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SUMMARY:Bridges • Maxwell Banyas and Grayson Varn\, composers
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SUMMARY:Davis Lingner\, cello
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LOCATION:Organ Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
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SUMMARY:Albert Lau\, percussion
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SUMMARY:Jasper Sonkiss\, bassoon
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LOCATION:Organ Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alan Cota-Leija\, percussion
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URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/alan-cota-leija-percussion/
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SUMMARY:Shelby Perez-Hendricks\, percussion
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URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/shelby-perez-hendricks-percussion/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cole Agostinelli\, horn
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URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/cole-agostinelli-horn/
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SUMMARY:Alyssa Faith Hall\, harp
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URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/alyssa-faith-hall-harp/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
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SUMMARY:North Carolina All-State Honors Bands
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LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mycah Johnson\, drumset
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LOCATION:Music 110\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
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SUMMARY:School of Music Degree Recognition Ceremony
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LOCATION:First Baptist Church\, 1000 W Friendly Ave\, Greensboro\, North Carolina\, 27401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linxi Zhao\, collaborative piano
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SUMMARY:Quan Cheng\, collaborative piano
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SUMMARY:Bradley Taylor\, bassoon
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SUMMARY:Casella Sinfonietta
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/SfHopSvdivI\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorLindsay Kesselman\, soprano \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nSTEVE REICHDouble Sextet (2009) \n\n\n\nFastSlowFast \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARIA SCHNEIDERWinter Morning Walks (2013/2025)trans. Andrew Keiser \n\n\n\nWalking By FlashlightI Saw a Dust Devil This MorningMy Wife and I Walk the Cold RoadHow Important it Must Be \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAARON COPLANDAppalachian Spring (1944) \n\n\n\nChoreography by Martha GrahamMusic by Aaron CoplandDanced by Martha Graham\, Stuart Hodes\, Bertram Ross\, Matt Turney\, Helen McGehee\, Ethel Winter\, Miriam Cole\, YurikoProduced by Nathan KrollCourtesy of Martha Graham ResourcesFilmed and Produced by Metropolitan Pittsburgh Educational Television (1958) \n\n\n\nThe copyright for Appalachian Spring is held by the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance. No reproduction any kind is allowed without permission from the Center. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Program\n“Don’t get me wrong. Berg\, Schoenberg\, and Webern were very great composers. They gave expression to the emotional climate of their time. But for composers today to recreate the angst of ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ in Ohio\, or in the back of a Burger King\, is simply a joke.” \n\n\n\n— Steve Reich (1986) \n\n\n\nTitled “Prized Compositions\,” tonight’s faculty and student side-by-side concert features two Pulitzer Prize–winning compositions in Steve Reich’s Double Sextet and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and a GRAMMY Award–winning composition in Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks. However\, beyond their award-winning appeal and framed by Steve Reich’s 1986 quote\, these pieces also offer a perspective on access and belonging in the concert hall. Given that\, a better title for this concert might be: “Popular Compositions.” \n\n\n\nWritten in 2008\, Steve Reich’s Double Sextet is a classic example of minimalism. Minimalism began in the mid-1960s as a reaction against some of the more “extreme” movements of the mid-20th century including the total serialism of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen and the indeterminacy of John Cage. As opposed to other modernist movements that explore an expansion or even destruction of 19th-century musical language\, minimalism embraces relatively straightforward rhythmic\, pitch\, formal\, and harmonic materials as well as non-Western and popular music. This approach to composition\, which emphasizes accessibility to audiences\, stands in direct opposition to a central tenet of many modernist movements which is clearly articulated in Milton Babbitt’s 1958 article/manifesto “Who Cares if You Listen?”  In the essay\, Babbitt describes “modern” music (modern for 1958\, at least) as “…for\, of\, and by specialists” thereby explicitly denying the average listener access. Minimalism rejects this principle on its face and instead creates music which is “spun out” from a germinal cell and\, through repetition and gradual change\, is clearly revealed to the listener. In Reich’s words\, “[w]hat I’m interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one and the same thing.” In this way\, minimalist music is often viewed as more listener-centric when compared to other streams of modernist music which seem more composer-centric. Or put differently\, music that could be performed in the back of a Burger King. \n\n\n\nWinner of the 2013 GRAMMY® for Best Classical Contemporary Composition\, Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks is a contemporary song cycle based on the poetry of Ted Kooser. Typically\, when audiences think of song cycles\, they imagine pieces like Franz Schubert’s Winterreise or Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe\, both 19th-century mainstays. If anything\, though\, Schneider’s offering to the genre is more Sondheim than Schumann. Rather than distancing herself from the audience\, Schneider’s musical language freely synthesizes elements of classical music\, jazz\, and musical theater to create an intimate landscape that is uniquely accessible\, personal\, and touching. \n\n\n\nAaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring (1943) is the most famous work from the composer’s third period: his so-called populist or Americana period of the 1940s. While Copland’s work prior to 1940 tended towards abstraction\, his work in the 1940s represents a more direct and accessible form of expression. As Copland described in Our New Music (1941): \n\n\n\nDuring these years [the 1930s]\, I began to feel an increasing dissatisfaction with the relations of the music-loving public and the living composer. The old “special” public of the modern music concerts had fallen away\, and the conventional concert public continue apathetic or indifferent to anything but the established classics. It seemed to me that we composers were in danger of working in a vacuum. Moreover\, an entirely new public for music had grown up around the radio and the phonograph. It made no sense to ignore them and to continue writing as if they did not exist. I felt that it was worth the effort to see if I couldn’t say what I had to say in the simplest possible terms. \n\n\n\nSubtitled “Ballet for Martha\,” Appalachian Spring also bears direct connection to Martha Graham\, the founder of the Martha Graham Dance Company which will celebrate its centennial in 2026. Like Reich\, Schneider\, and Copland\, Graham offers a kind of natural and accessible technique albeit in a very different context. While audiences may find Graham’s choreography to be abstract and inaccessible\, it must be considered in contrast to classical ballet technique. In classical ballet\, the dancer is in a constant state of suspension while they hold themselves up (quite unnaturally) against the forces of gravity. By contrast\, Graham’s technique and other schools of modern dance focus on the relationship between the dancer and gravity\, a form of tension and release as the dancer works within the constraints of a natural force. In that sense\, it is Graham’s floorwork and use of falling techniques that offers the dance a different kind of “natural” than classical ballet. Specifically with regards to Appalachian Spring\, Graham’s choreography also incorporated folk dancing including square dance\, skips\, paddle turns\, and curtsies\, to complement the populist and folk elements found in Copland’s score and the ballet’s dramatic narrative. \n\n\n\nQuestions like “Who belongs in this space?” and “For whom is this music written?” are certainly not new for classical musicians. Tonight’s concert offers four different answers to those questions about belonging from Steve Reich\, Maria Schneider\, Aaron Copland\, and Martha Graham. But we may be asking the wrong question. Using Reich’s framework\, perhaps the question would better be posed as “Is this music giving expression to the emotional climate of our time?” If that is the question\, this evening’s concert should hopefully yield a satisfactory answer. \n\n\n\nThe following people contributed significant time and effort to support tonight’s concert. Thank you to each of them. \n\n\n\n\nIan Jones\n\n\n\nShar Joyner\n\n\n\nDennis Hopson\n\n\n\nBrad McMillan\n\n\n\nMark Engebretson\n\n\n\nAlly Harvel and the UNCG Electronic Music Studio\n\n\n\nAndrew Keiser and Maria Schneider\n\n\n\nMolly Allman\, Jaden Brown\, Jordan Owen\, and Patty Saunders\n\n\n\nJoyce Herring\, Raíssa de Sousa Lima\, and Antonio Fini (Martha Graham Dance Company)\n\n\n\nNick Nosko (WQED)\n\n\n\n\nFunding for tonight’s performance was provided\, in part\, by the John R. Locke Endowment for Excellence in Music fund. For more information on giving to the UNCG School of Music\, please visit https://vpa.uncg.edu/music/giving/ \n\n\n\n\nProgram Notes\nDouble Sextet\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are two identical sextets in Double Sextet. Each one is comprised of flute\, clarinet\, vibraphone\, piano\, violin and cello. Doubling the instrumentation was done so that\, as in so many of my earlier works\, two identical instruments could interlock to produce one overall pattern. For example\, in this piece you will hear the pianos and vibes interlocking in a highly rhythmic way to drive the rest of the ensemble. \n\n\n\nThe piece can be played in two ways; either with 12 musicians\, or with six playing against a recording of themselves. \n\n\n\nThe idea of a single player playing against a recording of themselves goes all the way back to Violin Phase of 1967 and extends though Vermont Counterpoint (1982)\, New York Counterpoint (1985)\, Electric Counterpoint (1987) and Cello Counterpoint (2003). The expansion of this idea to an entire chamber ensemble playing against pre-recordings of themselves begins with Different Trains (1988) and continues with Triple Quartet (1999) and now to Double Sextet. By doubling an entire chamber ensemble one creates the possibility for multiple simultaneous contrapuntal webs of identical instruments. In Different Trains and Triple Quartet all instruments are strings to produce one large string fabric. In Double Sextet there is more timbral variety through the interlocking of six different pairs of percussion\, string and wind instruments. \n\n\n\nThe piece is in three movements fast\, slow\, fast and within each movement there are four harmonic sections built around the keys of D\, F\, A-flat and B [Major] or their relative minor keys B\, D \, F and G-sharp. As in almost all my music\, modulations from one key to the next are sudden\, clearly setting off each new section. \n\n\n\nDouble Sextet is about 22 minutes long and was completed in October 2007. It was commissioned by eighth blackbird and received its world premiere by that group at the University of Richmond in Virginia on March 26\, 2008. \n\n\n\n— Steve Reich \n\n\n\nWinter Walks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese nine poems were selected from Ted Kooser’s wonderful book\, Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison. \n\n\n\nThey were written during his recovery from treatment for cancer\, after he began taking two mile walks each morning. He’d been told to stay out of the sun for a year because of skin sensitivity\, so he exercised before dawn\, hiking the isolated country roads near his home in Garland\, Nebraska. He sometimes walked with his wife but most often alone.  \n\n\n\nDuring the previous summer\, depressed and preoccupied\, he’d stopped writing. But as that winter (1998) approached\, his health began to improve. One November morning\, following his walk\, he tried his hand at a poem\, and soon was writing every day. \n\n\n\nAs he wrote in his foreword to Winter Morning Walks\, “Several years before\, my friend Jim Harrison and I had carried on a correspondence in haiku. As a variation on this\, I began pasting my morning poems on postcards and sending them to Jim\, whose generosity\, patience and good humor are here acknowledged. What follows is a selection of one hundred of those postcards.” \n\n\n\nThese poems feel so like home to me\, connecting with my southwest Minnesota roots at so many different levels\, that I find it almost astonishing. There’s nothing to explain about this music\, except to say it was very hard to pick which poems from Ted Kooser’s Winter Morning Walks I would choose. I could have gone on composing more\, and someday hopefully will. \n\n\n\nThese poems were originally titled with the date\, for instance Perfectly Still This Solstice Morning was titled December 21\, Clear and five degrees. I changed the titles\, as the dates were no longer chronological once musical considerations for song ordering entered the picture. But it did feel natural to open with the poem he wrote on the winter solstice\, and to close with the poem he wrote on the vernal equinox\, which seemed like the perfectly natural way to bookend Winter Morning Walks. \n\n\n\n— Maria Schneider \n\n\n\nAppalachian Spring\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSome of Copland’s most populist “American” music was produced during the Depression and war years\, including the overtly patriotic morale boosters Lincoln Portrait and Fanfare for the Common Man. Appalachian Spring capped a trilogy of dance interpretations of the American frontier spirit\, beginning with Billy the Kid (1938) and continuing with Rodeo (1942). This was music that created the concert and theater equivalent of the poignant “high lonesome” bluegrass sound emerging at the same time\, music of open chords and spare textures that often drew on traditional sources.  \n\n\n\nAppalachian Spring was commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge for Martha Graham. Copland began work on Graham’s then-untitled scenario in Hollywood in June 1943\, completing the ballet a year later in Cambridge\, MA. “After Martha gave me this bare outline\, I knew certain crucial things—that it had to do with the pioneer American spirit\, with youth and spring\, with optimism and hope\,” Copland later wrote.   \n\n\n\nGraham took the eventual title from “The Dance\,” a poem by Hart Crane\, though not the narrative of an Appalachian housewarming for a pioneer and his bride. Copland originally scored the ballet for an ensemble of 13 instruments\, since the premiere was in the small Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress (with Graham herself as the Bride\, Erick Hawkins as the Husbandman\, and Merce Cunningham as the Revivalist). In the spring of 1945 he arranged a suite from the ballet for full orchestra\, which won the Pulitzer Prize for music that year.  \n\n\n\nO Appalachian Spring! I gained the ledge;Steep\, inaccessible smile that eastward bendsAnd northward reaches in that violet wedgeOf Adirondacks!—wisped of azure wands\, \n\n\n\n— from “The Dance\,” Hart Crane \n\n\n\nGraham told Copland that she wanted the dance to be “a legend of American living\, like a bone structure\, the inner frame that holds together a people\,” and the ballet and its music were immediately understood as reflections of a national identity\, of hope and fulfillment in a difficult time. “… the Spring that is being celebrated is not just any Spring but the Spring of America; and the celebrants are not just half a dozen individuals but ourselves in different phases\,” John Martin wrote in his New York Times review.  \n\n\n\n— John Henken  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\nLindsay Kesselman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLindsay Kesselman is a twice 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 written for her by living composers. She is a passionate advocate for contemporary music\, and has commissioned/premiered over 100 works to date.   \n\n\n\nRecent and upcoming highlights include performances of Darkening\, then Brightening by Christopher Cerrone across the country\, National CBDNA with the UNC Greensboro Wind Ensemble\, premieres of wind transcriptions of Caroline Shaw’s Is a Rose and Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks\, Pierrot Lunaire with Ensemble ATL\, Energy in All Directions by Kenneth Frazelle with Sandbox Percussion at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center\, the role of Anna in Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins with the Charlotte Symphony\, 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 (2012–15).  \n\n\n\nShe is featured on several recent recordings\, including: David Biedenbender’s all we are given we cannot hold (2023\, Blue Griffin)\, Chris Cerrone’s opera In a Grove (2023\, In a Circle Records)\, Caroline Shaw’s Is a Rose (2023\, Blue Griffin)\, Chris Cerrone’s The Arching Path (2021\, In a Circle Records)\, and Louis Andriessen’s Theatre of the World with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (2017\, Nonesuch).  \n\n\n\nKesselman is Assistant Professor of Voice and Choral Music at UNC Greensboro and co-directs the Heretic’s Guide to Musicianship with Kevin Noe. She 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\, NC with her husband Kevin Noe and son Rowan. \n\n\n\n\nPersonnel\nFluteErika Boysen*Amrutha KoteeswaranJoeli Schilling \n\n\n\nOboeKristen Daniel \n\n\n\nClarinetConcetta BrehmerLuke Ellard*Cat Keen Hock*Sarah Lucas-PageTaylor StirmAnthony Taylor* \n\n\n\nBassoonEmily KlinkoskiAngela MorettiRyan Reynolds* \n\n\n\nSaxophoneRobert Young* \n\n\n\nTrumpetNinon Kirchman \n\n\n\nHornAbigail Pack* \n\n\n\nEuphoniumJohn Cowger \n\n\n\nPercussionShunan GuiJoe TurnerEric Willie* \n\n\n\nHarpAlyssa Hall \n\n\n\nPianoAngelita BerdialesJim Douglass*Annie Jeng*Matthew Roxas \n\n\n\nViolinMarjorie Bagley*Xin-Yu ChangChloe LiFabián López*Yi-Ju ShihSiana Wong \n\n\n\nViolaSarah BahinScott Rawls* \n\n\n\nCelloAlex Ezerman*Davis LingnerCori Trenczer \n\n\n\nDouble BassZach Hobin*Jack Hopper \n\n\n\n* School of Music Faculty/Staff \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Bands\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nThrough 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. \n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Bands\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Notes\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/casella-sinfonietta-sxs/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094352
CREATED:20250902T141054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250907T184222Z
UID:10003389-1757619000-1757624400@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Ethno USA
DESCRIPTION:Ethno is JM International’s program for folk\, world and traditional music. Founded in 1990\, it is aimed at young musicians (up to the age of 30) with a mission to revive and keep alive global cultural heritage. \n\n\n\nPresent today in over 40 countries and on all 6 continents\, Ethno engages young people through a series of annual international music camps as well as workshops\, concerts and tours\, working together with schools\, conservatories and other groups of youth to promote peace\, tolerance and understanding. \n\n\n\nAt the core of Ethno is its democratic\, peer to peer learning approach whereby young people teach each other the music from their countries and cultures. It is a non-formal pedagogy that has been refined over the past 33 years\, embracing the principles of intercultural dialogue and understanding. Ethno provides a unique opportunity for young people from across the globe to come together and engage through music in a manner that is characterised by respect\, generosity and openness. \n\n\n\nThe goal of Ethno is to inspire musicians through these interactions to deepen their musical interests and to build a global network that supports their careers. Each Ethno music camp combines workshops\, jam sessions\, rehearsals and performances that enable participants to develop both personal and professional skills. Through Ethno\, musicians gain a greater understanding of each other’s cultures. At Ethno\, music is a powerful tool that fosters inclusion\, understanding and acceptance. \n\n\n\n\nAdditional EVENT\nMasterclass Thursday\, September 114:00 pm | Tew Recital Hall \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/ethno-usa-2/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094352
CREATED:20250822T135532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250913T132323Z
UID:10003376-1758051000-1758056400@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Clarinet Showcase
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/ubrrIzOq7lM?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/graduate-clarinet-showcase-2/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094352
CREATED:20250813T143313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250822T133017Z
UID:10003347-1758310200-1758317400@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Rahsaan Barber Quintet
DESCRIPTION:Since earning a Master’s Degree in Jazz Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in 2005\, Rahsaan Barber has set out on a singular path of musical excellence in performance\, composition\, education\, and entrepreneurship. Rahsaan enjoys a career that encompasses an ever-expanding range of musical styles\, including jazz\, blues\, funk\, classical\, fusion\, soul\, Latin\, and world music. \n\n\n\nRahsaan’s passionate\, sincere\, and studious approach to music-making has garnered professional appearances onstage alongside such heavyweights as Christian McBride\, Brian Blade\, the Temptations\, Delfeayo Marsalis\, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra\, Duffy Jackson\, Winard Harper\, Kirk Franklin\, Meghan Trainor and the Wooten Brothers. The saxophonist has performed on many of the world’s most prestigious stages for music including The Ryman\, The Village Vanguard\, Birdland\, Lincoln Center\, the Kennedy Center\, the Montreux Jazz Festival\, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Rahsaan joined the ranks of the nation’s rising jazz stars as the leader of his own quintet\, Everyday Magic\, and co-leader of the groundbreaking Nashville-based Latin-jazz septet El Movimiento. Rahsaan has entered the ranks of the nation’s premier jazz artists following several celebrated releases\, most recently including “Mosaic\,” a double-disc collection of original works released in April of 2021\, featuring trumpeter Nathan Warner and trombonist Roland Barber\, Rahsaan’s twin brother. Prior to the release of “Mosaic\,” Barber received critical acclaim for “The Music In The Night” (2017) and “Everyday Magic\,” (2011) both released on the saxophonist’s record label\, Jazz Music City\, which he founded to showcase his hometown’s (Nashville\, TN) diverse and impressive musical talent. In addition to his own jazz outfits\, the saxophonist founded The Nashville Salsa Machine in 2016\, a twelve-member ensemble featuring Music City’s most celebrated Latin-music performers. Barber is also an in-demand saxophonist for recording sessions and touring work\, most recently completing a year-long tour with pop icon Kelly Clarkson and multiple tours with Lauren Daigle. \n\n\n\nRahsaan currently serves as Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies and Saxophone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Barber has taught extensively at the collegiate level for over a decade\, including six years of instruction at Belmont University\, where he began his collegiate teaching career as instructor jazz and classical saxophone\, jazz ensembles\, and commercial music styles at the impressive age of twenty-five. Barber has given masterclasses and concerts at multiple Jazz Education Network conferences and at numerous colleges and universities\, including the University of Tennessee at Knoxville\, the University of Memphis\, Lipscomb University\, UNC-Pembroke\, UNC-Wilmington\, Indiana University\, The University of Wisconsin (OshKosh)\, the University of Evansville\, and many more. In addition\, Rahsaan has served as Vice-President of the Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society and as a board member for the Nashville Jazz Workshop’s Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion panel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n UNCG offers the following degree programs for students interested in studying Jazz: \n\n\n\n\nBachelor of Music (B.M.) – Performance\n\n\n\nPost-Baccalaureate Certificate in Jazz Studies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Event\nMasterclass3:00 pm\, Organ Hall \n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/rahsaan-barber-quintet/
LOCATION:Organ Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250922T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250922T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094352
CREATED:20250910T203930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T182807Z
UID:10003396-1758569400-1758574800@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Adam Frey\, euphonium
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/Y834VVlhA80?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Frey travels the globe sharing his talents as a performer and advocate for live music. 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\, Columbia\, Peru\, Australia\, Russia\, Finland\, China\, Germany\, Hong Kong\, and the United States. \n\n\n\nAdam 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.  \n\n\n\nA 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 twenty works that have been composed or specifically arranged for him.  Most are published by Euphonium.com Publications\, Pinnacle Brass Publications\, and Absolute Brass.com.  \n\n\n\nFor 17 years\, Adam has hosted the International Euphonium Tuba (IET) Festival at Emory University. This event each June hosts more than 175 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 \n\n\n\nAdam Frey is also Associate Professor at the University of North Georgia. His website\, www.euphonium.com\, contains sound files\, performance schedules\, photos from his world travels\, and his recordings and publications.  \n\n\n\nAdam Frey is a Yamaha Performing Artist and Guest Clinician. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/adam-frey-euphonium-2/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094352
CREATED:20250903T190658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T183040Z
UID:10003390-1758648600-1758654000@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Studio Voice Recital
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/qDEC73okv9U?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/studio-voice-recital-13/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094352
CREATED:20250812T184744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T183832Z
UID:10003345-1758655800-1758661200@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Luke Ellard\, clarinet
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/NgJe10aNkHw?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClarinetist\, composer\, educator\, and new music collaborator Luke Ellard strives for art that continually reaches out\, valuing a relational spirit\, informed engagement\, and unapologetic authenticity.   \n\n\n\nFor 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.   \n\n\n\nDr. 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).    \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/luke-ellard-clarinet/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094352
CREATED:20250731T142239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T164955Z
UID:10003299-1758742200-1758749400@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Jazz Ensembles I and II: All Blues
DESCRIPTION:The Miles Davis Jazz Studies program begin their 2025-26 season at The Crown with “All Blues!” This concert celebrates the blues in all its forms – from the vocal prowess of Aretha Franklin to the energetic complexity of John Coltrane. Jazz Ensembles I and II will set your soul on fire in this very special concert. Get your tickets now\, because they ALWAYS sell out! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n UNCG offers the following degree programs for students interested in studying Jazz: \n\n\n\n\nBachelor of Music (B.M.) – Performance\n\n\n\nPost-Baccalaureate Certificate in Jazz Studies\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicketPriceAdult$16.20Seniors$10.20Military$10.20Students$10.20Ticket prices include a $3.00 processing fee and applicable sales tax.\n\n\n\n\nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/jazz-ensembles-i-and-ii-all-blues/
LOCATION:The Crown at the Carolina Theatre\, 310 S Greene St\, Greensboro\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094352
CREATED:20250812T181253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T023349Z
UID:10003344-1758828600-1758834000@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Robert Young\, saxophone
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/RBP9-DLsyog?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFueled by a deep desire to create an enthusiasm surrounding the classical saxophone\, Dr. Robert Young connects with audiences with his musicianship\, virtuosity\, and authenticity. Praised for his “effortless expression and facile technique” (The Saxophonist Magazine)\, Robert maintains an active career as a soloist\, chamber musician\, and educator. His artistry has afforded him opportunities to appear with ensembles and musicians from across the globe including the PRISM Quartet\, The Crossing\, Chris Potter\, Ravi Coltrane\, Uri Caine\, Charlotte Symphony\, Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings\, and the Charleston (SC) Symphony Orchestra.  \n\n\n\nAs a chamber musician\, Robert collaborated with The Crossing and performed alongside the PRISM Quartet on the GRAMMY Award-winning album Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century (available on ECM Recordings). The New York Times praised the collective performance on this album as “superb”and “eloquent.” Young has appeared with the PRISM Quartet on numerous concerts including residencies at the Curtis Institute\, Shepherd School of Music (Rice University)\, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He can be heard on several albums with this notable ensemble including The Curtis Project\, Heritage/Evolution\, Volume 2\, and The Book of Days.  \n\n\n\nAppearing with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra as soloist in the 2023-24 season\, he was hailed as “uncommonly expressive…and technically prodigious” (San Francisco Classical Voice) for his performance of Guillaume Connesson’s acrobatic concerto\, A Kind of Trane. He has also been a soloist with the United States Navy Band\, performing Quicksilver by Chicago-based composer Stacy Garrop\, and has been featured as a soloist with the Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra\, Piedmont Wind Symphony\, UNCSA Symphony\, and Zagreb Soloists (Croatia). \n\n\n\nRobert holds a teaching position at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as Assistant Professor of Saxophone. Young’s students have received honors at several local\, regional and national competitions and have been featured at several clinics and conferences throughout the country. He previously has served on the faculties of the UNC School of the Arts\, The Crane School of Music – SUNY Potsdam\, and Wichita State University. Young is often invited to give guest lectures and classes throughout the country. In Fall 2022\, Robert was invited as be a guest teacher for the renowned University of Michigan saxophone studio as a sabbatical replacement for the award-winning saxophonist Timothy McAllister. \n\n\n\nRobert earned his Doctor of Musical Arts (2011) and Master of Music (2008) degrees in saxophone performance from the University of Michigan where he studied with Professor Donald Sinta. At the University of Michigan\, he studied jazz saxophone with Dr. Andrew Bishop and was a recipient of the Lawrence Teal Fellowship. Young received a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina (2006) in saxophone performance where he studied with Dr. Clifford Leaman.  \n\n\n\nAs a Conn-Selmer Artist\, Robert Young plays exclusively on Selmer saxophones. He also serves as a D’Addario artist/clinician and endorses Key Leaves products. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/robert-young-saxophone/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094352
CREATED:20250810T213934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T184830Z
UID:10003341-1758915000-1758922200@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Aaron Goldberg
DESCRIPTION:featuring Garrett Arellano\, Chad Eby\, Brevan Hampden\, and Thomas Heflin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/n8l7Cs68C00?feature=share\n\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n UNCG offers the following degree programs for students interested in studying Jazz: \n\n\n\n\nBachelor of Music (B.M.) – Performance\n\n\n\nPost-Baccalaureate Certificate in Jazz Studies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/aaron-goldberg/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094352
CREATED:20250910T193321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T210953Z
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SUMMARY:mOthertongue: Lived Experience in Asian America
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/W5r6deD2y7k?feature=share\n\n\n\n\nmOthertongue: Lived Experience in Asian America\n\n\n\nJennifer Lien\, sopranoAnnie Jeng\, piano \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExotic landscapes. Virtuous\, submissive\, sexualized women. Ineffective\, emasculated\, villainous men. These images of Asia have long been a staple of the European imagination\, whether in colonial-era art song\, grand Italian opera\, film\, or television. Here\, in the 21st century\, these stereotypes about Americans of Asian descent persist (see: pandemic-era anti-Asian hate).   \n\n\n\nI believe that the way to challenge outdated cultural ideas is by sharing new art with fresh cultural ideas. I wanted to perform songs that assert the Asian American lived experience\, from the perspective of those of us who live it. But when I went looking for songs by Asian American composers set to contemporary Asian American texts\, I came up empty. So I reached out to Chen\, Dunphy\, and Sankaram\, three Asian American women composers in their prime who also write beautifully for the voice. To my surprise\, all three readily agreed to my proposal.   \n\n\n\nThe new songs on today’s program express the joys\, pains\, contradictions\, and pride we experience as Asians living in this land we call home. I am struck by the recurring themes that resonate across the three song cycles: colonization; cultural shame; living in between cultures; culture loss; microaggression; pride. To sing these truths is to find and reclaim power that has been lost somewhere along the way.  \n\n\n\nMy deepest gratitude goes to Justine\, Melissa\, Kamala\, and the poet Ophelia Hu Kinney; to Sam Martin of Cincinnati Song Initiative for recognizing the importance of this project and co-commissioning these songs with me; to the Minnesota State Arts Board for awarding me a Creative Individuals grant in 2024; to all my Asian American pianist partners on this project\, in particular Annie Jeng here in North Carolina; and to all the host institutions welcoming this project to their concert stages.  \n\n\n\nMy wish for this project is that these songs feed the hunger of singers for repertoire that expresses their lived experience\, and inspire marginalized composers to create works that assert their truths\, take up space\, and shift the cultural needle in the right direction. Our stories are all American stories. To answer the question in Chen’s second song: All of us belong here.  \n\n\n\n— Jennifer Lien  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nkeyboard\, music\, piano\, student recital\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/mothertongue-lived-experience-in-asian-america/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T173000
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SUMMARY:Garrett Klein\, Abigail Pack\, and Marya Fancey
DESCRIPTION:Trumpet artist Garrett Klein has garnered an international reputation for his varied performing career and dedicated teaching. He is currently serving as Associate 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.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Abigail Pack\, Professor of Horn at UNCG and a native of Roanoke\, Virginia\, received her training from East Carolina University (BMA)\, University of Iowa (MM)\, and University of Wisconsin-Madison (DMA) where she was a Bolz Teaching Fellow.  Before assuming her current position at UNCG she was horn faculty at James Madison University from 2001 to 2008.  She has also been on faculty at Knox College in Galesburg\, Il\, Western State College in Gunnison\, CO and in the Gunnison Watershed School District.  An avid symphony player Dr. Pack has held positions with the Barton Symphony Orchestra\, Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra\, Des Moines Symphony Orchestra\, Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra\, Green-Bay Symphony Orchestra\, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and currently has a position with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra\, the Southwest Chamber Orchestra\, the Greensboro Opera\, Amici Musicorum (chamber orchestra)\,  and the Opera Roanoke Orchestra.  Other orchestral subbing engagements include the Greensboro Symphony\, Winston Salem Symphony\, and the Charlotte Symphony. Other venues have included performances with the Western Piedmont Wind Symphony\, North Carolina Brass Band\, the Iowa Brass Quintet\, Western Slope Brass Band\, and Massanutten Brass Band.  Performance and presentation highlights include the National Flute Association (Washington DC with the Montpelier Winds)\, the International Horn Symposium (University of Cape Town\, South Africa\, Ithaca\, NY\, Montreal\, Canada)\, the International Midwest Band and Orchestra Conference (Chicago 2009\, 2022)\, International Double Reed Society (Athens\, GA)\, Western International Band Clinic (2022)\, the American Band College (2017\, 2021\, 2024) and The Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts (Washington).  She is a founding member of System 5 Brass Quintet and CORalina Horn Quartet and can be heard on the Centaur label. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScholar-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. \n\n\n\nHer 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). \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nMarya 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nkeyboard\, music\, piano\, student recital\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/garrett-klein-abigail-pack-and-marya-fancey/
LOCATION:Organ Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094352
CREATED:20250529T194701Z
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SUMMARY:Sinfonia
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/PjFvnxPyjbs?feature=share\n\n\n\n\nScott Glasser\, conductor \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Program\n \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Orchestras\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nStudents 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nkeyboard\, music\, piano\, student recital\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/sinfonia-12/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251002T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251002T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094352
CREATED:20250825T135208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T213222Z
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SUMMARY:Coro di Belle Voci
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/w4LFFoy2M-g?feature=share\n\n\n\n\nLindsay Kesselman\, conductor \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Program\n \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Choirs\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Choirs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nkeyboard\, music\, piano\, student recital\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/coro-di-belle-voci-3/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T210000
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SUMMARY:University Chorale
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/ZMgLbcvDFMg?feature=share\n\n\n\n\nCarole Ott\, conductorKari Adams\, guest conductor \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nKATERINA GIMONElements (2014) \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Program\nElements\n\n\n\nElements is set of choral works that abstractly depict the four classical elements and explores the wide range of capabilities of the human voice – from overtone singing\, to vocal percussion\, to colourful vocal timbres. Elements features no ‘text’ (at least not in the traditional sense)\, rather a series of syllables generated through improvisation meant to evoke the sound and energy of each element. \n\n\n\nElements was premiered in March 2014 by Laurier Singers under Lee Willingham. This set of works is a 2016 SOCAN Young Composers Competition winner\, a 2015 Vancouver Chamber Choir’ Young Composers’ Competition winner\, and a 2014 IAWM Search For New Music winner. \n\n\n\nEarth is a beautiful\, texturally-driven work depicting the simple yet unexplainable beauty of the earth. The work features harmonic overtone singing by a group of soloists; an accessible introduction to overtone singing in a choral setting. \n\n\n\nAir traces the movement from calm breath to thick violent winds. Together singers gradually introduce new sounds and pitches\, building an intricate texture with ever-shifting emphasis. \n\n\n\nFire is a fun\, lively\, and energetic work incorporating vocal percussion\, body percussion\, nasal singing\, calls\, nonsense syllables\, as well as optional percussion. \n\n\n\nWater presents powerful soaring textures and lilting melodies that grow and decay like waves in the ocean. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Choirs\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Choirs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nkeyboard\, music\, piano\, student recital\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/university-chorale-4/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T190000
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SUMMARY:Student Composers Concert
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/ZH57JkDx0u8?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nkeyboard\, music\, piano\, student recital\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/student-composers-concert-2/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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