College of Visual and Performing Arts

Red Clay Saxophone Quartet • 20th Anniversary Celebration • Faculty and Guest Artist Recital
2024-04-22 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 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, 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.

Amplify Black Voice Theatre Festival – New Plays!
2024-04-22 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-04-23 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-04-24 15:00 - 17:00 | North Carolina
Sponsored by Greater Greensboro Theater Consortium
Nick & the Prizefighter by Kamilah Bush
Directed by UNCG School of Theatre Director, Natalie Sowell
Dates:
Apr. 22 at 7:30 p.m. (Talkback with playwright after the show)
Apr. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Apr. 24 at 3 p.m.
Tickets: TBA
Age Rating: PG 13
Run Time: TBA
Location: Bennett College’s Little Theatre

Nick and the Prizefighter Summary:
Selah Thompson is the caregiver for her famous playwright father, Forest Thompson. Nick Beerman, a young writer and dramaturg is tasked with helping Forest complete his life’s work before the clock runs out. Selah must fight for control of her father’s work, his legacy and find her own rhythm as she prepares to face the world without him. Nick & the Prizefighter is a play that questions who owns the stories we tell and how we share experiences across cultures.

About the Amplify Black Voice Theatre Festival 2024:
Building on Greensboro’s rich legacy of social justice and engagement in the Civil Rights Movement, Amplify Black Voices Festival of Greater Greensboro unites seven local college theater departments to collaboratively produce four theater performances focusing on African American lives and history. Staged at four different college theater venues in Spring 2024, the cast and crews for each will be blended from the seven departments. After each performance, the actors and director will return to the stage to reflect on the significance of Black lives and stories and racial inequity. Our target audience includes university/college communities, the greater Greensboro community, and Guilford County Public Schools.

Old Time Ensemble
2024-04-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Dr. Christen Blanton Mack, director

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The UNCG Old Time Ensemble performs American folk music, focusing on the string band traditions of the North Carolina Piedmont and Southern Appalachia. The ensemble’s mission is to give students an opportunity to learn songs and tunes that have been part of North Carolina’s culture for generations. Based on the idea that oral traditions should be part of every musician’s education, the group learns all its music by ear, through careful listening and repetition, the way traditional American music has been learned for centuries.

"yART" SALE
2024-07-09 12:00 - 2024-07-13 20:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place, Greensboro, NC, 27406, United States
yART SALE

Featuring Discounted Artwork

by Local Artists

July 9 – 13, 2024

50% Off YART SALE/Reception Saturday, July 13th | 6-8P

Visit Greensboro Project Space page for more information!

Featuring work by: Topher Alexander, Taylor Allison, H. Blake Lee, Hugh Bryant, James Clemmons, Erin Fei, Jason Lord, Maggie Murphy, Daniel Ramirez-Lamos, Kevin Vanek, Caity Whisenant, and Heidi Zenisek

YART SALE is an exhibition of artworks from over a dozen local artists. These artists, like many, have years of artwork they’ve made that sits unseen in storage. This exhibition is both a way to see a broad collection of artworks as well an opportunity to BUY these artworks at deeply discounted prices!

This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to purchase artworks, big and small, for your collection at rock bottom prices. Help support these artists, show your love and buy that artwork!

Join the fun on Saturday July 13th from 6-8p when artists turn GPS into a community Yard Sale, 50% off, mega blowout, black Friday sale, last chance clearance, event. See amazing artists and the artworks they create and buy ART ranging from $5-$500!

(Trade offers, and Bartering welcomed!)

Greensboro Project Space Open Public Hours:

Tuesday – Friday, 12-5p

Saturday, 2-5p

Summer Studios: Arts on Site! | Art Student Residency Open Studios
2024-08-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place, Greensboro, NC, 27406, United States
Summer Studios: Arts on Site!

The Greensboro Project Space Art Student Residency Program

August Cohort in Residence: August 5 – 17, 2024

Open Public Studios Hours:

August 12th | 12-3p

August 14th | 12-5p

August 16th | 6-8p

GPS is pleased to present the 2nd annual student residency program, Summer Studios: Arts on Site! This residency will assist in educating students that the gallery can also act as makerspace, where they can play, experiment, take creative risks, and develop their artistic voice.

Designed to support UNCG undergraduate student artists (BA + BFA) striving to develop, adapt, and/or reinvent their creative process and to promote artistic growth and development, artists are afforded two-weeks of uninterrupted research and development, coupled with financial support and public presentational platforms to share their creative work. The residency’s mission is to be an adaptive space to build a sustaining art community for our UNCG students so their creativity and connection to the Greensboro community thrives.

This student opportunity was made possible by our Founding Sponsor, Maggie Triplette

August Cohort

Constantine Sotos (BFA Printmaking and Drawing) plans to use several mediums, such as charcoal, ink, metal, linoleum, and photographs to explore his experience of living and growing up in Lumberton, NC. Lumberton has always been the city that his mind wanders to and he plans to assemble a space as a tribute to this place which, out of pure luck, he has since moved from. There will be several pieces of debris from Lumberton placed around the space to bring any viewer into a different environment/state of mind. Prior to the two weeks at GPS, he will record the people and places of Lumberton, as well as gather materials from around the town.

Laura Herandez (BFA Painting) intends to investigate the relationships between familial connections that people could possibly have that are heavily focused on Hispanic/Latino backgrounds through painting. This research will be conducted by comparing multiple experiences from different perspectives and delving on how these links might be based on other outside hardships that individuals could go through that can cause these relationships to transpire. This subjected would be incorporated through works in symbolic visuals or icons that will be deliberately ambiguous at the surface. Research will span from documentaries, social media, other’s experiences, and so on.

Melissa Ferguson (BFA Sculpture and Ceramics) will continue an exploration of movement and sound in conjunction with viewer interaction. She plans to experiment with different materials (wood, metal, and found objects) at a large scale and envision a room in which movement through will create a variety of noises. Using an armature to secure and hang items of varying materials and sizes at different lengths, floor fans will also be used to activate the space when no one is in it.

Chloe Rush (BFA Drawing) will investigate how two portraits set in her inventive universe are in conversation with one another, which draw upon her research interests. She draws black people in an Afro-futuristic Southern universe that she invented, by using drawing mediums to explore the complexity of the multitudes of black identity in the South. Through these images she examines what defines “normal” in the context of growing up between two different classes in the South while challenging the logic of limiting stereotypes that pertain to black bodies to build new truths outside of the dominant narrative. She plans to experiment with defining what is considered “not normal” in the black south and shine a light on these “abnormalities.”

Reversal, reinterpretation, reinvention art Exhibition
2024-08-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place, Greensboro, NC, 27406, United States
Reversal, Reinterpretation, Reinvention

Solo Exhibition by Amiah Jones

August 20 – 24, 2024

Reception: Friday, August 23rd | 6-8PM

More About Reversal, Reinterpretation, Reinvention

Reversal, Reinterpretation, Reinvention is a series of works that stem from a liminal space. This space is filled with the constructs we build between facing our pain and healing ourselves. These paintings, drawings, and prints are parts of me that have healed.

As a biracial woman in the LGBTQ+ community, my space is oftentimes dark, much like the palette in many of my works. This place is bombarded with repeated instances of systematic oppression fueled by racism, sexism, homophobia, and capitalism. From turning to history in order to understand such indoctrination, to rethinking and reshaping how to see the world clearly, these three objectives have helped me continue to see humanity with hope. I wish for a world where everyone’s truths are accepted with the care we only save for ourselves. After all, the light that saves us is not shined upon us, but embedded within the choices we make together.

“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized.”- Audrey Lorde

More About Amiah

Amiah Jones (b. 1999) is a Filipino-African American painter and printmaker based in Thomasville, North Carolina. Using the human figure, pattern, reflection, geometry, and a limited palette, her work embodies the layered richness of our fractured, but retranslated history. Born to a Filipino mother and an African American father who grew up during the civil rights movement, Jones’ experience in the Southern U.S. has shaped her passion for human rights and the visual arts. Her work has ignited her efforts to bridge the gaps between what makes empathy so vital today; unconditional love and fear of the misunderstood.

“Going to school in a rural town while having black inner city friends forced me to serve as a bridge, constantly reminding my friends of the resilience and education of our ancestors, while fighting to uncover the same truths to peers and teachers at school. I would come up with metaphors, sometimes making people laugh just to get the attention off of the sudden discomfort I was reciprocating. My work now serves as that uncomfortable, ironically playful but heartbreaking bridge.

We live in a society where making space to exist freely, for many, is automatically seen as political. While this experience holds true, beauty, humor, and familiarity provide a gateway – a gateway for people to accept a complexity that’s historically misunderstood, historically unwanted. It’s incredibly difficult to find your own gateway, your own visual language, but my obsessions with play, conflation, and abstraction have allowed me to negotiate for my acceptance, negotiate for change, negotiate for love. I’ve been rooting for an ongoing connection with my blackness that’s richer than the quick anger, cry, absolve, and I embrace that connection the most through the arts. Through oil painting and printmaking, I grasp at the dimming sparks of goodness that fall within the crevices of what we call humanity. The little acts of kindness, the subtle jokes we make in pain, and the sparks of love that go unnoticed through the dark.”

Jones is currently residing in Thomasville, NC. She received her BFA in painting at the University of North Carolina Greensboro in May of 2024.

Greensboro Project Space Open Public Hours:

Tuesday-Friday, 12-5p

Saturday, 2-5p

Microfilms 2024
2024-08-25 15:00 - 16:00 | Elliott University Center Auditorium, 507 Stirling St, Greensboro, 27402
Location: EUC Auditorium, 507 Stirling St, Greensboro, NC 27412Age Rating: PGRun Time: Approx. 1 hr.

Tickets: Call the UNCG Theatre Box Office at 336-334-4392 when classes are in session or click the button below to reserve tickets online. Tickets to Spartan New Works Development Initiative projects are complimentary for UNCG students, faculty, and staff and $5 for everyone else.

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Summary:

Microfilms 2024 is an anthology of 6 short films created by UNCG School of Theatre students and alumni.

Graduate Clarinet Showcase
2024-08-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Arts for all! art exhibition
2024-08-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place, Greensboro, NC, 27406, United States
Arts for All: Different Together with Peacehaven

#DifferentTogether #commUNITY #HereWeGrow

Community Exhibition Curated by Kim Cuny & Tommy Pegan

August 27 – 31, 2024

Reception: Friday, August 30th | 6-8P

More About Arts for All

This exhibition is a vibrant tapestry woven from the threads of human experience. It joyfully celebrates the inherent beauty in our world’s rich diversity. By bringing together artists of all ages and abilities, we aim to create a space where our differences are power. Through a kaleidoscope of styles, mediums, and themes, this exhibition invites visitors to explore the boundless potential of intentionally being different – together.

Art can bridge divides, foster empathy, and inspire change. We want to challenge preconceptions and promote a more inclusive society by showcasing artists’ work from diverse backgrounds. This exhibition is a testament to the idea that our differences are not barriers but sources of creativity, connection, and community.

As you journey through this exhibition, we invite you to immerse yourself in the beauty and complexity of the human experience. May these works of art ignite your imagination, expand your understanding, and inspire you to actively embrace the notion of being different together. Your role in this journey is crucial, and we trust that you will carry this message forward.

More About Peacehaven and the Curators

Peacehaven provides opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to live, learn, and grow together. The vision of Peacehaven is that of abundant resources for Learning, Growth, and Connectivity. It is how Peacehaven defines Community. This abundance is for people of all abilities. Peacehaven does not own it and so is called to give it away.

Tommy Pegan (he/him/his) is a recent graduate of Elon University, and is venturing back into the visual art realm for the first time since middle school. Through his work in Theatre, Tommy continues to highlight the power of inclusion, and is always looking for a way to celebrate being #differenttogether.

Kim Cuny (she/her/hers) shepherds a captivating passion for inclusion that is always present. Kim is an arts administrator who obtained her Theatre for Young Audiences MFA at UNC Greensboro. Kim celebrates disabilities as part of the natural diversity of human experience and seeks to help others see disabilities as different ways of being – together. Contact Kim: kimcuny@gmail.com

Learn more and follow:

Arts for All bit.ly/artsforallnc

Greensboro Project Space Open Public Hours:

Tuesday-Friday, 12-5p

Saturday, 2-5p

BIG PRINT: Steamroller Block Party Art Exhibition
2024-09-03 12:00 - 2024-09-07 20:00 | North Carolina
UNCG BIG PRINT:

Steamroller Block Party

Exhibition by UNCG Students, Faculty, and Printmaking Community

September 3 – 7, 2024

Reception: Wednesday September 4th | 5-7p

More About UNCG BIG PRINT

At the first annual UNCG Steamroller Big Block Prints event, a team of printmaking students and faculty from around North Carolina joined together to help print giant 4’x6′ relief carved woodblocks, using a steamroller as our portable printing press! These large format prints require a community to make it all happen!

Relief printing is a process where the carved areas of a woodblock become negative space and the remaining ‘raised’ areas are inked and printed onto paper or fabric – it is the oldest method in printmaking.

Contributing Artists

Topher Alexander

Christopher Thomas

Derek Toomes

Ben Billingsley (Cape Fear Community College)

Annabelle Puttbach (Cape Fear Community College)

Rowan Cabarrus Community College

& UNCG “Print 2” Students (Spring 2024):

Amya Harrison

Brandon Cureton

Lucio Palmer

Chloe Jeffers

Cynthia Pena Galdamez

Emily Ferrell

Guila Evangelista

Hayden Robinson

Jenni Garcia

Kaylynn Koontz

Laura Hernandez

Madison Miller

Marie McGuffey

Margo Ha

Peyton Rollins

Constantine Schuster

Supreet Kaur

Zaria Watson-Bousfield

Adia Carter

Alexis Vang

Amiah Jones

Judith Briand

Laiba Siddique

Luz Borrayo

May Aye

Sofia Aguilar

Trinity Donnelly

Zaire Miles-Moultrie

Greensboro Project Space Weekly Gallery Hours:

Tuesday – Thursday, 12 -5 PM

Friday, 12-8PM

Saturday, 2-8PM

Live Music | POP UP Series @ GPS
2024-09-04 19:30 - 20:30 | North Carolina
Live Music by Laurent Estoppey and Daniel Levin

Wednesday, September 4, 2024 | 7:30pm

$10 suggested at door (cash or Venmo)

Laurent Estoppey, saxpohone

Daniel Levin, cello

Casella Sinfonietta
2024-09-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
Program

Jonathan Caldwell, conductorAnnie Jeng, piano

Faculty and Student Side-by-Side ConcertWEILL Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Music) MINGUS Adagio ma non troppoGERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue (100th Anniversary)

Casella Sinfonietta was created as an enhancement to the large ensemble offerings in the UNCG School of Music. Performing a range of works for 6 to 18 players, from the Renaissance period through world premieres, the ensemble functions on a professional model and performs one concert each semester. The personnel for each semester is determined by the repertoire, allowing the finest performers on wind, brass, string, percussion, and keyboard instruments the highest-level experience possible. Faculty and guest soloists and composers frequently collaborate with the ensemble.

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Hailed for her “brilliant pianism” (Gramophone) and “acrobatic” performances (Take Effect), Taiwanese-American pianist Annie Jeng has performed widely as a solo and chamber musician at the Brancaleoni International Music Festival in Italy, the Gijón International Piano Festival in Spain, the Kennedy Center, New York City, China, and at numerous academic institutions as a guest artist. As an advocate for pushing the boundaries of traditional performances, Annie has performed and curated concerts at breweries, parking deck rooftops, intimate living room settings, and other unconventional spaces, all with the aim of making the arts more accessible and interdisciplinary. Annie has presented at Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) conferences at collegiate, state, and national levels, The National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP), and College Music Society (CMS) conferences. She is the current President of Greensboro Music Teachers Association (GMTA) and serves on the board for the North Carolina Music Teachers Association (NCMTA). Annie is also the Assistant Director of Piano for the Brancaleoni International Music Festival (brancaleonifestival.com) in Piobbico, Italy.

Annie has commissioned and premiered dozens of new works. She is the pianist of Khemia Ensemble (khemiaensemble.com), a contemporary chamber ensemble that is dedicated to promoting contemporary classical music by cultivating inclusive place-making, collaborative mentorships, and authentic storytelling through immersive, multimedia performances. She also released the album “World Map” with Parma Recordings as the former pianist of Four Corner’s Ensemble. Her latest commissioning project, Circles and Lines, consists of new pedagogical works by women composers that introduces contemporary piano techniques to intermediate pianists. As a strong believer in creating a better and more equitable “normal” in the piano community, she also founded A Seat at the Piano (ASAP) in the summer of 2020 (aseatatthepiano.com). ASAP is a 501(c)(3) that is dedicated to the promotion of inclusion in the performance and study of solo piano repertoire. In collaboration with the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy, she has co-created an online course on women composers, been invited to speak on panels, present workshops, and serves on the Career Develop and Innovation subcommittee chair for NCKP.

Annie received her DMA in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Michigan, where she also received her MM. She earned her BM in Piano Performance with a minor in Public Health from New York University. Her primary teachers have included Logan Skelton, José Ramón Mendez, Miyoko Lotto, Anne-Marie McDermott, and Faye Bonner. She is currently Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

How Do You Know If Fish Are Happy
2024-09-05 08:00 - 16:00, 2024-09-06 08:00 - 16:00, 2024-09-09 08:00 - 16:00, 2024-09-10 08:00 - 16:00, 2024-09-11 08:00 - 16:00, 2024-09-12 08:00 - 16:00, 2024-09-13 08:00 - 16:00, 2024-09-16 08:00 - 16:00 and 2 more dates | Gatewood Studio Arts Center, 527 Highland Ave, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA, 527 Highland Ave, Greensboro, 27412, United States
An exhibition by Jan-Ru WanThe exhibition runs from September 5 – October 8th, 2024 in the Gatewood Gallery on the campus of UNCG.

Jan-Ru Wan is an Asian American artist from Taiwan. This exhibition is a collection of installations.A reception will be held September 18th at 4:00pm with the artist talk starting at 4:30pm

Ethno USA
2024-09-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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As part of their 11-day residency at Haw River State Park, ETHNO USA will be visiting the UNCG School of Music on September 5 to demonstrate their work and share their unique program. A free demo/workshop at 4:00 pm in Tew Recital Hall is open to all interested music students. At 7:30 pm there will be a free public concert, also in Tew Recital Hall. Several of our students have participated in the past and found the experience life changing. Ethno USA will be performing at the NC Folk Festival.

Brandy Clark
2024-09-06 20:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Brandy Clark

A GRAMMY- and CMA-winner, Brandy Clark is one of her generation’s most esteemed songwriters and musicians. Amid yet another landmark year, Clark won Best Americana Performance at this year’s 66th GRAMMY Awards for her song “Dear Insecurity,” featuring eleven-time GRAMMY-winner Brandi Carlile —Clark’s first GRAMMY win. The song is from Clark’s self-titled album, produced by Carlile, and features Clark’s most personal songwriting to date.

Released to overwhelming critical acclaim, Brandy Clark landed on several “Best of 2023” lists including NPR Music, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Variety, Los Angeles Times, and Forbes, which called the album “an Americana Masterpiece.” Additionally, Variety praised, “further clarifies that she’s one of America’s treasures,” and Billboard declared, “Clark continues to convey her inexorable talents as both a song-crafter and vocal interpreter.” In addition to her work as a solo artist, Clark has written songs such as “A Beautiful Noise,” the GRAMMY-nominated duet performed by Brandi Carlile and Alicia Keys, and Kacey Musgraves’s “Follow Your Arrow.”

Orchestra/MezzBalconiesUNCG Students$7.50$7.50UNCG Faculty/Staff$25.00$25.00Adults$75.00$70.00Seniors/Military$65.00$60.00Children (K-12)$40.00$30.00

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Clark also composed the music and lyrics for the hit musical comedy Shucked alongside her longtime collaborator, Shane McAnally. With the show, she won Outstanding Music at the 67th Drama Desk Awards and was nominated for Best Original Score at the 76th Tony Awards, with Shucked receiving nine Tony nominations overall last year.

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

Courtney Miller, oboe
2024-09-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
“On Love and Longing”

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Dr. Courtney Miller is the oboe professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she teaches oboe, chamber music, and reed making. Before coming to UNC Greensboro, she served on faculty at the University of Iowa in Iowa, Boston College in Massachusetts, and Ashland University in Ohio.

A highly regarded performer and pedagogue, Dr. Miller tours as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. Her 2023 tour in Thailand promoted her newest album collaboration, “Hans Gál: Works for Viola, Piano, Violin & Oboe,” released in 2022 on Centaur Records. Also an experienced orchestral musician, Miller has performed in many orchestras in the United States, such as the Chicago Symphony, Orchestra Iowa, Quad Cities Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Portland Symphony, Akron Symphony, and the Cleveland Opera. She will perform with the North Carolina Opera in 2023-2024.

Dr. Miller is a versatile artist devoted to performing established repertoire, new compositions, and lesser-known works. Her 2019 album Portuguese Perspectives introduces a collection of world-premiere recordings for the oboe by Portuguese composers and includes several new commissions by Miller. This album and her 2015 release, Modern Fairy Tales, are available on iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify. American Record Guide praises her “seamless consistency in the various registers of the oboe…and sensitive phrasing and articulation.” Fanfare Magazine hails Courtney Miller as “a performer of considerable skill, with an unfailingly lovely sound, abundant technical ability, and a special gift for turning notes into poetry.”

In addition to collaborations within the field of music, Dr. Miller has a flair for interdisciplinary work. She has collaborated with hip-hop dancer Ernest “EKnock” Phillips, belly dancer Janelle Issis, and most recently, choreographer and dancer Kristin Marrs. Since 2016, Marrs and Miller have performed in many concerts featuring oboe and dancer and have toured together throughout the United States. Perhaps her most daring collaboration yet is Psionic, which explores interactive movement data between oboist and computer through a live stream of EEG data with composer Christopher Jette, printmaker Terry Conrad, and digital media designer Daniel Fine.

Dr. Miller has authored articles published in the Double Reed Journal and the Journal of the American Viola Society. She has also presented recitals and papers at the College Music Society’s Northeast Regional Conference. Dr. Miller performs recitals regularly at the International Double Reed Society’s annual conferences. In 2017, she was a featured artist at the first international conference of the Associação Brasileira de Palhetas Duplas (Brazilian Double Reed Society or ABPD).

Courtney Miller has a Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston University, a Master of Music from Cleveland Institute of Music, and a Bachelor of Music from Florida State University. Her primary teachers include John Ferrillo, John Mack, and Eric Ohlsson.

Dr. Miller is a member of the International Double Reed Society, the College Music Society, and Sigma Alpha Iota. Courtney Miller is a Lorée Artist.

Trash Bash! Competitive Art Installation + Exhibition
2024-09-14 17:00 - 19:00 | North Carolina
Trash Bash!

Competitive Art Installation & Exhibition

A collaboration between Greensboro Project Space and Reconsidered Goods

Public Installation/Competition: Saturday, September 14th | 5-7P

Installations will remain on view

September 14 – 20, 2024

More About Trash Bash

Join us for a public, competitive art installation and exhibition on September 14th! Come, see for yourself the teams “in action” and enjoy some live music, food, and refreshments! Competition begins at 5pm, winners will be announce by 6:30pm.

Creative teams compete to build a site-specific art installation with various reused and repurposed materials provided by Reconsidered Goods. Each team comprises five randomly selected members and includes a mix of students, faculty, and community members. Teams will meet for the first time on opening night and work on their collaborative artwork under a time constraint of 75 minutes while spectators cheer them on. Each team will be assigned a specific space in the GPS gallery and receive a list of rules and challenges. A panel of judges will select the winning team. However, each team will receive an original Reconsidered Goods Reuse Trophy. All participants will take home an RG Goodie Bag.

Greensboro Project Space Weekly Hours

September 16th – 20th

Tuesday – Friday, 12 -5 PM

Zachary Hobin, double bass
2024-09-14 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Zachary Hobin is a performer and educator with wide-ranging passions. He is a regular guest of the symphonies of North Carolina, Charlotte and Charleston. A dedicated chamber musician, Zachary works with groups including Silicon Valley Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Charleston and Electric Earth Concerts, and is a co-founder and co-director of the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival. He is a committed advocate for new music and has performed with groups such as New York’s Argento Ensemble and in solo recitals around the world.

One of Zachary’s passions is to spread the joy of music to those who wish to learn more about it. He currently serves as the Visiting Assistant Professor of String Bass at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Zachary has previously been appointed to the faculty of Duke University’s music department and its pre-college String School. In the summer he teaches and performs at the Luzerne Music Center in New York’s Adirondack region. Additionally, Zachary has presented masterclasses around the country and world, including a sustained engagement with community music schools in Ecuador and Bolivia.

Zachary has toured with various groups in Japan, China, Singapore, and on both coasts and has worked with musicians such as John Zorn, Kaija Saariaho, Colin Carr, Branford Marsalis, Jeffery Milarsky, George Manahan, Claire Chase, and the JACK Quartet. Former teachers include Kurt Muroki, Thomas Sperl, Rachel Calin, Peter Dominguez, and Kate Nettleman.

Zachary received his Doctorate of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University in double bass performance. He also holds a Masters from Stony Brook and a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin Conservatory. Zachary performs on a ca.1750 Italian double bass and a Victor Fetique French bow.

Described by The Boston Musical Intelligencer as “incisive and with innate musicality,” pianist Alice Chenyang Xu has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Germany, USA, Canada, and throughout China. Notable concerts include solo performances and recitals at Chicago Symphony Hall, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series at the Chicago Cultural Center, Corbett Auditorium in Cincinnati, Hochschule Musik Hall in Leipzig, Germany, and Jordan Hall in Boston; concerto performances in Chicago Auditorium Theatre, JIAOZI Concert Hall, and Chengdu Concert Hall in China; and chamber music performances at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Dorflinger Glass Museum, Lincoln Center, and Boston Symphony Hall.

Xu has appeared in various summer music festival around the world including Yellowbarn, Internationale Mendelssohn-Akademie, Art of Piano, and Morningside Music Bridge and has collaborated with Borromeo String Quartet and members of the Cleveland Quartet, violinist Anthony Marwood, cellists John Myerscough and Bonnie Hampton, soprano Lucy Shelton, baritone William Sharp, pianist Christina Dahl and the Chicago Chamber Musicians (CCM). Xu has worked directly with composers George Crumb, Jörg Widmann, Shulamit Ran, Helen Grime, and Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, and performed for former Secretary of State Colin Powell under the auspices of the Eisenhower Fellowships.

Xu serves as the artistic director of Music on the Hills concert series in Quincy, MA and helps raise money for various causes and people in need. Her piano duo Xubergwith her husband Miles Fellenberg has been actively performing in the east coast area such as Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and more. They edited/rearranged the four-hands version of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 by Hugo Ulrich and premiered it in 2021.

As an active educator, Xu has been teaching since 2006 and has taught at various music schools in Chicago and Boston. Xu also conducts an annual private piano workshop at Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China. She was invited to give a lecture recital on music education and collaborative piano at the Consulate General of the United States, Chengdu in 2019.

Xu was a recipient of the Dorothy Hinton-Congleton Memorial Presidential Scholarship, second prize-winner of the 10th Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, third prize-winner of the 2nd SEILER International Piano Competition in Germany, winner of 2012 Chicago College of Performing Arts Solo Competition and Concerto Competition, winner of 2018 Borromeo Artist Award and 2020 Honors Ensemble Program at NEC.

Xu graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and Roosevelt University and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from New England Conservatory of Music. Xu oversees Piano for Non-Majors class at New England Conservatory and she serves on the piano faculty of Tufts University.

Paul Nolen, soprano and alto saxophones
2024-09-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
Paul Nolen, soprano and alto saxophonesGeoffrey Duce, piano

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Paul Nolen currently serves as Professor of Saxophone at Illinois State University where he has taught for the past 16 years. Paul has appeared as soloist, chamber musician, and jazz artist throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom.

Dr. Nolen appeared as concerto soloist at the 2012 World Saxophone Congress in Scotland with the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Ensemble, where he premiered Dr. Roy Magnuson’s Concerto for Saxophone and Wind Ensemble. He has soloed with the San Francisco Wind Ensemble at the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and the University of New Mexico Wind Ensemble at the Robb Symposium. In 2018, he gave a consortium premiere of William Bolcom’s Concerto for Soprano Saxophone with the ISU Wind Symphony. Dr. Nolen has recorded two CD’s of Davis Maslanka’s music on Albany Records with ISU Wind Bands. They include a 2012 recording of David Maslanka’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble and a 2018 release, entitled Saxophone Concertos: Maslanka/Magnuson, with the premiere recording of David Maslanka’s Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble.

Dr. Nolen is also well known for his work with the award winning Iridium Quartet, with whom he has traveled and performed across North American for ten years, and recorded two CD’s of American music for saxophone quartet: Into Xylonia, and Skylines, both available on the Blue Griffin Record Label. Paul is a staunch advocate of new music and has commissioned works by composers such as William Bolcom, Roy Magnuson, Joshua Keeling, David Kirkland Garner, Peter Gilbert, Peter Lieuwen, Roy Magnuson, Marcus Maroney, David Maslanka, Sonia Morales, Karola Obermüller, David Rakowski, Ben Stonaker, and Carl Schimmel.

Dr. Nolen performs regularly with the Iridium Quartet, Peoria Symphony Orchestra, and the Heartland Festival Orchestras. He has given numerous masterclasses and lectures throughout the United States, including classes at the Brevard Music Festival, and has twice led an International Saxophone Course at the Aberystwyth MusicFest in Wales, UK. He received his Doctorate of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from Michigan State University with Joseph Lulloff, and his undergraduate degree in saxophone performances from the UMKC Conservatory of Music with Tim Timmons.

Geoffrey Duce is Coordinator of the Piano Area at Illinois State University. His pianism was described by Fanfare as “revelatory and a joy to listen to,” possessing “ferocious intellect as well as technique.” He has performed in Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Wigmore Hall, Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, Edinburgh’s Queens Hall, and many other venues across North America and Europe, as well as in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. In 2022, he gave a solo recital debut at Ravinia. As a concerto soloist, his appearances have included the Sinfonie Orchester Berlin in Germany, the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, Olympia Symphony Orchestra, and New York Sinfonietta in the USA, and the Scottish Sinfonia, Edinburgh Philharmonic, and Dundee Symphony Orchestra in the UK. During the 2018-19 season, he was the first Artist in Residence with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, with which he performed concertos by Duke Ellington and Edward MacDowell, among others.His solo CD of Fantasies and Rhapsodies by CPE Bach, Schubert, John McCabe, and Dohnanyi was released in 2023 on Albany Records. He has appeared at contemporary music festivals, including a solo recital as the opening concert of the Dialogues Experimental Music Festival in Edinburgh, and numerous performances of solo and chamber works at the RedNote New Music Festival in Illinois, for example by Steven Stucky, Eric Moe, Steven Hartke, and George Tsontakis. A winner of the Making Music Award from Britain’s National Federation of Music Societies and the Prix de Piano at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France, Geoffrey Duce is also a passionate chamber musician and accompanist, his appearances including performing at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, recording for BBC Radio 3, and previous album releases with partners including double bassist Nicholas Bayley, the disk described by MusicWeb International as “expertly played … a truly satisfying chamber collaboration” and named their Recording of the Month, and with tenor Justin Vickers, Fanfare commenting “It is difficult to imagine a finer performance than this.” Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, he initially studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and Manchester University before receiving a DAAD scholarship to attend the Universität der Künste Berlin, and earned his doctorate at Manhattan School of Music. His teachers have included Sheila Desson, Renna Kellaway, Klaus Hellwig, Ferenc Rados, Solomon Mikowsky, Nina Svetlanova, and Phillip Kawin.He has previously served on the faculty at Manhattan School of Music, the State University of New York (Westchester Community College), and Indiana University South Bend. He has given masterclasses for the Orquesta Filarmónica in Bogotá, Colombia, and at such institutions as the University of Hawaii, the City of Edinburgh Music School, St. Thomas University in New Brunswick, Canada, and Seattle’s Academy of Music Northwest, as well as at colleges in Tennessee, Michigan, Wisconsin, and throughout Illinois. He served as a resident international visiting faculty member at the University of Taipei, has taught at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan, was a faculty member of the inaugural Global Immersion Program at SouthWest University in Chongqing, China, and was a juror at the American Classical Pianist International Competition in Hangzhou and the Asia Youth Piano Festival, based in Shanghai. He has also taught at the Chicago Chamber Music Festival and the Fischoff Chamber Music Summer Intensive.
