Ken White Named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for CVPA
College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean bruce d. mcclung has announced the appointment of Ken White to the position of Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the College. He has been serving as Interim Associate Dean since July 2019.
White joined the theatre faculty of UNC Greensboro in 2013, teaching courses in lighting design, stage management, 2D and 3D computer-aided drafting, as well as a graduate and an undergraduate course in portfolio design and presentation for design and technical production students. From 2015 to 2016 he served as Interim Head of the Theatre Department and then returned to the faculty.
Before coming to UNC Greensboro, White taught and designed lighting at Louisiana State University where he was a tenured professor in lighting design and stage management, as well as a regular lighting designer for departmental productions and the University’s Equity theatre company Swine Palace. In 2012, he was the Lighting Designer and Sound/Video Engineer for a worldwide premiere of Dante at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Edinburgh Scotland and the lighting designer for the 2012 Regional’s Competition of the movie Pitch Perfect. White also taught at East Carolina University (ECU) where he was a tenured professor and the area coordinator of both the Design and Production, and Stage Management concentrations, as well as the Production Manager and Lighting Designer for the ECU/Loessin Summer Theatre.
White is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, and his designs have been seen in theatres across the southeast including at The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, Arrowrock Lyceum Theatre, Birmingham Summerfest, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Cumberland County Playhouse, The Dogwood Dell Amphitheater, Tallahassee Little Theatre, and Triad Stage. He received the Richmond News Leader’s Phoebe Award for Best Lighting Design for a Play for his lighting design of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.
White holds an MFA in Design from the University of Texas at Austin.
Please join us in welcoming Ken White as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs!
School of Music Holds Virtual Celebration for Class of 2020
The School of Music held a livestreamed celebration to announce award winners and honor the Class of 2020 on Friday, May 8, 2020. The video of remarks from Dr. Dennis AsKew, Director of the School of Music, a performance from the 2019-20 Presser Scholar Robert Bohinski, and the names and degrees earned for each graduate are below. Congratulations, Class of 2020!
School of Music Graduates
School of Music Virtual Visit
We hope that you will be able to visit us on campus very soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this virtual tour of the School of Music!
Producers: Brad McMillan, Dennis AsKew
Narrator: Anamarie Diaz
Music: Beethoven – Choral Fantasy performed by the UNCG Symphony Orchestra and Choirs; Annie Jeng, piano; Voice Faculty soloists
New Faculty Member Announced in School of Music
College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean bruce d. mcclung has announced the appointment of Catrina Kim to the position of Assistant Professor of Music Theory.
Kim comes to UNC Greensboro from Cleveland, where she taught music theory and aural skills at the Oberlin Conservatory (2019–2020) and Cleveland Institute of Music (2018–2019).
A PhD candidate at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, Kim is completing her dissertation on the Romantic introduction. She has presented her research at regional conferences and meetings of the Society for Music Theory (SMT) and received the inaugural SMT Student Presentation Award for her paper “Fragments and Frames in the Early Romantic Era” at SMT’s 2019 Annual Meeting.
Kim is a founding member of Project Spectrum, a graduate student-led coalition committed to increasing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology. She has presented on such topics as “Adjunct Teaching and Racial Dynamics” and “Practical Approaches to Diversity in Music Theory Pedagogy.” She was also a founding member of Eastman’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility Student-Faculty Alliance.
Catrina Kim holds a BM degree in Piano Performance from the University of Houston where she graduated summa cum laude with University Honors and Honors in the Major.
Please join us in welcoming Catrina Kim to the CVPA faculty!
Celebrate at Home: Hailey Nichols
We asked CVPA Class of 2020 to show us how they’re celebrating at home.
Share your celebration here!
Here’s Hailey Nichols BM Music Education-Choral Music: