Music

Music Students’ Research Brings Unknown Composers to Light
Music students Abigail Roscoe and Will Wiand were OUR Summer Research Scholars.

Violin Professor’s New Album Celebrates Spanish Music
David Russell’s “Andalusian Legacy” reflects nearly two decades of engagement with the music and culture of southern Spain.

Andrew Schoen
Saxophonist in the Aruna Quartet, Saxophone Instructor

Alexis Forner
B.A. in Music and a B.A. in Architecture

Eli Mathew
B.M. in Music with aTrumpet Performance Concentration

Jacob Sims
B.M. in Music with a Trumpet Performance Concentration

Interdisciplinary Seminar Considers the Relationship Between Sound, Space and the Body
Architecture professor Rachel Dickey and music professor Jessica Lindsey presented their unique course curriculum at a recent national conference.

CoAA Students Find Rewarding Jobs as Teaching Artists with Local Arts Organizations
Students in the College “make a difference” while earning valuable experience and income.

How the Charlotte Strings Collective is bringing color to classical music
WFAE radio features the Charlotte Strings Collective, which includes CoA+A alumni Alice Silva, Matt Primm, and Malik Johnson and cello professor Mira Frisch. The group got started in August 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. Silva and the other musicians wanted to contribute to the Black Lives Matter movement. They performed a piece virtually […]

Meet James Grymes, who offers a master class in empathy with ‘Violins of Hope’
James Grymes has a distinguished career as a professor of musicology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The Knoxville News Sentinel interviews Grymes about his book, “Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust ‒ Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour,” published in 2014.