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SUMMARY:Clare Longendyke\, piano
DESCRIPTION: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).    \n\n\n\nA 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.  \n\n\n\nClare’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.  \n\n\n\nClare 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).  \n\n\n\nFor 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. 
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/clare-longendyke-piano/
LOCATION:Organ Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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SUMMARY:Shannon Thomas\, violin and Stijn DeCock\, piano
DESCRIPTION:Download Program\n\n\n\n\nA 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.  \n\n\n\nAs 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.  \n\n\n\nInterested 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.  \n\n\n\nShannon 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.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHailed 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).”  \n\n\n\nDr. 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.  \n\n\n\nDr. 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.  \n\n\n\nDr. 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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/shannon-thomas-violin-and-stijn-decock-piano/
LOCATION:Organ Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:School of Music
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SUMMARY:Scott Rawls\, viola
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Sparr\, violaJames Douglass\, piano \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nViolist 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.   \n\n\n\nA 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.    \n\n\n\nUnder 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.  \n\n\n\nDr. 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.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKimberly 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.   \n\n\n\nAs 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.  \n\n\n\nSparr 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.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs 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. 
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/scott-rawls-viola/
LOCATION:Organ Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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SUMMARY:Sinfonia
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nMarissa Guarriello\, conductorAnna Tschiegg-Baker\, graduate conductorDalton Guin\, graduate conductorSam Hollar\, guest composer and conductorDonny Walter\, guest conductor \n\n\n\nRILEY Flying \n\n\n\nPARRISH Boreas \n\n\n\nJAIME-DONJUAN A su merced\, Don José \n\n\n\nHOLLAR Masque of the Red Death \n\n\n\nCOLERIDGE-TAYLOR Danse negre \n\n\n\nHIRSCH Grand Central \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/x3-H-a_o49c?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nUNCG Orchestras\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nStudents 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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/sinfonia-9/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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SUMMARY:Symphony Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nJungho Kim\, conductorJayon Felizarta\, violin \n\n\n\nMOZART Overture to Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)\, K. 620 \n\n\n\nBRAHMS Violin Concerto in D major\, op. 77 (Mvt. I\, Allegro non troppo) \n\n\n\nBEETHOVEN Egmont Overture\, op. 84 \n\n\n\nMUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated by Maurice Ravel) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\nProgram Notes and Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/yKhnBuzwQS0?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\n\nJayon Felizarta is a violinist currently studying under Dr. Fabian Lopez at UNCG. As a native of North Carolina\, he has been closely involved with the musical community since his youth\, performing with the NC Triangle Youth Symphony\, Duke String School symphony\, and TYP Quartet. In 2020\, Jayon received second prize of the King’s Peak International Music Competition\, and in 2017\, he received second prize at the North Carolina Symphony Youth Concerto Competition. He was a laureate of the Peter Perret youth talent search and has performed as soloist for the Winston-Salem Symphony. \n\n\n\nAn active orchestral performer\, Jayon Felizarta is a first violinist of the Fayetteville Symphony and UNCG University Symphony Orchestra\, and has performed with the Wilmington Symphony. He also performs as violinist for the JAW Trio at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Orchestras\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nStudents 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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/symphony-orchestra-7/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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SUMMARY:University Chorale
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/-xJH6IIOt3Y?feature=share\n\n\n\n\nThe UNCG Choral program is recognized for excellence\, creative performances\, and high artistic standards. The UNCG Choirs are comprised of four ensembles: University Chamber Singers\, University Chorale\, Coro di Belle Voci\, and Spartan Voices. These diverse offerings allow students the opportunity to experience a wide range of stylistic ideas through the exploration of music from various time periods and various cultures\, including major choral-orchestral works as well as smaller chamber pieces. The UNCG Choirs have performed at state\, regional\, national and international conferences. Dr. Carole Ott serves as Director of Choral Activities and conductor of Chamber Singers and Chorale. Prof. Lindsay Kesselman is conductor of Coro di Belle Voci. Dr. Brett Nolker is conductor of Spartan Voices.  \n\n\n\nThe 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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/university-chorale-2/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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SUMMARY:Wind Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorLindsay Kesselman\, sopranoPatty Saunders\, graduate conductor \n\n\n\nDAI Saṃsāric Dance (world premiere) \n\n\n\nGRAINGER Colonial Song \n\n\n\nCERRONE Darkening\, Then Brightening \n\n\n\nGOTKOVSKY Symphonie pour orchestre d’harmonie \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\nProgram Notes and Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\nJoin Our Email List\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/DJklje3rNQ0?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Program\nTonight’s program is a preview performance of the Wind Ensemble’s concert at the College Band Directors National Association national conference in Fort Worth\, Texas on March 28\, 2025. In advance of that performance\, the Wind Ensemble will perform six concerts on a tour that will span the southern United States with stops in Charlotte\, Atlanta\, Tuscaloosa\, New Orleans\, Houston\, and Dallas. The program\, with compositions by UNCG alum Dai Wei (’15 MM) and Ida Gotkovsky\, the poetry of Kim Addonizio\, and the voices of Dai Wei and UNCG faculty member Lindsay Kesselman\, is an acknowledgement of UNCG’s legacy of women’s education and a celebration of women’s voices more broadly. \n\n\n\nIn 1892\, UNCG opened its doors as the State Normal and Industrial School with music courses as part of the original curriculum. For the first seventy-two years of its existence\, the university only served women before becoming co-educational in 1964—the year after the university was renamed as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Today\, the university’s population stands at roughly 67% women. Tonight’s program serves as a reminder and reaffirmation of UNCG’s mission of educating women in North Carolina and beyond. \n\n\n\nThe program is also bound together through elements of cyclicity and repetition. In some musical cultures\, repetition is used to promote and create community—to instill a sense of collectivism; in others\, it may be used to express the infinite and indescribable qualities of reality. The ephemeral and fleeting nature of music necessitates cyclicity in order to promote understanding\, particularly in the long-form music found in the Western classical tradition. In music\, however\, repetition is never simply repetition—to promote understanding\, the repetition is changed\, or the listener is changed by experiencing the repetition. Just as poet Kim Addonizio describes the simple experience of watching the sky “darkening\, then brightening” over the course of a day\, sometimes we notice changes in the musical cycles before us and other times we notice changes within ourselves. In other words\, does the cycle change or do we? \n\n\n\nEach of the three pieces on the CBDNA program feature elements of cyclicity and symmetry. Dai Wei’s Samsaric Dance is inspired by the Tibetan Buddhism conception of existence. Over the course of the piece\, multiple musical elements emerge\, return\, interact with each other\, and continuously transform before the piece eventually rests on a C♯ that symbolizes the oneness and unity of all existence. In this sense\, cyclicity refers to the endless cycle of birth\, death\, and rebirth—like a wheel rolling forward and backwards towards a possible but never promised nirvana. \n\n\n\nChristopher Cerrone’s Darkening\, Then Brightening is built in an arch form but one shaped like a valley. The descent of the first three movements leads towards the return of the C♯ from Samsaric Dance now transformed into the sound of inevitable descent. While the listener and singer ascend towards the light in the final movements\, the promise of redemption lies just beyond their grasp as the piece suddenly stops. The valley was just too deep. \n\n\n\nWhile elements of formal cyclicity are clearly evident in both movements of Ida Gotkovsky’s Symphonie pour orchestre d’harmonie\, her intermingling of octatonic\, whole tone\, and quartal pitch material throughout the symphony is of particular interest. This kind of symmetrical pitch organization\, one also favored by her composition teacher Olivier Messiaen\, creates melodic and harmonic structures free of any sense of a fundamental pitch\, occurring in looping cycles without a clear beginning or end. While traditional tonal music relies on asymmetrical pitch structures to establish hierarchy\, Gotkovsky’s pitch organization lends her music an almost otherworldly quality while remaining relatively consonant even within a modernist framework. \n\n\n\nThe chord that ends the piece\, and thus the concert\, is a quartal harmony built on C-naturals in the soprano and bass voices. The chord’s brightness and power seem far removed from the C♯ featured so prominently in the previous two pieces. The cycle has ended lower in pitch but perhaps more hopeful in tone? Darkening\, then brightening… has the cycle changed\, or have we? \n\n\n\nA performance such as this is an incredible undertaking and requires a great deal of effort and resources. Thank you to the following for their support of the UNCG Wind Ensemble’s performance at CBDNA. \n\n\n\n\nJohn R. Locke Endowment for Excellence in Music\n\n\n\nBetty Johnson Cheek Fine Arts Endowment\n\n\n\nDr. J. Alan Boyette\, Provost\, UNCG\n\n\n\nDr. bruce d. mcclung\, Dean\, UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts\n\n\n\nDr. Charles Young\, Director\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDr. Catherine Keen Hock\, Assistant Director\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nProf. Lindsay Kesselman\, Assistant Professor of Voice and Choral Music\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nBrad McMillan\, Director of Outreach Programs and Marketing Coordinator\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nLyndsey Dean\, Ensembles Manager\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDr. Kevin M. Geraldi\, Director of Bands\, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign\n\n\n\nDr. John R. Locke\, Director of Bands Emeritus\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDr. Carole Ott Coelho\, Director of Choral Activities\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDr. Jungho Kim\, Director of Orchestras\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nNeil Shepherd\, Business Officer\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDennis Hopson\, Hall Manager and Recording Engineer\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nSharneisha Joyner\, Building Manager and Instrument Inventory Specialist\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nAdella Dzitko-Carlson\, Administrative Assistant and Personnel Officer\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDr. Nick Lewis\, Admissions and Student Services Specialist\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nStephen Duncan\, Piano Technician\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nPatty Saunders\, DMA Conducting Student\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDalton Guin\, MM Conducting Student\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nKat Smith\, MM Conducting Student\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\n\nLindsay 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 composed for her by living composers. She is a passionate advocate for contemporary music and has commissioned/premiered over one hundred works to date.    \n\n\n\nRecent and upcoming highlights include the premiere of Darkening\, then Brightening by Christopher Cerrone with the University of Illinois Wind Symphony; 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 and Bertolt Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins with the Charlotte Symphony; the role of Ada Lovelace in the new opera Galaxies in Her Eyes by Mark Lanz Weiser and Amy S. Punt; Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space with Voices of Ascension; the John Corigliano 80th birthday celebration at National Sawdust (2018); 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).   \n\n\n\nKesselman is Assistant Professor of Voice and Choral Music at the UNC Greensboro School of Music. 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 with her husband\, Kevin Noe\, and son\, Rowan. \n\n\n\n\nWind Ensemble\nThe UNCG Wind Ensemble is a highly select concert band of fifty performers majoring in music at the UNCG School of Music. Performers in the current Wind Ensemble are drawn from sixteen states\, Slovenia\, and Hong Kong. The ensemble has enjoyed a distinguished record of performance throughout its history. In January 1992\, the UNCG Wind Ensemble performed “A Tribute to John Philip Sousa” to a capacity crowd of 2\,700 at the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington\, D.C. Twice\, the Wind Ensemble earned critical acclaim from The Washington Post following concerts in the nation’s capital. The Wind Ensemble has performed throughout the eastern United States in recent years including the first-ever performance\, in 1987\, by a North Carolina collegiate ensemble in Lincoln Center\, New York City. The Wind Ensemble performed that same year in West Virginia\, Virginia\, Pennsylvania\, and Washington\, D.C. The Wind Ensemble has recorded nineteen commercially-available albums which have received widespread praise.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/wind-ensemble-10/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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SUMMARY:Chamber Singers
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nCarole Ott Coelho\, conductor \n\n\n\nDURUFLÉ Requiem\, op. 9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe UNCG Choral program is recognized for excellence\, creative performances\, and high artistic standards. The UNCG Choirs are comprised of four ensembles: University Chamber Singers\, University Chorale\, Coro di Belle Voci\, and Spartan Voices. These diverse offerings allow students the opportunity to experience a wide range of stylistic ideas through the exploration of music from various time periods and various cultures\, including major choral-orchestral works as well as smaller chamber pieces. The UNCG Choirs have performed at state\, regional\, national and international conferences. Dr. Carole Ott serves as Director of Choral Activities and conductor of Chamber Singers and Chorale. Prof. Lindsay Kesselman is conductor of Coro di Belle Voci. Dr. Brett Nolker is conductor of Spartan Voices.  \n\n\n\nThe 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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/chamber-singers-2/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church\, 617 N Elm St\, Greensboro\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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SUMMARY:Peter Bernstein
DESCRIPTION:PETER BERNSTEIN\, JAZZ GUITAR WITH UNCG JAZZ ENSEMBLE I & HONORS HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND\n\n\n\nJazz guitarist Peter Bernstein has been a part of the jazz scene in New York and abroad since 1989. He has participated in over 80 recordings and numerous festivals\, concert and club performances with musicians from all generations. \n\n\n\nAs a leader\, Bernstein has released nine albums and a DVD\, Live at Smoke\, and he has enjoyed long musical associations with legendary drummer Jimmy Cobb (Cobb’s Mob)\, organist Larry Goldings\, and drummer Bill Stewart. Together the trio recorded a dozen records\, all of which display their distinctive sound\,exploring the depths of jazz standards and playing original compositions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrchestra/MezzStudents$6.00Adults$8.00Seniors$6.00\n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n* Tickets to CVPA and UCLS events are sold exclusively through our box office locations and ETix website\, and nowhere else. Tickets purchased through third-party vendors cannot be honored. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom 1995 through 1997\, Bernstein was a member of Joshua Redman’s band and played on Redman’s Freedom in the Groove CD. He played with Diana Krall’s quartet from 1999 through 2001 and with Dr. Lonnie Smith\, the legendary organist who made his debut on the George Benson Cookbook albums. He has also recorded five CDs with organist Melvin Rhyne\, known for his association with Wes Montgomery. He has also played with groups led by Nicholas Payton\, Sonny Rollins\, Lee Konitz\, Tom Harrell\, and Eric Alexander. \n\n\n\nCurrent projects include the recent album\, Monk\, a spin on the rich legacy of Thelonious Monk. In September\, Bernstein released a solo guitar record\, Solo Guitar – Live at Smalls (Smalls Live). \n\n\n\n\nROBINSON FAMILY JAZZ 10% OFF\n\n\n\nPurchase tickets to both Robinson Family Jazz Artists events (Peter Bernstein and Brevan Hampden) and receive 10% off your total purchase. \n\n\n\n\nPurchase Robinson Family Jazz Bundle\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROBINSON FAMILY VISITING JAZZ ARTISTS\n\n\n\nA residency made possible by the Robinson Family Fund\, established by Ward Robinson (’19 PBC Jazz\, ’10 MPH) and Pamela Pittman\, is bringing two jazz luminaries to UNCG’s School of Music this year. Guitarist Peter Bernstein and Percussionist Brevan Hampden will come to Greensboro for residencies with students and concerts which will be open to the public.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/peter-bernstein/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,UCLS
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SUMMARY:Spartan Voices
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/Qp8PkTx3Tj4?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\nThe UNCG Choral program is recognized for excellence\, creative performances\, and high artistic standards. The UNCG Choirs are comprised of four ensembles: University Chamber Singers\, University Chorale\, Coro di Belle Voci\, and Spartan Voices. These diverse offerings allow students the opportunity to experience a wide range of stylistic ideas through the exploration of music from various time periods and various cultures\, including major choral-orchestral works as well as smaller chamber pieces. The UNCG Choirs have performed at state\, regional\, national and international conferences. Dr. Carole Ott serves as Director of Choral Activities and conductor of Chamber Singers and Chorale. Prof. Lindsay Kesselman is conductor of Coro di Belle Voci. Dr. Brett Nolker is conductor of Spartan Voices.  \n\n\n\nThe 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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/spartan-voices-2/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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