Music

Assistant Professor of Music Jessica Lindsey releases a new CD, Set No Limits: Music for Clarinet and Piano by Women Composers, on February 1. Produced on the Albany Records label, Set No Limits features Dr. Lindsey and pianist Christian Bohnenstengel performing works by five contemporary female composers – four Americans and one who, born in […]

Students from the Department of Music will join the Charlotte Symphony and A Sign of the Times jazz ensemble to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King in the 10th annual “Bridging Musical Worlds” program this Sunday, January 14, at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church Conference Center. The concert begins at 5 pm […]

Associate Professor of Voice Alissa Deeter, soprano, and pianist Arlene Shrut have recently released their new CD, Hier: Mélodies of Francis Poulenc on Centaur Records. This recording celebrates the French composer’s mastery of art song. Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) possessed a profound ability to channel inspiration into a tapestry of singular uniqueness, producing the very essence […]

An album by the Unhinged Sextet, which includes saxophone professor Will Campbell, director of the UNC Charlotte jazz studies program, has been named a Best Release of 2017 by jazz critic Mark Sullivan in All About Jazz. The album, Don’t Blink, is the second CD by the Unhinged Sextet. It features two original compositions by […]

The Department of Music will present the powerful multimedia concert drama, Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, in a single performance on Sunday, December 3, at 2:00 pm, in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. A reception will follow. Praised by the New York Times as “Poignant…a monument to the courage of one man […]

Last month, Director of Bands Shawn Smith conducted the Symphonic Band of Córdoba and the Polifonic Choir of Córdoba in a concert on October 15 at the Teatro del Libertador General San Martín, a beautiful 19th-century opera house in Córdoba, Argentina. Both the band and the choir are publicly funded professional ensembles. The band performed […]

On October 29, the UNC Charlotte Department of Music hosted the Carol Brice Branch of North Carolina, the state branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. Dr. Carl DuPont, assistant professor of voice and vice-president of the Carol Brice Branch, presided over the meeting. After the conclusion of the business meeting, the 20 […]

A small ensemble of music students will perform at the World Association of Arts in Education conference in Auckland, New Zealand, in November. The theme of the conference is Engaging WITH Communities, and its focus is to share and build research and practice that demonstrates creative pedagogies in community and/or institutional contexts. The students’ performance […]

Choral Teacher, Jesse C. Carson High School, China Grove, NC

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