By Sydney Hawkins
When Nkeki Obi-Melekwe (MT ’18) was a young girl growing up in the Bronx, she remembers many of Tina Turner’s songs playing in the background of her Saturday and Sunday mornings.
By the time Obi-Melekwe heard those hits coming from her father’s stereo, some of them would be more than 40 years old—which is why many found it hard to believe she could step into the title role for “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical” last spring at just 22 years young.
Several SMTD students were recognized for accomplishments in their crafts at the recent Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Region 3 Festival. The 2023 Region 3 Festival - encompassing university theatre entrants from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,...
Recently, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance held its annual Concerto Competition, with undergraduate students competing on January 4 and graduate students on January 5. The undergraduate winners are Ben Deighton (BM ’24, cello) and Nathan Landers (BM ’24,...
Last January, Colleen Conway, professor of music education, was named the recipient of the 2022 SMTD Teaching Excellence Award. As part of receiving this award, Conway will deliver the lecture “Music Teacher Learning and Development” on January 30, 2023, at 7 p.m. The...
On November 15, the U-M Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) announced the release of the Princeton Review/Entrepreneur magazine annual rankings of undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship programs for 2023. For the eighth consecutive year, U-M has earned top global...
