College of Visual and Performing Arts

The Cassilhaus Collection at the Gatewood Gallery
2024-01-18 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-19 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-22 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-23 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-24 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-25 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-26 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-29 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) and 2 more dates | Gatewood Studio Arts Center, 527 Highland Ave, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA, 527 Highland Ave, Greensboro, 27412, United States
The Cassilhaus Collection – a collection of photography curated by Professor Leah Sobsey’s ART 487 students
November 3 – January 31, 2024
Cassilhaus Collection artist talk and reception November 8th, 4:00 – 6:00pm

Danny Mui, bass clarinet • Guest Artist Recital
2024-01-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Music for Love • Jazz Ensemble I
2024-01-19 19:30 - 21:30 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
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VIP Table (single seat, 6 seats per table)
$100.00

Tier 1
$75.00

Tier 2
$50.00

Tier 3
$15.00

Tier 4
$5.00

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Thomas Heflin, director

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The UNCG School of Music Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program is teaming up with the Greensboro-based charitable foundation Music for Love to present a fundraiser concert for student musician scholarships. The concert will feature Jazz Ensemble I performing both traditional and contemporary big band music from the albums Music for Love, Volume 1 and Ovision by various artists.
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.

Andrew Willis, harpsichord and piano • Artist Faculty Recital
2024-01-20 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Pianist Andrew Willis explores the historical development of keyboard instruments and their performance practice, maintaining a commitment to the study, performance, and teaching of the widest possible range of repertoire. Keenly interested in the history of the piano, he contributes frequently to conferences, festivals, and concert series. He is a past president of the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society and a Trustee of the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, for whose International Fortepiano Competition he served as a juror.
As Covington Distinguished Professor of Music in the UNC Greensboro School of Music, Willis teaches performance on instruments ranging from harpsichord to modern piano. He directed the biennial UNCG Focus on Piano Literature for over a decade and recently inaugurated a student Historical Performance Consort. For the Albany, Bridge, Claves, Centaur, and CRI labels he has recorded solo and ensemble music of three centuries on pianos linked historically to the chosen repertoire. His recording of Op. 106 for the first complete Beethoven sonata cycle on period instruments was hailed by The New York Times as “a ‘Hammerklavier’ of rare stature.”
Willis received the D.M.A. in Historical Performance from Cornell University, where he studied fortepiano with Malcolm Bilson, the M.M. in Accompanying and Chamber Music from Temple University under George Sementovsky and Lambert Orkis, and the B.M. in Piano from The Curtis Institute of Music, where his mentor was Mieczyslaw Horszowski.

Charlotte Davis, horn • Undergraduate Recital
2024-01-21 15:30 - 17:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Those Known To Me Art Exhibition
2024-01-23 12:00 - 2024-01-27 17:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E February 1 Pl, Greensboro, NC 27406, USA
Those Known To Me
Solo Exhibition by Morgan Hesse

January 23 – 27, 2024
Reception: Friday, January 26th | 6-8P

Those Known To Me is a series that explores family members only known to me by stories told. With the use of digital collage and cyanotypes, I learned about these relatives. The materials used for the cyanotypes are from the area in which these relatives lived and worked. Bricks from a chimney from the street they lived to fabric that represents the mill they worked. Cardinals scattered throughout symbolize passed loved one’s, checking-in on those they left behind.
Even those they didn’t know.
Like me.

More About Morgan Hesse
Morgan Hesse lives and works in North Carolina. Hesse works in digital and film photography, as well as alternative processes. Her work explores loneliness and growing up as a young girl in the South, online culture, and family members only known to her by stories told. Hesse currently attends the University of North Carolina Greensboro earning a BFA in Photography.

To learn more, visit our website here
Greensboro Project Space Weekly Gallery Hours:
Tuesday, 1-6pm
Wednesday, 10a-3pm
Thursday, 1-6pm
Friday, 12-5pm
Saturday, 2-5pm

Through My Mother’s Eyes Art Exhibition
2024-01-23 12:00 - 2024-01-27 17:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place, Greensboro, NC, 27406, United States
Through My Mother’s Eyes
Solo Exhibition by Judith Katherine Briand

January 23 – 27, 2024
Reception: Friday, January 26th | 6-8P
Through My Mother’s Eyes is an installation project created from the archival objects, photographs, and histories of my Mother’s family. While offering a visual, narrative experience highlighting real-life circumstances, the viewer is met with an audible conversation between mother and daughter, discussing life, loss, and the complex nature of memory. This installation succeeds my artist book ‘Abuela: An Album of Memory and Identity Through Photo/Graphics’ as part of a series titled ‘Seeking Roots’. What originated as an investigation into my Mexican heritage as a way to connect to the ancestral roots of my foremothers, the series of works quickly started to form a direction of its own, equally becoming an exploration of the meaning of generational storytelling, how identities and cultures form through stories and the ability for a photograph or heirloom to hold and bequeath memories to its possessor.
The creative space at the intersection of physical material and digital formats enables me to construct and reconstruct narratives, histories, and mythologies while considering the phenomenon of memory. Digital manipulation reveals how memories mirror through generations like reflection across the water and provides a way to communicate how identities are formed by way of the stories we tell ourselves or are told by others. The photographic medium affords us records that would otherwise be lost to time but the lens itself is unaware of the generational patterns that manifest both in life and in image. My observations expose the generational patterns of a specific middle-class Mexican American family, my own. A family who has lost their connection to their Mexican lands, kin, heritage, and traditions. My objective is to engage with what it means to understand yourself through generational inheritance and what it can mean to lose the privilege of knowing. Although the material is documentary and archival, and the presentation is biographical, I am not unique in my attempt to find my place in and outside of my heritage. The allegorical representation throughout this personal narrative speaks of something greater and more universal than itself.

More About Judith Katherine Briand
Judith K. Briand (she/her) is a Designer native to Maine, based in Winston Salem, and completing her BFA at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a concentration in New Media and Design. She is an interdisciplinary artist working across the boundaries of physical and digital spaces. Her practice is rooted in preservation and identity, currently exploring her family’s experience of loss, and finding identity through generational storytelling. Her process derives from personal experiences to create work reflecting and refracting subjective realities. Her ethos focuses on inserting individual or marginalized perspectives into narratives traditionally or historically ignored or erased, aiming to acknowledge and question contemporary social and political landscapes, and reconsidering truth through art.

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Greensboro Project Space Weekly Gallery Hours:
Tuesday, 1-6pm
Wednesday, 10a-3pm
Thursday, 1-6pm
Friday, 12-5pm
Saturday, 2-5pm

Dreaming of Game Night Art Exhibition
2024-01-23 12:00 - 2024-01-27 17:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place, Greensboro, NC, 27406, United States
Dreaming of Game Night
Solo Exhibition by KT Wilson

January 23 – 27, 2024
Reception: Friday, January 26th | 6-8P

Dreaming of Game Night is a love letter to all the friends and family that have offered me joy and comfort in my life. It is a collection grounded in the exploration of materials and memories, focusing on things that bring me joy. My lovely friends and family helped me collect these materials, recall these memories, and make jokes that inspired new work. While many of these experiences are deeply personal, I hope this work sparks something nostalgic and playful in others.
More About KT Wilson
I seek joy in the world and strive to share that joy with those around me. My favorite aspect of art-making is material collection and exploration, and that has become a huge part of my intentional daily practice and worldview. I face the world each day with a journal and a cup of tea, and I wait to hear the stories that surround me.

To learn more, visit our website here
Greensboro Project Space Weekly Gallery Hours:
Tuesday, 1-6pm
Wednesday, 10a-3pm
Thursday, 1-6pm
Friday, 12-5pm
Saturday, 2-5pm

Cancelled: Yu-Fang Chen, violin and Peter Opie, cello • Guest Artist Recital
2024-01-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Hayley Jensen, clarinet • Graduate Recital
2024-01-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Aleksandr Serbinowski, horn • Undergraduate Recital
2024-01-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Kristin Arp, conductor • Graduate Recital
2024-01-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Ian T. Jones, composer • Undergraduate Recital
2024-01-28 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Clara O’Brien Memorial Concert
2024-01-28 18:00 - 19:30 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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After the Concert
The concert will be followed by a potluck dessert reception in the Atrium. Attendees are invited to prepare and share a baked good.

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Clara O’Brien’s international career began when she was awarded the Sonderpreis des Badischen Staatstheaters—a prize created especially for her at the 1stInternational Coloratura Competition, Sylvia Geszty in Stuttgart, Germany. She appeared on such European stages as Berlin, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Dresden, Leipzig and Frankfurt, and domestically in Chicago and Dallas. For many years, she was engaged as soloist at the State Theater of Baden and based her career from Germany. Her operatic performances received Opernwelt’s Best Performance citations in both the Emerging and Established Artist categories. Other awards include 1st Prize, Erika Köth Meisterkurs and Finalist at the International Belvedere Competition.
She also won the Grand Prix Paul Derenne, International Concours de chant de Paris for her interpretation of Impressionist and post-Impressionist mélodie. She was also a noted interpreter of late-Romantic and Modernist German Lieder. Her recital repertoire ranged from medieval chanson to premieres from living composers. Recordings include releases on the Bella Musica and Albany Records labels, and her performances were broadcast on Southwest German Radio and Television and NPR radio. Her most recent recording was of Othmar Schoeck’s Das stille Leuchten with UNCG Professor of Collaborative Piano James Douglass (Ablaze Records 2021).
Prof. O’Brien held degrees from the Eastman School of Music (MM and Performer’s Certificate) and Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music (BM, summa cum laude) and completed her stage training at the Curtis Institute of Music. Her apprenticeship programs included Lyric Opera Center for American Artists and the Aspen Music Festival. She was a Fulbright Scholar and was awarded a fellowship to the Münchener Singschul. She also taught at the American Institute for Musical Studies in Graz, Austria and presented masterclasses throughout the United States. Prof. O’Brien was a member of the UNCG School of Music faculty for fifteen years.

Nicholas Lewis and Xin Ma, conductors • Graduate Recital
2024-01-30 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Stephanie Ycaza, tuba and euphonium • Artist Faculty Recital
2024-01-30 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Stephanie Ycaza is Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to her appointment at UNCG, she served as Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Northern Iowa. She has also taught on the music faculties of Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia State University, Longwood University, the University of Richmond, the UNCG Summer Music Camp, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.
Stephanie is a founding member of Calypsus Brass(opens in new window), a brass quintet dedicated to performing new works and providing recordings for composers. Calypsus is committed to promoting the works of composers from historically marginalized groups, and serves as an Ensemble-in-Residence for Rising Tide Music Press. Stephanie is active as an orchestral musician, and currently serves as Principal Tuba of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony. She has performed as a soloist, offered masterclasses, and presented on the topic of Mindfulness in Music around the United States and in South America.
Stephanie holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Shenandoah University, a Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. She studied with Dr. Ross Walter, Toby Hanks, Mike Roylance, Andrew Hitz, and Michael Bunn. Stephanie is a Miraphone tuba artist.

Chamber Winds • Lindsay Kesselman, soprano
2024-02-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Jonathan Caldwell, conductor
Lindsay Kesselman, soprano
Kristin Arp, graduate conductor
Nicholas Lewis, trombone

PRICE
Octet for Brasses and Piano
BERLIOZ
“Oraison funèbre” from Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, op. 15 (world premiere)
SHAW
Is a Rose
MOZART
Serenade in E-flat Major, K. 375

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Lindsay Kesselman is a two time GRAMMY-nominated soprano known for her warm, collaborative spirit and investment in personal, intimate communication with audiences. She regularly collaborates with orchestras, wind symphonies, chamber ensembles, opera/theater companies, and new music ensembles across the United States, often premiering, touring and recording new works written for her by living composers. She is a passionate advocate for contemporary music, and has commissioned/premiered over 100 works to date.
Recent and upcoming highlights include the premiere of the wind transcription of Caroline Shaw’s Is a Rose, Energy in All Directions by Kenneth Frazelle with Sandbox Percussion at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the role of Anna in Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins with the Charlotte Symphony, the role of Ada Lovelace in a new opera, Galaxies in Her Eyes by Mark Lanz Weiser and Amy Punt, Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space with Voices of Ascension, ongoing performances of two works written for Kesselman by John Mackey with orchestras and wind symphonies across the country, the John Corigliano 80th birthday celebration at National Sawdust (2018), Quixote (Amy Beth Kirsten and Mark DeChiazza) with Peak Performances at Montclair State University (2017), a leading role in Louis Andriessen’s opera Theatre of the World with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Dutch National Opera and an international tour of Einstein on the Beach with the Philip Glass Ensemble (2012-2015).

She is featured on several recent recordings: David Biedenbender’s all we are given we cannot hold (2023, Blue Griffin), Chris Cerrone’s opera In a Grove (2023, In a Circle Records), Caroline Shaw’s Is a Rose (2023, Blue Griffin), Chris Cerrone’s The Arching Path (2021, In a Circle Records), Russell Hartenberger’s Requiem for Percussion and Voices (2019, Nexus Records), Chris Cerrone’s The Pieces That Fall to Earth with Wild Up (2019, New Amsterdam Records), Mathew Rosenblum’s Lament/Witches’ Sabbath with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (2018, New Focus Recordings), Louis Andriessen’s Theatre of the World with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (2017, Nonesuch), and Jon Magnussen’s Twinge with HAVEN (2016, Blue Griffin).

Kesselman has been the resident soprano of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble for 12 seasons, and Haven, Kesselman’s trio with Kimberly Cole Luevano, clarinet and Midori Koga, piano (www.haventrio.com) actively commissions and tours throughout North America. Haven is the recipient of a 2021 Barlow Endowment for Music Composition award with composer David Biedenbender and a 2021 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant with composer Ivette Herryman Rodriguez.

She is a dedicated teacher, currently serving as Visiting Assistant Professor of Voice at UNC Greensboro. A frequent guest clinician at colleges and universities across the United States, Kesselman specializes in voice teaching, leadership, entrepreneurship, musicianship, young composer mentoring, chamber music, audience development, programming, interdisciplinary collaboration, harnessing vulnerability in performance, and community engagement. This season she is an adjudicator for student composer competitions through North Star Music, LLC and Connecticut Summerfest, and she co-teaches the Heretic’s Guide to Score Study and Interpretation with Kevin Noe.
Kesselman holds degrees in voice performance and music education from Rice University and Michigan State University. She is represented by Trudy Chan at Black Tea Music and lives in Charlotte, NC with her fiancé Kevin and son Rowan.

Faculty Composers Concert
2024-02-02 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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New Music Greensboro presents the 2024 Faculty Composers Concert, with works composed by Luke Ellard, Mark Engebretson, Lorena Guillén, Steve Landis, Alejandro Rutty, Leah Shaw, and Stephanie Ycaza. Remarkably, all the pieces on this program have been composed after 2020.
The event features an outstanding cast of performers including McKinley Baker, Tadeu Coelho, Rodgers Dameron, Lorena Guillén, Annie Jeng, Scott Rawls, Adam Ricci, Alejandro Rutty, Erik Schmidt, Leah Shaw, Taylor Stirm, Anthony Taylor, Robert Wells, and Stephanie Ycaza.

Last Stop on Market Street
2024-02-03 10:00 - 11:00 | Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre, 402 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27403, United States
By Matt de la Peña, Illustrated by Christian Robinson
Adapted for the stage by Cheryl L. West
Music and Lyrics by Lamont Dozier and Paris Ray Dozier
Digital Recording and Underscoring by Paris Ray Dozier
Originally co-commissioned and produced by Chicago Children’s Theatre and the Children’s Theatre Company
Directed by Natalie Sowell
Dates:
Feb. 10 at 10:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 17 at 10:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 24 at 10:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.
Tickets: Call the UNCG Theatre Box Office at 336-334-4392 or click the link below to purchase tickets online.
Age Rating: Ages 3 and up
Run Time: Approx. 1 hr.
Frame/Works Discussion via Zoom: TBA
Location: Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre (Brown Building), 402 Tate St, Greensboro, NC 27412
Touring Performances: NCTYP will bring the magic of live theatre to your school or organization! This production is touring every Tuesday and Thursday, Feb. 27 to Apr. 18, 2024. For information about bringing the touring version of this show to your school or organization, please contact the School of Theatre Box Office at 336-334-4392 or email them at grpsales@uncg.edu.
Summary:
Seven-year-old CJ is staying with his Nana, in a world considerably different from the one he’s used to. CJ goes on his first bus ride – it’s loud and gritty and NEW! Guided by Nana, CJ travels a little closer to his roots and sees that things are not always what they seem. This is one hip-hop, eclectic, heart-thumpin’, toe-tappin’ joy ride!
“Last Stop on Market Street is what a children’s theater should be. It does not talk down to its audience. It is burgeoning with wonder. If you are a kid, you’ll giggle yourself silly. If you were once a kid, you just might remember what that felt like.” –Chicago Sun Times
Produced by special arrangement with Plays for New Audiences.

Last Stop on Market Street
2024-02-03 14:30 - 15:30 | Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre, 402 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27403, United States
By Matt de la Pena, Illustrated by Christian Robinson
Adapted for the stage by Cheryl L. West
Music and Lyrics by Lamont Dozier and Paris Ray Dozier
Digital Recording and Underscoring by Paris Ray Dozier
Originally co-commissioned and produced by Chicago Children’s Theatre and the Children’s Theatre Company
Directed by Natalie Sowell
Dates:
Feb. 3 at 10:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 10 at 10:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 17 at 10:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 24 at 10:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.
Tickets: Call the UNCG Theatre Box Office at 336-334-4392 or click the link below to purchase tickets online.
Age Rating: Ages 3 and up
Run Time: Approx. 1 hr.
Frame/Works Discussion via Zoom: TBA
Location: Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre (Brown Building), 402 Tate St, Greensboro, NC 27412
Touring Performances: NCTYP will bring the magic of live theatre to your school or organization! This production is touring every Tuesday and Thursday, Feb. 27 to Apr. 18, 2024. For information about bringing the touring version of this show to your school or organization, please contact the School of Theatre Box Office at 336-334-4392 or email them at grpsales@uncg.edu.
Summary:
Seven-year-old CJ is staying with his Nana, in a world considerably different from the one he’s used to. CJ goes on his first bus ride – it’s loud and gritty and NEW! Guided by Nana, CJ travels a little closer to his roots and sees that things are not always what they seem. This is one hip-hop, eclectic, heart-thumpin’, toe-tappin’ joy ride!
“Last Stop on Market Street is what a children’s theater should be. It does not talk down to its audience. It is burgeoning with wonder. If you are a kid, you’ll giggle yourself silly. If you were once a kid, you just might remember what that felt like.” –Chicago Sun Times
Produced by special arrangement with Plays for New Audiences.

Voice Studio Recital
2024-02-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
