College of Visual and Performing Arts

Graduate Clarinet Showcase
2024-08-28 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Casella Sinfonietta
2024-09-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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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.

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.

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.

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.

Words, Music, Memory: (Re)presenting Voices from the Holocaust
2024-09-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Sheena Ramirez, sopranoCourtney Miller, oboe and English hornSuzanne Polak, piano with commentary from Adina Langer (Curator, Kennesaw State University Museum of History and Holocaust Education)andDr. Laurence Sherr (Composer)

This event is made possible by support from the UNC Greensboro Jewish Studies Program, the Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, and the UNC Greensboro School of Music. Sincere thanks for their support of this program.

UNCG Jewish Studies is made possible by The Herman & Zelda Bernard Distinguished Professorship in Jewish Studies, The Henry Samuel Levinson Program Endowment for Jewish Studies, The Barbara Colchamiro Endowment, and The Judith Rosenstock Hyman Jewish Studies Program Endowment.

This lecture recital centers around the idea of commemoration. Commemoration is a process that involves witness, preservation, interpretation, and performance. This process calls upon human creativity, commitment, emotional connection, and contemporary context. Focusing on music based on the words of young people who witnessed the Holocaust—many of whom did not survive—the performance uses the power of music to bridge generations in active commemoration. These themes are shared with the exhibit Words, Music, Memory: Re(presenting) Voices of the Holocaust, on display in the atrium outside of Tew Recital Hall.

Crystal Kachevas, soprano
2024-09-20 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Spartan Jazz Collective: A Tribute to John Coltrane
2024-09-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Paramount Theater of Burlington, 128 East Front Street, Burlington, North Carolina, 27215, United States
The UNCG Spartan Jazz Ensemble presents an evening of music by John Coltrane. A legend of American Jazz, Coltrane was a native of High Point, NC. Come celebrate his birthday with an evening of his music!

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Voice Studio Recital
2024-09-23 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Jazz Ensembles I and II
2024-09-25 19:30 - 21:30 | The Crown at the Carolina Theatre, 310 S Greene St, Greensboro, 27401, United States
UNCG’s award-winning Jazz Ensembles I and II present their first concert of the 2024-25 season! The flagship big bands of the Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program are back in their home-away-from-home, presenting a diverse program from the entire 100-year history of big band jazz music. From the crisp swing of the 1920s, to the fusion experimentations of the 1970s, 80s, and beyond. Expect the unexpected from these energetic and dedicated young musicians from all across the globe.

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.

UNCG offers the following degree programs for students interested in studying Jazz:

Bachelor of Music (B.M.) – Performance

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Jazz Studies

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Sinfonia
2024-10-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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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.

Coro di Belle Voci
2024-10-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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The 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.

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.

Heidi Radtke, saxophones
2024-10-04 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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A passionate teacher, Dr. Radtke has held teaching positions at Butler University in Indianapolis and was a private instructor for the Carmel High School Band Program. An active clinician, she has served on the faculties of the Illinois Summer Youth Music Pre-College Saxophone Camp, the Indiana University Summer Saxophone Academy, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Dr. Radtke currently holds the position of Lecturer of Saxophone at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where she co-teaches the saxophone studio alongside Rahsaan Barber. She also serves on the North American Saxophone Alliance Committee for Gender Equity and has been the leader of the Women+’s Mentoring Program since 2021.

As a soloist, Dr. Radtke has performed throughout the United States, giving recent appearances in Washington, D.C. and soloing with the UNC Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band. She gave a premiere performance of Stacy Garrop’s concerto Alpenglow with tubist Anthony Kniffen and the Butler University Wind Ensemble at the 2022 American Bandmasters Association Convention and performed Garrop’s concerto Quicksilver at Butler University in the spring of 2018. Since arriving in Chapel Hill in 2022, Dr. Radtke has performed with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, Winston-Salem Symphony, and Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. Her debut solo album, Convergence, was released in March 2024 on Navona Records. Dr. Radtke holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University. She is a Conn-Selmer Artist/Clinician and Vandoren Artist/Clinician.

University Chorale
2024-10-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Carole Ott Coelho, conductorInspiroBaker Lawrimore, conductorMarques L.A. Garrett, guest conductor

WALKER An Acquaintance with Nature

GARRETT Five Songs for Laurence Hope

GARRETT Your Hand and Mine

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The 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.

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.

Lauren Harris, voice
2024-10-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Spartan Voices
2024-10-06 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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The 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.

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.

Chamber Singers
2024-10-07 19:30 - 21:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
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Carole Ott Coelho, conductorLindsay Kesselman, sopranoJaninah Burnett, soprano

TRÁN Tupelo Poems

BRAHMS Vier Quartette, op. 92

JANËEVSKIS Atsalums

LEONARDA Dixit DominusAd Arma

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About the Artists

Lindsay Kesselman is a two-time GRAMMY-nominated soprano known for her warm, collaborative spirit and investment in personal, intimate communication with audiences. She regularly collaborates with orchestras, wind symphonies, chamber ensembles, opera/theater companies, and new music ensembles across the United States, often premiering, touring, and recording new works composed for her by living composers. She is a passionate advocate for contemporary music and has commissioned/premiered over one hundred works to date.

Recent 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).

Kesselman 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.

A versatile singer, actor, musician, writer, arranger, and educator, Janinah Burnett is in demand and has thrilled audiences domestically and internationally in opera, recital, musical theatre, jazz, television, and film. Some of her signature operatic roles include Mimí in La bohème, Leila in Les pêcheurs des perles, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Micaëla in Carmen, Marguerite in Faust, and Violetta in La Traviata. An original cast member of Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème on Broadway as Mimí, she won a Los Angeles Theater Alliance Award and performed on the Tony Awards Presentation.

Burnett was on the roster of principal artists at the Metropolitan Opera for eight consecutive seasons debuting as Bianca in La Rondine. She was a member of the closing cast of Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, making appearances as “Carlotta Giudicelli” since 2016.

In February 2021, Burnett released her debut album, Love the Color of Your Butterfly, which features musical arrangements and collaborations with some of the world’s finest jazz musicians including Christian Sands, Sullivan Fortner Jr., Casey Benjamin, and Terreon Gully who produced the project. Released on her own record label Clazz Records, Love the Color of Your Butterfly is an amalgamation of jazz, opera, art song, oratorio, rhythm and blues, and spirituals and introduces her concept of “Clazz,” which encourages collaboration and redefines the parameters of genre while embracing parts of history that are erased, widely unknown and forgotten. Love the Color of Your Butterfly has been featured in numerous publications including the Financial Times, Playbill, Broadway World, Downbeat Magazine, and Opera News.

Burnett has been a guest artist and taught masterclasses at Eastern Mennonite University, The Cinema School, Clark University, and Bar Harbor Music Festival. She holds an MM from the Eastman School of Music and a BA from Spelman College.

UNCG Choirs
The 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.

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.

UNCG Choirs

Jasmine Pigott, tuba
2024-10-07 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Not your traditional origin story, Dr. Jasmine “Jazzie” Pigott genuinely wanted to play the tuba from a young age because of a show called Veggie Tales. Only, in the fourth grade, she made the mistake of confusing it with the trombone and choosing that instead. Not impressed, she dealt with that for a year before jumping on the opportunity to bug her band director until he finally handed her an authentic tuba. This was true love at first sight, becoming her strongest life-long commitment at only the age of 10.

With finding nothing more promising than a career as a musician, Dr. Jazzie decided to follow that as her career path. Torn between majoring in voice or tuba, she made the tough decision to put voice to the side to follow her true calling as a professional tuba player and educator. However, since then, she has found a way to showcase her voice with the tuba. She attended Ithaca College for music education, until realizing after her sophomore elective recital that she enjoyed solo performance so much that she added a performance degree. During that year, she also began to once again participate in choirs, becoming one of the student leaders of the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers under the direction of Dr. Baruch Whitehead. Through these various avenues of performance, Dr. Jazzie learned how to find and use her voice in more than music.

Following the 2016 election, Dr. Jazzie formed the IC Musicians of Color, her first exploration into making spaces for musicians of color and allies in predominantly white environments. At this time, however, the tensions of the world seeped into her personal life. Her best friend and roommate ended up a secret neo-nazi, who left the school suddenly and harassed her for months on end, calling her the N-word and threatening to join the KKK. While heart breaking, this experience empowered her to dive headfirst into using her career as a platform for social change–to do what she could to prevent the same situations from happening to other people of color by sharing her story and promoting the value of representation in the field.

In 2018, Dr. Jazzie’s first tour as a soloist to Costa Rica, along with vocalist Fred Peterbark and pianist Oliver Scott, allowed her to witness the power of representation firsthand as a performer. Performing spirituals for a predominately Black audience in Limon and witnessing the joy as they sang along and applauded changed her forever. Since, she has completed several research and performance projects with the goal of increasing representation of Black musicians, music styles, and composers.

Symphonic Band
2024-10-08 19:30 - 21:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Program

Jonathan Caldwell, conductorPatty Saunders, graduate conductor

BERNSTEIN Slava!

ZARE Deep Underground

PRICE The Old Boatman and Adoration

NELHÝBEL Trittico

THOMAS Magneticfireflies

MÁRQUEZ Conga del fuego nuevo

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The renowned UNCG Bands are dedicated to the performance, study, and cultivation of wind band music of the highest quality, and are a serious and distinctive medium of musical expression. The UNCG Bands are considered to be among the very finest collegiate band programs in America based upon our active profile of excellence in our performances, recordings, tours and convention performances.

Through exemplary practices in organization, training, and presentation, the UNCG Bands provide exceptional experiences for our members, sharing outstanding performances throughout the year and enhancing the institutional spirit and character of UNCG.

The UNCG Bands seek to support music education in the state of North Carolina and in our region by providing leadership and sponsorship to secondary school band programs and other organizations.

Symphony Orchestra
2024-10-09 19:30 - 21:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Program

Jungho Kim, conductorFranck Fontcouberte, guest conductorAngela Moretti, bassoonDaisy Schön, soprano

WEBER Concerto for Bassoon in F Major, op. 75

BIZET Suite No. 1 from Carmen

BOULANGER D’un Matins de printemps

GOUNOD Musique de ballet de Faust“Je veux vivre” from Roméo et Juliette

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About the Artists

Angela Moretti is currently in her first year of study for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She holds a Master’s degree from the University of Central Florida and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Florida State University. Prior to her time at UNCG, Ms. Moretti was the Adjunct Lecturer of Bassoon at Texas Lutheran University and served in the U.S. Army as a member of the 8th Army Band in South Korea and the 323d Army Band in Texas. While serving as an Army musician, she performed in hundreds of concerts, festivals, and clinics in South Korea and the United States. Prior to her Army service, Angela was a music teacher at Lakewood Park Elementary School in Florida and held positions with several regional orchestras across Florida and Texas. Her small business, Laughing Crow Bassoon Reeds, specializes in handmade bassoon reeds and supplies for amateur and professional bassoonists. In her spare time, Angela enjoys hiking, nature photography, freelance graphic design, and spending time with her rescued greyhound, Sarge.

Ms. Daisy Schön, she/her, is a classical soprano pursuing her Masters at UNCG. She studies with Dr. Robert Wells and is in the Vocal Pedagogy track. Daisy graduated from Indiana University with a BM degree in Vocal Performance where she studied with Dr. Brian Gill. While at IU, Daisy sang in numerous opera choruses, oratorios, and premiered contemporary vocal solo works. Last summer, Ms. Schön sang at the Collaborative Piano Institute at Louisiana State University, where she sang in masterclasses with master teachers of collaborative piano and premiered a set of music written for her and Mengyao Zhao by Steven Naylor. Daisy also teaches a vibrant studio and maintains an interest and focus on trauma-informed teaching practices. She strives for a compassionate, joyful, and mindful approach to her musicianship and facilitating.

Franck Fontcouberte is the artistic director of the Contrepoint instrumental ensemble, the «MusicaSète» festival, the «Rencontres Gigeantesques», the Ensemble Vocal et Instrumental de Montpellier and the Chorale de Sète, Conductor of the United Strings of Europe in London.

After working as conductor with David Robertson, Zoltan Pesko, Armin Jordan and Pierre Boulez, he gives numerous concerts in France and abroad with his own orchestras and as guest conductor in Florence, Rome, Riga, Athens, Istanbul, Barcelona, Prague, Salzburg, Johannesburg, Belgrade, Kotor, Novisad, London, Geneva, Lausanne, Beirut and Merida.

Alongside his career as Music Director and Conductor, Franck Fontcouberte is a professor of instrumental ensembles at the Regional Conservatory of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole. He founded the International Academy of Conducting, which provides opportunities for young conductors from around the world to develop under his guidance. He was invited by the Université Notre Dame de Beyrouth to give master classes between 2016 and 2020.

Franck Fontcouberte has recorded many instrumental and lyrical works, including: La Belle Hélène by Jacques Offenbach, the Coronation Mass by Franz Liszt, the Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi, Norma by Vincenzo Bellini, Valses et Polkas by Johann Strauss, Sacred and Profane Dances by Claude Debussy, Music for strings, percussion and celesta by Béla Bartók, Serenade for strings by Tchaikosvki, by Dvorak, by Elgar, the Chamber Symphony by Shostakovitch, the Concert for violin and percussion on Balkan themes in world premiere by Mateja Marinkovic. His latest album «In motion» under the Swedish label Bis was released in November 2020. It presents the work «Maralinga» by the Australian composer Matthew Hindson with the New Zealand virtuoso violinist Amalia Hall.

UNCG Orchestras
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.

Wind Ensemble
2024-10-10 19:30 - 21:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Program

Jonathan Caldwell, conductorJaninah Burnett, vocalistErik Santos, composer

FLAGELLO Bravado

PURRINGTON apricity

SANTOS The Seer

BERNSTEIN Profanation from Symphony No. 1, “Jeremiah”

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About the Artists

A versatile singer, actor, musician, writer, arranger, and educator, Janinah Burnett is in demand and has thrilled audiences domestically and internationally in opera, recital, musical theatre, jazz, television, and film. Some of her signature operatic roles include Mimí in La bohème, Leila in Les pêcheurs des perles, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Micaëla in Carmen, Marguerite in Faust, and Violetta in La Traviata. An original cast member of Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème on Broadway as Mimí, she won a Los Angeles Theater Alliance Award and performed on the Tony Awards Presentation.

Burnett was on the roster of principal artists at the Metropolitan Opera for eight consecutive seasons debuting as Bianca in La Rondine. She was a member of the closing cast of Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, making appearances as “Carlotta Giudicelli” since 2016.

In February 2021, Burnett released her debut album, Love the Color of Your Butterfly, which features musical arrangements and collaborations with some of the world’s finest jazz musicians including Christian Sands, Sullivan Fortner Jr., Casey Benjamin, and Terreon Gully who produced the project. Released on her own record label Clazz Records, Love the Color of Your Butterfly is an amalgamation of jazz, opera, art song, oratorio, rhythm and blues, and spirituals and introduces her concept of “Clazz,” which encourages collaboration and redefines the parameters of genre while embracing parts of history that are erased, widely unknown and forgotten. Love the Color of Your Butterfly has been featured in numerous publications including the Financial Times, Playbill, Broadway World, Downbeat Magazine, and Opera News.

Burnett has been a guest artist and taught masterclasses at Eastern Mennonite University, The Cinema School, Clark University, and Bar Harbor Music Festival. She holds an MM from the Eastman School of Music and a BA from Spelman College.

Erik Santos is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer, and teacher, who is active in many musical genres, from rock and jazz, to classical, to electronic, world music, and music for theater and dance. He is the Chair of the Composition Department at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

As the first-born in a family of musicians – father Rosendo Ejercito Santos, Jr., mother Harriet, brothers Nathan and Jason – music has always been at the core of his life practice, both as a profession and hobby.

Professor Santos has received commissions, prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions for his concert music, including the prestigious 2020 Sousa-ABA-Ostwald Prize from the American Bandmasters Association, the Charles Ives Scholarship, and the Charles Ives Fellowship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), the MacDowell Colony, the Bozeman Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Rackham Graduate School of U-M, and the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA).

But, in recent years, Santos has become increasingly preoccupied with presenting music in venues other than the classical concert hall — dance clubs, street corners, radio, theaters, churches, museums, cafes, car stereos, movies, Internet, iPods, etc. — where there is more emphasis given to the interaction of music with other spontaneous sensory elements, involving listeners at the hub of a transdimensional experience. This interest flourished in 2002 when he was invited to join the pioneering and internationally celebrated Japanese butoh company Dairakudakan: Temputenshiki (avant-garde dance/theater), as a resident composer—a potent collaboration that continues to this day.

In 2005, Santos and artist/singer Toko Shiiki formed an upbeat band called October Babies, which has performed a large variety of original multi-cultural and multi-lingual dance songs in America and Japan. (Check out their 2020 EP Find New Way, and new videos!) They affiliated with the local Ann Arbor music label/collective Oddfellow Music, which later became Willis Sound. Having completed 5 albums, along with music videos and documentaries with October Babies, Santos and Shiiki became interested in filmmaking, and this led to the full-length movie Threshold: Whispers of Fukushima in 2015. This project focuses on the lives of several musicians who have chosen to live in their homeland of Fukushima, Japan, despite the devastation of earthquake and tsunami, the threat of the failing nuclear reactor, and even persecution by fellow human beings. By 2019, they completed three more films inspired by creative relationships they formed in Fukushima (Over the Sky, Passing the Baton, and Up the Mountain), as well as the film We Women Weave, about the Moonseed Movement Troupe.

The creative relationships formed in the making of Threshold have continued to grow. For example, in 2016, Santos and Shiiki co-organized a partnership with the University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies, the Center for Japanese Studies, and SMTD, to invite the fiery Japanese youth drum ensemble Yamakiya Taiko to perform at the University of Michigan for The Fukushima Tribute Concert/Residency. This week-long event began with a thunderous concert at the Power Center and continued with a bunch of rousing Taiko workshops around campus and town. The ensemble premiered a new work Santos wrote for them and a cadre of U-M student drummers, called “Armadillo Flow.” Check out the video!

Santos has been on the Michigan local original music scene for XX years, with bands October Babies, The Crossed Lines, 16 More Miles, and Citygoat, and he’s hosted several long-running Open Mic stages in the area. These days, he’s possessed by a fresh passion for practicing – learning, unlearning, all day every day – memorizing poetry, investigating inventions of Bach and Bruce Lee, and Vince Gilligan, enjoying sound.

Wind Ensemble
The 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.

Concert Band
2024-10-11 19:30 - 21:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Program

Patty Saunders, conductor

GALANTEThe Redwoods

MACKEYSheltering Sky

BALMAGESBeyond the Summit

JOLLEYAsh

GIROUXCelestial Seas

SHELDONOcean Ridge Rhapsody

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The renowned UNCG Bands are dedicated to the performance, study, and cultivation of wind band music of the highest quality, and are a serious and distinctive medium of musical expression. The UNCG Bands are considered to be among the very finest collegiate band programs in America based upon our active profile of excellence in our performances, recordings, tours and convention performances.

Through exemplary practices in organization, training, and presentation, the UNCG Bands provide exceptional experiences for our members, sharing outstanding performances throughout the year and enhancing the institutional spirit and character of UNCG.

The UNCG Bands seek to support music education in the state of North Carolina and in our region by providing leadership and sponsorship to secondary school band programs and other organizations.

Ana Luque Fernandez, violin
2024-10-16 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Born in Granada (Spain), Ana Luque Fernandez holds degrees in violin and chamber music from Granada and Murcia Conservatories in Spain. Ana also graduated from the Louisiana State University in the USA as a Master of Music in Violin Performance (1996) and as a Doctor of Musical Arts (2002).

Her main teachers have been Joaquín Palomares, Camilla Wicks, and Kevork Mardirossian, having also received advice from Danuta Glowacka, Dennis Parker, Yair Kless, Fredell Lack, and Yfrah Neaman, among others.

She has held orchestra positions in the Murcia Chamber Orchestra (1989-1991) and the Murcia Symphony Orchestra (1991-1993) in Spain, and the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra (1994-2000) in the USA. Since 1993, she plays regularly with the Granada Symphony Orchestra (OCG).

Ana has been a founding member of the Atlántico String Quartet and Carezzévole Piano Trío, and collaborates with many other chamber music projects having performed in the USA, Spain, Finland, Colombia and Morocco.

She is the author of the monograph The Works of Manuel Quiroga: A Catalogue (Louisiana State University, USA 2002), the book The Music of Manuel Quiroga Losada (VDM-Verlag, 2009) and the article Catalogación y Revisión de la Producción Musical de Manuel Quiroga Losada (1r Congrés Internacional Investigació en Música, Valencia, 2010).

Also, she has been professor at the string summer courses “Música y Naturaleza” (2000-2006) and Da Capo Strings School (2011-2019). Moreover, she has been guest instructor at different conservatories in Spain and international institutions such as: I Barenboim-Said Foundation´s Master of Orchestral Studies (Seville, Spain, 2008); III International String Academy (Pereira, Colombia, 2012); and Jacobs School of Music (Bloomington-Indiana, USA, 2013).

Ana has been tenure violin professor in Seville´s Conservatory “Francisco Guerrero” (2000-2002), Granada´s Conservatory “Angel Barrios” (2002-2006), and in Granada´s Real Conservatorio Superior “Victoria Eugenia” since 2006.

Student Composers Concert I
2024-10-16 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Student Composers Concert II
2024-10-17 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Georgianna Antoniou and Lyndie Enchautegui, harp and viola
2024-10-17 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Jessica Leong, piano
2024-10-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Flood Aid: A WNC Benefit Concert!
2024-10-19 15:00 - 16:30 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place, Greensboro, NC, 27406, United States
Please join the School of Music students for a Pop-Up Concert on Saturday, Oct 19th, 2024 from 3-4:30 pm, outside at Greensboro Project Space (GPS), for a student-initiated, student-organized “Flood Aid: A WNC Benefit Concert” event.

Featuring music by: Flowstate, Watch Party, Mace Floyd, Kaitlyn Tracy and more

All donations welcome! Cash (for Beloved Asheville), food, and other essentials will be accepted donations to help those in WNC affected by Hurricane Helene.

Please come out and show your support!

The Sequence Quartet
2024-10-21 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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The Sequence Quartet is a euphonium quartet founded in August 2020 at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Its current members include Josh Bishop, Caleb Harris, Jack Lorens, and Andrew Sallee. The quartet plays a wide variety of works including original euphonium quartet music, wind band transcriptions, and orchestral transcriptions. With multiple composers and arrangers in the ensemble, the group is also committed to creating new works for the ensemble and pushing the boundaries of what the instrument can do. Since its founding, the quartet has completed a regional tour and has been invited as guest performers at numerous Tuba/Euphonium conferences including the 2023 International Euphonium Tuba Festival and the 2023 International Tuba/Euphonium Conference. The quartet is committed to educating future generations of low brass students while also introducing the euphonium to a broader audience.
