Press and Appearances
Hixson-Lied Alumni Launches Startup
[Toth] is the CEO and founder of a new music non-profit called Orkest, which curates and showcases concerts of new music of emerging composers in community spaces.
Production and Media Manager at Emmanuel Music
Running livestreams and concerts at one of Boston’s Premiere Historical Music Organizations from September 2022 - February 2024
Production Manager at Company One Theater
Running the production team for plays at the intersection of arts and social change from December 2023 - Present.
TEDxBU: Conservatory Culture, Mental Health, Classical Music Training
November, 2022
We are Nebraska. University of Nebraska-Lincoln national television spot.
For the 2021-22 Football Season, the University of Nebraska asked for members of the Hixon-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts to be featured in their national commercial. Here, Toth can be seen playing saxophone and keyboard.
Meritpages
“Sapphire Toth of Omaha is among 59 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who have been selected to lead Nebraska children in grades K-12 in summer activities through the new Huskers After-School and Summer Learning Opportunities (HALO) program.
Toth is leading a program at McPhee Elementary.
The HALO program is a collaboration among the University Honors Program, Student Affairs, Nebraska Extension and Beyond School Bells.”
“The We Are Nebraska internship recruits Nebraska students from across all colleges and backgrounds. Using improvisational methods, students explore their personal stories with social impact, then present them in a theatrical experience to inspire, educate and entertain students, faculty & staff, and the local community.”
Q&A with Sapphire Skye Toth
“Sapphire Skye Toth (IES Abroad Vienna | University of Nebraska - Lincoln) Virtual Internship Su’21 with paladino media (Vienna, Austria) reflects on her virtual internship with IES Abroad Vienna as a transformative, educational experience. Confronting the challenges of virtual work head-on, Sapphire demonstrated that remote work and learning can be monumental in their own ways.”
SAA Board of Directors
“There are many opportunities for Student Alumni Association members to become more involved in the group and develop their leadership skills. Our Board of Directors is the governing body of SAA and is comprised of about 40 students in all stages of their college career. Board members help plan all SAA events, promote the organization and act as liaisons between the university and the alumni association.
In return for their dedication, board members receive exclusive access to networking and leadership development interactions with NAA staff members, alumni and university dignitaries. And, these opportunities have paid off. Our former board members overwhelmingly achieve success in their careers immediately following graduation and have come back to campus to mentor current SAA members.”
“At Nebraska, we believe in the power of every person. While the COVID-19 pandemic has called for changes in the ways we engage in teaching and learning, one thing that will never change is our focus on maintaining human connection and a sense of community. In these videos, our students share how their one-to-one connections with professors made all the difference when the world went remote in spring 2020.”
“Film & Television composers participate in a Hollywood Squares-like online game show where two film music fan contestants compete to win a soundtrack prize package. Watch as Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible - Fallout), Ryan Elder (Rick & Morty), Chris Lennertz (The Boys), Jongnic Bontemps (Call of Duty WWII), and Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli (The Witcher) answer trivia questions on topics like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and even the Golden Girls. Contestants are Sapphire Toth and Gareth Hughes with hosts Anne Cecere (BMI) and Chandler Poling (White Bear PR).”
Nebraska Alumni Association Student Spotlight:
”My goal is to create a community-centered nonprofit that supports students in the creation of new music through providing welcoming, self-sustaining, concert spaces such as cafés, bookstores and restaurants. Through this work I will also continue being a composer.”
Toth awarded Nebraska Alumni Association leadership award, scholarship
“Lincoln, Neb.--Sapphire Skye Toth, a senior music composition major from Omaha, Nebraska, is one of five University of Nebraska–Lincoln students to receive a scholarship from the Nebraska Alumni Association for demonstrating outstanding leadership on campus and showing a promising future.
Toth will be presented the Howard and Judy Vann Student Leadership Award/Scholarship at the Cornhusker Experience Gala, hosted by the Student Alumni Association, on April 15 at the Nebraska Champions Club.”