News Archive: 2016

103 Area High School Students Vie for All-Expenses-Paid Trip to New York to Compete in the National August Wilson Monologue Competition

Application deadline is February 15, 2017 for two-year string quartet fellowship

Change of Keys takes silver in “Classical” and “Solo Performance” categories

Grant will support key programs and projects integrating artistic practice and community engagement

Students blend vocal strengths with stage savvy

Up to 80 high school students expected to compete in January Dallas preliminaries; SMU Meadows provides teaching artists, location for regional competition

Three-time Tony-winning producer Will Trice (B.A. Music ’01) talks about ambition, luck and career kismet

Wilhelm provided a $500,000 challenge grant that raised a total of $1 million for NCAR’s research, programs and services, including endowment of the new fellowship

Opening reception: Nov. 11, 5-7 p.m. Live broadcasts: Nov. 11-13

Duo will perform at Lincoln Center in NYC, November 2

Event features three works, including premiere of Adam Hougland’s "Confluence"

The program, which will run from August 2017 to July 2018, focuses on issues specific to international arts management and to approach arts management from a global perspective.

SMU's film professor talks Hitchcock, what brought him to Meadows, and his favorite films of the year

Students and graduates of Southern Methodist University and Texas Christian University receive $10,000 in awards and two-month art residency in Berlin

Concert to spotlight four stellar organists from Dallas-Fort Worth, Oct. 23

The SMU Los Monos de Muerte (“Death Monkeys”) team will compete live at the 2016 LDI Convention in Las Vegas on October 21

New Cities, Future Ruins is an art initiative re-imagining the explosive urbanism of Western Sun Belt cities, catalyzed by SMU Meadows School of the Arts’ Meadows Prize

When Mark Vamos isn't in the classroom he finds time to write about food, barbecue in particular

“It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing”: SMU Meadows Jazz Orchestra presents concert on Saturday, Oct. 29

Panelists Include Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, Dallas Morning News Editor Mike Wilson and CBS 11 Journalist Steve Pickett

First-time debaters from Meadows log wins

Grants support graduate students pursuing arts management careers

Report shows overall growth in unrestricted contributions, which outpaced both growth in expenses and inflation

Opening reception on Sept. 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Pollock Gallery

Meadows couple met on a bus ride to Mustang Corral

Entrepreneurial Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet is first chamber music ensemble endorsed by Fox Products Corporation

SMU Meadows Professor of Voice Barbara Hill Moore has been traveling to South Africa since 2000 to recruit voice students to SMU Meadows. Over the years she has helped many dreams come true – including her own.

Both Artists Chosen Through Exchange Between SMU Meadows Division of Art and École Nationale Supérieure d’Art (ENSA) of Dijon, France

Tiana Johnson and Jeffery Moffitt are among the Meadows participants in Creative Solutions, helping to empower youths and instill valuable life skills

New Tool Allows Arts Organizations to Measure Performance Against Peers

Exhibition presented by HELP USA to feature homeless signs Baronet purchased from across the country over the past 23 years

Award to be presented by Texas Bandmasters Association at July convention

Longtime Dallas Symphony Orchestra principal trombonist and Meadows Adjunct Professor of Trombone John Kitzman prepares students for the symphony life

First project of new Public Works Dallas initiative, developed with Meadows Prize winner Lear deBessonet, will involve community members as actors

Former President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music to Serve as Ambassador for Research Center to Arts Organizations Around the Country

The symposium will include three days of classes and presentations

In her four years at SMU, Jones has made a name for herself not only as a vocalist and dancer but also as a motivational speaker.

Benjamin Munson ’16 receives Johnny and Frances Williams Prize in Performing Arts

Winners circle includes conductors from New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, among others

Recipients selected for awards from the University and from the Meadows School

Newly choreographed version of Stravinsky’s "Firebird" and new version of Copland score for "Appalachian Spring" to debut; event to honor community leader Donna Wilhelm

SMU Meadows art history grad students travel to historic sites thanks to support from SantanderBank, N.A.

Judges call him "a phenomenon"

Can you double major and keep everything in balance? Four Meadows students share their advice

Armstrong will connect NCAR research findings to the national arts field

David Smith enrolled at SMU after 20 years in the military. With undergrad and graduate degrees in aeronautical science already in hand, the former helicopter pilot is now pursuing art and creative computing degrees at SMU Meadows, thanks to the G.I. Bill.

Free event features talks by WhoWhatWear co-founder Hillary Kerr and former Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Kate Betts plus annual spring fashion show

Lecture examines emerging phenomenon of spirituality (not religion) in advertising

Junior Jaden Warren named top varsity debater in the U.S.

Six New Cities Added to the Top 20 Lists of Arts-Vibrant Cities in the U.S.

Big band and contemporary jazz numbers swing with standout musicians Sato, Horne and Butler

Reception with the artists on Friday, April 8, 6-8 p.m. at Pollock Gallery

Proposal for classical-contemporary prelude and fugue lands award from the American Guild of Organists

$500,000 challenge grant provided by Donna Wilhelm is matched by individual donors and foundations

Over the past five decades, the SMU Piano Preparatory Dept. has attracted hundreds of young pianists to its rigorous program. Whether for cultural growth or for competition awards, the program for students in grades K-12 is gaining an international reputation.

Featuring world premiere of new choreography for Stravinsky’s "The Firebird" by noted Mexican choreographers Claudia Lavista and Victor Manuel Ruiz of Delfos Danza Contemporanea in Mazatlán, and works by Martha Graham and George Balanchine

Experienced cultural producer will curate several exhibitions at Pollock Gallery over coming year

New Cities, Future Ruins is an art and design initiative re-imagining the explosive urbanism of Western Sun Belt cities

Music Increases Engagement and Socialization Among Participants with Dementia and Other Illnesses

Event includes public master classes by Carol Leone, associate professor of piano at SMU Meadows, and John Perry, professor of music at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto

Senior Mackenzie Cimala wins three gold and two bronze awards, the most of any university student in the competition

"Art and Vision in the Inca Empire" named one of four best art history books published in 2015

Meadows 2015-16 Ensemble-in-Residence to premiere new composition by Meadows student; concerts March 17 & 18 free to the public

Free performance of “one of the pillars of sacred music” at Highland Park United Methodist Church will feature the SMU Meadows Chorale with the Conservatory Singers and Conservatory Orchestra of the University of Missouri-Kansas City

Event, themed “The United City,” hopes to map out progressive new future for Dallas

Awards ceremony on Jan. 25 featured dance alum Parisa Khobdeh as guest speaker

NCAR study identifies the key differences between culturally specific organizations and their mainstream peers and calls for a more equitable measurement of performance

Area arts writers’ “best of” lists include plentiful Meadows talent

SMU students and South African students get to know each other as they perform a musical, travel to game reserves, study historical sites and gain new understanding about life across the ocean