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SUMMARY:Alan Cota-Leija\, percussion
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URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/alan-cota-leija-percussion/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:School of Music
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SUMMARY:Shelby Perez-Hendricks\, percussion
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URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/alyssa-faith-hall-harp/
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SUMMARY:North Carolina All-State Honors Bands
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SUMMARY:Mycah Johnson\, drumset
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URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/mycah-johnson-drumset/
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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URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/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. 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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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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:20260409T114142
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:20260409T114142
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:20260409T114142
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:20260409T114142
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:20260409T114142
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:20260409T114142
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:20260409T114142
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:20260409T114142
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:20260409T114142
CREATED:20250910T193321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T210953Z
UID:10003395-1759174200-1759179600@vpa.uncg.edu
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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114142
CREATED:20250915T165735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T211046Z
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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Student Composers Concert
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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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SUMMARY:Chamber Singers
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/EW6Xcs1mzuw?feature=share\n\n\n\n\nCarole Ott\, conductorAlexander Ezerman\, celloErika Boysen\, fluteMichaela Kelly\, soprano \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nTHEODORE MORRISONA Chant for Peace in Our Time \n\n\n\nMEIRA WARSHAUERAkhat Sha’alti \n\n\n\nANDREA CLEARFIELDPrayer for the Schechinah \n\n\n\nREENA ESMAILShe Will Transform You \n\n\n\nFRANZ SCHUBERTMirjam’s Siegesgesang \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/chamber-singers-4/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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SUMMARY:Symphonic Band
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/Ca5-DGMkn_I?feature=share\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorStephanie Ycaza\, tuba \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nKEVIN DAYStride (2023) \n\n\n\nIVETTE HERRYMAN RODRÍGUEZSantiago (2019) \n\n\n\nNORMAN DELLO JOIOVariants on a Mediaeval Tune (1963) \n\n\n\nGALA FLAGELLOVitality (2022) \n\n\n\nDREW BONNERDeep\, Dark Night (2019) \n\n\n\nDMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHDance I from Suite for Variety Orchestra (1938) \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Program\nStride (2023)\n\n\n\nKevin Day is a composer\, jazz pianist\, producer\, and conductor who is known to juxtapose diverse musical traditions including contemporary classical\, jazz\, R&B\, and soul with classical composition. His father was a prominent hip-hop producer\, and his mother was a popular gospel singer. Day is one of eight founding members of the Nu Black Vanguard\, a collective dedicated to the advancement of Black composers\, and a graduate of Texas Christian University\, the University of Georgia\, and the University of Miami Frost School of Music. In 2024\, Day joined the faculty at the University of California San Diego as a lecturer in theory and musicianship. \n\n\n\nStride celebrates Day’s college marching band experiences and the idea of walking with confidence and decisiveness to overcome obstacles within one’s path. The piece includes a high energy theme\, a contrasting slower section\, and a return to the theme for an optimistic\, high-energy end. \n\n\n\n— Note by Kevin Day and Patty Saunders \n\n\n\nSantiago (2019)\n\n\n\nIvette Herryman Rodríguez\, a Cuban-born composer\, often incorporates elements of Cuban musical traditions into her work. Santiago takes its name from Santiago de Cuba\, a city renowned for its vibrant musical life and carnival traditions. At the heart of this culture is the “Comparsa Santiaguera\,” a parade of singers\, dancers\, and musicians that has become a defining feature of the city’s identity. The work celebrates Cuban musical traditions while paying tribute to Santiago de Cuba\, capturing both the spirit of its music and the lively energy of the comparsa. The piece opens with a lyrical statement of the main melody played by the corneta china\, a double-reed instrument with a piercing\, trumpet-like sound that traditionally announces the comparsa. The theme is followed by three titled variations: Variation I: Chorale\, which takes a lyrical approach to the main melody; Variation II: Lullaby and Dance\, which introduces a waltz-like dance; and Variation III: Comparsa\, which fully embraces the celebratory energy of the Cuban carnival.  \n\n\n\n— Note by Ivette Herryman Rodríguez and Molly Allman \n\n\n\nVariants on a Mediaeval Tune (1963)\n\n\n\nNorman Dello Joio\, an American composer best known for his choral works\, came from a musical family and first studied organ with his father before pursuing formal training. He is often identified as a postmodern\, specifically neoromantic\, composer. Postmodernism in music is characterized less by a unified style than by an emphasis on individual expression\, extending modernism’s break from tradition by encouraging composers to reject past conventions and write freely. Neoromanticism is a branch of postmodernism but shows a distinct return to emotional expression in music seen in 19th-century Romanticism.  \n\n\n\nVariants on a Mediaeval Tune premiered on April 10\, 1963\, as Dello Joio’s first original work for band. It is based on a melody titled “In dulci jubilo\,” a traditional Christmas carol\, which acts as the main theme. It includes a brief introduction followed by the theme and five variants that strongly contrast in tempo and character\, fully utilizing the possibilities of the band. The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation commissioned the piece for the Duke University Band with Paul Bryan\, conductor.  \n\n\n\n— Note by Jaden Brown  \n\n\n\nVitality (2022)\n\n\n\nGala Flagello is an American composer\, teacher\, and non-profit director. In 2022\, Flagello was a composition fellow at the Aspen Music Festival. Part of her fellowship requirement was to submit a piece to be read and recorded by the Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra. For this\, Flagello chose to write Vitality. \n\n\n\nFlagello wrote Vitality in 2022 for the Aspen Conducting Academy orchestral readings. It draws inspiration from a quote by Martha Graham\, a renowned American dancer\, teacher\, and choreographer.  \n\n\n\nThere is a vitality\, a life force\, a quickening\, that is translated through you into action\, and because there is only one of you in all time\, this expression is unique. And if you block it\, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.  \n\n\n\nFound in a letter from Graham to fellow dancer and choreographer Agnes De Mille\, this quote contains three ideas: the what\, the how\, and the why. Graham defines the “what” as the universal life-force within each person\, the “how” as its unique expression through individual actions\, and the “why” as the necessity of expression\, since otherwise that force would be lost. Flagello writes that “the piece loosely follows this structure\, musically exploring the prickly and potent glimmers of one’s life force alongside the uncertainty of self-expression and vulnerability.”  \n\n\n\n— Note by Gala Flagello and Jaden Brown \n\n\n\nDeep\, Dark Night (2019) \n\n\n\nDrew Bonner is a composer and euphonium player. As a performer and educator\, he writes for a range of ensembles\, including euphonium quartets and wind bands. Deep\, Dark Night is originally written for solo tuba and British brass band and explores the thoughts and emotions that arise as night falls: moments of reflection\, grief\, anxiety\, and ultimately resilience. The piece captures experiences we have all faced: the quiet heaviness of the mind at night\, as well as the emotional struggles that can accompany it.  \n\n\n\nThe first movement begins with percussion and introduces a four-note motif that recurs throughout. This movement reflects a sense of melancholy and inner weight\, as the motif is developed and varied\, leading to a cadenza that descends into the tuba’s lowest register. The second movement\, “Agitato\,” conveys anger and a willingness to fight\, driving forward with continuous motion through repeated rhythms\, shifting melodies\, and overlapping parts. The main motif reappears in the accompaniment while the soloist rises above it\, creating contrast and ultimately concluding the work with determination and strength.  \n\n\n\n— Note by Tiffany Galus and Molly Allman \n\n\n\nDance I from Suite for Variety Orchestra (ca. 1956)\n\n\n\nDmitry Shostakovich was a highly regarded 20th century Russian composer who lived in the Soviet Union for much of his life. As a composer\, he lived in the shadow of constant criticism and fear from Soviet authorities which dictated the trajectory of his work. When Shostakovich died in Moscow in 1975\, his legacy included a prolific oeuvre that also reflected his personal experience of composing within the context of political oppression. \n\n\n\nDance no. 1 is taken from Shostakovich’s Suite for Variety Orchestra which was compiled by Shostakovich’s colleagues in the 1950s from his film and stage scores. “Dance no. 1” was adapted from “No. 16\, ‘The Market Place’” in Shostakovich’s film score for The Gadfly and is a galloping race from the start. The dance includes a main theme\, a contrasting middle section\, and a return to the opening with whirling\, scalar flourishes in the woodwinds and punctuated brass. \n\n\n\n— Note by Patty Saunders and Gerard McBurney \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\nStephanie Ycaza\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephanie Ycaza is the Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She previously held the position of Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Northern Iowa\, and has also served on the music faculties of Virginia Commonwealth University\, Virginia State University\, Longwood University\, the University of Richmond\, and Shenandoah University. Stephanie is active as a masterclass teacher and as a clinician for middle and high school bands.  \n\n\n\nStephanie is a founding member of Calypsus Brass\, a brass quintet dedicated to performing new works and providing high-quality recordings for composers. Calypsus is committed to promoting the works of composers from historically marginalized groups\, and serves as an Ensemble-in-Residence for Rising Tide Music Press. Stephanie is Principal Tuba of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony\, and has also performed with the Virginia Symphony\, the Williamsburg Symphony\, the Capital Wind Symphony\, and the Virginia Grand Military band. She has also contributed to recording projects at Spacebomb Records in Richmond\, VA. Stephanie’s recent solo performances have focused on music for tuba with electronic accompaniment\, music by women composers\, and her own transcriptions and arrangements for low brass. She has appeared as a soloist at the International Tuba Euphonium Conference\, the Northeast\, Southeast\, and Midwest Regional ITEA Conferences\, the Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Workshop\, and the International Women’s Brass Conference. Stephanie also writes and gives presentations on the topic of mindfulness in the practice and performance of music.  \n\n\n\nStephanie holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Shenandoah University\, a Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from Yale University\, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. She studied with Dr. Ross Walter\, Toby Hanks\, Mike Roylance\, Andrew Hitz\, and Michael Bunn. Stephanie is a Miraphone tuba artist.  \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\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\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\n\nkeyboard\, music\, piano\, student recital\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/symphonic-band-9/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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SUMMARY:Symphony Orchestra: Pines of Rome
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/ttzUdStEcfI?feature=share\n\n\n\n\nJungho Kim\, conductorCori Trenczer\, cello \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nNIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOVCapriccio espagnol\, op. 34 (1887) \n\n\n\nFRANZ JOSEPH HAYDNCello Concerto No. 2 in D Major\, Hob. VIIb/2 (c. 1783)III. Rondo: Allegro \n\n\n\nOTTORINO RESPIGHIPines of Rome\, P 141 (1924) \n\n\n\nI pini di Villa Borghese (The Pines of the Villa Borghese)Pini presso una catacomba (Pines Near a Catacomb)I pini del Gianicolo (The Pines of the Janiculum)I pini della via Appia (The Pines of the Appian Way) \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Program\nCapriccio espagnol\, op. 34\n\n\n\nConsidering the great interest in Spanish music demonstrated by the father of Russian art music\, Mikhail Glinka (Glinka traveled extensively in Spain\, collected folk materials\, and composed pieces based on them)\, it is not surprising that a Glinka disciple such as Rimsky-Korsakov would look for similar geographic sources of inspiration. So it is that the Russian Rimsky-Korsakov conceived a fantasy on Spanish themes; he originally intended it to be for violin and orchestra. As it developed\, however\, the Capriccio espagnol came to be not only a virtuoso work for violin\, but also a work that could rightly be subtitled “Fantasy for violin\, clarinet\, oboe\, flute\, horn\, trumpet (etc.\, etc.).” Which is to say that while the composition’s accent is Spanish\, its emphasis is on solo instrumental virtuosity as well as on the orchestral effulgence that is so typical of Rimsky-Korsakov. \n\n\n\nThe composer himself commented on the dazzling merits of the piece\, saying\, “It is intended as a brilliant composition for the orchestra. The change of timbres\, the felicitous choice of melodic designs and figuration patterns\, exactly suiting each kind of instrument\, brief virtuoso cadenzas for solo instruments\, etc.\, constitute here the very essence of the composition and not its garb or orchestration. The Spanish themes of dance character furnished me with rich material for putting in use multiform orchestral effects. All in all\, the capriccio is undoubtedly a purely external piece\, but vividly brilliant for all that.” \n\n\n\nThe piece is in five sections\, played without pause. \n\n\n\n1. Alborada. This “morning song” begins with eye-opening\, full orchestral thrust\, out of which emerge clarinet and violin solos\, the latter ending the section quietly. \n\n\n\n2. Variations. A simple Spanish folk melody is given by horns. Five variations—really just elaborations on the theme—exploit various solo voices\, the last ending with languorous flute chromatics.  \n\n\n\n3. Alborada. The first section returns; here\, violin and clarinet reverse their first-movement solo passages.  \n\n\n\n4. Scene and Gypsy Song. A side drum initiates a fanfare for horns and trumpets alone; solo trumpet blazes out the theme. Next\, solo violin takes it up; then flute and clarinet\, with percussion and strings accumulating. A flute plays a cadenza over a timpani roll\, then clarinet over cymbals\, after which there is a harp and triangle duet. Finally\, the strings interject a ferocious idea; this is the gypsy song\, which then alternates with the opening fanfare motif in orchestral splendor.  \n\n\n\n5. Asturian Fandango. Trombones present the first part of the theme\, winds the second. After varying timbral treatment\, the Alborada returns to bring the capriccio to a fiery close.  \n\n\n\n— Orrin Howard \n\n\n\nSinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major for Violin and Viola\, K. 364\n\n\n\nBy 1779—a few years before Haydn wrote his Symphony No. 76—the 23-year-old Mozart was chomping at the bit to break free from the restrictions imposed by his employer in Salzburg\, the Archbishop Colloredo. His recent tour westward to Mannheim and Paris had proved of decisive importance; it apparently stirred a desire to experiment with some of the instrumental forms and styles Mozart had been encountering. \n\n\n\nOne result was the Sinfonia Concertante\, a work that bursts with the joy of exploring new instrumental sound combinations and possibilities. It also marks a sort of turning point\, in essence summing up much of what Mozart had achieved to date as an artist. Not long afterward—and in part on account of indulging in such purely pleasurable creative endeavors\, at the expense of his duties as court organist—he was summarily dismissed by his boss (as he sardonically puts it in a letter\, “with a kick on my arse”) and left Salzburg for good to live in Vienna. \n\n\n\nThe genre here\, as the name indicates\, is basically a hybrid between the symphony and the concerto – what\, later in the 19th century\, would be labeled a double concerto for violin and viola. Yet the Sinfonia Concertante wondrously unifies these several dimensions. Like Haydn\, Mozart exploits his rather modest orchestral ensemble to the maximum; there’s no percussion\, nor even flutes or Mozart’s beloved clarinets\, but he divides the violas into two for a richer string blend. The proportions of the opening movement (marked with the epic-sounding tempo “Allegro maestoso”) are generous and expansive\, further contributing to the work’s symphonic aspect. \n\n\n\nFor many\, this piece represents the grandest of Mozart’s violin concertos\, surpassing the five official ones. At the same time\, the viola is no second fiddle here. Mozart’s choice of instrument for the second soloist is telling: although an excellent violinist\, he himself loved to play viola in string quartet ensembles\, enjoying the perspective of being “in the middle.” One unforgettable characteristic of the Sinfonia Concertante is the remarkable partnership and equality shared by both soloists and the searingly beautiful sound blend they create. Mozart’s original score even inscribes the viola part in D major\, thus requiring the violist to tune the strings up a half-step. The intention is to give the usually more-reserved viola a certain resonance to offset the violin’s usual limelight-hogging sonority. \n\n\n\nThe Sinfonia Concertante is in part about an extraordinary abundance of ideas and sonorities which – thanks to Mozart’s art – pour out with a seeming effortlessness\, like ripened fruit simply there to be plucked. The opening orchestral exposition makes this clear\, as one idea is laid out on top of another until\, with a half dozen in the air\, one loses track. And more are yet to come as the curtain opens and the soloists enter in one of the most sublime passages of all Mozart\, soaring out from the background on a sustained high E-flat. It’s perhaps no surprise that George Balanchine choreographed a famous ballet to this music\, for the role of the duo soloists entails a conversation not just with the orchestra at large but with each other (it’s intriguing\, as well\, to imagine Mozart’s own voice represented by the viola). This is clear in the many echoing passages he unfolds and in his construction of the cadenzas\, expressly written out. \n\n\n\nBeyond these instrumental dimensions\, there’s yet another. This is the world of opera\, of lamenting song\, with a hint of archaic baroque sentiment\, which comes to the fore in the sensitive and lengthy Andante\, one of Mozart’s relatively rare minor-mode slow movements. Here we find an emotional depth that\, as Maynard Solomon speculates in his notable biography\, may reflect the composer’s experience of loss in coping with the recent death of his mother. Specifically\, the duality of the violin-viola sound contributes to another aspect of the piece’s stunning beauty: listen as the solo violin takes up its plaintive aria of grief and the response from the viola\, now providing a sudden but believable consolation. The two continue to form a complementary pair as Mozart unfolds his song seamlessly\, virtually prefiguring what Wagner would later coin as “infinite melody.” \n\n\n\nWith the presto rondo finale\, an irrepressibly joyful spirit returns. As Alfred Einstein observes\, its “gaiety results principally from the fact that in the chain of musical events the unexpected always occurs first\, being followed by the expected.” Or\, to return to Hesse’s ethereal Immortals\, the Sinfonia Concertante ends with their characteristic laughter\, which is “laughter without an object…simply light and lucidity.” \n\n\n\n— Thomas May \n\n\n\nPines of Rome\n\n\n\nRespighi managed to get a couple of operas staged in his native Bologna by the time he was 31 years old\, but work as an orchestral musician (violin and viola)\, teacher\, piano accompanist\, and arranger of Baroque music sustained his peripatetic career in its early years. A move to Rome in 1913 as professor of composition at the Liceo Musicale of Santa Cecilia proved decisive\, since Rome was then the center of orchestral life in Italy. In 1916\, he completed Fountains of Rome\, a four-part symphonic tone poem that gradually became a huge success\, making Respighi famous and wealthy. \n\n\n\nIn 1919 the Liceo became the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia\, and in 1923 Respighi was appointed its director. He held that administrative post only three years\, during which he composed Pines of Rome\, a sequel to Fountains and even more lucrative for Respighi. Its success\, following its premiere in December 1924\, enabled Respighi to quit as director of the Conservatory in 1926\, although he continued the teaching he loved\, as an advanced composition professor there until 1935. \n\n\n\nThe great popularity of this music is not hard to understand. It is brilliantly evocative\, well-crafted\, and emotionally sincere musical pageantry. The first section of Pines – all four are played without a break – is a short prelude depicting children at play in the pine grove of the Villa Borghese\, their dances and games raucously projected through quick brass and woodwind exchanges. \n\n\n\n“Pines Near a Catacomb” presents a serene\, even somber scene\, with muted strings supporting an orchestral chant which “re-echoes solemnly\, sonorously\, like a hymn” rising from the catacomb\, in the composer’s words. \n\n\n\n“The Pines of the Janiculum” is night music in which a solo clarinet sings plaintively\, introducing the actual song of a nightingale (Respighi even specified the recording to be used) over tremolo strings. “The Pines of the Appian Way” suggests morning dawning over the march of imperial Roman glory in trumpet-driven triumph. Mussolini adored Respighi’s orchestral music\, but the sound of a fascist parade here is probably the result of purely musical muscle flexing rather than any consciously propagandistic intentions on the part of the rather non-political composer.  \n\n\n\n— John Henken \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\nCori Trenczer (Third Prize\, Student Artist Competition)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCori Trenczer is a cellist\, chamber musician\, and teacher from the Hudson Valley region of New York. Coming from a musical family and a family of educators\, Cori is both an avid performer and a teacher to a robust studio of cello students. Cori has her bachelors degree in cello performance from the Eastman School of Music and she is a graduate assistant in the graduate string quartet at UNCG.  \n\n\n\nCori enjoys playing in the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra as a section cellist\, and teaching her studio of roughly 18 cello students\, ranging from age 8 to adult. She is interested in contemporary music and playing music by underrepresented composers. Cori is a virtual cello teacher on the faculty of Cornerstone Music Studios and on wyzant.com\, and teaches in-person at Moore Music Company and through UNCG’S Community Music Lessons Program. \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\nUNCG Orchestras\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\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\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
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SUMMARY:Wind Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Hub New Music\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/JESfALSDeL4?feature=share\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorHub New MusicGala Flagello\, composerPatty Saunders\, graduate conductor \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nANNA CLYNEMasquerade (2013/2018)transcribed by Dennis Llinás \n\n\n\nSHUYING LIIn This Breath (2025) \n\n\n\nGALA FLAGELLOThe Bird-While (2022) \n\n\n\nAvian GodsFragile\, Vanishing GiftsSurvive \n\n\n\nSILVESTRE REVUELTASSensemayá (1938/1990)transcribed by Frank Bencriscutto \n\n\n\nPAUL HINDEMITH Symphony in B-flat (1951) \n\n\n\nModerately fast\, with vigor Andante grazioso Fugue (rather broad) \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Program\nMasquerade\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMasquerade draws inspiration from the original mid-18th century promenade concerts held in London’s pleasure gardens. As is true today\, these concerts were a place where people from all walks of life mingled to enjoy a wide array of music. Other forms of entertainment ranged from the sedate to the salacious with acrobatics\, exotic street entertainers\, dancers\, fireworks and masquerades. I am fascinated by the historic and sociological courtship between music and dance. Combined with costumes\, masked guises and elaborate settings\, masquerades created an exciting\, yet controlled\, sense of occasion and celebration. It is this that I wish to evoke in Masquerade.  \n\n\n\nThe work derives its material from two melodies. For the main theme\, I imagined a chorus welcoming the audience and inviting them into their imaginary world. The second theme\, Juice of Barley\, is an old English country dance melody and drinking song\, which first appeared in John Playford’s 1695 edition of The English Dancing Master. \n\n\n\n— Anna Clyne \n\n\n\nIn This Breath\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn This Breath was premiered by the Baylor University Wind Ensemble at the March 2025 CBDNA National Conference in Fort Worth\, Texas. It was composed in memory of Glen Adsit. Li offers the following regarding the piece: \n\n\n\n“My nature is the nature of the cloud—the nature of no birth and no death. Just as it is impossible for a cloud to die\, it’s impossible for me to die. I enjoy contemplating my continuation body\, just as the cloud enjoys watching the rain fall and become the river far below. If you look closely at yourself\, you will see how you too are continuing me in some way. If you breathe in and out\, and you find peace\, happiness\, and fulfillment\, you know I am always with you\, whether my physical body is still alive or not. I am continued in my many friends\, students\, and monastic disciples.” Thich Nhat Hanh – The Art of Living \n\n\n\nThis quotation comes from Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Art of Living. This book is a collection of the Vietnamese monk’s ruminations on life and death that guided my partner Glen Adsit through his personal struggles when confronted with his own mortality. As well as being my beloved life partner and musical collaborator\, Glen was a beloved figure in the music community who touched the lives of countless collaborators and students. In the wake of Glen’s sudden passing in January 2024 we have all become the rain to Glen’s cloud. His inextinguishable spirit and profound influence continue to resonate deeply within all of us. Although his physical body is no longer with us\, we now constitute his continuation body and are charged with continuing his legacy of support and love for one another. \n\n\n\nThis piece is a tribute to Glen\, the physical life we shared together\, and the new life we share as I continue his legacy in my own way. It reflects the profound love and connection we share\, both personally and through our collaborative musical endeavors. The piece is lyrical and tender\, inviting listeners into the intimate emotional spaces Glen and I navigated together. It captures the essence of Glen’s loving spirit—missed by many\, cherished by those who experienced his warmth and guidance\, and still apparent in the life and work of his family\, colleagues\, and students. It is both a celebration of Glen’s life and the enduring bond he and I share and a tribute to the legacy of love and artistic collaboration that he left behind for all of us to continue together. Glen Adsit was a conductor and trombonist. He served as the director of bands at The Hartt School and the national president of the College Band Directors National Association. \n\n\n\nAs the piece concludes\, the ensemble decrescendos to silence making space for a solo trombone crescendo as a tribute to Glen Adsit\, a trombonist\, and his enduring legacy. \n\n\n\n— Shuying Li and Patty Saunders \n\n\n\nThe Bird-While\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Bird-While (2022) is a concerto for flute\, clarinet\, violin\, cello\, and symphonic winds commissioned by Hub New Music. The piece is titled after and based on Keith Taylor’s poem Acolytes in the Bird-While\, which explores the flora and fauna of Michigan and the struggle to persist in the face of climate change. I aimed to write a concerto for an unconventional group of instruments that demonstrates their virtuosity while providing a platform for awareness of and education around environmental and climate justice. Each movement derives its title from Taylor’s poem\, drawing attention to pivotal lines in the poem’s narrative. \n\n\n\nThe first movement\, Avian Gods\, is inspired by the calls of the pileated woodpecker and redstart warbler\, two Michigan bird species central to Taylor’s poem. This movement’s 5/8 motif follows the woodpecker’s five-note call\, often separated into three- and two-note groupings that can be heard in both the soloists’ and ensemble’s parts. Snap pizzicato in the solo violin and cello evoke the woodpecker’s pecking\, and the ensemble’s driving 5/8 ostinato conjures the warbler’s high\, repetitive five-note shriek. \n\n\n\nThe second movement\, Fragile\, Vanishing Gifts\, highlights the individual natural elements that surround us every day. The flute\, clarinet\, violin\, and cello articulate the future loss of these elements due to climate change as they introduce the movement’s theme separately\, then come together in canon; our environment is a delicate balance between the individual and the collective. This theme originates from my Moon Dream (2020) for solo soprano saxophone\, an early pandemic-era lullaby commissioned by Latitude 49 for their Bagatelles Project in support of the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts. \n\n\n\nThe third movement\, Survive\, is both a question and a call to action: can the performers — and our environment — withstand disruption and damage? As I was writing this movement\, my best friend and horn player\, Marina Krol Hodge\, suddenly passed\, leaving me pondering my own ability to weather life’s storms. Dedicated to Marina\, Survive features horn solos and a brass chorale throughout to commemorate her bright\, resilient spirit and her support of new music. The movement’s title also references the way in which music itself might survive through history\, which I illustrate by quoting the prelude of J.S. Bach’s Violin Partita No. 3. Two more nods to Bach appear later in this movement in the solo violin and cello. Piping plover calls are referenced in the fleeting\, staccato woodwind parts\, and the movement’s focus on quintal harmony and recurring fifths harken to the woodpecker’s opening five-note call. \n\n\n\n5% of proceeds from The Bird-While sales and rentals will be donated to the Bird Center of Michigan. \n\n\n\n— Gala Flagello \n\n\n\nSensemayá\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRevueltas wrote little explanation about his composition Sensemayá\, and the meaning/relationship of the music to the poem has been the basis for much scholarly debate for the past eighty years. Revueltas heard Afro-Cuban poet Nicholas Guillén recite his poem Sensemayá in 1937 and was taken by the text and rhythm of the poem. The word sensemayá is a combination of sensa (Providence) and Yemaya (Afro-Cuban Goddess of the Seas and Mother of Earth)\, one of the godSensemayá was the work that brought Silvestre Revueltas to international attention. It was through a recording of the work made by Leopold Stokowski in New York in December 1947 that widespread audiences outside of Mexico began to get an idea of Revueltas’ music. \n\n\n\nRevueltas had died in 1940 from complications of chronic alcoholism\, his music virtually unknown outside of Mexico\, some performances given during a trip to Spain in 1937 notwithstanding. The last decade of his life had been devoted to music\, with Revueltas active as a composer\, teacher\, and conductor in Mexico City. Between 1928 and his death\, Revueltas had composed roughly 60 works\, including orchestral\, chamber\, vocal\, and theater pieces\, as well as a handful of film scores\, such as Redes (released in English as The Wave\, 1936) and La noche de los mayas (The Night of the Mayans\, 1939). \n\n\n\nRevueltas had a varied and useful musical education\, comprised of a fair amount of practical experience. After three years in Mexico City (1913-1916)\, Revueltas traveled to the United States\, where he studied violin and composition in Austin and Chicago. In the late 1920s\, he played violin in a theater orchestra in San Antonio and conducted an orchestra in Mobile\, Alabama. He returned to Mexico in 1929\, when Carlos Chávez\, one of the country’s foremost composers and musicians\, invited him to become assistant conductor of the Mexico Symphony Orchestra\, a post he held until 1935. \n\n\n\nThese experiences combined to make Revueltas a sensitive and insightful writer for orchestra and a composer with an intrinsic ability to express Latin-American culture musically. Sensemayá first materialized in a (still unpublished) version for chamber ensemble in 1937. Revueltas based the work on a poem that describes the ritual killing of a snake from Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén’s collection West Indies Ltd.\, published in 1934. The atmosphere of the poem\, which pits life against death\, the snake against its ritual executioners\, is ideally captured by Revueltas in his brief\, vibrant musical work\, even more so in the version for full orchestra premiered by the composer with a pick-up orchestra at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City on December 15\, 1938. The obsessive rhythms (the work is in 7/8 – and occasionally 7/16 – time)\, the slithering\, pictorial wind writing\, and the threatening brass all combine to create a raw evocation of the ceremony\, comparable to what Stravinsky did for pagan Russia in The Rite of Spring. \n\n\n\n— John Mangum \n\n\n\nSymphony in B-flat\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Symphony for Concert Band was composed at the request of Lt. Col. Hugh Curry\, leader of the United States Army Band\, and was premiered in Washington\, D.C.\, on April 5\, 1951\, with the composer conducting. This three-movement work is the only symphony that Hindemith wrote expressly for the wind band. The suite shows Hindemith’s great contrapunctal skill\, and the organized logic of his thematic material. His melodies develop ever-expanding lines\, and his skill in the organization and utilization of complex rhythmic variation adds spice and zest to the strength of his melodies. \n\n\n\nAlthough Symphony in B-Flat features unique uses of dissonant chords and nonharmonic tones\, it preserves neo-classical tonality\, forms\, and rhythmic and melodic patterns. Short figures are apt to form themselves into ostinatos to provide the background to broad and declamatory melodies; these melodies will often repeat characteristic phrases of awkward lengths so as to disturb the even flow of the basic rhythm. A slow section will alternate with a scherzando section\, and the two will combine to form the third portion of a movement. \n\n\n\nThe first movement is in sonata allegro form in three sections\, with the recapitulation economically utilizing both themes together in strong counterpoint. The second and third movements develop and expand their thematic material in some of the most memorable contrapunctal writing for winds. The second movement opens with an imitative duet between alto saxophone and cornet\, accompanied by a repeated chord figure. The duet theme\, along with thematic material from the opening movement\, provides the basic material for the remainder of the movement. The closing section of the third movement utilizes the combined themes while the woodwinds amplify the incessant chattering of the first movement. The brass and percussion adamantly demand a halt with a powerful final cadence. \n\n\n\nThe Symphony in B-Flat rivals any orchestra composition in length\, breadth\, and content\, and served to convince other first-rank composers — including Vittorio Giannini\, Vincent Persichetti\, Paul Creston\, and Alan Hovhaness — that the band is a legitimate medium for serious music. \n\n\n\n— Andrew Grenci and Joel Baroody \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\nHub New Music\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCalled “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe\, Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (The Washington Post). Founded in 2013\, the “nimble quartet of winds and strings” (NPR) has commissioned dozens of new works for its distinctive ensemble of flute\, clarinet\, violin\, and cello. Hub actively collaborates with today’s most celebrated composers on projects that traverse a rich musical landscape. \n\n\n\nRecent and upcoming performances include concerts presented by the Kennedy Center\, Seattle Symphony\, Kaufman Music Center\, Suntory Hall (Tokyo)\, the Williams Center for the Arts\, Yale Schwarzman Center\, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center\, King’s Place (London)\, Soka Performing Arts Center\, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music\, and the Celebrity Series of Boston.  \n\n\n\nTo celebrate its recent 10th anniversary\, Hub co-commissioned and premiered new works by Angélica Negrón\, Nico Muhly\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Andrew Norman\, Jessica Meyer\, and Donnacha Dennehy. Upcoming commissioning projects include substantial electroacoustic works by Christopher Cerrone and Daniel Wohl (2025); a work by Yaz Lancaster co-created with Black Mountain College Museum & Art Center (2025); and a collaborative project with composer\, vocalist\, and multi-instrumentalist Bora Yoon (2026). \n\n\n\nHub New Music’s recordings have garnered consistent acclaim. The group’s most recent record with Silkroad’s Kojiro Umezaki\, a distance\, intertwined \, features five works for Hub and shakuhachi which I Care if You Listen called “beautiful\, haunting music that presents a clear and authentic dialog between varied cultural paradigms and traditions.” Hub’s debut album\, Soul House\, released on New Amsterdam Records\, was called “ingenious and unequivocally gorgeous” (Boston Globe) and “intensely poignant” (Textura). In 2022\, Hub’s album with Carlos Simon\, Requiem for the Enslaved \, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Composition. \n\n\n\nHub is also dedicated to educating\, inspiring and guiding future generations of artists. The ensemble has been a guest at leading institutions including Princeton University\, University of Michigan\, University of Southern California\, and Indiana University. In 2021\, Hub was a  resident ensemble for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship program for high school aged composers. As part of its 10th anniversary celebration\, Hub designed a fellowship program with the Luna Lab in NYC that was awarded to Luna Lab alumna Sage Shurman. \n\n\n\nHub New Music is Michael Avitabile (flutes)\, Gleb Kanasevich (clarinets)\, Magnolia Rohrer (violin/viola)\, and Jesse Christeson (cello). Currently based in Detroit\, the ensemble’s name is inspired by its founding city of Boston’s reputation as a hub of innovation. Hub New Music is exclusively represented by Unfinished Side.  \n\n\n\nGala Flagello\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGala Flagello (b. 1994) is a composer\, educator\, and nonprofit director whose work is inspired by a passion for lyricism\, rhythmic vitality\, and fostering meaningful collaboration. Her music\, described as “at times endearingly whimsical\, at times ominous\, but always moving” (Cleveland Classical)\, resonates with audiences through its emotional depth and dynamic expression. Flagello’s collaborations with leading ensembles\, artists\, and institutions on national and international stages build impactful projects for audiences and performers alike.  \n\n\n\nFlagello’s 2024/25 season features the European premiere of Vitality with the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, including an international performance broadcast\, along with orchestral performances of Bravado by Detroit Symphony\, Chautauqua Festival\, Lansing Symphony\, Wichita Falls Symphony\, Central Ohio Symphony\, and Dearborn Symphony. She is a recipient of the 2024 Barlow General Commission\, which will support a new work for the Thalea String Quartet. This season also includes consortium premieres of Flagello’s Love & Nature\, a wind band work commissioned by 55 ensembles across the United States. \n\n\n\nUpcoming projects include a new piano concerto for soloist Henry Kramer and commissions from the Contemporary Youth Orchestra\, the University of Nebraska–Omaha School of Music\, and the University of Florida Bands. Album releases this season include Tallā Rouge’s Shapes in Collective Space featuring Burn as Brightly and a commercial recording of The Bird-While with Hub New Music and the University of Illinois Wind Symphony. \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\nEvent Details\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. 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URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/wind-ensemble-12/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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