Arts & Culture
Michael Bradford’s ‘Brainpower Job’
An alum's highly unlikely path to heading UConn’s dramatic arts department.
UConn Inks Agreement with Wadsworth Atheneum
Under the agreement, the Wadsworth Atheneum will provide work space for UConn Hartford students, a seminar room, and faculty offices for use by the three-year graduate program in Arts Administration.
Musical ‘Disaster’ Opens Nutmeg Summer Series
Artistic director Terrence Mann discusses this year's Nutmeg Summer Series, which opens June 7.
Overcoming Bias About Music Takes Work
A new study has found that simply being told a performer is a professional or a student changes the way the brain responds to music, and it takes a deliberate effort to overcome this bias.
Retired Business Professor Resumes Pursuit of Art
Through many years of teaching accounting, much-loved professor Dick Kochanek never forgot his teenage dream of being an artist.
UConn Choirs: Singing Where the Songs Were Created
The UConn Choirs spent nine days in Austria and Italy, including memorable performances in Salzburg, the birthplace of Mozart, and under Michelangelo’s most famous painting, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
Celebrating Cultures on Campus
Worldfest is an annual event celebrating the international student community at UConn.
Let Them Play Steinways!
UConn students will not just be playing pianos, they will be playing Steinways! That’s thanks to generous donors who are purchasing Steinways with the goal of UConn joining the elite ranks of all-Steinway institutions.
UConn Voices Serenade Michelangelo’s Most Famous Painting
The Concert Choir and other UConn music groups spent nine days over Spring Break performing in the American Celebration of Music in Austria and Italy.