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this Issue Second Annual Daniel Ericourt Piano Artist Residency Scheduled for February Last Chance to Register for Special Days Join MAG for Dinner and a Concert McIver Lectureship Addresses Voice Health Dickieson Chamber Music Endowment Presents Grammy Award-winning eighth blackbird Chinese Opera Arrives at the School of Music Save the Date! School of Music News Upcoming
Events Sunday, January 25, 12:30-6:00 p.m. Monday, January 26, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 28, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, January 29, 4:00 p.m. Thursday, January 29, 7:30 p.m. Monday, February 2, 7:30 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, February 2-4, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 3, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 5, 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 6, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 7, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Sunday, February 8, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 10, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 11, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday & Sunday, February 12-13 & 15 Tuesday, February 17, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 18, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, February 19-21, Various Times Thursday, February 19, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Thursday, February 19, 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 20, 4:00 p.m. Friday, February 20, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 21, 2:00 p.m. Monday, February 23, 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 27, 4:00 p.m. On the Horizon Monday, March 2, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 5, 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 22, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 26, 4:00 p.m. Thursday, March 26, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 27, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 29, 3:30 p.m. Are You Current? Have you updated your alumni biography for the School of Music? For your convenience we now offer an online update submission form at www.uncg.edu/mus/update. We love hearing from you, so please be sure to keep us posted! New Address? We always strive to keep our database current so that our supporters are able to receive important announcements and exclusive invitations. If you have moved within the last year and would like to remain in our database, please email your former and new address to music@uncg.edu with "Address Change Request" in the subject line. |
January
and February 2009 E-Newsletter American Old Time Concert Begins 2009 Performance Season Fiddler Alan Jabbour and banjoist Ken Perlman will present a program of Appalachian tunes on Tuesday, January 20, 7:30 p.m. in the School of Music Organ Hall. The evening will feature most prominently the music Jabbour learned in the 1960s from his mentor, West Virginia fiddler Henry Reed. Alan Jabbour is one of America's foremost exponents of Appalachian fiddling. His Hollow Rock String Band, founded in the mid-1960s, served as a prototype for the old-time string-band revival and was a major source for today’s repertoire of Southern old-time music. A renowned folklorist, Jabbour was director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress for 23 years. More information about Jabbour is available at www.alanjabbour.com. Ken Perlman is internationally known as a master of the melodic clawhammer style and for his skillful adaptations of Celtic and Down East fiddle tunes to banjo. He has written several well-known books on clawhammer instruction. He is also an expert on fiddle tunes and related cultural traditions from the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. More information about Perlman is available at www.kenperlman.com. Together Jabbour and Perlman have redefined the fiddle-banjo duet and brought it to new heights of complexity. Jabbour’s powerful fiddling style, with its syncopated bowing patterns and lyrical texture, is offset perfectly by Perlman’s inspired approach to clawhammer banjo, which explores chord inversions, harmony lines, voice leading, note-for-note playing, and counter-melody. Ticket prices are $10 general, $6 seniors, $4 students, and $3 UNCG. Tickets are available through the UNCG Box Office at (336) 334-4849 or http://boxoffice.uncg.edu. Second Annual Daniel Ericourt Piano Artist Residency Scheduled for February Jon Nakamatsu, one of the most sought-after pianists of his generation, will conduct master classes and perform at the School as part of the Second Annual Daniel Ericourt Piano Artist Residency, Monday-Wednesday, February 2-4. Master classes will be held Monday-Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. in the School of Music Recital Hall. The classes are free and open to the public. An evening concert by Nakamatsu will be held on Tuesday, February 3, 7:30 p.m., also in the Recital Hall. Ticket prices are $10 general, $6 seniors, $4 students, and $3 UNCG. Tickets are available through the UNCG Box Office at (336) 334-4849 or http://boxoffice.uncg.edu. Nakamatsu is a frequent concerto soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and solo recitalist throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. He is winner of the Gold Medal at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. His extensive recital tours throughout the United States and Europe have featured performances in New York City (Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall), Washington, DC (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Miami, Houston, San Francisco, Paris, London and Milan. The recipient of the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for his semifinal round chamber music performances at the Cliburn competition, he has subsequently collaborated with various chamber ensembles, among them the Brentano, Ives, Manhattan, Miami, St. Lawrence, Prazak, Tokyo and Ying String Quartets and the Stanford Woodwind Quintet. Mr. Nakamatsu has also made three United States tours as the guest soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet. The Residency honors the legacy of world-renowned pianist Daniel Ericourt, who from 1964-1967 was the first artist-in residence at UNCG’s School of Music, and is made possible by a generous gift from William H. Heins, Jr. Last Chance to Register for Special Days Double Reed Day Annual High School Piano Day Join MAG for Dinner and a Concert The Musical Arts Guild invites you to Dinner and a Concert on Sunday, February 8. Join us for dinner in the School of Music Atrium at 6:15 p.m., and then enjoy a concert by the Liberace Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $35 each ($30 for MAG members). The deadline to reserve your space is Monday, February 2. If you are interested in receiving more information, contact Jennifer Scott at (336) 256-1475 or jcscott@uncg.edu. The Liberace Quartet is a chamber ensemble comprised of the finest graduate music students in the UNCG School of Music and is generously supported by The Liberace Foundation. Save the date for the Second Annual Moveable Musical Feast, scheduled for Saturday, May 9. Last year's feast featured music and food from New Orleans, Paris, Milan and New York and raised over $10,000 for the School of Music. Four new international cities have been selected for this year's event. The Musical Arts Guild, composed of music lovers from the Triad and beyond, provides support for the development of talented musicians through scholarship funds and enriches the entire School of Music with special capital gifts. McIver Lectureship Addresses Voice Health The William McIver Lectureship in Vocal Pedagogy presents Leda Scearce on Thursday, February 19, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Ms. Scearce will present "It Takes a Team: Management of Voice Disorders in Singers" and "Talking the Talk: Healthy Speaking Voice for Voice Teachers and Singers." Ms. Scearce currently serves as Singing Voice Specialist and Coordinator of Performing Voice Services at the Duke Voice Care Center, where she provides rehabilitation therapy to singers, actors and other vocal performers with voice injuries. She has been featured in leading roles with the National Opera Company, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Triangle Opera, the Ohio Light Opera Company and Whitewater Opera Company, and has appeared as concert soloist with orchestras including the North Carolina, Toledo and Honolulu Symphonies. An active proponent of new music, Ms. Scearce has given world premiere performances of works written for her with the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Nashville, Mallarme Chamber Players, the American Chamber Music Festival and Chamber Music Hawaii. A winner of the Birmingham Opera Vocal Competition, Ms. Scearce has also been a Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Dr. William McIver was a member of the voice faculty at UNCG for more than 25 years before joining the faculty at the Eastman School of Music in 1999. At the time of his death in September of 2003, he had reached the pinnacle of his professional career, serving as president of the Nation Association of Teachers of Singing. Throughout his career, McIver maintained a passionate interest and involvement in the science of vocal pedagogy and its application in the studio. As an ongoing memorial to Bill, the UNCG voice faculty has donated funding to establish the annual William McIver Lectureship in Vocal Pedagogy. Dickieson Chamber Music Endowment Presents Grammy Award-winning eighth blackbird Described by The New Yorker as “friendly, unpretentious, idealistic and highly skilled,” the Grammy Award-winning eighth blackbird will perform at the School of Music as part of the Dickieson Chamber Music Endowment on Tuesday, March 3, 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall. The sextet is widely lauded for its performing style – often playing from memory with virtuosic and theatrical flair – and its efforts to make new music accessible to wide audiences. The group has been the subject of profiles in the New York Times and on NPR’s All Things Considered; it has also been featured on Bloomberg TV’s Muse, CBS’s Sunday Morning, St. Paul Sunday, Weekend America and The Next Big Thing, among others. In 2008 the group’s recording of “strange imaginary animals” won the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. The ensemble is in residence at the University of Richmond in Virginia and at the University of Chicago. Visit http://www.eighthblackbird.com/ for more information about the group. The Dickieson Chamber Music Endowment honors the late UNCG School of Music professor George W. Dickieson. During his 39 years at UNCG, he instituted the first graduate degree courses, as well as teaching violin, conducting and orchestration classes. He also served as head of the violin department and chairman of the conducting division. Ticket prices are $10 general, $6 seniors, $4 students, and $3 UNCG. Tickets are available through the UNCG Box Office at (336) 334-4849 or http://boxoffice.uncg.edu. Chinese Opera Arrives at the School of Music The School of Music will welcome a troupe of 30 artists, musicians and technicians from China, providing the Greensboro community with a rare opportunity to see traditional Chinese opera in a live context. The Shanghai Huai Opera will perform at the School of Music on Friday, March 27, 7:30 p.m., in the Recital Hall. Huai is a very popular style of Chinese opera in the areas of Shanghai, Nanjing and the northern part of Jiangsu Province. This regional style can be traced back over 140 years to the story-telling and singing traditions of Jiangsu villages. In the 19th century it moved into the cities of Shanghai, Suzhou and Wuxi where it melded with other artistic stage arts to become one of the most influential of China’s local operas. Save the Date! The world premiere of Libby Larsen's Picnic, the new opera commissioned by the School of Music, is right around the corner. Mark your calendars for April 2, 3 and 5, 2009. Visit our web site at http://www.uncg.edu/mus/operacommission.html to learn more about Larsen and the School of Music commission. Additional information will be available soon. School of Music News Amy Moore, Executive Assistant to the Dean and Office Manager, and husband Christoper welcomed baby girl Amelie Christine in December. Do you have an honor or award to share? Email Jennifer Scott at jcscott@uncg.edu. |
American Old Time Concert Begins 2009 Performance Season Second Annual Daniel Ericourt Piano Artist Residency Scheduled for February Last Chance to Register for Special Days Join MAG for Dinner and a Concert McIver Lectureship Addresses Voice Health Dickieson Chamber Music Endowment Presents Grammy Award-winning eighth blackbird Chinese Opera Arrives at the School of Music Save the Date! School
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