Performing and Fine Arts
March 27, 2024
UP sophomore Casey James delivered a first place singing performance at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Northwestern Regional competition in March.
Performing and Fine Arts
February 14, 2024
University of Portland music majors Taylenne Ubieta Johnson and Brewer Williams sang their way to second place finishes at the Oregon-wide Cascade Chapter Classical Festival February 3-4 in downtown Portland. Both qualified for regionals in the singing competition staged annually by the by the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
Portland Magazine
Performing and Fine Arts
July 25, 2023
The story of an instrument and two of its makers, more than a century apart.
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May 8, 2019
The University of Portland’s 2018-2019 Faculty Awards were presented on Tuesday, May 7, at the annual Faculty Awards Dinner.
Performing and Fine Arts
College of Arts and Sciences
May 2, 2019
Mead Hunter retires from the PFA theater department after seven years. He has loved teaching undergraduate students at UP because he learns from them while he's teaching. He will miss the UP family, and miss his students most of all.
Performing and Fine Arts
April 9, 2019
‘Pippin’ April 10 – 14, 7:30 p.m. and April 14, 2 p.m. A theatrical ensemble arrives, having found someone to play Pippin in “Pippin, His Life and Times.” Young Prince Pippin longs to find passion and adventure in his life. Along the way he discovers the true meaning of magic, happiness, glory, love and war in this iconic and unforgettable musical comedy.
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Portland Magazine
Performing and Fine Arts
February 22, 2019
Michael O’Neill ’10 (MFA) travels the world with an international organization called Clowns Without Borders.
Performing and Fine Arts
February 14, 2019
‘Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead’ February 13-16, 7:30 p.m. and February 16, 2 p.m. In this “unauthorized parody” of an iconic comic strip, CB questions the meaning of life and death following the demise of his dog. His friends have their own problems and aren’t much help. But his interest in an artistic boy — the target of his group’s bullying — sets events in motion that propel teen angst to its very limits. The play explores mature themes that relate to growing up.
Performing and Fine Arts
November 21, 2018
The University Singers and the Women’s Chorale will ring in the holiday season with a selection of traditional songs at the Choral Christmas Vespers Concert on December 1, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher at the University of Portland.
Performing and Fine Arts
June 7, 2018
Mocks Crest Productions will present The Light in the Piazza, a contemporary musical operetta based on a 1962 film of the same name, on June 9-10, 14-17, and 21-24.
Performing and Fine Arts
April 3, 2018
The University of Portland 54th Annual Jazz Festival takes place April 11 and 12 as bands from all over the region come together to perform and express their love of Jazz music.
Performing and Fine Arts
February 6, 2018
David De Lyser became PFA chair in January. He hopes to help continue to build the University’s department of performing and fine arts in both quantity of students participating and in the quality of student theatrical and musical performances, as well as student production of fine arts.
Performing and Fine Arts
College of Arts and Sciences
December 1, 2017
The University of Portland's annual Advent Concert is always a highlight of the performance year, but this year’s concert will mark a special milestone, as concert director and long-time professor of music Dr. Michael Connolly, DMA, prepares to retire.
Performing and Fine Arts
College of Arts and Sciences
Development
October 26, 2017
The family of the late Bonnie Toon-Sweeney ’94, a longtime figure in the Portland theater community, has endowed a $50,000 scholarship in her name that will assist students studying theater at the University of Portland to complete their degrees.
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Performing and Fine Arts
September 20, 2017
Actor and alumnus Kunal Nayyar '03, currently staring in the hit CBS television comedy The Big Bang Theory, returns to the University of Portland for a public conversation on October 11.
Performing and Fine Arts
June 5, 2017
Mock’s Crest Productions will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s beloved operetta of mistaken identity, “The Pirates of Penzance,” in the Mago Hunt Center Theater at the University of Portland (9000 N. Willamette Blvd., Portland) on June 9-11, 15-18, and 22-25.
College of Arts and Sciences
Performing and Fine Arts
Awards and Rankings
April 25, 2017
Three students from the Department of Performing & Fine Arts (PFA) at the University of Portland were awarded national fellowships at the 49th Annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, held April 17-22 at the John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington DC.
College of Arts and Sciences
Performing and Fine Arts
March 6, 2017
A group of 38 University of Portland students and five faculty spent February 20-24 at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for a week of competitions, workshops and performances, and seven students received awards and honors.
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