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Intermezzo Chamber Music Series’ 25th anniversary celebrates great couples in music performance, along with the creative marriage of Robert and Clara Schumann

Marking its own landmark anniversary this summer in Utah’s performing arts scene, Intermezzo Chamber Music Series will ...
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Celebrating its 5th anniversary, Meanwhile Park set in July for world premiere of Matthew Ivan Bennett’s A French Toast, inaugural Minimo Contemporary multimedi…

The marvelous Meanwhile Park outdoor theatrical venue in a neighborhood close to Liberty Park will be the perfect spot for ...
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Utah Arts Festival at 50: Awards announced for Artist Marketplace, Fear No Film, People’s Choice for Performing Arts

The 50th Utah Arts Festival announced awards for the Artist Marketplace and Fear No Film, along with the People’s Choice ...
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The Bachauer at 50: Young artists portion of the 2026 Gina Bachauer International Junior and Young Artists Piano Competitions: Daily Diary, June 22-27

FINALIST PRIZE: $3,000 Cash Award (to each of the remaining two finalists): Yichen Sang, 17, China; Matthew Chang, 17, U.S. SASCHA GORODNITZKI FOUNDATION DISCRETIONARY PRIZE: Cash Award of $1,000 at ...
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Not just a Utah film, By His Hand, by the Paur brothers, hits elegantly on escaping from the pessimistic gloom of the zeigeist to find new journeys for kindness, community ...

By His Hand is a film made in Utah by local filmmakers who also are brothers that incorporated their own experiences about living in Utah. Set in rural portions of the Beehive State, the film follows ...
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Les Roka

I am a native of Toledo, Ohio, having received my Ph.D. in journalism and mass communication from Ohio University's Scripps School of Journalism in 2002. In addition to teaching at Utah State ...
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The Bachauer at 50: Meet the pianists in the junior artist category of the 2026 Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation competitions

EDITOR’S NOTE: Continuing the coverage of the 50th anniversary coverage of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation, The Utah Review will present a daily diary of the International Junior and ...
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Utah Arts Festival at 50: 23rd Fear No Film set for 84 short films from 20 countries, second largest in program history; 15 from Utah; 10 from Iran

A still from Living with a Visionary by Stephen P. Neary, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. For its 23rd edition, Alex Vejar, new Fear No Film ...
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Utah Arts Festival at 50: Making her Artist Marketplace debut, Las Vegas painter Niki J. Sands with Cubist influences builds, edits surfaces through color manipulation

A contemporary artist from Las Vegas with Cubist influences who is making her first appearance in the Festival’s Artist Marketplace, Niki J. Sands bridges the line between realism and abstraction, ...