Fourth Annual UNCG
New Music Festival

October 23-25, 2007 // Greensboro, NC

CONCERT SCHEDULE

Please note schedule is subject to change. Check back soon for updates.

New! Click here for a pdf of the concert programs.

Preview Concert
Tuesday, October 23
12:30-12:55 p.m.
West Market Street United Methodist Church
“Tuesday Music” Series (http://www.wmsumc.org/)

Amy Dissanayake presents a selection of concert rags and tangos for piano

Concert I
Tuesday, October 23
UNCG School of Music Recital Hall
7:30 p.m.
$10 General / $6 Seniors / $3 Students

Works by Matt Quayle, Alejandro Rutty, Benjamin Broening and modern ragtime compositions performed by guest artist Amy Dissanayake. Swedish percussionist Anders Åstrand will perform his own compositions.

Additional performances by Lorena Guillén and the UNCG Chamber Singers under the direction of Welborn Young.

Student Composers Concert
Wednesday, October 24
UNCG School of Music Recital Hall
4:00 p.m.
Free

Featuring compositions by student composers at Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of South Carolina and UNCG. Music by Kathleen Bader, Andrew Hannon, Alex Kotch, Paul Leary, Daniel Pappas, Matthew Phelps, Amy Scurria and Braxton Sherouse.

Concert II
Wednesday, October 24
UNCG School of Music Recital Hall
7:30 p.m.
$10 General / $6 Seniors / $3 UNCG Students

Sound and Video works by Benjamin Broening, Rodney Waschka, Samantha DiRosa/Ryan Hare, Ivica Ico Bukvic and Fuminori Tanada. Anders Åstrand performs original jazz-laced compositions and Amy Dissanayake performs modern tangos. Additional performances by Steve Stusek, new UNCG faculty Anthony Taylor and the UNCG Contemporary Chamber Players.

Concert III
Thursday, October 25
Weatherspoon Art Museum
5:30 p.m. Reception
6:00 p.m. Pre-concert talk by artist Bill Fontana about his recent installation, "Spiraling Sound Axis"
6:30 p.m. Time to explore Fontana installation
7:00 p.m. Concert
Free

Works by new UNCG Composition Faculty member Alejandro Rutty, with Judith Shatin, Shawn Okpebholo, Morton Subotnick. Performances by the EastWind Ensemble, Anthony Taylor, Scott Rawls, Susan Fancher.

"Spiraling Sound Axis," a sound sculpture by artist Bill Fontana soon to be installed in the Weatherspoon Art Museum's sculpture courtyard, consists of custom-made recordings of familiar North Carolina sounds that Fontana collected throughout the state between 1991 and 1993. The artist traveled around the state recording sound samples that represent the state's history, industry, people, culture, and environment. A thunderstorm in Wilmington, a tobacco auction in Wilson, Cherokee storytellers, a fiddler's convention in Mount Airy, morning preparations at Old Salem, waves crashing at the coast, birds, frogs, and geese are just a few of the hundreds of sounds Fontana recorded and wove into his piece. The work itself is made up of three CD players, 4 amplifiers and 8 speakers. The taped sounds will be heard randomly throughout the Weatherspoon courtyard.

Master Classes, Lectures & Reading Sessions
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Wednesday, October 24
10:00 a.m. Rodney Waschka (Room 224)
1:00 p.m. Ivica Ico Bukvic (Computer Lab)

Thursday, October 25
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Composers Reading Session with Amy Dissanayake (Recital Hall)
1:00-2:30 p.m. Piano Master Class with Amy Dissanayake (Organ Hall)
3:00-3:50 p.m. Shawn Okpebholo (Room 223)
4:00-5:30 p.m. Benjamin Broening (CHT Lecture Series, Room 217)
7:00 p.m. Judith Shatin (remarks at Weatherspoon Concert)

To be scheduled: masterclasses with Anders Astrand (percussion, composition, improv, jazz…)