. in Memorial Stadium. The concert is free and open to the public.

“It’s a great ‘jump start’ to the season,” said Tony Falcone, senior lecturer and associate director of bands and the director of the Cornhusker Marching Band. “You get to see the band’s pregame show and a breakdown of what they have been working on to prepare for the season—all for FREE in Memorial Stadium.”

Fans attending the Cornhusker Marching Band exhibition concert should enter Memorial Stadium through Gate 3 (southwest entrance) and Gate 11 (northwest entrance). The gates will open at 6 p.m.

The Cornhusker Marching Band resides in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music.

For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/w2ag.

Scenes from Big Red Welcome and our Student Welcome Back Picnic today. Looking forward to a new school year!

The Hixson-Lied College Student Welcome Back Picnic will be held today, Thursday, Aug. 22 from 4-6pm in the green space north of Woods Art Building.

Students, faculty and staff are welcome to join us for food, fun and friends as we get ready to kick off the start of the fall semester.

Also, at 2:30pm today will be the Big Red Welcome for new Hixson-Lied College students in the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.

We hope to see you there!

The Hixson-Lied College Student Welcome Back Picnic will be held on Thursday, Aug. 22 from 4-6pm in the green space north of Woods Art Building.

Students, faculty and staff are welcome to join us for food, fun and friends as we get ready to kick off the start of the fall semester.

Also, at 2:30pm that day will be the Big Red Welcome for new Hixson-Lied College students in the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.

We hope to see you there!

The Cornhusker Marching Band will hold its annual exhibition concert on Friday, Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. in Memorial Stadium. The concert is free and open to the public.

“The Cornhusker Marching Band Exhibition concert is an incredibly exciting performance for both the band and the spectators,” said Annie von Kampen, a senior music education major and drum major from North Platte, Nebraska. “There’s a special energy in the stadium that evening as many band members make their CMB performance debut and show off their hard work from camp week. Additionally, people who attend have the opportunity to see special Color Guard, Frontline Percussion and Drumline showcase performances they don’t have the opportunity to see during the main season. There really is no better way to kick off a new school year and football season.”

Fans attending the Cornhusker Marching Band exhibition concert should enter Memorial Stadium through Gate 3 (southwest entrance) and Gate 11 (northwest entrance). The gates will open at 6 p.m.

The Cornhusker Marching Band resides in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music.

For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/w2ag.

Congratulations to all of the undergraduate and graduate students from the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts who are graduating in August. The commencement ceremony will take place at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 17. Visit https://commencement.unl.edu for ceremony details and the livestream.

Best wishes on your future endeavors!

In June, Associate Director of Bands Tony Falcone, along with 13 current and former members of the Cornhusker Marching Band, experienced the opportunity of a lifetime as they performed as part of the 80th anniversary D-Day ceremonies in France.

The Cornhusker Marching Band participants joined nearly 200 college band students and alumni from across the U.S. to form the D-Day 80th Anniversary Collegiate Mass Band, the first of its kind assembled in honor of World War II’s Normandy Invasion.

Luke Partsch (B.A. Music and History 2024) said, "...Most of the remaining D-Day veterans were in their upper 90s, if not already 100 years old. This was probably the last big event with veterans present. A few were there at each of our stops, and it was very emotional to watch those brave men be wheeled out to massive applause. D-Day was one of the greatest military achievements of all time, and one of my degrees was in history. It is hard to describe how moving it was to be there and witness those men, either alive or buried in front of me, be honored. I am so grateful to have been able to play what little part I did in those celebrations.”

Read more about the experience at https://go.unl.edu/fc4m.