Guest lecturer to present at UNCG SMTD on Thursday, November 19, 2015.

“Humanizing Agents, Humanizing Music: Social Affordances and the Practice of Agential Narrative”

Cora Palfy holds a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Music Theory with a specialization in Music Cognition from Northwestern University, where she specialized in narrativity, musical agency, and musical virtuality.

Dr. Palfy’s research interests focus on the relationship between a listener’s perception of musical agency and the intersubjective behavioral patterns used in everyday life. She blends social psychology with theoretical research and has a forthcoming publication in the Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality exploring the expression of personality and behavioral traits in the music of Daft Punk.

Dr. Palfy has presented her research at regional and international conferences, including meetings of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Currently, she is working on articles concerning musical agency and personality inventories, as well as a paper investigating the personality and behavioral expression of Byronic Heroes in late-nineteenth century orchestral music.

At UNC-Chapel Hill, Dr. Palfy teaches courses in music theory, popular music, and music cognition.

This has been an exciting year for Samee Griffith(DMA, 2015). She and her husband Aaron Mood (who got his MM in piano performance from UNCG a few years ago) opened the Star City Music Studios in Miamisburg OH which has been getting local attention. On April 3rd, 2015, Samee gave her final DMA at Wright State University in Ohio. Then she graduated in May 2015 with the DMA. And, in between, on April 15th, she gave birth to her first child, Evvy.

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Percussion Ensemble has been named a winner in the Percussive Arts Society’s (PAS) International Percussion Ensemble Competition. Annually, three university percussion ensembles are selected through a call-for-tapes competition, and the UNCG Percussion Ensemble was selected for one of these coveted positions. In the last four years, ensembles from the Eastman School of Music, Yale University, University of Kentucky, University of Texas, and Florida State University were some of the winners, so the UNCG Percussion Ensemble is in esteemed company. The UNCG Percussion Ensemble has been invited to perform a showcase concert at the 2015 Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in San Antonio, TX, on Saturday, November 14, at 10:00a.m. For their showcase concert, the UNCG Percussion Ensemble will premiere four new works by Michael Burritt, Anna Meadors, Jason Treuting, and Jamie Whitmarsh.

The UNCG Percussion Ensemble will perform a PASIC Preview Concert on Monday evening, November 2, at 7:30p.m. in the UNCG School of Music Recital Hall.

Prof. Gavin Douglas recently published an annotated bibliography on “Buddhist Music” as part of the Oxford Bibliographies series.

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