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SUMMARY:Symphony Orchestra\, Sinfonia\, and Choirs
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nJungho Kim\, conductorMarissa Guarriello\, conductorCarole Ott\, conductorCalvin Godfrey\, trumpet \n\n\n\nwithRobin Sukhadia\, tablaJohn Stephens\, sitarLindsay Kesselman\, sopranoAlannah MacMillan\, mezzo-sopranoEric Laine\, tenorRobert Wells\, baritone \n\n\n\nKHACHATURIAN Waltz from Masquerade \n\n\n\nSTEKKE Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra \n\n\n\nESMAIL This Love Between Us \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Soloist\n\n\n\n\nCalvin Godfrey is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Trumpet Performance at University of North Carolina Greensboro where he holds a Graduate Assistantship and studies with Dr. Garrett Klein. An active performer\, he has played with numerous professional ensembles\, including the Charlotte Symphony\, and advanced to the semi-final round of the graduate solo division at the 2024 National Trumpet Competition. Calvin was also recognized for his paper Beethoven and Shostakovich: The String Quartet in Soviet Russia\, winning the UNCG Best Musicology Project award in April 2024. Calvin graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Virginia Tech\, where he studied trumpet with Dr. Jason Crafton. \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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/symphony-orchestra-and-choruses/
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:Brevan Hampden
DESCRIPTION:Brevan Hampden\, Jazz Percussionist\n\n\n\nAfro-Cuban Celebration Featuring Jazz Ensemble I\, Latin Jazz Ensemble\, and Two Student Jazz Combos\n\n\n\nBorn in New York City in 1985\, Brevan was born instantly a member of a high-level musical family; his father Ivan\, who has toured with Luther Vandross\, Vanessa Williams\, Jennifer Lopez\, Roberta Flack\, Grady Tate\, and Ashford & Simpson\, and his mother Brenda\, who has performed on Broadway\, with Dizzy Gillespie\, Angie Bofill\, Marian Anderson\, and Jazzmobile. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrchestra/MezzStudents$6.00Adults$8.00Seniors$6.00\n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n* Tickets to CVPA and UCLS events are sold exclusively through our box office locations and ETix website\, and nowhere else. Tickets purchased through third-party vendors cannot be honored. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter moving to Durham\, NC in 1988\, Brevan began showing signs of talent in music from age 7. He began playing percussion in church with his mother and brother at age 9. Soon after\, he began playing pick up gigs and at other churches in the Raleigh/Durham area. His older brother Brian moved to North Carolina when Brevan was 9\, and introduced him to the world of Latin and World Percussion. Brevan learned how to read music in middle school\, playing in concert band and jazz band\, and participated in the marching band once moving on to high school. Although there were no high school programs that catered to Latin percussion or jazz/popular music in general\, Brevan continued his study of percussion\, by listening to and being influenced by percussionists Ray Barretto\, Mongo Santamaria\, Carlos “Patato” Valdes\, Tata Guines\, Changuito\, Giovanni Hidalgo\, Angel “Cachete” Maldonado\, Tito Puente\, Miguel “Anga” Diaz\, Tomas “El Panga” Ramos and other artists such as Curtis Mayfield\, James Brown\, John Coltrane\, Thelonious Monk\, Kool and the Gang\, Parliament\, Daryl “Munyungo” Jackson\, Leon “Ndugu” Chancelor\, Steve Kroon\, Roger Squitero\, Sheila E. and Luis Conte. \n\n\n\nTwice\, during his high school years\, Brevan attended the Berklee World Percussion Festival in Boston\, where he studied with Giovanni Hidalgo\, Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez\, Eguie Castrillo\, and Ernesto Diaz. This helped further his knowledge of percussion\, and of music in general\, which\, upon his return to North Carolina allowed him to continue performing locally\, with bands such as Junk in the Trunk\, Samecumba\, Carnavalito\, and the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) Jazz Ensemble\, with whom his other brother\, Iajhi\, was performing at the time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobinson Family Visiting Jazz Artists\n\n\n\nA residency made possible by the Robinson Family Fund\, established by Ward Robinson (’19 PBC Jazz\, ’10 MPH) and Pamela Pittman\, is bringing two jazz luminaries to UNCG’s School of Music this year. Guitarist Peter Bernstein and Percussionist Brevan Hampden will come to Greensboro for residencies with students and concerts which will be open to the public.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/brevan-hampden/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music,UCLS
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SUMMARY:Symphonic Band
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/F6xqQpOcdlA?feature=share\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorEric Willie\, percussionAlbert Lau\, percussionMcKayla Phillips\, percussionJoe Turner\, percussion \n\n\n\nVIET CUONG Re(new)al (2019) \n\n\n\n  Hydro  Wind  Solar \n\n\n\nKAREL HUSAApotheosis of This Earth (1970) \n\n\n\nApotheosisTragedy of DestructionPostscript \n\n\n\nALEXANDER SCRIABIN Nocturne\, op. 9\, no. 2 (1894/1975)transcribed by Alfred Reed \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Program\nViet Cuong | Re(new)al (2019)\n\n\n\nI have tremendous respect for renewable energy initiatives and the commitment to creating a new\, better reality for us all. Re(new)al is a percussion quartet concerto that is similarly devoted to finding unexpected ways to breathe new life into traditional ideas\, and the solo quartet therefore performs on several “found” instruments\, including crystal glasses and compressed air cans. And while the piece also features more traditional instruments\, such as snare drum and vibraphone\, I looked for ways to either alter their sounds or find new ways to play them. For instance\, a single snare drum is played by all four members of the quartet\, and certain notes of the vibraphone are prepared with aluminum foil to recreate sounds found in electronic music. The entire piece was conceived in this way\, and even the accompaniment was written these ideas in mind. \n\n\n\nCooperation and synergy are also core themes of the piece\, as I believe we all have to work together to move forward. All of the music played by the solo quartet is comprised of single musical ideas that are evenly distributed between the four soloists (for those interested\, the fancy musical term for this is a hocket). The music would therefore be dysfunctional without the presence and dedication of all four members. For example\, the quartet divvies up lighting-fast drum set beats in the second movement and then shares one glockenspiel in the last movement. But perhaps my favorite example of synergy in the piece is in the very opening\, where the four soloists toast crystal glasses. We always toast glasses in the presence of others\, and oftentimes to celebrate new beginnings. This is my simple way of celebrating everyone who is working together to create a cleaner\, more efficient world. \n\n\n\nRe(new)al is constructed of three continuous movements\, each inspired by the power of hydro\, wind\, and solar energies. The hydro movement transforms tuned crystal glasses into ringing hand bells as the wind ensemble slowly submerges the soloists in their sound. The second movement turns each member of the quartet into a blade of a dizzying wind turbine\, playing seemingly-impossible 90’s-inspired drum and bass patterns over a bass line that quotes and expands upon a few bars from one of my favorite drum and bass tracks by DJ Hype. The closing movement simulates a sunrise and evokes the brilliance of sunlight with metallic percussion instruments. This piece was originally written with a sinfonietta accompaniment\, and in its original form was commissioned for the 2017 American Music Festival by David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony’s Dogs of Desire in partnership with GE Renewable Energy. A full orchestra version was commissioned in 2018 by the Albany Symphony\, and this final version for wind ensemble was commissioned by a consortium of universities and community ensembles. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who has been involved in any of the three versions of this piece. \n\n\n\n– Note by Viet Cuong \n\n\n\nKarel Husa | Apotheosis of this Earth (1970)\n\n\n\nThe composition of Apotheosis of this Earth was motivated by the present desperate stage of mankind and its immense problems with everyday killings\, war\, hunger\, extermination of fauna\, huge forest fires\, and critical contamination of the whole environment. \n\n\n\nIn the first movement\, “Apotheosis\,” the earth first approaches as a point of light in the universe. Our memory and imagination approach it in perhaps the same way as it appeared to the astronauts returning from the moon. The earth grows larger and larger\, and we can even remember some of its tragic moments (as struck by the xylophone near the end of the movement). \n\n\n\nThe second movement\, “Tragedy of Destruction\,” deals with the actual brutalities of man against nature\, leading to the destruction of our planet\, perhaps by radioactive explosion. The earth dies as a savagely\, mortally wounded creature. \n\n\n\nThe last movement is a “Postscript”\, full of the realization that so little is left to be said: the earth has been pulverized into the universe\, the voices scattered into space. Toward the end\, these voices — at first computer-like and mechanical — unite into the words “this beautiful earth”\, simply said\, warm and filled with regret…and one of so many questions comes to our minds: “Why have we let this happen?” \n\n\n\n– Note by Karel Husa \n\n\n\nAlexander Scriabin | Nocturne\, op. 9\, no. 2 (1894/1975)\n\n\n\nAlexander Scriabin was one of the most prolific Russian composers and pianists of his time. In his early life\, Scriabin’s musical language consisted of a romantic and lyrical style and was heavily influenced by pianist and composer\, Frederick Chopin. However\, in his later career\, Scriabin developed an atonal and dissonant style of writing\, separately from Schoenberg’s atonal musical system\, that influenced many Russian composers during his time\, such as Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky. \n\n\n\nScriabin’s Prelude and Nocturne for Left Hand\, op. 9\, is in two movements and written for the left hand alone. Scriabin composed the piece in 1894 after injuring his right hand while preparing Franz Liszt’s Don Juan. This arrangement for band by Alfred Reed is a setting of the second movement. \n\n\n\n– Note from Brolaga Music Publishing \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\n\nDescribed as a “true musical talent and professional” Eric Willie has a varied career as a percussion soloist\, chamber musician\, orchestral player\, and teacher. \n\n\n\nHaving performed on three continents\, Eric has presented solo performances throughout the United States\, Russia\, Brasil\, and Colombia. Most recently\, Eric performed as soloist with the Tamborimba Ensamble in Cali\, Colombia\, and conducted Edgard Varese’s “Ionisation” at the III Encontro Percussivo in Recife\, Pernambuco Brasil. In the United States\, Eric has performed or conducted at ten Percussive Arts Society’s International Conventions (PASIC)\, presented at the Midwest Clinic\, as well as several state days of percussion and music educator conventions. \n\n\n\nAs a chamber musician\, Eric performs with the Nief-Norf Project and the Legal Wood Project. As well\, as an avid promoter of new music for percussion\, Eric has commissioned and/or premiered works by Christopher Adler\, Michael Burritt\, Doug Bristol\, Eric Cha-Beach\, Elliott Cole\, Greg Danner\, Christopher Deane\, Paul Lansky\, Anna Meadors\, Marc Mellits\, Leroy Osmon\, John Psathas\, Josh Quillen\, Baljinder Sekhon\, Adam Silverman\, D.J. Sparr\, Jason Treuting\, Blake Tyson\, Alejandro Viñao\, Matt Walker\, Jamie Whitmarsh\, and James Wood. \n\n\n\nActive within the Percussive Arts Society (PAS)\, Eric previously served as Chair of the International Percussion Ensemble Committee\, President of the Tennessee Chapter\, as a New Literature and Recordings Reviewer for Percussive Notes journal\, and now serves as Vice President for the North Carolina Chapter of the Society. His percussion ensembles have been named winners of the 2015 and 2020 PAS International Percussion Ensemble Competition. \n\n\n\nIn addition to his talents as a classical percussionist\, Eric is known for his marching percussion arranging and teaching experience. He has served on staff with the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps\, served as a Percussion Consultant with the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps (2012-2013)\, and instructor and/or arranger for the Spirit\, Southwind\, Carolina Crown\, and the Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps. He has also instructed for the University of North Texas “A” Line\, Music City Mystique\, and as Faculty for the Music for All World Percussion Symposium. \n\n\n\nAs an author and composer\, his books and solo have been published by Innovative Percussion\, TapSpace\, and Row-Loff. The latter\, his coauthored “All-Inclusive Audition Etudes” book\, has been adopted for use by the North Carolina and Tennessee Music Educator’s Associations. \n\n\n\nCurrently\, Eric serves as Professor of Percussion Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, where he directs a comprehensive percussion program. In addition to his teaching opportunities\, Eric has served as Chair of the School of Music Faculty\, as Chair of the Brass and Percussion Area\, as well as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee. \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\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/symphonic-band-8/
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:Concert Band
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/rFjWbTN5wnU?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/concert-band-7/
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:Lang Lang
DESCRIPTION:Lang Lang is a leading figure in classical music today—as a pianist\, educator\, and philanthropist he has become one of the world’s most influential and committed ambassadors for the arts in the 21st century. Equally happy playing for billions of viewers at the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony in Beijing or just for a few hundred children in the public schools\, he is a master of communicating through music. \n\n\n\nHeralded by the New York Times as “the hottest artist on the classical music planet\,” Lang Lang plays sold-out concerts all over the world. He has formed ongoing collaborations with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle\, Gustavo Dudamel\, Daniel Barenboim\, and Christoph Eschenbach and performs with all the world’s top orchestras. Lang Lang is known for thinking outside the box and frequently steps into different musical worlds. His performances at the GRAMMY Awards with Metallica\, Pharrell Williams\, or jazz legend Herbie Hancock were watched by millions of viewers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrchestra/MezzBalconiesUNCG Students$7.50$7.50UNCG Faculty/Staff$25.00$25.00Adults$75.00$70.00Seniors/Military$65.00$60.00Children (K-12)$50.00$40.00Platinum VIP$100.00\n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS (Sold Out)\n\n\n\n\n* Tickets to CVPA and UCLS events are sold exclusively through our box office locations and ETix website\, and nowhere else. Tickets purchased through third-party vendors cannot be honored. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“The hottest artist on the classical music planet may well be the Chinese pianist Lang Lang. \n\n\n\n— New York Times \n\n\n\n\nFor about a decade\, Lang Lang has contributed to musical education worldwide. In 2008 he founded the Lang Lang International Music Foundation aimed at cultivating tomorrow’s top pianists\, championing music education at the forefront of technology\, and building a young audience through live music experiences. In 2013 Lang Lang was designated by the Secretary General of the United Nations as a Messenger of Peace focusing on global education. \n\n\n\nLang Lang started playing the piano aged three and gave his first public recital before the age of five. He entered Beijing’s Central Music Conservatory aged nine and won First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians at 13. He subsequently went to Philadelphia to study with legendary pianist Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute of Music. He was seventeen when his big break came\, substituting for André Watts at the Gala of the Century\, playing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach: he became an overnight sensation and the invitations started to pour in. \n\n\n\nLang Lang’s boundless drive to attract new audiences to classical music has brought him tremendous recognition: he was presented with the 2010 Crystal Award in Davos and was picked as one of the 250 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum. He also received  honorary doctorates from the Royal College of Music\, the Manhattan School of Music\, and New York University. In December 2011 he was honored with the highest prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China and received the highest civilian honors in Germany (Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) and France (Medal of the Order of Arts and Letters). In 2016 Lang Lang was invited to the Vatican to perform for Pope Francis. He has also performed for numerous other international dignitaries\, including four US presidents and monarchs from many nations. \n\n\n\n\n“The ebullient Lang Lang is maturing as an artist… his playing is refined\, almost severe. He has an intelligent way of shaping phrases\, controlling dynamics\, varying articulations… a captivating performance\, the kind that you remember as much for its quiet stretches as for its wow factor. \n\n\n\n— New Yorker \n\n\n\n\n\n“Lang the magician is slowly transforming himself into Lang the musician…there will be no stopping this nonchalant dervish of the keyboard . . .his playing was so raptly beautiful that one was afraid to breathe for fear of missing anything. \n\n\n\n— Chicago Tribune \n\n\n\n\n\nwww.langlangofficial.com \n\n\n\nwww.langlangfoundation.org \n\n\n\nwww.instagram.com/langlangpiano \n\n\n\nwww.facebook.com/langlangpiano \n\n\n\nwww.twitter.com/lang-lang \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn addition to public presentations\, artists in the UCLS series have important interactions with UNCG students\, such as holding masterclasses\, talkback sessions\, and seminars\, often just hours before performing on stage. Thanks to a grant from The Cemala Foundation\, some of these artists also work with K-12 students in the Guilford County Schools.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/langlang/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,UCLS
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SUMMARY:Chamber Singers
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nCarole Ott\, conductor \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\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\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/I8-mapsnu9E?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the UNCG Choirs\nThe UNCG Choral program is recognized for excellence\, creative performances\, and high artistic standards. The UNCG Choirs are comprised of four ensembles: University Chamber Singers\, University Chorale\, Coro di Belle Voci\, and Spartan Voices. These diverse offerings allow students the opportunity to experience a wide range of stylistic ideas through the exploration of music from various time periods and various cultures\, including major choral-orchestral works as well as smaller chamber pieces. The UNCG Choirs have performed at state\, regional\, national and international conferences. Dr. Carole Ott serves as Director of Choral Activities and conductor of Chamber Singers and Chorale. Prof. Lindsay Kesselman is conductor of Coro di Belle Voci. Dr. Brett Nolker is conductor of Spartan Voices.  \n\n\n\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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/chamber-singers-3/
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:University Chorale
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/LjWcCnbT4cY?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\nThe UNCG Choral program is recognized for excellence\, creative performances\, and high artistic standards. The UNCG Choirs are comprised of four ensembles: University Chamber Singers\, University Chorale\, Coro di Belle Voci\, and Spartan Voices. These diverse offerings allow students the opportunity to experience a wide range of stylistic ideas through the exploration of music from various time periods and various cultures\, including major choral-orchestral works as well as smaller chamber pieces. The UNCG Choirs have performed at state\, regional\, national and international conferences. Dr. Carole Ott serves as Director of Choral Activities and conductor of Chamber Singers and Chorale. Prof. Lindsay Kesselman is conductor of Coro di Belle Voci. Dr. Brett Nolker is conductor of Spartan Voices.  \n\n\n\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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/university-chorale-3/
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:Concert Band
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nPatty Saunders\, conductorDalton Guin\, conductor \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nITO On The March \n\n\n\nBRYANT Nothing Gold Can Stay \n\n\n\nCURNOW Rejouissance \n\n\n\nHORNE Scrapin’ \n\n\n\nCOPLEY Dragonfly \n\n\n\nARNOLD Prelude\, Siciliano\, and Rondo \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\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\nJoin Our Email List\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/wxG9VoFqmoI?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the UNCG 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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/concert-band-6/
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
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nJungho Kim\, conductorSteven Stusek\, saxophone \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBERNSTEIN Overture to Candide \n\n\n\nDEBUSSY Rhapsodie\, L.98 \n\n\n\nSTRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite (1919 version) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\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\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/B-rvKRRtE9o?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Soloist\n\n\n\n\nSteven Stusek is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, where he is a member of the Eastwind Quintette d’Anches and the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet. Originally from Oshkosh\, Wisconsin\, he received his Bachelor’s degree in saxophone performance from Indiana University. Before beginning a Master’s degree in saxophone and chamber music at Arizona State University\, Steve spent a year in Paris studying at the Paris Conservatory (Conservatoire Nationale Superior de Musique de Paris) and the Conservatoire de le Région de Paris\, where he was awarded the Prix d’Or à l’Unanimité in Saxophone Performance. After living in the Netherlands for almost eight years he returned to Indiana University and was awarded a DMA in Saxophone in 2001. He has served on the faculties of Ball State University\, Middlebury College\, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He has been on the UNCG faculty since 1999. As a soloist\, Steve has appeared with the Eastern Music Festival and more recently with the University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble as part of the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial conference. He has been the principle saxophonist for the Eastern Music Festival and the Greensboro Symphony for the past ten years. In 2000\, he won the prestigious Dutch Chamber Music Competition as part of the saxophone-accordion duo 2Track with accordion virtuoso Otine van Erp. Together they have performed throughout the Netherlands\, the US and on Dutch radio. Steve teamed up with pianist Inara Zandmane and saxophonist Susan Fancher to produce the critically acclaimed recording Louder than Words – music for two saxophones and piano. Steve’s teachers have included Eugene Rousseau\, Joseph Wytko\, David Baker\, Larry Teal\, Daniel Deffayet\, Jean-Yves Formeau\, and Leroy Wolter. Steve is the Past-President of the North American Saxophone Alliance. \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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/symphony-orchestra-8/
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:Program\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorSteven Stusek\, saxophonePatty Saunders\, graduate conductor \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMcCUNE Spiral \n\n\n\nFLAGELLO Love and Nature \n\n\n\nYOUNG Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble \n\n\n\nPERSICHETTI Symphony No. 6 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\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\nJoin Our Email List\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/4wLn8ZgIWfY?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Soloist\n\n\n\n\nSteven Stusek\, saxophone\, is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, where he is a member of the Eastwind Quintette d’Anches and the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet. Originally from Oshkosh\, Wisconsin\, he received his Bachelor’s degree in saxophone performance from Indiana University. Before beginning a Master’s degree in saxophone and chamber music at Arizona State University\, Steve spent a year in Paris studying at the Paris Conservatory (Conservatoire Nationale Superior de Musique de Paris) and the Conservatoire de le Région de Paris\, where he was awarded the Prix d’Or à l’Unanimité in Saxophone Performance. After living in the Netherlands for almost eight years he returned to Indiana University and was awarded a DMA in Saxophone in 2001. He has served on the faculties of Ball State University\, Middlebury College\, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He has been on the UNCG faculty since 1999. As a soloist\, Steve has appeared with the Eastern Music Festival and more recently with the University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble as part of the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial conference. He has been the principal saxophonist for the Eastern Music Festival and the Greensboro Symphony for the past ten years. In 2000\, he won the prestigious Dutch Chamber Music Competition as part of the saxophone-accordion duo 2Track with accordion virtuoso Otine van Erp. Together they have performed throughout the Netherlands\, the US and on Dutch radio. Steve teamed up with pianist Inara Zandmane and saxophonist Susan Fancher to produce the critically acclaimed recording Louder than Words – music for two saxophones and piano. Steve’s teachers have included Eugene Rousseau\, Joseph Wytko\, David Baker\, Larry Teal\, Daniel Deffayet\, Jean-Yves Formeau\, and Leroy Wolter. Steve is the Past-President of the North American Saxophone Alliance. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the UNCG 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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/symphonic-band-7/
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:Wind Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:35th Annual Carolina Band Festival and Conductors Conference \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorLuke Ellard\, clarinetMichael Haithcock\, guest conductorArris Golden\, guest conductorBrian Doyle\, guest conductor \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHARRISON Splinter \n\n\n\nMITCHELL From The Depths We Rise \n\n\n\nGARROP Chariot of Helios \n\n\n\nSIMON Go Down Moses \n\n\n\nMARKOWSKI Unfamiliar Territory \n\n\n\nTICHELI Over the Moon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\nProgram Notes\n\n\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\nJoin Our Email List\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/dejvo4a2ZYc?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Luke Ellard\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Arris Golden\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Brian K. Doyle\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Michael Haithcock\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Soloist\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\nAbout the Wind Ensemble\n\n\n\n\nThe UNCG Wind Ensemble is a highly select concert band of fifty performers majoring in music at the UNCG School of Music. Performers in the current Wind Ensemble are drawn from sixteen states\, Slovenia\, and Hong Kong. The ensemble has enjoyed a distinguished record of performance throughout its history. In January 1992\, the UNCG Wind Ensemble performed “A Tribute to John Philip Sousa” to a capacity crowd of 2\,700 at the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington\, D.C. Twice\, the Wind Ensemble earned critical acclaim from The Washington Post following concerts in the nation’s capital. The Wind Ensemble has performed throughout the eastern United States in recent years including the first-ever performance\, in 1987\, by a North Carolina collegiate ensemble in Lincoln Center\, New York City. The Wind Ensemble performed that same year in West Virginia\, Virginia\, Pennsylvania\, and Washington\, D.C. The Wind Ensemble has recorded nineteen commercially-available albums which have received widespread praise.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/wind-ensemble-11/
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:Concert Band
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nPatty Saunders\, conductorKat Smith\, conductor \n\n\n\nNELHYBEL Festivo \n\n\n\nSTILL Summerland \n\n\n\nNISHIMURA Breath of the Mountains \n\n\n\nMILBURN Meditation \n\n\n\nDAY Rocketship! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\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\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/3RaN3liIz9w?feature=share\n\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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/concert-band-5/
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:Wind Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorLindsay Kesselman\, sopranoPatty Saunders\, graduate conductor \n\n\n\nDAI Saṃsāric Dance (world premiere) \n\n\n\nGRAINGER Colonial Song \n\n\n\nCERRONE Darkening\, Then Brightening \n\n\n\nGOTKOVSKY Symphonie pour orchestre d’harmonie \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\nProgram Notes and Biographies\n\n\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\nJoin Our Email List\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/DJklje3rNQ0?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Program\nTonight’s program is a preview performance of the Wind Ensemble’s concert at the College Band Directors National Association national conference in Fort Worth\, Texas on March 28\, 2025. In advance of that performance\, the Wind Ensemble will perform six concerts on a tour that will span the southern United States with stops in Charlotte\, Atlanta\, Tuscaloosa\, New Orleans\, Houston\, and Dallas. The program\, with compositions by UNCG alum Dai Wei (’15 MM) and Ida Gotkovsky\, the poetry of Kim Addonizio\, and the voices of Dai Wei and UNCG faculty member Lindsay Kesselman\, is an acknowledgement of UNCG’s legacy of women’s education and a celebration of women’s voices more broadly. \n\n\n\nIn 1892\, UNCG opened its doors as the State Normal and Industrial School with music courses as part of the original curriculum. For the first seventy-two years of its existence\, the university only served women before becoming co-educational in 1964—the year after the university was renamed as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Today\, the university’s population stands at roughly 67% women. Tonight’s program serves as a reminder and reaffirmation of UNCG’s mission of educating women in North Carolina and beyond. \n\n\n\nThe program is also bound together through elements of cyclicity and repetition. In some musical cultures\, repetition is used to promote and create community—to instill a sense of collectivism; in others\, it may be used to express the infinite and indescribable qualities of reality. The ephemeral and fleeting nature of music necessitates cyclicity in order to promote understanding\, particularly in the long-form music found in the Western classical tradition. In music\, however\, repetition is never simply repetition—to promote understanding\, the repetition is changed\, or the listener is changed by experiencing the repetition. Just as poet Kim Addonizio describes the simple experience of watching the sky “darkening\, then brightening” over the course of a day\, sometimes we notice changes in the musical cycles before us and other times we notice changes within ourselves. In other words\, does the cycle change or do we? \n\n\n\nEach of the three pieces on the CBDNA program feature elements of cyclicity and symmetry. Dai Wei’s Samsaric Dance is inspired by the Tibetan Buddhism conception of existence. Over the course of the piece\, multiple musical elements emerge\, return\, interact with each other\, and continuously transform before the piece eventually rests on a C♯ that symbolizes the oneness and unity of all existence. In this sense\, cyclicity refers to the endless cycle of birth\, death\, and rebirth—like a wheel rolling forward and backwards towards a possible but never promised nirvana. \n\n\n\nChristopher Cerrone’s Darkening\, Then Brightening is built in an arch form but one shaped like a valley. The descent of the first three movements leads towards the return of the C♯ from Samsaric Dance now transformed into the sound of inevitable descent. While the listener and singer ascend towards the light in the final movements\, the promise of redemption lies just beyond their grasp as the piece suddenly stops. The valley was just too deep. \n\n\n\nWhile elements of formal cyclicity are clearly evident in both movements of Ida Gotkovsky’s Symphonie pour orchestre d’harmonie\, her intermingling of octatonic\, whole tone\, and quartal pitch material throughout the symphony is of particular interest. This kind of symmetrical pitch organization\, one also favored by her composition teacher Olivier Messiaen\, creates melodic and harmonic structures free of any sense of a fundamental pitch\, occurring in looping cycles without a clear beginning or end. While traditional tonal music relies on asymmetrical pitch structures to establish hierarchy\, Gotkovsky’s pitch organization lends her music an almost otherworldly quality while remaining relatively consonant even within a modernist framework. \n\n\n\nThe chord that ends the piece\, and thus the concert\, is a quartal harmony built on C-naturals in the soprano and bass voices. The chord’s brightness and power seem far removed from the C♯ featured so prominently in the previous two pieces. The cycle has ended lower in pitch but perhaps more hopeful in tone? Darkening\, then brightening… has the cycle changed\, or have we? \n\n\n\nA performance such as this is an incredible undertaking and requires a great deal of effort and resources. Thank you to the following for their support of the UNCG Wind Ensemble’s performance at CBDNA. \n\n\n\n\nJohn R. Locke Endowment for Excellence in Music\n\n\n\nBetty Johnson Cheek Fine Arts Endowment\n\n\n\nDr. J. Alan Boyette\, Provost\, UNCG\n\n\n\nDr. bruce d. mcclung\, Dean\, UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts\n\n\n\nDr. Charles Young\, Director\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDr. Catherine Keen Hock\, Assistant Director\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nProf. Lindsay Kesselman\, Assistant Professor of Voice and Choral Music\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nBrad McMillan\, Director of Outreach Programs and Marketing Coordinator\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nLyndsey Dean\, Ensembles Manager\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDr. Kevin M. Geraldi\, Director of Bands\, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign\n\n\n\nDr. John R. Locke\, Director of Bands Emeritus\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDr. Carole Ott Coelho\, Director of Choral Activities\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDr. Jungho Kim\, Director of Orchestras\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nNeil Shepherd\, Business Officer\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDennis Hopson\, Hall Manager and Recording Engineer\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nSharneisha Joyner\, Building Manager and Instrument Inventory Specialist\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nAdella Dzitko-Carlson\, Administrative Assistant and Personnel Officer\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDr. Nick Lewis\, Admissions and Student Services Specialist\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nStephen Duncan\, Piano Technician\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nPatty Saunders\, DMA Conducting Student\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nDalton Guin\, MM Conducting Student\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\nKat Smith\, MM Conducting Student\, UNCG School of Music\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\n\nLindsay Kesselman is a two-time GRAMMY-nominated soprano known for her warm\, collaborative spirit and investment in personal\, intimate communication with audiences. She regularly collaborates with orchestras\, wind symphonies\, chamber ensembles\, opera/theater companies\, and new music ensembles across the United States\, often premiering\, touring\, and recording new works composed for her by living composers. She is a passionate advocate for contemporary music and has commissioned/premiered over one hundred works to date.    \n\n\n\nRecent and upcoming highlights include the premiere of Darkening\, then Brightening by Christopher Cerrone with the University of Illinois Wind Symphony; the wind transcription of Caroline Shaw’s Is a Rose\, Energy in All Directions by Kenneth Frazelle with Sandbox Percussion at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center; the role of Anna in Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins with the Charlotte Symphony; the role of Ada Lovelace in the new opera Galaxies in Her Eyes by Mark Lanz Weiser and Amy S. Punt; Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space with Voices of Ascension; the John Corigliano 80th birthday celebration at National Sawdust (2018); a leading role in Louis Andriessen’s opera Theatre of the World with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Dutch National Opera; and an international tour of Einstein on the Beach with the Philip Glass Ensemble (2012–2015).   \n\n\n\nKesselman is Assistant Professor of Voice and Choral Music at the UNC Greensboro School of Music. Kesselman holds degrees in voice performance and music education from Rice University and Michigan State University. She is represented by Trudy Chan at Black Tea Music and lives in Charlotte with her husband\, Kevin Noe\, and son\, Rowan. \n\n\n\n\nWind Ensemble\nThe UNCG Wind Ensemble is a highly select concert band of fifty performers majoring in music at the UNCG School of Music. Performers in the current Wind Ensemble are drawn from sixteen states\, Slovenia\, and Hong Kong. The ensemble has enjoyed a distinguished record of performance throughout its history. In January 1992\, the UNCG Wind Ensemble performed “A Tribute to John Philip Sousa” to a capacity crowd of 2\,700 at the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington\, D.C. Twice\, the Wind Ensemble earned critical acclaim from The Washington Post following concerts in the nation’s capital. The Wind Ensemble has performed throughout the eastern United States in recent years including the first-ever performance\, in 1987\, by a North Carolina collegiate ensemble in Lincoln Center\, New York City. The Wind Ensemble performed that same year in West Virginia\, Virginia\, Pennsylvania\, and Washington\, D.C. The Wind Ensemble has recorded nineteen commercially-available albums which have received widespread praise.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/wind-ensemble-10/
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
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nJungho Kim\, conductorJayon Felizarta\, violin \n\n\n\nMOZART Overture to Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)\, K. 620 \n\n\n\nBRAHMS Violin Concerto in D major\, op. 77 (Mvt. I\, Allegro non troppo) \n\n\n\nBEETHOVEN Egmont Overture\, op. 84 \n\n\n\nMUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated by Maurice Ravel) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\nProgram Notes and Biographies\n\n\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\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/yKhnBuzwQS0?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\n\nJayon Felizarta is a violinist currently studying under Dr. Fabian Lopez at UNCG. As a native of North Carolina\, he has been closely involved with the musical community since his youth\, performing with the NC Triangle Youth Symphony\, Duke String School symphony\, and TYP Quartet. In 2020\, Jayon received second prize of the King’s Peak International Music Competition\, and in 2017\, he received second prize at the North Carolina Symphony Youth Concerto Competition. He was a laureate of the Peter Perret youth talent search and has performed as soloist for the Winston-Salem Symphony. \n\n\n\nAn active orchestral performer\, Jayon Felizarta is a first violinist of the Fayetteville Symphony and UNCG University Symphony Orchestra\, and has performed with the Wilmington Symphony. He also performs as violinist for the JAW Trio at UNCG. \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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/symphony-orchestra-7/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T210000
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CREATED:20240715T222022Z
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UID:10001117-1732044600-1732050000@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Symphonic Band
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorPatty Saunders\, graduate conductor \n\n\n\nALDRIDGE On Parade \n\n\n\nBUTLER Cosmopolitan America \n\n\n\nSEKHON Remembering \n\n\n\nLI Starry Ocean (consortium premiere) \n\n\n\nBRYANT Ecstatic Waters \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\nProgram Notes and Biographies\n\n\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\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/87q0hwWgvG8?feature=share\n\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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/symphonic-band-6/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241117T160000
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CREATED:20241028T185944Z
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SUMMARY:Opera Theatre presents Offenbach's "The Lantern Marriage" and Menotti's "The Old Maid and the Thief"
DESCRIPTION:Join the UNCG Opera Theatre for an evening of light-hearted romance and comedy\, as we present two short one acts: Offenbach’s The Lantern Marriage and Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief.  In Offenbach’s charming operetta\, our hero finds his treasure\, disappointing the hopes of the two widows who had their sights set on making him their new husband.  The Old Maid and the Thief narrative parallels The Lantern Marriage as two single women (Miss Todd and Miss Pinkerton) attempt to win the affections of Bob\, who ends up finding his love in their maid\, Laetitia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPurchase Tickets\n\n\n\nDownload Program
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/opera-theatre-presents-offenbachs-the-lantern-marriage-and-menottis-the-old-maid-and-the-thief-3/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241115T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241115T213000
DTSTAMP:20260604T104744
CREATED:20241028T185909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241028T185910Z
UID:10001993-1731699000-1731706200@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Opera Theatre presents Offenbach's "The Lantern Marriage" and Menotti's "The Old Maid and the Thief"
DESCRIPTION:Join the UNCG Opera Theatre for an evening of light-hearted romance and comedy\, as we present two short one acts: Offenbach’s The Lantern Marriage and Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief.  In Offenbach’s charming operetta\, our hero finds his treasure\, disappointing the hopes of the two widows who had their sights set on making him their new husband.  The Old Maid and the Thief narrative parallels The Lantern Marriage as two single women (Miss Todd and Miss Pinkerton) attempt to win the affections of Bob\, who ends up finding his love in their maid\, Laetitia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPurchase Tickets\n\n\n\nDownload Program
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/opera-theatre-presents-offenbachs-the-lantern-marriage-and-menottis-the-old-maid-and-the-thief-2/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260604T104744
CREATED:20241028T190535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241114T172900Z
UID:10001992-1731612600-1731619800@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Opera Theatre presents Offenbach's "The Lantern Marriage" and Menotti's "The Old Maid and the Thief"
DESCRIPTION:Join the UNCG Opera Theatre for an evening of light-hearted romance and comedy\, as we present two short one acts: Offenbach’s The Lantern Marriage and Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief.  In Offenbach’s charming operetta\, our hero finds his treasure\, disappointing the hopes of the two widows who had their sights set on making him their new husband.  The Old Maid and the Thief narrative parallels The Lantern Marriage as two single women (Miss Todd and Miss Pinkerton) attempt to win the affections of Bob\, who ends up finding his love in their maid\, Laetitia. \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\n\nPurchase Tickets\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Our Email List
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/opera-theatre-presents-offenbachs-the-lantern-marriage-and-menottis-the-old-maid-and-the-thief-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T210000
DTSTAMP:20260604T104744
CREATED:20240716T152918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T134851Z
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SUMMARY:Collage
DESCRIPTION:The UNCG School of Music is proud to present our 17th annual performance of Collage at 7:30 PM on October 26\, 2024! We are excited to welcome audiences back to UNCG Auditorium for our most exciting event of the year with a new date! Get into the spooky spirit with special lighting\, haunting music\, and non-stop scintillating performances! \n\n\n\nCollage is captivating and totally unique\, featuring an incredible range of performers presenting one riveting work after another. Join School of Music students and many of our world-class faculty members for this non-stop evening of amazing performances. It’s not to be missed! \n\n\n\nAll ticket proceeds benefit the School of Music Collage Scholarship Fund. \n\n\n\nSectionAdultsSeniorsStudentsSection Afront orchestra\, mezzanine$27$22$17Section Bmiddle and rear orchestra\, lower balcony$20$16$12Section Cupper balcony$15$11$8\n\n\n\n\nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/collage-5/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music,UCLS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T200000
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SUMMARY:Swing Out
DESCRIPTION:Sw!ng Out\n\n\n\nAcclaimed choreographer Caleb Teicher brings the best of the swing dance world to Greensboro with live music by the Eyal Vilner Big Band. \n\n\n\nA New York Times’s Critic’s Pick\, SW!NG OUT celebrates the unbridled joy of Lindy Hop and the excitement of the artists’ distinct improvisational styles—generating a different show each night. \n\n\n\nMusic by the Eyal Vilner Big Band complements the social dance experience with irresistible rhythms that will make you want to dance along. Welcoming audiences into the fold\, each performance concludes with an on-stage jam session with the company! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrchestra/MezzBalconiesUNCG Students$7.50$7.50UNCG Faculty/Staff$25.00$25.00Adults$50.00$45.00Seniors/Military$40.00$35.00Children (K-12)$25.00$15.00\n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n* Tickets to CVPA and UCLS events are sold exclusively through our box office locations and ETix website\, and nowhere else. Tickets purchased through third-party vendors cannot be honored. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn addition to public presentations\, artists in the UCLS series have important interactions with UNCG students\, such as holding masterclasses\, talkback sessions\, and seminars\, often just hours before performing on stage. Thanks to a grant from The Cemala Foundation\, some of these artists also work with K-12 students in the Guilford County Schools.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/swing-out/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,UCLS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T210000
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CREATED:20240817T141551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240915T175447Z
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SUMMARY:Concert Band
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nPatty Saunders\, conductor \n\n\n\nGALANTEThe Redwoods \n\n\n\nMACKEYSheltering Sky \n\n\n\nBALMAGESBeyond the Summit \n\n\n\nJOLLEYAsh \n\n\n\nGIROUXCelestial Seas \n\n\n\nSHELDONOcean Ridge Rhapsody \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/M3kHqTeA2WE?feature=share\n\n\n\n\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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/94413/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T210000
DTSTAMP:20260604T104744
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SUMMARY:Wind Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorJaninah Burnett\, vocalistErik Santos\, composer \n\n\n\nFLAGELLO Bravado \n\n\n\nPURRINGTON apricity \n\n\n\nSANTOS The Seer \n\n\n\nBERNSTEIN Profanation from Symphony No. 1\, “Jeremiah” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\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\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/_w5Ibf6DKvY?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\n\nA versatile singer\, actor\, musician\, writer\, arranger\, and educator\, Janinah Burnett is in demand and has thrilled audiences domestically and internationally in opera\, recital\, musical theatre\, jazz\, television\, and film. Some of her signature operatic roles include Mimí in La bohème\, Leila in Les pêcheurs des perles\, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni\, Micaëla in Carmen\, Marguerite in Faust\, and Violetta in La Traviata. An original cast member of Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème on Broadway as Mimí\, she won a Los Angeles Theater Alliance Award and performed on the Tony Awards Presentation. \n\n\n\nBurnett was on the roster of principal artists at the Metropolitan Opera for eight consecutive seasons debuting as Bianca in La Rondine. She was a member of the closing cast of Phantom of the Opera on Broadway\, making appearances as “Carlotta Giudicelli” since 2016. \n\n\n\nIn February 2021\, Burnett released her debut album\, Love the Color of Your Butterfly\, which features musical arrangements and collaborations with some of the world’s finest jazz musicians including Christian Sands\, Sullivan Fortner Jr.\, Casey Benjamin\, and Terreon Gully who produced the project. Released on her own record label Clazz Records\, Love the Color of Your Butterfly is an amalgamation of jazz\, opera\, art song\, oratorio\, rhythm and blues\, and spirituals and introduces her concept of “Clazz\,” which encourages collaboration and redefines the parameters of genre while embracing parts of history that are erased\, widely unknown and forgotten. Love the Color of Your Butterfly has been featured in numerous publications including the Financial Times\, Playbill\, Broadway World\, Downbeat Magazine\, and Opera News. \n\n\n\nBurnett has been a guest artist and taught masterclasses at Eastern Mennonite University\, The Cinema School\, Clark University\, and Bar Harbor Music Festival. She holds an MM from the Eastman School of Music and a BA from Spelman College. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nErik Santos is a composer\, multi-instrumentalist\, singer\, producer\, and teacher\, who is active in many musical genres\, from rock and jazz\, to classical\, to electronic\, world music\, and music for theater and dance. He is the Chair of the Composition Department at the University of Michigan School of Music\, Theatre & Dance. \n\n\n\nAs the first-born in a family of musicians – father Rosendo Ejercito Santos\, Jr.\, mother Harriet\, brothers Nathan and Jason – music has always been at the core of his life practice\, both as a profession and hobby. \n\n\n\nProfessor Santos has received commissions\, prizes\, fellowships\, and other recognitions for his concert music\, including the prestigious 2020 Sousa-ABA-Ostwald Prize from the American Bandmasters Association\, the Charles Ives Scholarship\, and the Charles Ives Fellowship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters\, awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI)\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Bozeman Symphony\, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago\, the Rackham Graduate School of U-M\, and the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). \n\n\n\nBut\, in recent years\, Santos has become increasingly preoccupied with presenting music in venues other than the classical concert hall  — dance clubs\, street corners\, radio\, theaters\, churches\, museums\, cafes\, car stereos\, movies\, Internet\, iPods\, etc. — where there is more emphasis given to the interaction of music with other spontaneous sensory elements\, involving listeners at the hub of a transdimensional experience. This interest flourished in 2002 when he was invited to join the pioneering and internationally celebrated Japanese butoh company Dairakudakan: Temputenshiki (avant-garde dance/theater)\, as a resident composer—a potent collaboration that continues to this day. \n\n\n\nIn 2005\, Santos and artist/singer Toko Shiiki formed an upbeat band called October Babies\, which has performed a large variety of original multi-cultural and multi-lingual dance songs in America and Japan. (Check out their 2020 EP Find New Way\, and new videos!) They affiliated with the local Ann Arbor music label/collective Oddfellow Music\, which later became Willis Sound. Having completed 5 albums\, along with music videos and documentaries with October Babies\, Santos and Shiiki became interested in filmmaking\, and this led to the full-length movie Threshold: Whispers of Fukushima in 2015. This project focuses on the lives of several musicians who have chosen to live in their homeland of Fukushima\, Japan\, despite the devastation of earthquake and tsunami\, the threat of the failing nuclear reactor\, and even persecution by fellow human beings. By 2019\, they completed three more films inspired by creative relationships they formed in Fukushima (Over the Sky\, Passing the Baton\, and Up the Mountain)\, as well as the film We Women Weave\, about the Moonseed Movement Troupe. \n\n\n\nThe creative relationships formed in the making of Threshold have continued to grow. For example\, in 2016\, Santos and Shiiki co-organized a partnership with the University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies\, the Center for Japanese Studies\, and SMTD\, to invite the fiery Japanese youth drum ensemble Yamakiya Taiko to perform at the University of Michigan for The Fukushima Tribute Concert/Residency. This week-long event began with a thunderous concert at the Power Center and continued with a bunch of rousing Taiko workshops around campus and town. The ensemble premiered a new work Santos wrote for them and a cadre of U-M student drummers\, called “Armadillo Flow.” Check out the video! \n\n\n\nSantos has been on the Michigan local original music scene for XX years\, with bands October Babies\, The Crossed Lines\, 16 More Miles\, and Citygoat\, and he’s hosted several long-running Open Mic stages in the area. These days\, he’s possessed by a fresh passion for practicing – learning\, unlearning\, all day every day – memorizing poetry\, investigating inventions of Bach and Bruce Lee\, and Vince Gilligan\, enjoying sound. \n\n\n\n\nWind Ensemble\nThe UNCG Wind Ensemble is a highly select concert band of fifty performers majoring in music at the UNCG School of Music. Performers in the current Wind Ensemble are drawn from sixteen states\, Slovenia\, and Hong Kong. The ensemble has enjoyed a distinguished record of performance throughout its history. In January 1992\, the UNCG Wind Ensemble performed “A Tribute to John Philip Sousa” to a capacity crowd of 2\,700 at the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington\, D.C. Twice\, the Wind Ensemble earned critical acclaim from The Washington Post following concerts in the nation’s capital. The Wind Ensemble has performed throughout the eastern United States in recent years including the first-ever performance\, in 1987\, by a North Carolina collegiate ensemble in Lincoln Center\, New York City. The Wind Ensemble performed that same year in West Virginia\, Virginia\, Pennsylvania\, and Washington\, D.C. The Wind Ensemble has recorded nineteen commercially-available albums which have received widespread praise.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/wind-ensemble-6/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T193000
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SUMMARY:Symphony Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nJungho Kim\, conductorFranck Fontcouberte\, guest conductorAngela Moretti\, bassoonDaisy Schön\, soprano \n\n\n\nWEBER Concerto for Bassoon in F Major\, op. 75 \n\n\n\nBIZET Suite No. 1 from Carmen \n\n\n\nBOULANGER D’un Matins de printemps \n\n\n\nGOUNOD Musique de ballet de Faust“Je veux vivre” from Roméo et Juliette \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\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\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/brdiyduH_CE?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\n\nAngela Moretti is currently in her first year of study for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She holds a Master’s degree from the University of Central Florida and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Florida State University. Prior to her time at UNCG\, Ms. Moretti was the Adjunct Lecturer of Bassoon at Texas Lutheran University and served in the U.S. Army as a member of the 8th Army Band in South Korea and the 323d Army Band in Texas. While serving as an Army musician\, she performed in hundreds of concerts\, festivals\, and clinics in South Korea and the United States. Prior to her Army service\, Angela was a music teacher at Lakewood Park Elementary School in Florida and held positions with several regional orchestras across Florida and Texas. Her small business\, Laughing Crow Bassoon Reeds\, specializes in handmade bassoon reeds and supplies for amateur and professional bassoonists. In her spare time\, Angela enjoys hiking\, nature photography\, freelance graphic design\, and spending time with her rescued greyhound\, Sarge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMs. Daisy Schön\, she/her\, is a classical soprano pursuing her Masters at UNCG. She studies with Dr. Robert Wells and is in the Vocal Pedagogy track. Daisy graduated from Indiana University with a BM degree in Vocal Performance where she studied with Dr. Brian Gill. While at IU\, Daisy sang in numerous opera choruses\, oratorios\, and premiered contemporary vocal solo works. Last summer\, Ms. Schön sang at the Collaborative Piano Institute at Louisiana State University\, where she sang in masterclasses with master teachers of collaborative piano and premiered a set of music written for her and Mengyao Zhao by Steven Naylor. Daisy also teaches a vibrant studio and maintains an interest and focus on trauma-informed teaching practices. She strives for a compassionate\, joyful\, and mindful approach to her musicianship and facilitating. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFranck Fontcouberte is the artistic director of the Contrepoint instrumental ensemble\, the «MusicaSète» festival\, the «Rencontres Gigeantesques»\, the Ensemble Vocal et Instrumental de Montpellier and the Chorale de Sète\, Conductor of the United Strings of Europe in London. \n\n\n\nAfter working as conductor with David Robertson\, Zoltan Pesko\, Armin Jordan and Pierre Boulez\, he gives numerous concerts in France and abroad with his own orchestras and as guest conductor in Florence\, Rome\, Riga\, Athens\, Istanbul\, Barcelona\, Prague\, Salzburg\, Johannesburg\, Belgrade\, Kotor\, Novisad\, London\, Geneva\, Lausanne\, Beirut and Merida. \n\n\n\nAlongside his career as Music Director and Conductor\, Franck Fontcouberte is a professor of instrumental ensembles at the Regional Conservatory of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole. He founded the International Academy of Conducting\, which provides opportunities for young conductors from around the world to develop under his guidance. He was invited by the Université Notre Dame de Beyrouth to give master classes between 2016 and 2020. \n\n\n\nFranck Fontcouberte has recorded many instrumental and lyrical works\, including: La Belle Hélène by Jacques Offenbach\, the Coronation Mass by Franz Liszt\, the Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi\, Norma by Vincenzo Bellini\, Valses et Polkas by Johann Strauss\, Sacred and Profane Dances by Claude Debussy\, Music for strings\, percussion and celesta by Béla Bartók\, Serenade for strings by Tchaikosvki\, by Dvorak\, by Elgar\, the Chamber Symphony by Shostakovitch\, the Concert for violin and percussion on Balkan themes in world premiere by Mateja Marinkovic. His latest album «In motion» under the Swedish label Bis was released in November 2020. It presents the work «Maralinga» by the Australian composer Matthew Hindson with the New Zealand virtuoso violinist Amalia Hall. \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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/symphony-orchestra-6/
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:Program\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorPatty Saunders\, graduate conductor \n\n\n\nBERNSTEIN Slava! \n\n\n\nZARE Deep Underground \n\n\n\nPRICE The Old Boatman and Adoration \n\n\n\nNELHÝBEL Trittico \n\n\n\nTHOMAS Magneticfireflies \n\n\n\nMÁRQUEZ Conga del fuego nuevo \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\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\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/jmne1tM7s3s?feature=share\n\n\n\n\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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/symphonic-band-5/
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:Chamber Singers
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nCarole Ott Coelho\, conductorLindsay Kesselman\, sopranoJaninah Burnett\, soprano \n\n\n\nTRÁN Tupelo Poems \n\n\n\nBRAHMS Vier Quartette\, op. 92 \n\n\n\nJANËEVSKIS Atsalums \n\n\n\nLEONARDA Dixit DominusAd Arma \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\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\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/huyGLVEk0PE?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\n\nLindsay Kesselman is a two-time GRAMMY-nominated soprano known for her warm\, collaborative spirit and investment in personal\, intimate communication with audiences. She regularly collaborates with orchestras\, wind symphonies\, chamber ensembles\, opera/theater companies\, and new music ensembles across the United States\, often premiering\, touring\, and recording new works composed for her by living composers. She is a passionate advocate for contemporary music and has commissioned/premiered over one hundred works to date.    \n\n\n\nRecent and upcoming highlights include the premiere of Darkening\, then Brightening by Christopher Cerrone with the University of Illinois Wind Symphony; the wind transcription of Caroline Shaw’s Is a Rose\, Energy in All Directions by Kenneth Frazelle with Sandbox Percussion at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center; the role of Anna in Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins with the Charlotte Symphony; the role of Ada Lovelace in the new opera Galaxies in Her Eyes by Mark Lanz Weiser and Amy S. Punt; Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space with Voices of Ascension; the John Corigliano 80th birthday celebration at National Sawdust (2018); a leading role in Louis Andriessen’s opera Theatre of the World with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Dutch National Opera; and an international tour of Einstein on the Beach with the Philip Glass Ensemble (2012–2015).  \n\n\n\nKesselman is Assistant Professor of Voice and Choral Music at the UNC Greensboro School of Music. Kesselman holds degrees in voice performance and music education from Rice University and Michigan State University. She is represented by Trudy Chan at Black Tea Music and lives in Charlotte with her husband\, Kevin Noe\, and son\, Rowan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA versatile singer\, actor\, musician\, writer\, arranger\, and educator\, Janinah Burnett is in demand and has thrilled audiences domestically and internationally in opera\, recital\, musical theatre\, jazz\, television\, and film. Some of her signature operatic roles include Mimí in La bohème\, Leila in Les pêcheurs des perles\, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni\, Micaëla in Carmen\, Marguerite in Faust\, and Violetta in La Traviata. An original cast member of Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème on Broadway as Mimí\, she won a Los Angeles Theater Alliance Award and performed on the Tony Awards Presentation. \n\n\n\nBurnett was on the roster of principal artists at the Metropolitan Opera for eight consecutive seasons debuting as Bianca in La Rondine. She was a member of the closing cast of Phantom of the Opera on Broadway\, making appearances as “Carlotta Giudicelli” since 2016. \n\n\n\nIn February 2021\, Burnett released her debut album\, Love the Color of Your Butterfly\, which features musical arrangements and collaborations with some of the world’s finest jazz musicians including Christian Sands\, Sullivan Fortner Jr.\, Casey Benjamin\, and Terreon Gully who produced the project. Released on her own record label Clazz Records\, Love the Color of Your Butterfly is an amalgamation of jazz\, opera\, art song\, oratorio\, rhythm and blues\, and spirituals and introduces her concept of “Clazz\,” which encourages collaboration and redefines the parameters of genre while embracing parts of history that are erased\, widely unknown and forgotten. Love the Color of Your Butterfly has been featured in numerous publications including the Financial Times\, Playbill\, Broadway World\, Downbeat Magazine\, and Opera News. \n\n\n\nBurnett has been a guest artist and taught masterclasses at Eastern Mennonite University\, The Cinema School\, Clark University\, and Bar Harbor Music Festival. She holds an MM from the Eastman School of Music and a BA from Spelman College.  \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Choirs\nThe UNCG Choral program is recognized for excellence\, creative performances\, and high artistic standards. The UNCG Choirs are comprised of four ensembles: University Chamber Singers\, University Chorale\, Coro di Belle Voci\, and Spartan Voices. These diverse offerings allow students the opportunity to experience a wide range of stylistic ideas through the exploration of music from various time periods and various cultures\, including major choral-orchestral works as well as smaller chamber pieces. The UNCG Choirs have performed at state\, regional\, national and international conferences. Dr. Carole Ott serves as Director of Choral Activities and conductor of Chamber Singers and Chorale. Prof. Lindsay Kesselman is conductor of Coro di Belle Voci. Dr. Brett Nolker is conductor of Spartan Voices.  \n\n\n\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
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/chamber-singers/
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:Brandy Clark
DESCRIPTION:Brandy Clark\n\n\n\nA GRAMMY- and CMA-winner\, Brandy Clark is one of her generation’s most esteemed songwriters and musicians. Amid yet another landmark year\, Clark won Best Americana Performance at this year’s 66th GRAMMY Awards for her song “Dear Insecurity\,” featuring eleven-time GRAMMY-winner Brandi Carlile —Clark’s first GRAMMY win. The song is from Clark’s self-titled album\, produced by Carlile\, and features Clark’s most personal songwriting to date. \n\n\n\nReleased to overwhelming critical acclaim\, Brandy Clark landed on several “Best of 2023” lists including NPR Music\, Billboard\, Rolling Stone\, Variety\, Los Angeles Times\, and Forbes\, which called the album “an Americana Masterpiece.” Additionally\, Variety praised\, “further clarifies that she’s one of America’s treasures\,” and Billboard declared\, “Clark continues to convey her inexorable talents as both a song-crafter and vocal interpreter.” In addition to her work as a solo artist\, Clark has written songs such as “A Beautiful Noise\,” the GRAMMY-nominated duet performed by Brandi Carlile and Alicia Keys\, and Kacey Musgraves’s “Follow Your Arrow.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrchestra/MezzBalconiesUNCG Students$7.50$7.50UNCG Faculty/Staff$25.00$25.00Adults$75.00$70.00Seniors/Military$65.00$60.00Children (K-12)$40.00$30.00\n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n* Tickets to CVPA and UCLS events are sold exclusively through our box office locations and ETix website\, and nowhere else. Tickets purchased through third-party vendors cannot be honored. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nClark also composed the music and lyrics for the hit musical comedy Shucked alongside her longtime collaborator\, Shane McAnally. With the show\, she won Outstanding Music at the 67th Drama Desk Awards and was nominated for Best Original Score at the 76th Tony Awards\, with Shucked receiving nine Tony nominations overall last year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn addition to public presentations\, artists in the UCLS series have important interactions with UNCG students\, such as holding masterclasses\, talkback sessions\, and seminars\, often just hours before performing on stage. Thanks to a grant from The Cemala Foundation\, some of these artists also work with K-12 students in the Guilford County Schools.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/brandy-clark/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,UCLS
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SUMMARY:Jazz Ensemble I with saxophonist Tim Warfield • Miles Davis Jazz Festival
DESCRIPTION:Tickets\n\n \n\n\n\nAdults\n$12.00\n\n\nSeniors\n$9.00\n\n\nStudents\n$6.00\n\n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETSDOWNLOAD PROGRAM\nThomas Heflin\, director \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\n\nTim Warfield\, Jr.\, a native of York\, Pennsylvania\, began studying the alto saxophone at age nine. He switched to tenor saxophone during his first year at William Penn Sr. High School where he participated in various musical ensembles and won many jazz soloist awards\, including second out of forty competitors at the Montréal Festival of Music. After high school\, Warfield attended Howard University in Washington\, DC for two years before leaving to lead and co-lead groups in the Central Pennsylvania and Baltimore/Washington areas. In 1991 Warfield placed third at the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition held at the Smithsonian Institution. \nWarfield has made several television appearances including the Today Show\, Bill Cosby’s You Bet Your Life (where he was a member of the house band until 1992)\, and Ted Turner’s 1998 Trumpet Awards. Additionally\, he has made numerous stage appearances with Donald Byrd\, Michelle Rosewoman\, Marcus Miller\, Marlon Jordan\, James Williams\, Christian McBride\, Winard Harper\, Dizzy Gillespie\, Larry Coryell\, Dakota Staton\, Johnny Coles\, Leslie Burrs\, Isaac Hayes\, Peter Nero\, Shirley Scott\, Jimmy Smith\, Billy Paul\, Kenny Barron\, Nicholas Payton\, Charles Fambrough\, Eric Reed\, Carl Allen\, Terell Stafford\, Stefon Harris\, Orrin Evans\, The Newport Millennium All Stars\, “Papa” John Defrancesco\, Edgar Bateman\, Joey Defrancesco\, Claudio Raggazzi\, Derrick Gardner and the Jazz Prophets\, Trudy Pitts\, Dana Hall\, and others. \n\nROBINSON FAMILY VISITING JAZZ ARTISTS\nA residency made possible by the Robinson Family Fund\, established by Ward Robinson (’19 PBC Jazz\, ’10 MPH) and Pamela Pittman\, is bringing three jazz luminaries to UNCG’s School of Music this year. Saxophonist Julieta Eugenio\, Trumpeter Marcus Printup\, and Saxophonist Tim Warfield will come to Greensboro for residencies with students and concerts which will be open to the public.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/jazz-ensemble-i-with-saxophonist-tim-warfield-miles-davis-jazz-festival/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:School of Music
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SUMMARY:Wind Ensemble • Courtney Miller\, oboe
DESCRIPTION:DOWNLOAD PROGRAMPROGRAM NOTES AND BIOS\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductor\nCourtney Miller\, oboe\nDustin Barr\, guest conductor\nKristin Arp\, graduate conductor \n\nSCHUMAN\nChester \nCONTRERAS\nMariachitlán \nZARE\nOcean of Undiscovered Truth (consortium premiere) \nBALLARD\nDances of the Nighthawk Keetowah \nSHOSTAKOVICH\nFolk Dances \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 \nDr. Courtney Miller is the oboe professor at UNC Greensboro where she teaches oboe\, chamber music\, and reed classes. Prior to her position at the UNCG\, she served on faculty at the University of Iowa\, Boston College in Massachusetts\, and Ashland University in Ohio. During the summers Dr. Miller performs and teaches at Lutheran Summer Music in Indiana and the UNCG Summer Music Camp.  \nA highly regarded performer and pedagogue\, Dr. Miller tours as a soloist\, chamber musician\, and teacher throughout the United States\, Europe\, Asia\, and South America. An experienced orchestral musician\, Miller has performed in many orchestras up-and-down the east coast of the United States from the Jacksonville Symphony in Florida to the Portland Symphony in Maine. She now performs regularly with Orchestra Iowa\, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra\, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony\, and the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra. \nDr. Miller is a versatile artist devoted to performing established repertoire as well as new compositions and lesser-known works. Her 2019 album Portuguese Perspectives introduces a collection of world-premiere recordings for the oboe by Portuguese composers and includes several new commissions by Miller. This album and her 2015 release Modern Fairy Tales are readily available on iTunes\, Amazon\, and Spotify. American Record Guide praises her “seamless consistency in the various registers of the oboe…and sensitive phrasing and articulation.” Fanfare Magazine hails Courtney Miller as “a performer of considerable skill\, with an unfailingly lovely sound\, abundant technical ability\, and a special gift for turning notes into poetry.”   \nIn addition to collaborations within the field of music\, Dr Miller has a flair for interdisciplinary work. She has collaborated with hip-hop dancer Ernest “EKnock” Phillips; belly-dancer Janelle Issis; and most recently choreographer and dancer Kristin Marrs at University of Iowa. Since 2016\, Marrs and Miller have performed in many concerts featuring oboe and dancer and have toured together throughout the United States. Perhaps her most daring collaboration yet is Psionic\, which explores interactive movement data between oboist and computer through a live stream of EEG data with composer Christopher Jette; printmaker Terry Conrad; and digital media designer Daniel Fine.  \nDr. Miller has authored scholarly articles pertaining to the English horn’s role in the orchestra and Charles Loeffler’s Deux Rhapsodies for oboe\, viola and piano published respectively in the Double Reed Journal and the Journal of the American Viola Society. She has also presented recitals and papers at the College Music Society’s Northeast Regional Conference. Dr. Miller performs recitals regularly at the International Double Reed Society’s annual conferences. In 2017 she was a featured artist at the first international conference of the Associação Brasileira de Palhetas Duplas (Brazilian Double Reed Society or ABPD). \nCourtney Miller has a Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston University\, a Master of Music from Cleveland Institute of Music\, and a Bachelor of Music from Florida State University. Her primary teachers include John Ferrillo\, John Mack\, and Eric Ohlsson.  \nDr. Miller serves as 1st Vice President of the Midwest Double Reed Society and is a member of the International Double Reed Society\, the College Music Society\, and Sigma Alpha Iota. Courtney Miller is a Lorée Artist.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/wind-ensemble-courtney-miller-oboe/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
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SUMMARY:Concert Band
DESCRIPTION:DOWNLOAD PROGRAMPROGRAM NOTES AND BIOS\nKristin Arp\, conductor\nErika Boysen\, flute \n\nGEORGE\nJinx \nPERRINE\nOnly Light \nGRANT\nFluttering! Flickering! Floating! Flutes! \nMACKEY\nLet Me Be Frank With You \nTICHELI\nVesuvius \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\n\n\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. \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. \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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/concert-band-3/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
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SUMMARY:Symphonic Band • Abigail Pack\, horn
DESCRIPTION:DOWNLOAD PROGRAMPROGRAM NOTES AND BIOS\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductor\nAbigail Pack\, horn\n \n\nGALBRAITH\nFebris ver \nNEWMAN\nAs the scent of spring rain \nLIKHUTA\nVivid Dreams \nDELLO JOIO\nScenes from The Louvre \nTCHAIKOVSKY\nDance of the Jesters \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\nAbigail Pack\, Professor of Horn at UNCG and 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 taught 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\, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra\, and currently performs with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra\, the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival Orchestra\, the Southwest Chamber Orchestra\, and the Opera Roanoke Orchestra. Other venues have included performances with the Iowa Brass Quintet\, Western Slope Brass Band\, and Massanutten Brass Band. Recent performance and presentation highlights include the National Flute Association (Washington D.C. with the Montpelier Winds)\, the International Horn Symposium (University of Cape Town\, South Africa)\, the International Midwest Band and Orchestra Conference (Chicago)\, and the Kennedy Center of The Performing Arts (Washington). \n\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. \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. \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.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/symphonic-band-abigail-pack-horn/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
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