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January 2019
Music by Two: Nancy Davis and Sharon Johnson, pianos – Alumni Recital
Thomas Zoells, founder of the Piano Forte Foundation, Salon Series Concert in Chicago, has said this about Music By Two: “Nancy Davis and Sharon Johnson thrilled our audience with a daring but very enjoyable program of two contemporary composers, Louise Talma and Eric Ewazen. The duo illuminated the intricacies of the music beautifully and even in the most virtuosic passages, I often could not tell who was playing what: the unity of mind of this piano duo was such that…
Find out more »Sophie Wang, piano – Faculty Recital
Sophie Wang is an active concert artist and pedagogue. Recent engagements include a lecture-recital and masterclass in Novi Sad, Serbia in 2018, as well as her Carnegie Hall solo debut in May 2016. Other notable appearances include her European debut at the Internationaler Musiksommer auf Kulturverein-Schloss Rosenegg in Austria in 2011, shortly after her critically-acclaimed Taipei recital in 2010. Within the U.S., Wang has served as a clinician at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference; laureate of the MTNA Steinway Artists Competition in…
Find out more »NM_GSO: Duo Montagnard – Guest Artist Recital
Duo Montagnard was formed in 2002 and has performed over 300 concerts in 49 states, eight Canadian provinces, and twenty countries on six continents. Festival performances include the Chautauqua Institution, Scandinavian Saxophone Festival, Hartwick College Summer Music Festival, North-West University New Music Week (South Africa), UNC-Wilmington New Music for Guitar and Saxophone Festival, Radford University International Guitar Festival, and the Alexandria Guitar Festival. The duo has commissioned, premiered and recorded more than twenty works for guitar and saxophone.
Find out more »Donald Hartmann, voice – Faculty Recital
“Is it possible that his students in UNCG’s College of Visual and Performing Arts are fully cognizant of the treasure that they have before them in bass-baritone Donald Hartmann’s tutelage? It is one thing to lecture effectively on fine points of operatic interpretation, but this performer’s characterizations are invaluable lessons in the art of combining unflappable musicality with an adroitness upon the stage that can be observed and thus honed but only very rarely taught to those who do not…
Find out more »Sarah Busman, flute – Guest Artist Recital
Sarah Busman is a Master of Music graduate of the prestigious Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland where she received the Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Orchestral Scholarship. A native of Tennessee, Sarah got her Bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University where she was named the McLean School of Music’s Wright Music Scholar in 2006. As a performer, Sarah has performed with numerous orchestras. In the US, she has substituted with the Baltimore Symphony, the Raleigh Civic Symphony, and the…
Find out more »February 2019
High School Piano and Organ Day
High School Piano and Organ Day is scheduled for Saturday, February 2nd, 2019 at UNCG. Keyboard faculty from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro will offer master classes to high school piano and organ students during the thirteenth annual iteration of the event. The event, which runs from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., will feature classes taught by organ professor Dr. André Lash and piano professors Dr. Joseph DiPiazza, Dr. John Salmon, Dr. Sophie Wang, and Dr. Andrew Willis. The day will…
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