Music

The Department of Music will honor retiring professor and former department chair Dr. Royce Lumpkin at the Faculty & Friends Concert on Monday, October 16. Lumpkin came to UNC Charlotte in 1998 as the second department chair in the history of the music department, leading the program for 15 years. He will retire in December […]

Voice professors Brian Arreola, tenor, and Carl DuPont, bass-baritone, will perform in the Opera Carolina production of Cyrano in November. A contemporary opera that premiered in 2007, Cyrano is based on the French play, Cyrano de Bergerac, and was composed by David DiChiera, with a libretto by Bernard Uzan. Arreola, the director of the Department […]

Associate Professor of Conducting Shawn Smith, Director of Bands for the Department of Music, has been invited to conduct the Montana All-State Band at the 2017 Montana All-State Band, Chorus and Orchestra Festival, to be held in Bozeman, MT, October 18-20. The annual festival brings the finest high school musicians from around the state together […]

Dr. Evelyn Orman, professor of music education, is the lead author for the article “Feasibility of Using an Augmented Immersive Virtual Reality Learning Environment to Enhance Music Conducting Skills” published recently in the Journal of Music Teacher Education. The article reports on the latest of Dr. Orman’s investigations into the use of immersive virtual reality […]

The Department of Music announces the 2017-18 Masterclass Series. The Masterclass Series will bring seven esteemed instrumentalists, vocalists, and ensembles to campus to work with music students this academic year. As always, the clinicians represent top-notch local musicians, as well as guest artists performing with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Opera Carolina. Students in the […]

Faculty in the UNC Charlotte Department of Music will perform the world premiere of a new “dance-opera” on Saturday, August 19, at 7:00 pm in the Johnson Studio Theater at Winthrop University. Wake—Lucia: a Joycean operatic rite explores the complicated relationship between James Joyce and his brilliant daughter, Lucia. Inspired by multiple works of James […]

Dr. Will Campbell, professor of saxophone and the director of the UNC Charlotte jazz studies program, is featured on a new album to be released next month. Don’t Blink is the second CD by the Unhinged Sextet. The members of the jazz sextet, which formed in 2014, come together from across the country – the […]

Music major James Matens earned third place in the Lower College / Independent Studio Men category at the final round of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) 2017 National Student Auditions, held on Friday, July 21, at the University of Colorado-Boulder College of Music. Matens, a bass, is a student of Dr. Brian […]

Dr. Elizabeth Sullivan, assistant professor of oboe, participated in the 2017 International Fellowship of Conductors, Composers and Collaborators (IFC3), held in June at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. IFC3 was founded in 2014 by Timothy Paul, director of bands at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Through workshops, performances, lectures, and recording sessions, IFC3 promotes wind literature by […]

The UNC Charlotte Department of Music is partnering with the Charlotte New Music Festival to present a composers workshop and series of concerts June 19 – July 1. Founded in 2012 by UNC Charlotte music alumna Elizabeth Kowalski, the Charlotte New Music Festival brings together emerging and established composers and professional musicians for two intensive […]