The Department of Music presents a Faculty & Friends Concert featuring the Charlotte Strings Collective performing string music by Black composers. The ensemble is a community string group composed of students, faculty, and alumni from UNC Charlotte and Winthrop University; students and alumni from Northwest School of the Arts; members of the Charlotte and Union Symphonies; area freelancers; and Charlotte-area public school music teachers. Founded in 2020 to affirm that Black Lives Matter, the Charlotte Strings Collective has performed at conferences presented by the College Music Society and the North Carolina Music Teachers Association and will perform at the 2022 American String Teachers Association National Conference.
The program includes music by Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges, WIlliam Grant Still, Dorothy Rudd Moore, and Timothy Adams Jr. The concert is part of a larger initiative to address a lack of diversity in classical music and is funded through a College of Arts + Architecture Research Award.
For this performance, the Charlotte Strings Collective welcomes Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams and her dance company, Moving Spirits, in two original works choreographed by Williams.
Tickets are $10 and $8. (Faculty, staff, and students in the College of Arts + Architecture are eligible for complimentary tickets. Please log into the ticketing system to access those benefits.)