Matthew Reese – UNCG student wins Encouragement Award at Regional Metropolitan Opera Competition

On Sunday, February 7, 2016 UNCG DMA student Matthew Reese, countertenor - student of Prof. Robert Bracey - represented the North Carolina District in the Southeast Regional Division of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.  Reese was honored with the encouragement award. This is not Reese's first victory of ...
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Carr’s book wins Society for Ethnomusicology’s most prestigious award

UNCG Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Dr. Revell Carr, was awarded the Alan P. Merriam Prize for outstanding book for 2014-2015 from the Society for Ethnomusicology, and their annual meeting in Austin, TX, Dec. 5. Carr's book, Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels, is a historical study ...
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Spotlight on: Dr. Aaron Allen and Ecomusicology

In light of his most recent success in presenting the conference keynote presentation in Finland, we talked to Dr. Allen to get his take on the work he is doing, and his experience in Sibelius's homeland... What? - First ever Finnish ecomusicology conference Where? - University of Turku ...
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Prof. Adam Ricci to present findings on Fauré at two conferences in 2015

Prof. Adam Ricci to present "'As Astonishing as They Are Inevitable': Complex Harmonic Sequences Preceding Reprises in the Late Music of Gabriel Fauré" at two conferences this fall: "Effable and Ineffable: Gabriel Fauré and the Limits of Criticism" and the Society for Music Theory annual meeting. Adam Ricci ...
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Historical Keyboard Society of North America recognizes UNCG attendees

Robin Morace (DMA Piano Perf, Cert. Early Keyboard Perf. - student of Dr. Willis) and Stephanie Schmidt (DMA Piano Perf, Cert. Early Keyboard Perf. - student of Dr. Willis & Dr. Salmon) represented UNCG in the Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of North America held this past May ...
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