College of Visual and Performing Arts

Julianna Pierdomenico, clarinet • Graduate Recital
2023-03-23 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Coro di Belle Voce • “Eastern Visions: A Choral Journey”
2023-03-24 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Brittany Kaehler, conductor
Nancy Davis, piano

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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.

MFA Thesis Concert: Elijah Motley & kt williams
2023-03-24 19:30 - 21:30 | Dance Theatre, 1408 Walker Avenue, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Dance MFA Candidates Elijah Motley and kt williams will present original choreographic work. This concert is a reflection of the culminating project for MFA Candidacy. Tickets will go on sale on January 9, 2023 at go.uncg.edu/dancetix

ROE
2023-03-24 19:30 - 22:00 | Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre, 402 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27403, United States
By Lisa Loomer
Directed by Kristy Dodson
Dates: March 24 – 25 at 7:30 p.m.
March 26 & April 2 at 2:00 p.m.
March 30 – April 1 at 7:30 p.m.
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Age Rating: PG-13
Content Advisory: This material is potentially sensitive. “Roe” deals with strong emotions, viewpoints, and themes surrounding the landmark Roe v Wade case and abortion. It contains strong profanity and graphic language, descriptions of sexual assault/rape, mentions of drug use, mentions of suicide, and systemic oppression. This play is intended for mature audiences and may be triggering for survivors.
Run Time: Approx. 2 hr. and 30 min.
Frame/Works Discussion via Zoom: April 3 at 7:00 p.m. (click here for the link)
Location: Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre (Brown Building), 402 Tate St, Greensboro, NC 27412
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Summary:
Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion, is still fiercely debated over forty years later. In this incisive play, acclaimed writer Lisa Loomer cuts through the headlines and rhetoric to reveal the divergent personal journeys of lawyer Sarah Weddington and plaintiff Norma McCorvey (“Jane Roe”) in the years following the fateful decision. In turns shocking, humorous, and poignant, ROE reflects the polarization in America today while illuminating the heart and passion each side has for its cause. –Dramatist Play Service
“This is a big play with big ideas…a rousing entertainment…ROE is not a screed for or against abortion…Rather, Loomer’s main theme is the process by which everyday people get swept up in the big currents of history, often with a random dose of chance…Loomer finds the humanity in all her characters. In the end, she seems to suggest that, polarized as we are, if we’d open our hearts and minds a bit, maybe we could find a little compassion for each other.” —Mail Tribune (Medford, OR). ”
“[ROE is] a useful primer—embroidered by the emotional, religious, and political motivations of its adherents and opponents—on one of the most durably contentious subjects of our time. With abundant care, the playwright refracts the complexity of abortion rights through the personal prisms of two emblematic real-life characters…[an] admirably probing play…” —Washington Post.

Seraph Brass
2023-03-24 20:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
Winners of the 2019 American Prize in Chamber Music, Seraph Brass is a dynamic ensemble drawing from a roster of America’s top female brass players. Performing primarily as a quintet/sextet, Seraph Brass also performs as a larger 10-piece ensemble. Committed to engaging audiences with captivating programming, Seraph Brass presents a diverse body of repertoire, which includes original transcriptions, newly commissioned works, and well-known classics. Seraph released their debut studio album, Asteria, on Summit Records in January 2018, winning a Silver Medal Global Music Award. Seraph Brass is in residency at the Walton Art Center’s Artosphere Festival, alongside the Dover Quartet, in the festival orchestra.
Seraph Brass has toured extensively throughout the United States, China, Mexico, and Europe. Featured performances of Seraph’s 2019–2020 touring schedule include a sextet recital at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Miami, performances at the Busan Maru International Music Festival in Korea, and a residency at the Interlochen Arts Academy.

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On the international stage, Seraph has performed at the Lieksa Brass Week in Finland and the Forum Cultural Guanajuato in León, Mexico. Stateside, Seraph has performed as the featured ensemble at the International Women’s Brass Conference and has performed concerts at Sarasota’s Artist Series Concerts, Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, Gettysburg Concert Association, Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, SUNY Cortland, and the Jamestown Concert Association. The group has also toured extensively as Allied Concert Services artists. Seraph is on the roster of Manhattan Music Ensemble and G.L. Berg Entertainment. As featured soloists with band, Seraph performed Rick DeJonge’s Prelude and Fantasy with the Rowan University Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Joseph Higgins, and James Stephenson’s Dodecafecta with the Bucknell University Wind Ensemble, under the direction of William Kenny. Many members of Seraph Brass performed with Adele on her North American tour in 2016.
Enthusiastic about education, Seraph has developed strong relationships with Venezuelan “El Sistema” programs in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, and has performed fundraising concerts for Play-On Philly! and Bridges: Music Through Harmony. Seraph has given residencies and performances at Stephen F. Austin University, University of Virginia, Fayetteville State University, Montana State University, Hendrix College, Arkansas Tech University, Lee University, Tennessee Tech University, University of Tennessee, Wittenberg University, Eastern and Western Illinois Universities, Penn State Erie, Virginia Commonwealth University, Western Michigan University, Michigan State University, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and Metropolitan State University of Denver, among others. Seraph offers a variety of entrepreneurship and career development workshops, in addition to traditional brass pedagogy and technique master classes.
Committed to introducing new works into the chamber music repertoire for brass, Seraph Brass commissioned and premiered Wolf for solo soprano and brass quintet from Philadelphia-based composer Joseph Hallman. In its efforts to promote the work of women composers, Seraph has commissioned new works by Catherine McMichael and Rene Orth, both featured on the album Asteria. Seraph also premiered Lucy Pankhurst’s Ouroboros, with euphonium soloist Hélène Escriva at the International Women’s Brass Conference. In addition to these original works, Seraph also has many original arrangements by trumpeter Jeff Luke featured on Asteria and Seraph Brass Live!
Members of Seraph Brass have performed with such esteemed ensembles as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Musicians from Marlboro, Luzern Music Festival in Switzerland, National Symphony, Brass Band of Battle Creek, Daejeon Philharmonic, and Auckland Philharmonia. They currently hold positions in the Richmond Symphony, World and European Brass Association, Louisville Orchestra, Artosphere Orchestra, University of North Texas, Hendrix College, Louisiana State University, University of Richmond, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Shenandoah Conservatory.

In addition to public presentations, every artist in the UCLS series does important work with UNCG students, such as holding masterclasses and seminars, often just hours before performing on stage. Thanks to The Cemala Foundation, some of these artists also work with K-12 students in the Guilford County Schools.

Patricia Garcia Gil, fortepiano • Graduate Recital
2023-03-26 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Sofia Pandolfo and Bronwyn Weikert, sopranos • Undergraduate Recital
2023-03-26 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Organ Studio Recital
2023-03-27 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Graduate Woodwind Quintet
2023-03-28 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Sinfonia
2023-03-29 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Rebecca MacLeod, conductor
Heather Lofdahl, graduate conductor

BIZET
Carmen Suite No. 1
BEACH
Bal Masque
SIBELIUS
Finlandia

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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.

Present~Continuous New Music Ensemble
2023-03-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Samantha Levreault, flute
Charles Dean Norris, flute
Daniel García Sierra, clarinet
Angelita Berdiales, piano
Jessica Leong, piano
AJ Lyon, organ and keyboard
David Phillips, viola
Jack Yagerline, percussion
Alejandro Rutty, conducting
Charles Dean Norris, conducting

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Oboe Studio Recital
2023-03-30 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Spartan Jazz Collective: The Legacy of Thad Jones
2023-03-30 19:30 - 21:00 | The Crown at the Carolina Theatre, 310 S Greene St, Greensboro, 27401, United States
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Chad Eby, saxophone
Roland Burnot, reeds
Thomas Heflin, trumpet
Dandrick Glenn, trombone
Will Labossiere, vibraphone
James McLaughlin, piano
Steve Haines, acoustic bass
Jack Jones, drums

The shadow of trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and arranger Thad Jones from 1923 to 1986 looms large over the tradition of big band jazz. A member of one of jazz music’s first great musical families with brothers Elvin and Hank, he left behind a powerful legacy of heavyweight arrangements, memorable compositions, and groundbreaking solos.

About the UNCG Spartan Jazz Collective

The UNCG Spartan Jazz Collective is a collaborative combo of faculty and students founded in 2012 to function in the mentorship tradition of the bands of Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and Horace Silver. Faculty members Steve Haines (bass), Thomas Heflin (trumpet), and Chad Eby (saxophone) mentor a rotating cast of students in bandleading, arranging, and rehearsal technique, while focusing on specific jazz artists for each semester.
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.

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Jimmy Jackson-Cabaniss, trumpet • Undergraduate Recital
2023-03-30 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” • Opera Theatre
2023-03-30 19:30 - 22:00, 2023-04-01 14:00 - 17:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
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Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

Flighty and fickle or faithful and true? Mozart poses this classic question in his famous comedic opera Così fan tutte (pronounced KOH-zee fahn TOOT-eh), a tale involving the misadventures of two sisters and their soldier boyfriends. For these starry-eyed young couples, romantic illusions are given a nasty wakeup call when they decide to test the boundaries of love, loyalty, and friendship in a complicated game of “boys vs. girls.”
Così fan tutte or La scuola degli amanti (translates to “Women Are Like That” or “The School for Lovers”) marks the final collaboration between the dynamic duo of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Italian clergyman-turned-party boy-turned-poet Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its timeless story draws on a variety of myths, plays, poems, and early operas, but also offers some unique twists on older themes of love and fidelity.
Note courtesy of the Kennedy Center

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Red Clay Saxophone Quartet with the UNCG Graduate Percussion Ensemble • Guest Artist Recital
2023-03-31 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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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, Laurent Estoppey, 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.

Ethan Dexter, percussion • Undergraduate Recital
2023-04-01 11:30 - 13:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Addie Fields, soprano • Undergraduate Recital
2023-04-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Isabelle Harsch, composer • Graduate Recital
2023-04-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Cody Chessor, tuba • Graduate Recital
2023-04-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Kristen Daniel, oboe and English horn • Graduate Recital
2023-04-02 11:30 - 13:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Ian Jones, percussion • Undergraduate Recital
2023-04-02 11:30 - 13:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Sierra Sims-Smith, violin • Graduate Recital
2023-04-02 15:30 - 17:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Trumpet Studio Recital
2023-04-02 15:30 - 17:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Grady Gonzalez, saxophone • Undergraduate Recital
2023-04-02 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Saxophone Studio Recital
2023-04-03 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

James Miller, flute • Guest Artist and Alumni Recital
2023-04-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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SFC James J. Miller (’08 MM) is originally from Pontiac, Michigan. He joined Pershing’s Own in December 2013. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina – Columbia; a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he was a graduate assistant and a Professional Artist Certificate from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Miller has been a prizewinner in numerous flute competitions including: MTNA Young Artist, SC Flute Society. He was the winner of the Concerto Competition at both the University of South Carolina and University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has performed with the Western Piedmont Symphony, Fayetteville Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, and Nova Chamber Orchestra. He has also been a featured soloist at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC and London International Poetry Festival in London, England. Miller joined the Army in July 2011. Before joining Pershing’s own he served in the 8th United States Army Band in Seoul, Korea and The United States Training and Doctrine Command band at Ft. Eustis, VA. SFC Miller is in active soloist, chamber musician and clinician. When not making music he enjoys volunteering, running, cooking, and traveling.

Percussion Ensemble
2023-04-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

All Jokes Aside – Conner Calhoun MFA Thesis
2023-04-04 - 2023-04-08 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E February 1 Pl, Greensboro, NC 27406, USA
Exhibition: April 4 – April 8, 2023—Reception: Thursday, April 6th, 6pm – 8pm—Noise Performance: Friday, April 7th 7:30p(Doors open at 6:30p)
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