Students, faculty, and staff gathered to celebrate visiting scholar Yiling Fu as her visit to UNCG came to an end in February. Yiling is the Vice Director of the Dance department at Guangxi University in Nanning, Guangxi, China. Yiling was selected for a prestigious award that allowed her to spend six… Continue reading…
On Sunday, February 7, 2016 UNCG DMA student Matthew Reese, countertenor – student of Prof. Robert Bracey – represented the North Carolina District in the Southeast Regional Division of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Reese was honored with the encouragement award. This is not Reese’s first victory of the 2015/2016… Continue reading…
While most of us were preparing for the holidays, UNCG Dance Professor and Department Head Janet Lilly was teaching dance in China. Lilly spent two and a half weeks teaching Contemporary Dance and Choreography at Shaoguan University in Guangdong Province. She spent time teaching pedagogy classes to instructors at the university,… Continue reading…
UNCG Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Dr. Revell Carr, was awarded the Alan P. Merriam Prize for outstanding book for 2014-2015 from the Society for Ethnomusicology, and their annual meeting in Austin, TX, Dec. 5. Carr’s book, Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels, is a historical study of the… Continue reading…
UNCG Dance Professor and Director of Dance Education, Dr. Mila Parrish, was honored at the NDEO Annual Conference earlier this month. The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) is a non-profit committed to the promotion and advancement of dance education. NDEO provides a network of resources and support and access to… Continue reading…
In light of his most recent success in presenting the conference keynote presentation in Finland, we talked to Dr. Allen to get his take on the work he is doing, and his experience in Sibelius’s homeland… What? – First ever Finnish ecomusicology conference Where? – University of Turku… Continue reading…
Prof. Adam Ricci to present “‘As Astonishing as They Are Inevitable’: Complex Harmonic Sequences Preceding Reprises in the Late Music of Gabriel Fauré” at two conferences this fall: “Effable and Ineffable: Gabriel Fauré and the Limits of Criticism” and the Society for Music Theory annual meeting. Adam… Continue reading…
Robin Morace (DMA Piano Perf, Cert. Early Keyboard Perf. – student of Dr. Willis) and Stephanie Schmidt (DMA Piano Perf, Cert. Early Keyboard Perf. – student of Dr. Willis & Dr. Salmon) represented UNCG in the Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of North America held this past May (2015) at… Continue reading…
Guest lecturer to present at UNCG SMTD on Thursday, November 19, 2015. “Humanizing Agents, Humanizing Music: Social Affordances and the Practice of Agential Narrative” Cora Palfy holds a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Music Theory with a specialization in Music Cognition from Northwestern University, where she… Continue reading…
UNCG Director of Dance Education, Dr. Mila Parrish and Dance Education students Alexis Brown and Danielle Kinne attended the Arts R4 Life professional development conference at Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C., on September 12th, 2015. Over 400 N.C. K-12 Arts Educators in Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts came together for… Continue reading…
