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The University of New Mexico John Donald Robb Musical Trust (UNM Robb Trust) will celebrate its 30th anniversary with two free events Nov. 13-14 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque to share and promote the legacy of New...

Registration for UNM Music Prep School is now open for the fall semester. UNM Music Prep School hosts a variety of Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday music classes for infants through adults. The classes include a variety of parent-child classes including...

The University of New Mexico prides itself on its cutting-edge technology and researchers making innovative strides in science and healthcare. But in a quiet corner of Masley Hall, students eschew laptops and use mostly hand tools to craft violins,...

The University of New Mexico professors Kevin Vigneau and Kimberly Fredenburgh are slated to perform original works by UNM composers at the International Double Reed Society 47th Annual Conference in Granada, Spain on Aug. 28. Their performance, Nueva...

The University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts announced recently that Friends of Music, Inc. has generously established a $500,000 endowed scholarship for students attending the Department of Music. The Friends of Music/Marian Ausherman Chavez...

To say Christopher DeGraw took a slightly different path to becoming an engineer would be an understatement. The Connecticut native earned a bachelor’s in music education and a master’s in musicology (from Ithaca College and the University of Limerick...

Silent for decades, musical treasures recovered from a dumpster in Jerome, Arizona are being brought back to life. The University of New Mexico’s Honors College in collaboration with the New Mexico Philharmonic and in partnership with the National...

The Music Theory class The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) presents a public concert Tuesday, April 5, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in Building 2. Students will perform musical pieces they worked on this semester as they explored how to understand...

Cipriano Frederico Vigil is the most important performer of traditional Nuevomexicano folk music in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The book, "Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest and New Mexican Folk Music/Cancionero del ...

First published in 1980 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, this classic compilation of New Mexico folk music is based on 35 years of field research by a giant of modern music. Composer John Donald Robb (1892–1989), a ...