Music

The College of Arts + Architecture will join Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I with performances of Benjamin Britten’s powerful War Requiem on April 13 and 14. Britten’s War Requiem was commissioned for the 1962 consecration of the Coventry Cathedral in England, which had […]

Dr. Brian Arreola, associate professor of voice, is reprising the role of Luis Rodrigo Griffith in a current production of the jazz opera, Champion, at the New Orleans Opera, March 9 and 11. Champion, by Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, is based on the true story of world welterweight champion Emile Griffith, who killed boxer […]

Four voice students placed and four received Honorable Mention at the 2018 North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) auditions, held February 16 and 17 at the UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. The award winners were: Chrystle Mactal: First Place, 4th Year Women Division Natalya Balashova: Second Place, […]

Dr. Carl DuPont, an assistant professor of voice in the Department of Music, has been named a 2018 Emerging Scholar by the publication Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. The magazine’s January 25 edition profiled 15 scholars from colleges and universities from around the country, many of them under 40, who are making their mark at […]

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 […]