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this Issue School of Music Alumnus to Perform in Music for a Great Space Series A Sensational Night for Schiffman Raul Herrera presents Piano Music from Porfirian Mexico Music Library Announces Added Streaming Listening Opportunities Upcoming
Events Monday,
March 17, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
March 18, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
March 19, 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
March 20, 4:00 p.m. Monday,
March 24, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday,
March 25, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
March 26, 7:30 p.m. Friday,
March 28, 5:30 p.m. Sunday,
March 30, 3:30 p.m. Monday,
March 31, 7:30 p.m. On the Horizon Tuesday, April 1, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 6, 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday & Sunday , April 10, 11 & 13 Thursday, April 10, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 12 Tuesday, April 15, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, 5 :30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 25, 3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, 7:30 p.m. Save
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March 2008 E-Newsletter Greetings from the School of Music! We have just finished a record-breaking audition season and are looking forward to a much deserved Spring Break next week. We will return with a full slate of performances, festivals, workshops and more to finish out the season. As always, please feel free to pass this newsletter along to colleagues, students, friends and family.
Sidney Outlaw performs with Greensboro Music for a Great Space series
Sidney Outlaw, who received his Bachelor of Music at UNCG and his Master of Music at Juilliard, has performed more than fifteen major opera roles throughout the United States. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2005 as featured soloist for its National Choral Festival and his Avery Fisher Hall debut as soloist for Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in May of 2007. He has won a number of honors and awards, including first place in the National Association of Teachers of Singing state and regional competitions and national semi-finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Outlaw is currently singing in the Young Artist Studio with Florida Grand Opera. Music for a Great Space seeks to present an eclectic series of musical performances reflecting the varied cultural interests of the Piedmont Triad community. To purchase tickets, call the Carolina Theatre Box Office at (336) 333-2605 or on the web at http://www.carolinatheatre.com. For more information about the series, visit their web site at http://www.musicforagreatspace.org/index.html. A Sensational Night of Schiffman Other selections included were "Concertino for Flute and String Orchestra," "Three Pieces for Piano," "Pentalogue," and "Concertino for Eleven Saxophones." Raul Herrera Presents Piano Music from Porfirian Mexico
The sound and expressive content of Mexican music from the turn of the 20th century comes as a surprise to many audiences. It is only recently that the music from the era of dictator Porfirio Díaz has been heard beyond the borders of Mexico. By combining performance with family recollections and commentary on the era, composers and music, Mexican pianist Raul Herrera revives a significant repertoire and shares with the audience the soul of this neglected aspect of Mexican heritage. Program to include works by Carlos Chávez, Manuel M. Ponce, Felipe Villanueva, Alfredo Carrasco, Ernesto Elorduy, Ricardo Castro, Luis G. Jorda, Alfonso De Elias. The event is sponsored by The UNCG School of Music, the Lloyd International Honors College and the Department of Romance Languages. Born in Mexico City, Herrera has established himself as one of the most active and best known pianists of his country. He is regularly featured by the principal orchestras of Mexico and frequently collaborates with the country's most distinguished instrumentalists, chamber ensembles, composers, conductors and singers. Outside of Mexico, he has performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Central America, the Caribbean and the Middle East. The author of a book on piano technique, Herrera is currently on the piano faculty of the Escuela Superior de Musica in Mexico City. He is also a frequent guest lecturer at conservatories and universities in Mexico, the United States, Canada and Central America, as well as juror in national and international competitions. Festivals Abound in April
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Guest Artists Mattingly will perform on Monday, March 24, 5:30 p.m., in the Recital Hall. He is Horn Professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, and is currently a member of the Moran Wind Quintet, the UNL Brass Quintet, and the Plymouth Brass. He has also performed with the Greater Spartanburg (SC) Philharmonic, Asheville (NC) Symphony, Albany (GA) Symphony, Tallahassee (FL) Symphony, Tuscaloosa (AL) Symphony, Macon (GA) Symphony, Greenville (SC) Symphony and Owensboro (KY) Symphony. Keiter-Brotzman will perform on Tuesday, March 25, 7:30 p.m., in the Recital Hall. She has performed nation-wide and is active as a solo recitalist, collaborative artist, and soloist with orchestra. Keiter-Brotzman joined the faculty at Mary Baldwin College in 1998 and is currently the Music Department Chair. Her work at Mary Baldwin led her to develop an interest in the music of women composers, and in 2005, she developed an all-women composers program of solo piano works, in honor of the bicentenary year of pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847). Recent performances have taken her to Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Davidson College, Emory and Henry College, Sweet Briar College, and West Liberty State University (West Virginia). Vladimir Frumkin, well-known musicologist and performer, will give a lecture-recital entitled "The Harbingers of Perestroika: Russian Guitar Poets of the 1960s-1980s," Friday, March 28, 5:30 p.m., in Collins Lecture Hall (Room 217). He is editor of a two volume collection of songs by Bulat Okudzhava, one of the most celebrated "guitar poets" of the Soviet-era, and is the author of "Bards and Rulers," as well as various other works on Russian classical and popular music. He taught Russian and Russian literature and was Director of Russian House at Oberlin College from 1974-1988, and worked for Voice of America until 2006. The event is sponsored by the School of Music, the Russian Studies Group, International and Global Studies, the International Programs Center and the International Honors College. Music Library Announces Added Streaming Listening Opportunities ArtBeat Greensboro Jack Jarrett, former instructor at the School of Music and founder of NOTION Music (formerly VirtuosoWorks), received the ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize for "autumn too long" for soprano and orchestra, an 18-minute setting of the poetry of e.e. cummings. The work was selected from more than 315 submissions and Jarrett will receive a $5,000 cash prize. Yana Romanova, School of Music senior majoring in flute performance, received full funding from Duke University for their combined five-year MA/PhD program for musicology and performance practice. About 50-60 people apply annually for this program, which only accepts two to three people each year. Alejandro Rutty's composition "The Conscious Sleepwalker Loops" for orchestra will be premiered by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) on March 29, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. at Jordan Hall in Boston. The BMOP will perform Rutty's piece again at the MATA Festival in NYC on April 1 at the Brooklyn Lyceum. The piece is a result of a commission by the MATA Festival and the BMOP. More information is available at http://www.matafestival.org/Mfestival08.html and http://www.bmop.org. An interview with Rutty, assistant professor of composition, is also now featured at http://www.compositiontoday.com. Brian Thacker, BM 1996 and DMA 2003 (both for trombone performance) and School of Music Instructional Technology Consultant, and his band Generic Hustle will be featured on XM72 Beyond Jazz for the weeks of March 3-7 and March 10-14, scheduled alongside music from Miles Davis, Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa. Brian has also recently been asked by NOTION Music, Inc., to record the trombone samples for their new "Musical" sample library for performances of musicals. NOTION Music products allow musicians of all levels and genres to use their computers to compose, play back and perform music with an ease and simplicity that is unprecedented in the industry. Richard Waters, a DMA/choral conducting graduate, received the Delta State University Foundation Prize for Excellence in Teaching. If you know of additional student, alumni, faculty and staff honors that are not listed above, please email them to Jennifer Scott at jcscott@uncg.edu. Has Your Address Changed? 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. Visit the School of Music web site for more information, links, pictures and beyond! Questions? Click here to email the School of Music e-newsletter editor. |
| Welcome New Faculty and Staff Sidney Outlaw performs with Greensboro Music for a Great Space series A Spectacular Night for Schiffman Raul Herrera Presents Piano Music from Porfirian Mexico Festivals Abound in April Special Guest Artists Music Library Announces Added Streaming Listening Opportunities for UNCG Students ArtBeat Greensboro Awards and Honors Has Your Address Changed? School
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The School of Music is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexander Ezerman will join the School of Music as the Associate Professor of Cello. He comes to UNCG from Texas Tech University, where he was founding member of the Botticelli String Quartet. He also regularly performs with his wife, violinist Stephanie Ezerman, as the Ezerman Duo. An active advocate and performer of new music, he has been involved in numerous premiers, and has performed all twelve of the "Sacher" pieces for solo cello in a single recital. For more information about Ezerman visit 
The School of Music also welcomes our new Director of Development Miriam Blackwelder Fields.
Fields has served as associate director of development in UNCG’s Alumni Relations Office since 2005. She returned to UNCG after serving as the director of alumni relations at Greensboro College for seven years. Prior to that post, she was the director of operations and marketing for Carolina Beauty College. A 1985 UNCG graduate in sociology and psychology, she is married and has two children.
School of Music alumnus Sidney Outlaw, baritone, will perform with Warren Jones, piano, as part of the Music for a Great Space series on Friday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m. at Christ United Methodist Church, 410 N. Holden Road, Greensboro. Tickets are $18 general, $15 seniors and $5 students. 
The School of Music honored Greensboro
native and composer Harold Schiffman on Saturday, March 1, with a program that included a rich sampling of his works. The concert featured a range from full symphonies to works for individual instruments and served as the North Carolina premiere for his cantata "Alma" (2002). The cantata features lyrics based on text from North Carolina poet laureate and UNCG alumna Kathryn Stripling Byer's book "Wildwood Flower."
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the School of Music for a lecture-recital by pianist Raul Herrera on Thursday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall. Herrera will present the program "Piano Music from Porfirian Mexico (1880-1910)." The event is free and open to the public. 
Have you heard about ArtBeat, a week-long celebration of the performing and visual arts in Greensboro? April 27th - May 4th, 2008 is the inaugural year of this annual event and the School of Music is happy to be included in the list of events. The festival's main goal is to increase awareness and participation in the arts offerings in the community by providing a comprehensive site and expanded media presence for events taking place during the week. The web site,