The UNCG School of Music is proud of the five alumni who have been selected as quarterfinalists for the 2021 Music Educator Award™ presented by the Recording Academy® and GRAMMY Museum®. These graduates span four decades of excellence in the Music Education area. Alisha Cardwell (BM ’17) — Riverside High School, Williamston, NC Jordan Lee (BM ’17)… Continue reading…
To our students, staff, and faculty: Like many, I’m struggling to figure out how to respond and appropriate course(s) of action I personally can take during this time. Many of you have probably seen the message from Chancellor Gilliam. I cannot come close to offering anything so powerful, and I… Continue reading…
The School of Music held a livestreamed celebration to announce award winners and honor the Class of 2020 on Friday, May 8, 2020. The video of remarks from Dr. Dennis AsKew, Director of the School of Music, a performance from the 2019-20 Presser Scholar Robert Bohinski, and the names and… Continue reading…
We hope that you will be able to visit us on campus very soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this virtual tour of the School of Music! [video_embed][/video_embed] Producers: Brad McMillan, Dennis AsKew Narrator: Anamarie Diaz Music: Beethoven – Choral Fantasy performed by the UNCG Symphony Orchestra and Choirs; Annie Jeng,… Continue reading…
Students from the Middle Eastern Ensemble, Steelpan Ensemble, and a Jazz trio prepared this unique arrangement of the Egyptian tune “El Helwa Di” for a UNCG TEDx event. Each individual group also prepared a selection for the musical interlude. Unfortunately, the event was cancelled due to the outbreak of COVID-19…. Continue reading…
Dear Friends, To continue our public health efforts against COVID-19, the School of Music will be canceling all public performances from Monday, March 23 to the end of the Spring semester. This includes all School of Music student, faculty, and guest artist recitals and concerts, both on and off campus…. Continue reading…
The UNCG School of Music is pleased to announce that Garrett Klein has been appointed to the faculty as Assistant Professor of Trumpet for the 2019–20 academic year. “[The] UNCG School of Music is truly an institution of the highest caliber, and I am extremely humbled to be joining such a… Continue reading…
Dr. Elizabeth Keathley, Associate Professor, Historical Musicology and Women’s & Gender Studies and Director of Graduate Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, has a new book. Schoenberg’s Correspondence with Alma Mahler documents a modern music friendship beginning in fin-de-siécle Vienna and ending in 1950s Los Angeles. The correspondence is edited and translated… Continue reading…
The UNCG School of Music is pleased to announce that Dr. Constance McKoy and Dr. Andrew Willis have been appointed Marion Stedman Covington Distinguished Professors in Music for a five-year term, effective Fall 2019. Dr. Connie McKoy is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the UNCG School of Music,… Continue reading…
The UNCG School of Music is pleased to announce that soprano Theresa Bickham has been appointed to the faculty as Assistant Professor of Voice effective Fall 2019. Bickham has been praised for her “fine piano nuances” and “expressive legato line.” She made her European debut in 2007 singing scenes from La… Continue reading…
