National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) Site Visit Recital
2025-02-03 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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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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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

Program

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.

Geoffrey Kiorpes, piano
2025-02-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Dr. Geoffrey Kiorpes is a native of Greensboro, NC. He completed high school and college at the NC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, as a student of Clifton Matthews, Marian Hahn and Robert McDonald. After relocating to New York City, Kiorpes completed his Master’s and DMA at the Manhattan School of Music with Ruth Laredo and Jeff Cohen.

Kiorpes enjoys a busy career as an educator, accompanist, and musical director. In 2016, Kiorpes co-founded the New York City Charter School of the Arts, a middle school in lower Manhattan, where he serves as Arts Director and piano teacher. His students have given recitals in New York City and have received top scores at the NYSSMA festival at NYU. Over 40% of the 2022 graduating class were accepted to audition-based NYC high schools of the arts. Dr. Kiorpes served on the faculty of the Bronx Preparatory Charter School from 2002 to 2014, as Artistic Director and piano teacher. His students received numerous awards and scholarships and performed at the state music convention and in music education classes at NYU. In 2013, his students were featured in a benefit at Steinway Hall.

In 2006, Kiorpes gave his New York solo piano debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall as the recipient of the Artists International Award. Dr. Kiorpes’ concerto appearances include the Raleigh Symphony, the Durham Symphony, and the North Carolina School of the Arts Orchestra under conductor Otto Werner-Mueller. Kiorpes has spent summers teaching at Skidmore College and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His numerous Broadway and popular credits include serving as keyboardist for the Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette Peters, musical director/keyboards for ‘In The Heights’ and ‘Les Mis’ in the Bronx, and arranger/pianist for the hit Off-Broadway productions of Always, Patsy Cline and The Heat is On. He has also served as music director for Broadway performers Kaye Ballard and Miss Maggie Moore, and has appeared as pianist for Tony Award winning actress Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza), Jackie Hoffman, and Montego Glover. A sought-after collaborator, Mr. Kiorpes has served as accompanist for the Empire City Men’s Chorus, and has accompanied the Boys Choir of Harlem and the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. He gave a live performance of Phillip Glass’ Academy Award-nominated score for the motion picture The Hours at the film’s New York City premiere at the Metropolitan Club, and has appeared with opera singer Stephanie Blythe and the Avalon String Quartet. He has presented solo recitals at Ithaca College, St. Peter’s Church in Manhattan, and UNC Greensboro, and accompanied the National Youth Choir in Carnegie Hall.

In 2023, Dr. Kiorpes returned to the recital stage, presenting works of African American composers. Two of the recitals were at institutions where the composers had been in residency, (Bennett College/Nathaniel Dett and Rutgers/George Walker), with the third being presented as a benefit for CSA. In 2024, Kiorpes returned with a second recital, featuring 6 African American composers. 2025 brings the release of his first professional recording, entitled Black Composers, featuring works of Nathaniel Dett, Roger Dickerson, Adolphus Hailstork and John Wesley Work, III. In addition, Kiorpes is extremely excited to perform an evening of Dett’s piano works at Lane College, in Jackson, Tennessee, where Dett had his first residency from 1908-1911.

Symphonic Band
2025-02-18 19:30 - 21:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Program

Jonathan Caldwell, conductorSteven Stusek, saxophonePatty Saunders, graduate conductor

McCUNE Spiral

FLAGELLO Love and Nature

YOUNG Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble

PERSICHETTI Symphony No. 6

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About the Soloist

Steven Stusek, saxophone, is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he is a member of the Eastwind Quintette d’Anches and the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet. Originally from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, he received his Bachelor’s degree in saxophone performance from Indiana University. Before beginning a Master’s degree in saxophone and chamber music at Arizona State University, Steve spent a year in Paris studying at the Paris Conservatory (Conservatoire Nationale Superior de Musique de Paris) and the Conservatoire de le Région de Paris, where he was awarded the Prix d’Or à l’Unanimité in Saxophone Performance. After living in the Netherlands for almost eight years he returned to Indiana University and was awarded a DMA in Saxophone in 2001. He has served on the faculties of Ball State University, Middlebury College, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He has been on the UNCG faculty since 1999. As a soloist, Steve has appeared with the Eastern Music Festival and more recently with the University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble as part of the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial conference. He has been the principal saxophonist for the Eastern Music Festival and the Greensboro Symphony for the past ten years. In 2000, he won the prestigious Dutch Chamber Music Competition as part of the saxophone-accordion duo 2Track with accordion virtuoso Otine van Erp. Together they have performed throughout the Netherlands, the US and on Dutch radio. Steve teamed up with pianist Inara Zandmane and saxophonist Susan Fancher to produce the critically acclaimed recording Louder than Words – music for two saxophones and piano. Steve’s teachers have included Eugene Rousseau, Joseph Wytko, David Baker, Larry Teal, Daniel Deffayet, Jean-Yves Formeau, and Leroy Wolter. Steve is the Past-President of the North American Saxophone Alliance.

About the UNCG Bands
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
2025-02-19 19:30 - 21:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Program

Jungho Kim, conductorSteven Stusek, saxophone

BERNSTEIN Overture to Candide

DEBUSSY Rhapsodie, L.98

STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite (1919 version)

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About the Soloist

Steven Stusek is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he is a member of the Eastwind Quintette d’Anches and the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet. Originally from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, he received his Bachelor’s degree in saxophone performance from Indiana University. Before beginning a Master’s degree in saxophone and chamber music at Arizona State University, Steve spent a year in Paris studying at the Paris Conservatory (Conservatoire Nationale Superior de Musique de Paris) and the Conservatoire de le Région de Paris, where he was awarded the Prix d’Or à l’Unanimité in Saxophone Performance. After living in the Netherlands for almost eight years he returned to Indiana University and was awarded a DMA in Saxophone in 2001. He has served on the faculties of Ball State University, Middlebury College, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He has been on the UNCG faculty since 1999. As a soloist, Steve has appeared with the Eastern Music Festival and more recently with the University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble as part of the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial conference. He has been the principle saxophonist for the Eastern Music Festival and the Greensboro Symphony for the past ten years. In 2000, he won the prestigious Dutch Chamber Music Competition as part of the saxophone-accordion duo 2Track with accordion virtuoso Otine van Erp. Together they have performed throughout the Netherlands, the US and on Dutch radio. Steve teamed up with pianist Inara Zandmane and saxophonist Susan Fancher to produce the critically acclaimed recording Louder than Words – music for two saxophones and piano. Steve’s teachers have included Eugene Rousseau, Joseph Wytko, David Baker, Larry Teal, Daniel Deffayet, Jean-Yves Formeau, and Leroy Wolter. Steve is the Past-President of the North American Saxophone Alliance.

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.

Alexandra Funk, flute and Baroque flute
2025-02-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Sounding Board
2025-02-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Jazz Ensembles I and II
2025-02-20 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-26 18:00 - 20:00 | The Crown at the Carolina Theatre, 310 S Greene St, Greensboro, 27401, United States
Jazz Ensembles I and II kick off the spring semester with a special concert featuring a kaleidoscope of guest vocalists! Songs by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and more delivered in the classic styles of Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole will delight your ears. This concert is sure to be a crowd pleaser, and they ALWAYS sell out…so get your tickets early!

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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Irna Priore Music and Culture Lecture Series: Anna Gatdula
2025-02-21 16:00 - 17:00 | Music 235, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, North Carolina, 27412, United States
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Listening for the Voiceless: Musical Representation and Historical Subjectivity in Hosokawa’s Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima

This paper examines Toshio Hosokawa’s Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima (1989, 2001) as a sonic archive that opens inquiry into the contradictory nature of historical matter: the subjects and objects of history, the perpetrators and victims of trauma. Through close analysis of the composition’s musical techniques and textual elements, alongside consideration of Kitaro Nishida’s philosophy, voice and trauma studies, and comparative historiographies of post-War Europe and Japan, the paper argues that Hosokawa’s work challenges Western paradigms of historical subjectivity. The study traces how Hosokawa’s piece evolved over its compositional life, reflecting shifting understandings of Hiroshima’s place in post-War global and Japanese memory. By incorporating texts from Holocaust survivor Paul Celan, Hosokawa creates a transpacific dialogue that both connects and distinguishes these two pivotal 20th-century events.

The paper critically examines the notion of “voicelessness” in relation to hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), considering tensions between silence and testimony, individual and collective memory, and the politics of victimhood and reparation. Whose voice is voiceless? The victims, the perpetrators, the traumatized? Furthermore, what is a priori in the act of identifying and identifying with historical voices? I argue that Hosokawa’s work, informed by Nishida’s philosophy, offers an alternative ontology to Western subject-object distinctions. Following David Eng (2022), the paper begins to theorize historical redress outside paradigms of sovereignty altogether. Ultimately, this analysis of Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima contributes to ongoing discourse about the role of art in mediating historical memory and the politics of representation.)

Jack Kannan, trumpet
2025-02-21 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Spartan Voices
2025-02-21 18:30 - 20:00 | First Baptist Church Reidsville, 409 S Main Street, Reidsville, North Carolina, 27320, United States
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.

Concert Band
2025-02-21 19:30 - 21:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
Program

Patty Saunders, conductorDalton Guin, conductor

ITO On The March

BRYANT Nothing Gold Can Stay

CURNOW Rejouissance

HORNE Scrapin’

COPLEY Dragonfly

ARNOLD Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo

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About the UNCG Bands
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.

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Recontextualizing American Art Song
2025-02-21 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
Janinah Burnett, sopranoLindsay Kesselman, sopranoCrystal Kachevas, sopranoRobert Bracey, tenorEric Laine, tenorRobert Wells, baritoneJames Douglass, pianoInāra Zandmane, piano

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This recital centers around an important reminder that America consists of far more than just the contiguous United States. You will hear music that embodies the familiar “Americana” style alongside works reflecting the landscapes and cultural narratives of Puerto Rico, the Muskogee (Creek) Nation, Harlem, and more. By weaving together these different stories, we hope to spark meaningful conversations about the richness and complexity of what being “American” truly encompasses.

Gracen Long, flute and piano
2025-02-23 11:30 - 13:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

J.S. Bach to (J.S.) John Salmon
2025-02-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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John Salmon, piano, has distinguished himself on four continents, as both a classical and jazz artist. Critics have praised his “mesmerizing boldness and confidence” (Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee, Florida) and called him “a tremendous pianist” (El País, Madrid, Spain) and “dashing performer” (Journal de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland). His broad repertoire covers the classics – Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms – though his involvement with contemporary music is equally strong. Salmon has been at the forefront of performing new works by such celebrated composers as Dave Brubeck (who dedicated two compositions to Salmon), Nikolai Kapustin, and Lalo Schifrin. His performances and recordings on the Phoenix, Naxos, and Albany labels have been heard on radio stations throughout the U.S., including National Public Radio, WNYC in New York, and WFMT in Chicago; and on the national radio stations of Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Ukraine. Salmon is a frequent guest performer at festivals in the U.S. and Europe, having appeared at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival (Charleston, South Carolina), Piano Festival Northwest (Portland, Oregon), Festival for Creative Pianists (Grand Junction, Colorado), Festival Internacional de Música del Mediterráneo (Cartagena, Spain), and the International Bartók Festival (Szombathely, Hungary). Other special appearances include an all-Liszt recital in Mexico City for the American Liszt Society and an all-Brubeck recital in Washington, DC for the Music Teachers National Association. As guest lecturer, Salmon has spoken on a wide array of topics – “Beethoven’s Shadow” (The Juilliard School), “September 1828: Schubert’s Last Three Piano Sonatas” (Boston Conservatory), “Adding Notes to Classical Scores” (Conservatorio de Música, Morelia, Mexico). As author, he has covered such subjects as “What Brubeck Got From Milhaud” and “Urtext, que me veux tu?,” appearing in American Music Teacher, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Clavier, College Music Society Newsletter, Piano & Keyboard, and Piano Today.  His book The Piano Sonatas of Carl Loewe was published by Peter Lang Publishing in 1996. John Salmon has been a member of the faculty of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Music since 1989.

Maddy Robeson, flute
2025-02-25 17:30 - 19:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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University Chorale
2025-02-25 19:30 - 21:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 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.

Flute Studio First-Year Recital
2025-02-26 17:30 - 19:00 | Organ Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States

Chamber Singers
2025-02-26 19:30 - 21:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
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Carole Ott, conductor

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About the 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.

Inna Faliks, piano • Daniel Ericourt Artist Residency in Piano
2025-02-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Tew Recital Hall, 100 McIver St, Greensboro, 27412, United States
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Additional Events

Wednesday, February 26, 2025Masterclass with UNCG Piano Students10:00 am–12:00 pm, Organ Hall

Thursday, February 27, 2025Masterclass with UNCG Piano Students10:00 am–12:00 pm, Organ Hall

Lecture4:00 pm, Organ Hall

Friday, February 28, 2025Masterclass with UNCG Piano Students10:00 am–12:00 pm, Organ Hall

All events are free and open to the public.

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Inna Faliks

“Adventurous and passionate” (The New Yorker) Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks has established herself as one of the most communicative, and poetic artists of her generation. She has made a name for herself through commanding performances of standard piano repertoire, as well genre-bending, interdisciplinary projects, and inquisitive work with contemporary composers. Her new memoir, Weight in the Fingertips, A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage, was published by Globe Pequot Press in October 2023.

Ms. Faliks’s distinguished career has brought thousands of recitals and concerts throughout the US, Asia, and Europe. Recent seasons have included performances at Alice Tully Hall, National Sawdust, Ravinia Festival, National Gallery of Art, the Wallis Annenberg Center, Oji Hall in Tokyo, tours of China, with appearances in all of its major halls including the Beijing Center for Performing Arts, Shanghai Oriental Arts Theater and Tianjin Grand Theater; debuts at the Festival Internacional de Piano in Mexico, the Fazioli Series in Italy, Israel’s Tel Aviv Museum, Portland Piano Festival, Camerata Pacifica and a collaboration with the contemporary dance company, Bodytraffic at the Broad Stage. She has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Concert Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Salle Cortot in Paris, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall and at many important festivals such as Verbier, Mondo Musica Cremona, Gilmore, Newport Classical and the Peninsula Music Festival where she has appeared frequently , Music in the Mountains, Brevard, Taos, the International Keyboard Festival in New York, Bargemusic Here and Now, and Chautauqua. Since her acclaimed teenage debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Harvey Felder she has been regularly engaged as a concerto soloist: Rachmaninoff 2nd concerto with Dmitry Sitkovetsky and the Greensboro Symphony, Gershwin with Daniel Meyer and the Erie Symphony, Clara Schumann with Erin Freeman at the Wintergreen Festival, Beethoven 3rd with the Williamsburg Symphony, Prokofiev 1 and 3 with Victor Yampolsky and the Peninsula Festival Orchestra, Tchaikovsky 1 with Robert Moody and the Memphis Symphony, and numerous concerti under the batons of such renowned conductors as Leonard Slatkin, Keith Lockhart, Edward Polochick, and Neal Stuhlberg, as well as important emerging conductors like Thomas Heuser and Yaniv Attar.

Inquisitive and versatile, Inna Faliks has had a strong commitment to contemporary music, giving premieres of works composed for and dedicated to her by Timo Andres, Billy Childs, Richard Danielpour, Paola Prestini, Ljova, Clarice Assad, Peter Golub. Her newest CD recording , “Manuscripts Don’t Burn” on Sono Luminus, was featured on NPR Morning Edition in May 2024. Her most personal recording, the disc features five world premieres composed for Faliks by Clarice Assad, Mike Garson, Veronika Krausas, Ljova and Maya Miro Johnson, as well as Schubert-Liszt, Fazil Say and Fanny Mendelssohn, featuring music for solo piano and spoken word. In her “Reimagine Beethoven and Ravel” performance project and recording, nine contemporary composes responded to Beethoven Bagatelles and Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit. “13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg” included new variations by contemporary composers based on Bach’s Goldberg Variations. This season, she gave the world premiere of Clarice Assad’s “Lilith” concerto, composed for her. Ljova’s “Voices” for piano and historical recording was composed for her and commissioned by the Milken Center of American Jewish Music in 2020.

Faliks created a one-woman show “Polonaise-Fantasie, Story of a Pianist”, an autobiographical monologue for pianist and actress, premiered in New York’s Symphony Space and performed worldwide. A committed chamber musician, she has had notable collaborations with Rachel Barton Pine, Gilbert Kalish, Ron Leonard, Fred Sherry, Ilya Kaler, Colin Carr, Wendy Warner, Clive Greensmith, and Antonio Lysy, among many others.

Inna Faliks has been featured on radio and television throughout the world. She co-starred with Downton Abbey’s Lesley Nicol in “Admission – One Shilling,” a play for pianist and actor based on the life of the great British pianist, Dame Myra Hess.

Her CD releases, Reimagine: Beethoven and Ravel on Navona Records and The Schumann Project Volume 1, on MSR Classics, received rave reviews, and were named to several “best of 2021” lists. With her all-Beethoven CD release on MSR, WTTW called Faliks “High priestess of the piano, concert pianist of the highest order, as dramatic and subtle as a great stage actor.” Sound of Verse, was released in 2009, featuring music of Boris Pasternak, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. “Polonaise-Fantasie, Story of a Pianist” on Delos captures her autobiographical monologue-recital with short piano works from Bach to Carter.

Faliks is founder and curator of Music/Words, an award-winning poetry-music series: performances in collaboration with distinguished poets. Her long-standing relationship with Chicago’s WFMT radio has led to multiple broadcasts of Music/Words, which she produced alongside some of the nation’s most recognized poets in performances throughout the United States.

A past winner of many prestigious competitions, Inna Faliks is currently Professor of Piano and Head of Piano at UCLA. She is in demand as Artist Teacher and is frequently invited to judge competitions and give masterclasses at major conservatories and universities. As a writer, she has been published by the LA Times and Washington Post. During Covid, she started a weekly online recital series, Corona Fridays, featuring children’s concerts, new music, and poetry.

Inna Faliks is a Yamaha Artist.

Inna Faliks

Daniel Ericourt Artist Residency in PIano

The Ericourt Residency honors the artistry of the great French pianist Daniel Ericourt (1903-1998), who held the position of Artist in Residence at the UNCG School of Music from 1963 through 1976. His legacy as an artist teacher is documented by one of his former students, Dr. Judy Hutton, in her 1993 DMA treatise. In 1994, at the age of ninety, Ericourt played a memorable all-Debussy recital as the guest artist for the UNCG Focus on Piano Literature symposium. His recordings of the complete piano music of Debussy were reissued on the Ivory Classics label in 2003 to honor the centenary of his birth.

The Ericourt Residency was founded in 2007 through a gift from Mr. Bill Heins, a friend of Daniel Ericourt and a cousin of Mr. Ericourt’s widow Jayne Winfield Ericourt. Jayne continues to be a beloved presence at many School of Music keyboard events.

Since its founding in 2007, the Ericourt Residency has brought these renowned artists to UNCG: José Feghali, Jon Nakamatsu, Jacques Després, Pascal Rogé, David Owen Norris, Charles Richard-Hamelin, Daria Rabotkina, Craig Sheppard, Lydia Artymiw, and Sara Davis Buechner.
