Clare Longendyke, piano
2024-11-04 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
A pianist with “an artistic ferocity that captivated and astonished listeners” (Waverly Newspapers), Clare Longendyke is a soloist, chamber musician, and musical innovator who performs with American orchestras and on recital series around the world. Recent highlights include performances with orchestras in Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, and Virginia, and the release of her debut solo CD in 2024, …of dreams unveiled, featuring works of Debussy, Amy Williams, and Anthony R. Green. The album debuted at #2 on the Traditional Classical Billboard Chart and was praised as “a work of remarkable pianistic invention” (The WholeNote), “delightfully daring,” and “a CD that should not be missed” (EarRelevant).

A charming and charismatic performer, Clare’s passion for the music she plays radiates through her artistry and in the way she speaks from the concert stage. She has a contagious commitment to the music of our time, and her programming celebrates works by favorite composers of the past—Robert and Clara Schumann, Beethoven, and Debussy, to name a few—while creating space for those that are paving the way towards classical music’s more inclusive future. One of the highlights of her career has been to collaborate with living composers to commission new works. She relishes the opportunity to put her stamp on pieces of music that will go on to be staples of the piano repertoire for centuries. In the last decade, she has commissioned over 30 new solo and chamber music works and been involved in over 250 world premiere performances.

Clare’s 2024/25 Season highlights include Carnegie Hall and collaborations with the Mankato Symphony Orchestra (MN) and Denver Young Artists Orchestra. Past appearances include The University of Chicago Presents, The Schubert Club of Minnesota, The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (MN), Sandler Center for the Performing Arts (VA), The Palladium (IN), and Olin Arts Center (ME). Recent orchestral partners include Symphonicity (VA), Rochester Symphony Orchestra (MN), and the Oak Ridge Symphony (TN). Her playing has been heard on radio stations around the country, including NPR’s Performance Today.

Clare has lived and studied on both American coasts and abroad, earning degrees at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts and her Master’s and Doctor of Music from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. An ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, she received the Fulbright-Harriet Hale Woolley Award in the Arts to study at the École normale de musique in Paris in 2009. She has served as Artist-in-Residence at The University of Chicago (2019–21) and the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana (2023–24).

For Clare, performance is just one aspect of her role as an ambassador for classical music in today’s world. The connections she makes on concert stages, in classrooms, and everywhere in between help to foster a greater sense of community for the classical music field that she cares about so deeply.

Percussion Ensemble
2024-11-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Embody: A Foundations Yearbook Art Exhibition
2024-11-05 12:00 - 2024-11-09 17:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E February 1 Pl, Greensboro, NC 27406, USA
Embody: A Foundations Yearbook

Featuring Self Portraits by over 140 First-Year School of Art Students

November 5 – 9, 2024

Reception: Friday, November 8th, 2024 | 5-7P

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Embody: A Foundations Yearbook is a self-portrait exhibition featuring new art majors in a new place through self-reflection and a show of community. Over 140 first-year, first semester students will be presented as part of the First-Year Foundations course led by Professors Christopher Thomas and Barbara Campbell-Thomas.

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Shannon Thomas, violin and Stijn DeCock, piano
2024-11-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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A Tennessee native, violinist Shannon Thomas has garnered a reputation for exciting, thoughtful performances as a chamber musician, soloist, and in recital throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Recent performing engagements have taken her to the Kennedy Center, Spoleto Festival USA, Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium, Bolivia’s Centro Sinfonico in La Paz, and the Banff Centre where she has collaborated with distinguished artists such as the St. Lawrence String Quartet, David Halen, Richard King, Wendy Chen, Anita Pontremoli, and Midori.

As a chamber musician, Shannon has performed at the Innsbrook Summer Music Festival, Garth Newel Music Center, Sarasota Music Festival, Kneisel Hall, ENCORE School for Strings, Aspen Music Festival, the International Clarinet Association National Conference (Belgium), Northwestern University, and Brancaleoni International Music Festival (Italy). She is violinist of the Benzaiten Trio and performs regularly with the Bryant Park Chamber Players in New York City, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, and IRIS Collective under the direction of Michael Stern. Shannon has recorded for Blue Griffin Records, most recently releasing a CD celebrating the music of Lera Auerbach, Ellen Zwilich, and Jennifer Higdon.

Interested in sharing her enthusiasm for the arts through teaching, Shannon is in demand as a pedagogue. She currently serves as Associate Professor of Violin at Florida State University and directs the Gabriel Del Orbe Violin Program in the Dominican Republic. In the summers, she teaches at Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival and Hilton Head Chamber Music Institute. Previously on the faculties of University of Southern Mississippi, the Cleveland Institute of Music Preparatory Division, and Interlochen Arts Camp, her students have been prizewinners and finalists at national competitions, including MTNA and the Sphinx Competition. She has also taught at the Kinhaven Music School, Stony Brook University Chamber Music Camp, and Innsbrook Institute Summer Music Academy and Festival, where she served as Education Director. Shannon has presented educational sessions and masterclasses at the National ASTA conference, Florida Music Educators Association annual conference, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Luby Violin Symposium. In addition, she has served as an adjudicator and clinician for the Seattle Young Artists Music Festival Association and to MTNA and regional All-State orchestral auditions. She is co-artistic director of MusicBridges Tallahassee, a non-profit that provides opportunities for youth to succeed through the power of music and diversity.

Shannon earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she was Paul Kantor’s teaching assistant. She received a Master of Music at Yale University and a Bachelor of Music at Vanderbilt University, and also pursued graduate work at Arizona State University, where she was the first student to be accepted into the Artist Diploma program. She studied chamber music with Peter Salaff, Merry Peckham, George Sopkin, Christopher von Baeyer, Laurie Smukler and members of the Juilliard, Blair, Tokyo, and Cavani String Quartets. Her principal teachers have included Paul Kantor, Cornelia Heard, Jonathan Swartz, Robert Lipsett, and Ani Kavafian. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with her husband, violinist Frank Trem, and their morkie named Puccini.

Hailed for his passionate and virtuosic piano playing by the East Hampton Star, internationally acclaimed pianist Stijn De Cock maintains an active musical career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teaching artist in the US and abroad. His playing has been described as “alternating between the stormy and sublime, while getting to the heart of the music” and was praised for its ability to create “a most compelling musical narrative (Amalfi Festival concert review).”

Dr. De Cock’s concert seasons have included concerts on four continents, from the US to Europe, Asia, and Africa. In recent concert seasons, Dr. De Cock has appeared in Kenya, Macau, Taiwan, Russia, China, Canada, Italy, France, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, Greece, and Spain, in solo, chamber, and collaborative capacities. He has performed in prestigious music festivals around the world, a selection of which include the Amalfi Coast International Music and Arts Festival, PianoTexas, Pianofest in the Hamptons, the XIV NewSound Festival, the Interventions New Music Festival at the Great Gallery of the Toledo Museum of Art, the Prague International Piano Masterclasses, and the Gijón International Piano Festival. Dr. De Cock has also been a major prize winner in multiple competitions, including the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, the Ann Arbor Society for Musical Arts Young Artist Competition, the Poland International Music Festival Piano Competition and the Prix des Jeunes and Lions Club music competitions in Belgium. As the founding director or the Brancaleoni International Music Festival, Dr. De Cock has created a large-scale summer festival that offers a unique, intensive, and immersive artistic learning environment to the aspiring young pianists, singers, and string players from around the world in the beautiful Marche region of Italy. Also a sought after teaching artist, Dr. De Cock has presented masterclasses and lecture-recitals in Naples, Amalfi, and Maiori, at the Amalfi Coast International Music and Arts Festival in Italy, the Charles University in Prague, the Pardubice Conservatory in the Czech Republic, Tangaza College and the Conservatoire de Kenya in Nairobi, Kenya, Wah Yan College and Lasalle College in Hong-Kong, China, Tunghai University in Taiwan, and many more. Dr. De Cock has taught and held faculty positions at the State University of New York Fredonia, the University of Michigan, Schoolcraft College, Albion College, and the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. He currently serves on the piano faculty of Florida State University as Associate Professor of Piano.

Dr. De Cock hold a Premier Prix from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, where he was trained in the tradition of Russian pianism by Evgeny Moguilevky, a former student of Moscow Conservatory’s legendary teacher, Heinrich Neuhaus, whose formidable students included Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, and Radu Lupu. He also holds a Master’s Degree and Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan, which he pursued under tutelage of Logan Skelton. Dr. De Cock has also received guidance from artists such as Claude Frank, Robert McDonald, Yehoved Kaplinsky, Julian Martin, Matti Raekallio, Boris Slutsky, Malcolm Bilson, Martin Katz, Margot Garrett, and Marilyn Horne.

Dr. De Cock is an active member of the American Liszt Society, the College Music Society, and MTNA. His students have won prizes at state and international piano competitions, gained admission to competitive undergraduate and graduate college programs and participated in international music festivals.

Tiffany Williams, clarinet
2024-11-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Calvin Godfrey, trumpet
2024-11-06 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Saxophone Studio Recital
2024-11-06 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-11-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

TubaBand
2024-11-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Jazz Ensemble II
2024-11-07 19:30 - 21:30 | The Crown at the Carolina Theatre, 310 S Greene St, Greensboro, 27401, United States
Jazz Ensemble II celebrates trumpeter Kenny Dorham! Dorham’s subtle improvisational voice and compositional prowess loomed large over American music in the 1950s-60s; even the praise-cautious Miles Davis was an unashamed admirer of his Texas-born trumpet peer. Jazz Ensemble II brings a program of all-new, world-premiere big band arrangements of Dorham’s legendary compositions to The Crown on November 7 in celebration of Dorham’s centennial year.

The Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program at UNCG is a unique and innovative undergraduate jazz program designed to emulate the traditional process of learning jazz, through a combination of mentorship, real-world playing experiences, and a communal approach to learning. Although the program is housed in one of the largest music schools in the Southeast, it is kept intentionally small, resulting in an intensive and highly personalized learning environment.

UNCG offers the following degree programs for students interested in studying Jazz:

Bachelor of Music (B.M.) – Performance

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Jazz Studies

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Kyle Phillips, saxophone
2024-11-08 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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"Untethered" Fall Dances 2024
2024-11-08 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-11-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Coleman Theatre, 1408 Walker Ave, Greensboro, North Carolina, 27412, United States

Savanna Nelson, horn
2024-11-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Oboe Studio Recital
2024-11-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Piece x Peace Art Exhibition
2024-11-12 12:00 - 2024-11-16 17:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place, Greensboro, NC, 27406, United States
Piece x peace

Featuring BIPOC Community Artists

Curated by Amiah Jones

November 12 – 16, 2024

Artist Talk + Reception: Saturday, November 16th

Talk, 5:30p, Reception, 6-8P

Join us on UNESCO’s International Day of Tolerance to celebrate the work of the artists featured in this exhibition

Dear Greensboro,

As Black and Indigenous People of Color, it can be hard to navigate through who we are, who we want to be, and who the world tells us to be. While dealing with that, we don’t always realize how hard it is to find space to cope. We either feel we don’t have time to, or we were told it’s just part of life- part of growing up.

Well, no matter how much we grow, we still deserve the time and space to be human. We deserve a space to tell the truths of our experience. We deserve a space to find others who want to understand where we are coming from. Whether you find solace in observing artwork, or confiding in people from your community, take this space for yourself. Take this space to heal. You deserve to exhale.

May you be heard. May you be loved,

BIPOC-Greensboro

Curatorial Statement by Amiah Jones

The History of Kapwa

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Kapwa is an age-old moral framework originating from the Philippines. Filipino social-psychologist, Vergilio Enriquez, defined it as the recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others. This bridge between collectivist and individualist culture gives us the room to reflect. Should we build these bits of shared humanity into a path towards peace? Or should we proudly shatter on our own, piece by piece?

Featuring Work by

Sofia Aguilar, Jon Carlos Aguinaldo, Quan Apollo, Luz Borrayo, Kayla Bullock, Adia Carter, Aminah Coppage, Brenda Fonseca, AJ Guieb-alimbuyuguen, Will Harvey, Amiah Jones, Tyler Jones, Viveka Krumm, Alicia Mccluney, Zaire Miles-Moultrie, Madison Miller, Aryana Norris, Brandy Rodman, Shaye Scales, Myles Wilder

Greensboro Project Space Weekly Gallery Hours:

Tuesday – Friday, 12 -5 PM

Saturday, 2-5PM

Langley Winds, US Air Force Heritage of America Wind Quintet
2024-11-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Langley Winds features the diverse talents of professional Airmen-musicians dedicated to musical excellence and military distinction. Their modern and innovative approach to the woodwind ensemble brings a unique energy and patriotic spirit to every performance.

Cori Trenczer, cello
2024-11-13 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Caleb L’Heureux, clarinet
2024-11-13 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Brews-Keys
2024-11-13 17:30 - 19:30 | Borough Coffee, 204 N Mendenhall St, Greensboro, 27401, United States
Join us for the 9th biannual Brews-Keys event featuring a casual evening of solo piano, piano ensemble, and chamber music by UNCG Keyboard Area faculty and students.

Horn Choir
2024-11-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Bassoon Studio Recital
2024-11-14 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Haleigh Gannon, voice
2024-11-14 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Flute Studio Recital
2024-11-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Opera Theatre presents Offenbach's "The Lantern Marriage" and Menotti's "The Old Maid and the Thief"
2024-11-14 19:30 - 21:30 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Join the UNCG Opera Theatre for an evening of light-hearted romance and comedy, as we present two short one acts: Offenbach’s The Lantern Marriage and Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief. In Offenbach’s charming operetta, our hero finds his treasure, disappointing the hopes of the two widows who had their sights set on making him their new husband. The Old Maid and the Thief narrative parallels The Lantern Marriage as two single women (Miss Todd and Miss Pinkerton) attempt to win the affections of Bob, who ends up finding his love in their maid, Laetitia.

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Aiden Beard, clarinet
2024-11-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Trumpet Ensemble
2024-11-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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The Great Gatsby
2024-11-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Coleman Theatre, 1408 Walker Ave, Greensboro, North Carolina, 27412, United States
Adapted by Janet AllardBased on the novel by F. Scott FitzgeraldDirected by Ashley White

Dates: Nov. 15 & 16 at 7:30 p.m.

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This is a staged reading of the classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald adapted by professor and playwright, Janet Allard.

Scott Rawls, viola
2024-11-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
Kimberly Sparr, violaJames Douglass, piano

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Violist Scott Rawls has appeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Europe. Recent chamber music endeavors include performances with Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Branford Marsalis, Sergey Antonov, Michelle Cann and the Reynolda Quartet. With the Nikkanen/Rawls/Bailey string trio, he has played tours in Alaska, Washington, Arizona and Texas. His solo and chamber music recordings can be heard on the Centaur, CRI, Nonesuch, Capstone, and Philips labels.

A strong proponent of new music, Rawls has premiered dozens of new works by prominent composers. Most notable, he has toured extensively as a member of Steve Reich and Musicians. As the violist in this ensemble, he performed the numerous premieres of Daniel Variations, The Cave and Three Tales by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot, videographer. And under the auspices of presenting organizations such as the Wiener Festwochen, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Holland Festival, Berlin Festival, Spoleto Festival USA and the Lincoln Center Festival, he has performed in major music centers around the world including London, Vienna, Rome, Milan, Tokyo, Prague, Amsterdam, Brussels, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

Under the baton of maestro Christopher Dragon, he plays principal viola in the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. During the summer season, Rawls plays principal in the festival orchestra at Brevard Music Center where he also coordinates the viola program. He was also recently appointed principal viola of the Palm Beach Opera orchestra, David Stern artistic director.

Dr. Rawls currently serves as Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He holds a BM degree from Indiana University and a MM and DMA from State University of New York at Stony Brook. His major mentors include Abraham Skernick, Georges Janzer, John Graham and Julius Levine.

Kimberly Sparr is Associate Professor of Viola at Louisiana State University. Equally skilled as a soloist, chamber and orchestral violist, she has garnered praise for her versatility and virtuosity across the United States and beyond. She is a founding member of the Atlantic Chamber Ensemble and is on faculty at the Brevard Music Festival. Sparr has also taught at the National Music Festival and the Summer Strings Academy for Girls.

As an orchestral violist, Sparr was the assistant principal violist of Virginia’s Richmond Symphony from 2008-13 and has performed with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, and the Washington National Opera, among others. Her festival participation includes Jackson Hole Chamber Music; New Hampshire Music Festival; Tanglewood Music Center; the Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland; Festival Mozaic and Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in California; Sarasota Music Festival; and the Lake George Music Festival in New York. Recently, she has been an invited guest with Agarita and the Harrington String Quartet.

Sparr has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Amarillo Virtuosi, the Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra, the Texas Tech University Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, and the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. An enthusiastic educator, Dr. Sparr has previously served on the faculties of Texas Tech University, The College of William and Mary, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She also performs with the trio, Scabaret.

As a collaborative pianist, James Douglass has performed across the United States, Europe, and China, in genres as diverse as opera, choral arts, vocal arts, chamber music, jazz, musical theater, and cabaret. His performances have been heard on public radio and television broadcasts in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Nashville, Mississippi, and Alabama, as well as the Welsh Television network in Great Britain, and in venues such as Carnegie Weill Hall and the Liszt Academy (Budapest). Dr. Douglass has taught at Mississippi College, Occidental College (Los Angeles), the University of Southern California, and Middle Tennessee State University where he was director the of collaborative piano degree program. In the summer of 2004 he began teaching in the summer study program AIMS (American Institute of Musical Studies) in Graz, Austria where has served variously as the instructor of collaborative piano and a vocal coach in the Lieder studios. He joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2005 and is currently the Professor of Collaborative Piano, director of the collaborative piano degrees program, coordinator of chamber music activities, and vocal coach. Dr. Douglass holds degrees in piano performance from the University of Alabama (BM, MM) and the DMA in collaborative piano from the University of Southern California. He is also active as a clinician, adjudicator, and recording artist, having released internationally (among other recordings) two CDs with soprano Hope Koehler of the songs of John Jacob Niles, and most recently a recording of Othmar Schöck’s song cycle Das Stille Leuchten with the late mezzo-soprano Clara O’Brien.

Opera Theatre presents Offenbach's "The Lantern Marriage" and Menotti's "The Old Maid and the Thief"
2024-11-15 19:30 - 21:30 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Join the UNCG Opera Theatre for an evening of light-hearted romance and comedy, as we present two short one acts: Offenbach’s The Lantern Marriage and Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief. In Offenbach’s charming operetta, our hero finds his treasure, disappointing the hopes of the two widows who had their sights set on making him their new husband. The Old Maid and the Thief narrative parallels The Lantern Marriage as two single women (Miss Todd and Miss Pinkerton) attempt to win the affections of Bob, who ends up finding his love in their maid, Laetitia.

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