College of Visual and Performing Arts

The Cassilhaus Collection at the Gatewood Gallery
2024-01-30 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-31 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | 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

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
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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, 2024-02-10 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-02-10 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

Symphony Orchestra
2024-02-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Dana Auditorium (Guilford College), 710 Levi Coffin Dr, Greensboro, NC, 27410, United States
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Additional Event
Pre-Concert Talk
7:00 pm, Auditorium Stage
Join us before the concert for a conversation with our musicians about the program.

Jungho Kim, conductor

DVOŘÁK
Slavonic Dance in C Major, op. 46, no. 1, B.83
PUCCINI
Intermezzo from ‘Manon Lescaut’
SMETANA
The Moldau (Vltava) from Má vlast
GERSHWIN
An American in Paris

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The UNCG Symphony Orchestra is a highly select ensemble of approximately ninety performers majoring in music. Performers include undergraduates through masters and doctoral candidates in music performance and music education. Membership in the organization is highly competitive, and all students are placed by audition. Members of the Symphony have achieved numerous individual honors including solo competition awards on regional and national levels, music scholarships, undergraduate teaching fellowships, graduate assistantships and fellowships, and membership in honors ensembles.
The UNCG Symphony Orchestra periodically tours the state and region, and has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. A recent review in the Classical Voice of North Carolina described the Orchestra’s performance as, “dramatic and incisive,” and “beautifully done.”
In addition to the performances of standard orchestral literature, the Symphony Orchestra collaborates annually with the UNCG choirs to present a major choral/orchestral work. Faculty, as well as winners of the annual Student Artist Competition, are often featured as soloists. The Symphony combines with the School of Music Opera Theatre and the UNCG School of Theatre to perform a fully staged opera production each spring semester. String performers who are not majoring in music are especially encouraged to participate.

The vibrant UNCG Orchestra program has long been recognized for performance excellence, adventurous programming, and high artistic standards. A diversity of offerings allow students the opportunity to perform repertoire for ensembles ranging from the largest cornerstone and contemporary works for full orchestra, to intimate pieces for chamber orchestra, to string orchestra.
Students in the UNCG Orchestra program are dedicated to the performance, study and cultivation of orchestral music of the highest quality. The UNCG Orchestras offer outstanding performances throughout the year and enhance the institutional spirit and community of UNCG. We seek to promote music education in the state of North Carolina and in our region by supporting secondary school orchestra programs and other organizations through our outreach activities and other annual events on campus.

Nicholas DiEugenio, violin • Guest Artist Recital
2024-02-06 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

The Gatewood Gallery Presents: Elizabeth Stone – I Remember
2024-02-07 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-08 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-09 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-12 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-13 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-14 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-15 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-16 09:00 - 16:00 | Gatewood Studio Arts Center, 527 Highland Ave, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA, 527 Highland Ave, Greensboro, 27412, United States
February 7 – March 15, 2024
Elizabeth Stone: I Remember
A multi-generational community based project.
Opening Reception Feb. 7 @ 4pm with Artist Talk

Greensboro Chamber Brass • Graduate Recital
2024-02-07 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Nicholas J. Marsh, baritone • Undergraduate Recital
2024-02-08 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Cole Alexander Doster, composer • Undergraduate Recital
2024-02-08 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Lunar New Year Celebration Concert
2024-02-08 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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This performance is presented with support from a UNCG iBelong Grant.
The UNCG iBelong project launched in 2019 with a campus survey intended to find out how the university can better promote a climate where everyone feels supported and welcomed. Student groups, organizations and faculty and staff can all submit proposals for funding. Ideas can expand on a prior year project or be an entirely new project.

Gracie Zielinski, violin • Undergraduate Recital
2024-02-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Walter Aparicio, piano • Guest Artist Recital
2024-02-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Known for the warmth and conviction of his performances, pianist Walter Aparicio explores issues of cultural background and identity through his concerts and workshops. Much of his programming includes music that directly references elements of dance, language and folk traditions.

Walter’s notable New York credits include alternative spaces such as the Cell Theatre, Firehouse Space, and Soapbox Gallery as well as more traditional venues like Steinway Hall, Carnegie Hall & Symphony Space. Outside of the US, he has presented performances at the International Academy of Music in St. Petersburg (Russia), the Beijing International Music Festival & Academy (China), and Barcelona Piano Academy (Spain) and in his native Bolivia for the Festival Internacional de la Interculturalidad.
An adventurous artist, Walter has participated in performance installations such as Allora & Calzadilla’s Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano. Taking place at the Gladstone Gallery, NY, the work involved the pianist performing backwards – from a hole cut inside a grand piano – while moving the instrument around the gallery space. The work transforms the player/instrument dynamic, and this experience has been part of Mr. Aparicio’s ongoing inquiry into the nature of performance and the artist-audience relationship. Other ventures have included collaborations with the Nouveau Classical Project (where fashion meets music) and Notes on Fiction, a series where musical references in literature are presented as a fluid reading/concert hybrid.

An active proponent of music by Latin American composers, Walter is committed to introducing rarely heard works to new audiences. His debut album, Aires Indios: Piano Music of Bolivia (MSR Classics) features music by Eduardo Caba, Simeón Roncal and Marvin Sandi. These evocative works that draw from Andean folk music are then infused with the stylized vocal quality of Chopin and the barbarism of Bartók. Mr. Aparicio is on the artist roster of Cayambis Music Press, a leading publisher of works by Latin American composers. As a Cayambis artist, Walter champions and records recent works of the publisher’s composers.
Walter serves on the Executive Board of the Piano Teachers Congress of NY where he co-chairs the 20th/21st-Century Piano Festival. Currently, he is faculty at Piano Works in Progress (NY & Vermont), Manhattan School of Music -Precollege Division and maintains a thriving private studio in Manhattan. He is staff accompanist at the Chapin School & Bank Street, School for Children.
Walter holds degrees from NYU Steinhardt and Manhattan School of Music. His primary teachers have included Deirdre O’Donohue, Phillip Kawin and Robert Durso.

Courtney Miller, oboe • Artist Faculty Recital
2024-02-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Oboist Courtney Miller is recognized for her exquisite playing and innovative performances. Fanfare magazine hails her as “a performer of considerable skill, with an unfailingly lovely sound, abundant technical ability, and a special gift for turning notes into poetry.” She has performed recital tours throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America.
Dr. Courtney Miller’s 2019 album, Portuguese Perspectives, spotlights world premiere recordings by Portuguese composers, including several new commissions by Miller. This album and her 2015 release, Modern Fairy Tales, are available on all streaming platforms. American Record Guide praises her “seamless consistency in the various registers of the oboe…and sensitive phrasing and articulation.” This summer in Thailand, she will perform works from her newest album, Hans Gál: Works for Viola, Piano, Violin, and Oboe.
An experienced orchestral musician, Miller also performs frequently with orchestras throughout the United States, most recently with the Chicago Symphony and Orchestra Iowa. In addition, she has a flair for interdisciplinary work. She has collaborated with hip-hop dancer Ernest Phillips, belly dancer Janelle Issis, and choreographer Kristin Marrs. Perhaps her most daring collaboration yet is Psionic, a work that explores interactive movement data between oboist and computer through a live stream of EEG data.
Before joining the UNCG faculty, Dr. Miller was Associate Professor of Oboe at the University of Iowa. She previously served on the faculties of Boston College and Ashland University.
Dr. Courtney Miller received a DMA from Boston University with John Ferrillo, a MM from Cleveland Institute of Music with John Mack, and a BM from Florida State University with Eric Ohlsson.

Red Clay Goes to the Opera! • Red Clay Saxophone Quartet with Lindsay Kesselman, soprano • Faculty and Guest Artist Recital
2024-02-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Lindsay Kesselman, soprano
Susan Fancher, soprano saxophone
Laurent Estoppey, alto saxophone
Steven Stusek, tenor saxophone
Mark Engebreston, baritone saxophone

MOZART
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
PUCCINI
Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums)
“Quando m’en vo” from La Bohème

HANDEL
“Tornami a vagghegiar” from Alcina
ROSSINI
Rossini Medley
BERNSTEIN
Overture to Candide
“There is a Garden” from Trouble in Tahiti
BOLCOM
Amor

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The Red Clay Saxophone Quartet was formed in 2003 when the fates conspired to bring four internationally recognized saxophonists (Susan Fancher, Robert Faub, Steven Stusek and Mark Engebretson) together in Greensboro, North Carolina. In January 2022, Laurent Estoppey joined the quartet on alto saxophone. The RCSQ takes its name from the area’s luscious red soil. The Quartet presents a varied repertoire from classical to jazz to new music to tango, featuring music by composers such as Chen Yi, Ben Johnston, James Paul Sain, György Ligeti, Guillermo Lago, Francis Poulenc, Alejandro Rutty, Steve Reich, Mark Engebretson, David Maslanka, Martin Bresnick, Burton Beerman, and Gavin Bryars.

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.

Spartan Voices and Coro di Belle Voce
2024-02-16 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Brett Nolker, conductor
Welborn Young, conductor

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The mission of the UNCG Choirs is dedicated to the teaching, performance, study and cultivation of choral music of the highest quality representing not just the western choral canon but also choral music of other cultures by a diverse body of historical and new composers. We believe that the UNCG Choirs are a serious and distinctive medium of musical expression, of vital service and importance to its members and to UNCG. Through ensemble performance, we strive to create an environment of trust, communication, and expressive freedom, to present outstanding performances throughout the year, and to enhance the institutional sprit and character of UNCG. To music as an art and a profession, the UNCG Choirs seek to bring increasing artistry, understanding, and respect by efforts within our own immediate sphere and by providing leadership and sponsorship to school choral programs and through cooperation with all other agencies pursuing similar musical goals.
