College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cuando las Memorias Sangran/When Memories Bleed

Reflections on family, immigration, and love across borders.

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

Location: Greensboro Project Space

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

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

Program

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

HARRISON Splinter

MITCHELL From The Depths We Rise

GARROP Chariot of Helios

SIMON Go Down Moses

MARKOWSKI Unfamiliar Territory

TICHELI Over the Moon

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Dr. Luke Ellard

Dr. Arris Golden

Dr. Brian K. Doyle

Prof. Michael Haithcock

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

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

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

About the Wind Ensemble

The UNCG Wind Ensemble is a highly select concert band of fifty performers majoring in music at the UNCG School of Music. Performers in the current Wind Ensemble are drawn from sixteen states, Slovenia, and Hong Kong. The ensemble has enjoyed a distinguished record of performance throughout its history. In January 1992, the UNCG Wind Ensemble performed “A Tribute to John Philip Sousa” to a capacity crowd of 2,700 at the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Twice, the Wind Ensemble earned critical acclaim from The Washington Post following concerts in the nation’s capital. The Wind Ensemble has performed throughout the eastern United States in recent years including the first-ever performance, in 1987, by a North Carolina collegiate ensemble in Lincoln Center, New York City. The Wind Ensemble performed that same year in West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. The Wind Ensemble has recorded nineteen commercially-available albums which have received widespread praise.

Zoia Cisneros MFA Thesis concert
2025-02-14 20:30, 2025-02-15 14:30, 2025-02-15 15:30, 2025-02-15 19:30, 2025-02-15 20:30 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place, Greensboro, NC, 27406, United States
Zoia Cisneros MFA Thesis Concert

Cuando las Memorias Sangran/When Memories Bleed

Reflections on family, immigration, and love across borders.

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

Location: Greensboro Project Space

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

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