an island for an exiled
2025-01-16 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-17 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-20 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-21 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-22 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Gatewood Studio Arts Center, 527 Highland Ave, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA, 527 Highland Ave, Greensboro, 27412, United States
Paula Damasceno’s installation of work in the Gatewood Studio Arts GalleryViewing by appointment only December 9 – 22, 2024Open to the public weekdays January 6 – 22, 2025 from 9:00am – 4:00pmAn Artist Talk closing reception will be held January 22, 2025 from 4:00pm – 6:00pm

Zeke Duncan, bass
2025-01-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Moving Through Art Exhibition
2025-01-21 12:00 - 2025-01-25 17:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E February 1 Pl, Greensboro, NC 27406, USA
Moving Through

Solo Exhibition by Madalyn Loucks Sorrell

Featuring a Short Film by Cade Hogan and Loucks Sorrell

January 21 – 25, 2025

Reception: Friday, January 24th | 6-8p

More About Moving Through

Moving Through is a collection of work that explores moments of bodily, social and economic displacement. Sorrell aims to investigate these themes in every possible facet by “moving through” multiple mediums such as painting, metal sculpture and film.

Madalyn Loucks Sorrell and Cade Hogan, Moving Through, 2024, 4 and ½ minutes

Moving Through is a collaborative documentary by Madalyn Loucks Sorrell and Cade Hogan. The film centers around exploring moments of bodily, social and economic displacement. In the interviews, three women describe moments in their lives where their bodies became barriers to their autonomy and how they’ve navigated these experiences. Their testimonials, filmed within the quiet intimacy of their homes, highlight how multifaceted people can be, and how what’s on the surface isn’t always as it appears.

More About Madalyn Loucks Sorrell

In my practice, I have been investigating bodily memory to reckon with personal identity and chronic illness. My work serves as an attempt to explore and challenge the displacement I feel in my own body. This displacement stems from experiences throughout my life where the body became a barrier between me and the ability to make decisions for myself. My work aims to reclaim autonomy through representations of these experiences. When I work with metal, the material demands a type of labor that feels ritualistic. It is a transaction between my body and the material. The heating and smashing of metal are metamorphic, not unlike how the body transforms during trauma. Metal, when under heat and pressure, becomes new. A new vessel for memory. Here, the broken thing becomes a testament to the resilience of the body rather than something invaluable. Changed and reassembled by my hands, this labor makes me the catalyst for these observable metamorphoses.

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More About Cade Hogan

Cade Hogan is a US writer/director/actor who is currently based in Raleigh North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Film Program where he was able to start making movies on a bigger scale. From there, Cade began his journey on creating his independent short films and his first feature A Likely Story. His filmography includes the audience renowned parody film Thursday the 12th and was followed by many shorts focused on comedy including: The Average Inspection of the General Parade Float, Wrong Address, Immortality, and Meeting Mary. These films can all be found on his Youtube Channel linked below.

For inquiries contact at: cademack28@gmail.com

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William Taylor, collaborative piano
2025-01-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Lunar New Year Celebration Concert
2025-01-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
3rd Annual Lunar New Year Celebration Concert

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This performance is presented with support from a UNCG iBelong Grant.

The UNCG iBelong project launched in 2019 with a campus survey intended to find out how the university can better promote a climate where everyone feels supported and welcomed. Student groups, organizations and faculty and staff can all submit proposals for funding. Ideas can expand on a prior year project or be an entirely new project.

Garrett Klein, trumpet
2025-01-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
Ināra Zandmane, pianoMarjorie Bagley, violinPeter Stammer, trumpet

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Trumpet artist Garrett Klein has garnered an international reputation for his varied performing career and dedicated teaching. He is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Trumpet at UNC Greensboro where he leads the Trumpet Studio, directs the Trumpet Ensemble, and serves as Brass Area Chair. Aside from his teaching, Garrett is the Principal Trumpet of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and Principal Solo Cornet with North Carolina Brass Band. He is a former member of the world-renowned Dallas Brass and toured the nation with that ensemble for five years. He has also appeared as a guest musician with Charlotte Symphony, The Phoenix Symphony, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. A new music advocate, Garrett has worked with composers to commission several new works for trumpet, presenting newly composed works at three International Trumpet Guild Conferences. Garrett earned his DMA and MM degrees at Arizona State University, along with a Certificate in Music Theory Pedagogy. Prior to ASU, he studied at the prestigious Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore and St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Garrett Klein is an endorsing artist for Conn-Selmer and proudly performs on Vincent Bach trumpets.

Stephanie Ycaza, tuba and euphonium
2025-01-27 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
Ināra Zandmane, pianoAlejandro Rutty, bassAbigail Pack, horn

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Stephanie Ycaza is the Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She previously held the position of Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Northern Iowa, and has also served on the music faculties of Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia State University, Longwood University, the University of Richmond, and Shenandoah University. Stephanie is active as a masterclass teacher and as a clinician for middle and high school bands.

Stephanie is a founding member of Calypsus Brass, a brass quintet dedicated to performing new works and providing high-quality recordings for composers. Calypsus is committed to promoting the works of composers from historically marginalized groups, and serves as an Ensemble-in-Residence for Rising Tide Music Press. Stephanie is Principal Tuba of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, and has also performed with the Virginia Symphony, the Williamsburg Symphony, the Capital Wind Symphony, and the Virginia Grand Military band. She has also contributed to recording projects at Spacebomb Records in Richmond, VA. Stephanie’s recent solo performances have focused on music for tuba with electronic accompaniment, music by women composers, and her own transcriptions and arrangements for low brass. She has appeared as a soloist at the International Tuba Euphonium Conference, the Northeast, Southeast, and Midwest Regional ITEA Conferences, the Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Workshop, and the International Women’s Brass Conference. In 2024, Stephanie published Mindful Musical Fundamentals for Tuba, a book contains unique melodies that I composed to provide players with a mental, musical warm-up while utilizing their fundamental skills.

Stephanie holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Shenandoah University, a Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. She studied with Dr. Ross Walter, Toby Hanks, Mike Roylance, Andrew Hitz, and Michael Bunn. Stephanie is a Miraphone tuba artist.

The UNinformed states of america art exhibition
2025-01-28 12:00 - 2025-02-01 17:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E February 1 Pl, Greensboro, NC 27406, USA
The Uninformed States of America

Solo Exhibition by Matthew Troyer

January 28 – February 1, 2025

Reception: Friday, January 31st | 6-8p

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The Uniformed States of America explores the commodification of military surplus garments, examining how items once used in warfare have become symbols within American consumer culture. These garments, designed initially for survival on the battlefield, now carry new meanings as they are bought, sold, and worn in everyday life. They reflect a complex narrative of national identity, nostalgia, and militarization that continues to shape American society.

Through documenting military surplus stores, I capture more than just the physical items, I explore how these spaces reflect cultural tensions. For some, these garments represent patriotism, solidarity, or a connection to an idealized past. For others, they raise questions about the militarization of civilian life and the systems of power they symbolize. The presence of military and police memorabilia in these stores can evoke a sense of pride for some. In contrast, for others, it stirs discomfort and raises critical questions about authority and power.​

The Uniformed States of America invites viewers to question the more profound cultural and ideological implications of wearing and consuming military surplus. These items, now symbols of both reverence and critique, challenge us to reflect on the evolving relationship between consumerism, militarization, and American identity.

More About Matthew Troyer

Matthew Troyer (b. 1988) is an American artist, educator, and former U.S. Marine Corps Combat Photographer. Specializing in documentary photography, Troyer critically examines the lasting impact of war on individuals, communities, and culture. Drawing on his experiences as a veteran, his work explores the intersections of war, memory, identity, and consumer culture, using a multifaceted approach to explore narratives that shape America’s understanding of conflict and its legacy.

Troyer received his BFA, with honors, in Photography and Imaging from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2022 and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024. He is currently a Part-Time Lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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back home art exhibition
2025-01-28 12:00 - 2025-02-01 17:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E February 1 Pl, Greensboro, NC 27406, USA
Back Home

Solo Student Exhibition by Zainab Adamou-Mohamed

January 28 – February 1, 2025

Reception: Friday, January 31st | 6-8p

More About Back Home

Back Home is a collection of archival and original photographs taken by my parents and I during trips to the West African countries of Niger and Nigeria in 2008, 2022, and 2024. This exhibition is an exploration of the concept of home and memory through the lens of those returning and visiting home.

I was born in the US to parents who immigrated from Niger in the early 2000s. My extended family resides in Niger, including the cities of Niamey and Zinder. The majority of my father’s family resides in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.

As I look back on these photos, questions surrounding the concept of memory and home frequently arise.

What does it mean to remember a place as someone who grew up there versus someone who didn’t? What is the relationship between the people in these photos as they exist today and who they were in the moment the image was made? How do the images we choose to capture influence the memories we keep?

The curation and arrangement of these street scenes, family gatherings, and intimate portraits are a means of exploring those questions. Through my personal story of my family’s journey back home, I invite viewers to examine their own definitions of memory, family, and homecoming.

More About Zainab Adamou-Mohamed

Zainab Adamou-Mohamed was born in 2003 in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is currently pursuing her BA in Studio Art at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She has previously been included in Crystallization: An Exhibition of Student Ceramics and Sculpture (2023) at the Greensboro Project Space and the 125.2 volume of The Coraddi Art & Literary Magazine (2023). Her creative work explores the areas of culture, belonging, disconnect, and the immigrant experience.

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Corolina Horn Quartet
2025-01-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
The Corolina Horn Quartet shares a program of familiar, and some unfamiliar, horn repertoire.

Members include: Abigail Pack – UNC Greensboro, Travis Bennett – Western Carolina University, Dakota Corbliss – Appalachian State University, Maria Serkin – UNC School of the Arts.

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Roomful of Teeth
2025-01-31 20:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
Roomful of Teeth

Roomful of Teeth is a two-time Grammy®-Award-winning vocal band dedicated to reimagining the expressive potential of the human voice. By engaging collaboratively with artists, thinkers, and community leaders from around the world, the group seeks to uplift and amplify voices old and new while creating and performing meaningful and adventurous music.

Its latest album, Rough Magic (New Amsterdam Records, 2023), was captured using groundbreaking recording techniques and innovative spatial technology. Roomful of Teeth was recognized at the 66th GRAMMY awards in 2024, winning Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for Rough Magic; and composer William Brittelle’s work Psychedelics, which appears on Rough Magic, was nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

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Founded in 2009 by Brad Wells, the band was incubated at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams, Massachusetts, where members studied with some of the world’s top performers and teachers and commissioned composers who were known for breaking molds. They have learned that the boundaries of the human voice are never what they seem, that rules can be bent, and broken, and perhaps they should be.

As the world rapidly changes, Roomful of Teeth is cultivating deeper relationships with technology, continuing to expand the capabilities of the human voice, aiming to be unburdened by physical limitations. They are excited about new collaborative projects that are focused on the stories of place, home, and community in the diverse environments our planet has provided.

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.

Brass and Percussion Day
2025-02-01 07:30 - 17:00 | UNCG School of Music, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States

National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) Site Visit Recital
2025-02-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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not Just Black and White Art Exhibition
2025-02-04 12:00 - 2025-02-08 17:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E February 1 Pl, Greensboro, NC 27406, USA
Not Just Black and White

An Exploration of Rural Alternative Black Culture

Solo Student Exhibition by Jalen M.M. Williams

February 4 -8 , 2025

Reception: Friday, February 7th | 6-8p

More About Not Just Black and White

Not Just Black and White is a powerful collection of prints, illustrations, and sculptures that delve into the experiences of an alternative Black person traversing the complexities of growing up in the rural Carolinas. This exhibition reflects a journey through identity, spirituality, and resilience in the face of adversity and prejudice. It captures the layered and nuanced nature of Black identity, particularly in spaces that may feel disconnected from mainstream narratives.

The works in this exhibition serve as intimate depictions of the adolescence of Jalen Williams, where he confronted the challenges of being an outsider within both his community and the broader cultural landscape. Through deliberate mark-making, concentrated etching, and the precision of sculpture, Williams aims to communicate the deep emotional and psychological impact of these experiences. Each piece is an exploration of the contradictions and harmonies that have shaped him—of familial interactions, struggles for self-definition, and the strength of counterculture.

Within this exhibition, Jalen Williams invites the viewer to look beyond binary notions of identity, to see the spectrum of Blackness that exists in rural spaces, and to engage with the stories of resistance, connection, and transformation that define his personal narrative. Not Just Black and White is not only a reflection on his upbringing, but a broader understanding on how we all navigate the intersections of race, identity, and place.

More About Jalen M.M. Williams

Jalen Martise Micquiel Williams (b. 2004) is a multidisciplinary North Carolina based artist that predominantly focuses on printmaking and illustration. Within his work, Jalen Williams acutely observes the concepts of expression, surrealism, and counterculture. With the applied usage of various mediums and methods, Williams pushes to gain self-reflection and introspection throughout his work as a unique Black individual. In obtaining a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Drawing and Printmaking, Williams impels his studies by expanding upon unique identities, stories, and voices of other individuals in his works. In his compositions, Williams prompts viewers to have a sense of reflection and understanding to the individuals around them.

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Hayley Jensen, clarinet
2025-02-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Marya Fancey, organ
2025-02-06 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Scholar-performer Marya Fancey uses her research to bridge temporal and cultural gaps in music for students and audiences. She received a 2017–2018 Fulbright Student Research Award to Poland for Historical Music Performance. This grant supported her dissertation research on organ masses from the Tablature of Johannes of Lublin (ca. 1540), culminating in a performance of its three mass cycles with vocal ensemble Flores Rosarum at the fifteenth-century Church of the Holy Cross in Krakow. She has presented at meetings of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America and the SE chapter of the American Musicological Society.

Her concert programs frequently incorporate works by underappreciated composers. In 2016 Marya Fancey introduced Polish audiences to the music of Florence Price and David Hurd at the Podlaskie Organ Festival and the 18th International Festival of Organ Music at Pelplin Cathedral. She gave the 2015 world premiere of Passacaglia and Triple Fugue (organ) by Louise Talma. In 2011 she performed Sonata No. 2 (piano) by Grażyna Bacewicz at the 15th Annual Festival of Women Composers (Gainesville, FL).

In studio and classroom teaching she augments the traditional classical canon with lesser-known compositions as well as works from a variety of other musical styles. She has taught music studies courses at UNCG, Guilford College, and the University of Florida. Her past professional activities include apprentice organ builder, church organist and choir director, private music teacher, and assistant music editor.

Marya Fancey holds the DMA degree in Organ Performance from UNC-Greensboro, where she studied with André Lash (organ) and Andrew Willis (harpsichord and fortepiano), with a Post-Master’s certificate in Music Theory Pedagogy and a Post-Baccalaureate certificate in Historical Keyboard Performance. Her interest in the scholar-performer model arose from masterclasses with Marie-Claire Alain, Olivier Latry, John Grew, William Porter, Hank Knox, and Edoardo Bellotti at multiple McGill Summer Organ Academies between 2005 and 2015.

Faculty Composers Concert
2025-02-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
Annie Jeng, piano Garrett Klein, trumpet Courtney Miller, oboe Abigail Pack, horn Hank Smith, banjo Steve Stusek, saxophone Stephanie Ycaza, tuba

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Studio Voice Recital
2025-02-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Nicholas Susi, piano
2025-02-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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World Music – Authentic and Imagined

For hundreds of years, folk music has been a source of inspiration for classical composers. In many cases, this inspiration stems from the desire of a composer to broadcast the richness of their native culture’s music to the rest of the world. In other cases, a composer becomes inspired by the music of a foreign land and imagines how they might compose music in that style. Both of these avenues offer glimpses into music around the world, both authentic and imagined. This program explores music inspired by Ancient Egypt, through 19th-century Eastern Europe, to modern day Ecuador.

Described in The WholeNote as “an innovative musician and aggressive thinker with a gift for keyboard brilliance,” Dr. Nicholas Susi enjoys a multifaceted career living out his deep love of music. He recognizes that Classical music has been a transformative force in his life, and seeks to share its power with others through his teaching and performing.

As a teenager, Nicholas experienced a musical turning point upon discovering the music of Franz Liszt. Thrilled by the composer’s virtuoso music and inspirational biography, he became a lifelong super-fan of all things Liszt. Performances and projects centering around the Hungarian composer have been a recurring theme throughout Dr. Susi’s career. He has appeared as soloist in the concerti of Liszt with the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia of Greater Kansas City, Taneycomo Festival Orchestra, and Webster Symphony Orchestra, and he celebrated the composer’s bicentennial in 2011 with a series of performances of the complete Douze études d’exécution transcendante. In 2014, Susi advanced to the semifinals of the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition (Utrecht, The Netherlands) as one of two Americans selected worldwide to participate in this prestigious competition. Most recently, he made his debut as a published author in the 2020 edition of The Journal of the American Liszt Society; in his article, Susi offers an interdisciplinary reading of Liszt’s Legend no. 1 by intersecting theoretical analysis with Catholic iconography.

Dr. Susi’s research has been awarded grants from such organizations as the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, and Legacy Foundation for the Arts. These and other grants enabled him to travel, study, and perform music across Europe; the experiences of researching Beethoven in Bonn, Debussy in Paris, and Mozart in Vienna have been central to his development as a musician and to his cosmopolitan understanding of musical styles. Other noteworthy appearances abroad include recitals at the Cité universitaire de Paris, two all-Liszt concerts for the Princess von Hohenzollern at her castle in Namedy, Germany, and concerto solos with the Wiener Residenz Orchester and Symphonieorchester der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.

Stateside, Dr. Susi’s career took off upon winning the 2015 National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) Young Artist Competition. Winners of this competition receive two years of management, which resulted in performances, masterclasses, and lectures across the country. At the same time, Susi recorded and released his debut album, Scarlatti Now, to critical acclaim; in addition to international radio airplay, the disc was featured on the prestigious Critics’ Choice list (2017) of American Record Guide and was chosen as a 1st place winner of The American Prize in 2018.

Dr. Susi is Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of South Carolina, President of the American Matthay Association, and Associate Director of the Southeastern Piano Festival. He previously taught piano and music theory at The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN. He completed his doctorate at the University of Michigan, with previous studies at the University of Kansas and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln as a two-time DAAD grantee. Primary teachers include Zena Ilyashov, Jack Winerock, Nina Tichman, and Arthur Greene. For details on upcoming appearances and further listening, please visit www.nicholas-susi.com.

Adam Frey, euphonium
2025-02-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Adam Frey travels the globe sharing his talents as a performer, teacher and advocate for live music and education. Adam has soloed with orchestras and bands the world over, including the world famous Boston Pops, Cheju Symphony Orchestra (South Korea), US Army Orchestra (Washington DC), Harvard Pops (MA), Fort Collins (CO), Indian Hill (MA), the Vaasa Symphony Orchestra (Finland), Atlanta Philharmonic (GA), Camerata Eleutheria (Argentina), Cascade (WA), Greensboro (NC), Clemson (SC), LaGrange (GA), Minot (ND), Bellevue Philharmonic (WA), and Northeastern (MA) Symphony Orchestras. He also performs regularly with wind bands and brass bands that have included Soli Brass in Holland, Point of Ayr in Wales, the National Youth Brass Band of Switzerland and wind bands from Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, South Korea, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, Australia, Russia, Finland, China, Germany, Hong Kong, and the United States.

Adam has been guest soloist at festivals around the globe, including four times at the Midwest Clinic (USA), the WASBE Convention (Singapore), Melbourne International Festival of Brass (Australia), Trombonanza (Argentina), Carlos Gomez Festival (Brazil), Jeju International Wind Festival (South Korea), Asia Pacific Band Directors Conference (South Korea), Westby Low Brass Workshop (Norway), Peru Low Brass Festival (Peru), Colombia Festubal (Colombia), Tubmania (Thailand), and Orquesta Latinoamericana de Vientos (Colombia) to name a few.

A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Adam Frey received his musical training at the University of Georgia, the Royal Northern College of Music, and the University of Salford. As a major ambassador of the euphonium, Adam has more than one hundred and fifty works that have been composed or specifically arranged for him. Some composers and arrangers include Frank Gulino, Gail Robertson, Kevin Day, Barbara York, Kevin Kaska, Wan-Yun Liang, Jorge Tagliapetria, Patrick Hoffman, Allen Feinstein, Jose Flores, Jim Self, Jiro Censhu, Tim Jansa, Matt Hightower, Camilio Ayala, Eduardo Nougerales, Fernando Deddos, and many more.

For 20 years, Adam has hosted the International Euphonium Tuba (IET) Festival at Emory University. This event each June hosts more than 140 students and teachers from around the world in a week of playing, learning, and inspiration. Participants range from high school and college students to adult amateurs. More details at: www.IETFestival.com The festival promotes international involvement by offering scholarships through the Louder Fellowships to students from outside the US and has made awards to students from South Africa, China, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Malaysia and others.

Adam Frey is Associate Professor at the University of North Georgia were he teachers undergraduate low brass students and is Director of Instrumental Studies. We also teaches graduate students at Georgia State University. Adam is currently serving as Vice-President/President-Elect for the International Tuba Euphonium Association and is only the 4th euphoniumist to be elected to lead the organization since its foundiner over 50 years ago.

He promotes a wide vareity of composers through two publishing companies that include composers like Kevin Day, Bruce Fraser, Yukiko Isomura, Tim Jasna, Andrew Hobsen, Fernando Morias, Jiro Censhu, Duncan MacMillian, Gail Robertson, Tim Olt, Silas Bareto, Ben Horne, and many more.

Adam Frey plays exclusively on the Yamaha YEP-842TS and an Ultimate Brass AF Model Mouthpiece. Adam Frey has been a Yamaha Performing Artist and Guest Clinician since 2000.

Kevin Grant, composer
2025-02-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Lauren Wright-Harris, voice
2025-02-13 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Liwei Li, piano
2025-02-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Zoia Cisneros MFA Thesis concert
2025-02-14 19:30 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place, Greensboro, NC, 27406, United States
Zoia Cisneros MFA Thesis Concert

Cuando las Memorias Sangran/When Memories Bleed

Reflections on family, immigration, and love across borders.

MFA in Dance Thesis Concert, Choreographed and directed by Zoia Cisneros

Location: Greensboro Project Space

Dates:February 14th – 7:30pm, 8:30 pm showingsFebruary 15th – 2:30pm, 3:30pm, 7:30pm, & 8:30pm showings

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Wind Ensemble
2025-02-14 19:30 - 21:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
35th Annual Carolina Band Festival and Conductors Conference

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Jonathan Caldwell, conductorLuke Ellard, clarinetMichael Haithcock, guest conductorArris Golden, guest conductorBrian Doyle, guest conductor

HARRISON Splinter

MITCHELL From The Depths We Rise

GARROP Chariot of Helios

SIMON Go Down Moses

MARKOWSKI Unfamiliar Territory

TICHELI Over the Moon

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Dr. Luke Ellard

Dr. Arris Golden

Dr. Brian K. Doyle

Prof. Michael Haithcock

About the Soloist
Clarinetist, composer, educator, and new music collaborator Luke Ellard strives for art that continually reaches out, valuing a relational spirit, informed engagement, and unapologetic authenticity.

For Luke, collaboration is what gives music life. As a clarinetist, they have performed with members of Bang On a Can All Stars, Eighth Blackbird, International Contemporary Ensemble, Fifth House Ensemble, Arkansas Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, and Mallarmé Chamber Music. As a composer, their music has been performed and commissioned by ensembles such as North Texas Wind Symphony, HOCKET, New Trombone Collective, Barkada Quartet, among others. Their current performance projects center around their self-produced solo cross-genre/electronic band LE, performing with their new music quartet Sounding Board, and commissioning new exciting works for the clarinet.

Dr. Ellard serves on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as Assistant Professor of Clarinet, having previously served on faculty at the University of Oklahoma and Midwestern State University while teaching privately and performing in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Luke earned their Doctor of Musical Arts in Clarinet Performance with related studies in Contemporary Music and Music Entrepreneurship at the University of North Texas, studying under Kimberly Cole Luevano. Additionally, Luke has earned degrees from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (James Campbell & Eric Hoeprich), the University of Texas at Austin (Yevgeniy Sharlat, Dan Welcher, & Donald Grantham), and Louisiana Tech University (Lawrence Gibbs, Joe L. Alexander).

About the 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.

Zoia Cisneros MFA Thesis concert
2025-02-14 20:30 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place, Greensboro, NC, 27406, United States
Zoia Cisneros MFA Thesis Concert

Cuando las Memorias Sangran/When Memories Bleed

Reflections on family, immigration, and love across borders.

MFA in Dance Thesis Concert, Choreographed and directed by Zoia Cisneros

Location: Greensboro Project Space

Performance Times:February 14th – 7:30pm, 8:30 pm showingsFebruary 15th – 2:30pm, 3:30pm, 7:30pm, & 8:30pm showings

Spaces are limited for each show; please obtain your tickets in advance. All tickets are $5.

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