Music

Five voice students have placed in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Mid-Atlantic Region Student Auditions, held on March 17 at UNC-Chapel Hill. Tiffanie Briggs was awarded first place in the Hall Johnson Spiritual Category. Tyrez Dabbs placed first in the Fourth/Fifth Year College Men Division while Phillip Hill took third place. James […]

The Department of Music, in partnership with the Steinway Gallery of Charlotte and the Sorel Foundation, will present Requiem of Solace on Friday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Belk Theater, Robinson Hall. A musical meditation on death and life, the program includes Johannes Brahms’s A German Requiem, sung in a new English translation, and […]

James A. Grymes, professor of musicology and chair of the Department of Music, will speak at numerous programs across the Southeast this semester, presenting research from his book, Violins of Hope: Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour. Published by HarperCollins in 2014, Violins of Hope tells the stories of violins played by […]

Music alumni Matthew Primm and Meredith Butterworth are launching a new initiative, the Particular Ensemble, to give music performance opportunities for up-and-coming composers. The project aims to promote new music and diversity within the music field, and each concert will present works by contemporary composers of diverse backgrounds, including race and gender. The first Particular […]

Recent music graduate Joey Rincon has been selected as one of only 14 guitarists worldwide to enter the Master in Classical Guitar Performance degree program at the University of Alicante in Spain. The innovative program includes courses in solo guitar performance and technique taught by some of the premiere guitarists in the world, including Grammy […]

Five UNC Charlotte choral students were invited to participate in the inauguration of Margaret Spellings, the 18th president of the University of North Carolina system. This event took place on Thursday, October 13, at 10:00 a.m. in Memorial Hall on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus; it was broadcast live on WUNC-TV. President Spellings requested the formation […]

Dr. Carl DuPont, assistant professor of voice, performed two concerts in Missoula, Montana. On Sunday, September 25, Dr. DuPont was the featured guest soloist in The Concert to End Gun Violence, hosted by the University Congregational Church and sponsored by Faiths United to End Gun Violence, an organization comprising 50 national faith communities. On Monday, […]

UNC Charlotte Director of Bands Shawn Smith conducted two concerts, on September 8 and 9, with the Banda Sinfόnica de la Provincia, a full-time professional band in Cόrdoba, Argentina. The concerts featured the world premiere of a clarinet concerto by James Lee III, an American composer, and took place in Cόrdoba’s 19th-century opera house, the […]

The independent choral group Sine Nomine, led by Associate Professor of Voice Alissa Deeter and music alumnus Dareion Malone, with Mark Johanson, will perform a program in recognition of the 15th anniversary of 9/11. Featuring Morton Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna (1997), the program will be performed twice: on Saturday, September 10, at 7:30 pm at Mt. […]

The Department of Music announces the 2016-17 Masterclass Series. The Department will bring seven esteemed musicians to campus to coach music students this academic year. These professionals represent top-notch local musicians as well as guest artists performing with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Opera Carolina. Students in the College of Arts + Architecture benefit greatly […]