Special Programs and Events

Students in CCM Composition, Music Theory and Musicology have the opportunity to participate in special programs and events throughout the year.

Learn more about these opportunities in the links below.

Featured Thinking About Music Virtual Lecture

This virtual installment of CCM's Thinking About Music Series features a lecture by Michael Haas, a multiple Grammy Award-winning recording producer also known for his recovery of music lost during the Third Reich. The title of Haas' talk is “Hans or Hanuš: Winterberg’s Complex Tangles with the 20th Century.”

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News and Events

CCM welcomes new music theory faculty member Nathaniel Mitchell

April 21, 2025

UC College-Conservatory of Music Dean Pete Jutras has announced the appointment of Nathaniel Mitchell, PhD, as CCM's new Assistant Professor of Music Theory. His faculty appointment officially begins on Aug. 15, 2025. Mitchell is a music theorist whose research investigates the cognitive, cultural and structural dimensions of musical creativity in genres ranging from eighteenth-century opera to bluegrass and video games.

CCM Composition Professor awarded 2025 Wachtmeister Award

March 25, 2025

The UC College-Conservatory of Music congratulates Douglas Knehans, Professor of Composition, who was recently named the recipient of the 2025 Wachtmeister Award. Awarded every two years by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), the prize includes a 30 day residency at Mt. San Angelo in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, as well as a $1,000 honorarium and a travel stipend.

CCM hosts public lecture on rock music and politics in South...

Event: April 9, 2025 2:30 PM

The UC College-Conservatory of Music's public lecture series continues at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9, with a talk on rock and politics presented by guest speaker Minerva Campion, who serves as Professor of Political Science at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. This talk is free and open to the general public. It will be presented in Watson Recital Hall, which is located on the 1000 level of the Corbett Center for the Performing Arts in the CCM Village.

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