August '08

8/25/08 First Day of Classes. Bassoon Ensemble Placement Auditions 12:00-2:30pm room 304.

Woodwind Beginning of Year Cookout Party--TBA

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September '08

9/6/08 EastWind Ensemble performs on the "Collage Concert" commemorating the reopening of Aycock Auditorium at UNCG.

9/12/08 MJB performs faculty recital at UNCG performing works from the CD recording project: Prima Vera: Works for Bassoon and Piano by Basoonists". 5:30pm, Organ Hall.-Date and Time Changed!

9/20/08 MJB performs as principal bassoon of the Asheville Symphony orchestra playing Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2

9/26/08, 9/27/08, 9/28/08 MJB performs as principal bassoon with Opera Company of NC, I Pagliacci

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October '08

10/2/08 Leah Plimpton MM Recital, 7:30pm, OH

EastWind Ensemble tour to China

10/18/08 EastWind Concert in Hangzhou, China

10/19/08 EastWind Concert in Wenzhou, China

10/20/08 and 10/21/08 EastWind Concerts in Ningbo, China

10/22/08 EastWind Concert in Jiaxing, China

10/23/08 EastWind Outdoor Concert at Nanjing Road and Century Square, Shanghai, China

10/24/08 EastWind Ensemble perform concert at Shanghai International Music Festival

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November '08

11/1/08 MJB performs as bassoon in Vivaldi Gloria at Duke Chapel

11/2/08 Becky Libera DMA Recital #3, 1:30pm, OH

11/12/08 Justin Thompson Senior Recital, 5:30pm, OH

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December '08

12/2/08 Angel Garren Senior 1/2 Recital, 7:30pm, RH

12/5/08 Wind Chamber Recital, 3:30pm, RH

12/6/08 and 12/7/08 MJB performs as principal bassoon in Nutcrackers for the Carolina Ballet in Chapel Hill, NC.

12/13/08 and 12/14/08 MJB performs as principal bassoon in Karolju at Duke Chapel

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January '09

1/20/09 Classes begin at UNCG.

1/24/09 Audition Day, UNCG School of Music

1/25/09 Double Reed Day at UNCG

1/26/09 Guest Artist Masterclass on bassoon excerpts at 3:00pm and Recital at 7:30pm by Christopher Sales, principal bassoon, Charleston Symphony Orchestra.

February '09

2/9/09 Ann Shoemaker, DMA Recital #2

2/12/09 and 2/14/09 MJB performs Schubert Octet with Ciompi Quartet, Duke.

2/14/09 Audition Day, UNCG School of Music

2/18/09 UNCG Faculty Composers' Concert, 7:30pm RH. Burns Riffs for Reed Quintet. MJB performs World Premiere of Steve Haines: Nova Scotia.

2/20/09 Bassoon Clinic at Carolina Band Festival

2/25/09 Amanda Harman Senior Recital, 5:30pm, RH

2/28/09 Audition Day, UNCG School of Music. Final date to be eligible for Scholarship.

2/28/09-Leah Plimpton MM recital, 7:30pm, OH

March '09

April '09

4/2/09, 4/3/09, 4/4/09 MJB performs with NCSO

4/18/09 MJB performs as princiapl bassoon with Asheville Symphony, Beethoven 9th Symphony

4/24/09 Bassoon Studio Recital, 5:30pm RH

May '09

5/1/09 Wind Chamber Recital, 3:30pm, OH

5/3/09 Wesley Payne Junior 1/2 Recital, OH

5/5/09 last Day of Classes at UNCG

5/6/09 Reading Day—Woodwind Juries

June-July '09