Last July, Julia Baumanis, assistant director of bands and director of pep bands, became the first woman band director at Rutgers University in the school’s 255-year history. According to her research on programs accredited by the National Association of Schools of...
Kevin Goetz MGSA’84 is the founder and CEO of Screen Engine/ASI, which has test-screened thousands of movies including Hollywood blockbusters Titanic, Forrest Gump, 12 Years a Slave, Green Book, and Nomadland. Goetz’s first book, Audience-ology: How Moviegoers Shape...
Alumni Tom Nazziola (left) and Peter Martin Music alumni Tom Nazziola and Peter Martin, as well as faculty member and jazz pianist Bill O’Connell, are nominated for Grammy Awards this year. “Cat & Mouse,” written by Nazziola, a composer and...
The fifth annual Windows of Understanding social justice public art initiative kicked off on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, pairing over 24 artists–including several Mason Gross students and alumni–with local nonprofit organizations to create original works of art.
Rutgers Jazz Lab Band March 2, 7:30 p.m. Women in the Writer’s Chair. Music written and arranged by such luminaries as Mary Lou Williams, Melba Liston, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Maria Schneider. Directed by Abraham Burton. Public $15 // Rutgers Alumni/Employees...
Photos courtesy of Javier Diaz Percussion instructor Javier Diaz originally was tapped just to play rehearsals for one of the most iconic scenes in Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed West Side Story remake. But Diaz – who has wowed audiences of philharmonic orchestras,...
Aaron Vaders-Collins is a first-year doctoral student at Mason Gross School of the Arts pursuing a degree in music composition and the emerging field of ludomusicology, the scholarly analysis of video game music. A mashup of technology and music theory, engineering, and production, the subject is a perfect blend of Vaders-Collins’s interests.
Composer Tom Nazziola, a 2019 PhD graduate, has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Instrumental Composition category for “Cat and Mouse,” a piece from his 2021 album Distant Places. Nazziola describes the album as “a collection of works...
The image of Angela Davis was a lightning rod for both the left and the right in the early 1970s. A new exhibit explores her visual and political legacy through rare archival material from the collection of Lisbet Tellefsen, and with the work of artists including Faith Ringgold, Steffani Jemison, Carrie Schneider, Sadie Barnette, and others. The story includes interviews with Angela Davis, Lisbet Tellefsen, Art & Design faculty Steffani Jemison, and the co-curators Donna Gustafson, Interim Director of Zimmerli Art Museum, and Art & Design faculty Gerry Beegan. See Angela Davis: Seize the Time at the Zimmerli Art Museum (September 8, 2021 – June 15, 2022) and the Oakland Museum of California in the fall of 2022.
Nicolette Alberti (center front) danced with Jennifer Lopez in the Super Bowl LIV halftime show in Miami, Florida, in 2020. As a kid, Nicolette Alberti loved watching awards shows and going to concerts with her mom, not just to see big-name stars but also the dancers...