Music

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 […]

The UNC Charlotte Department of Music will host a piano sale in Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts, August 4 – 6. The Department has had the use of new, first-class pianos on a no-cost basis for the 2015-2016 school year, in an arrangement provided through an association with the Rockley Family Foundation. These instruments, […]

Anne R. Belk Distinguished Professor of Violin David Russell will direct a three-day seminar this fall that explores the musical and cultural legacy of the period, from 711 until 1492, in which the Moors governed Spain. The seminar, Masterclass Al-Andalus, will be held October 10-13 at Wildacres Conference Center in Little Switzerland, NC, and is […]

A quartet of UNC Charlotte music students will perform at two international conferences during the month of July: the International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), which will take place July 5-9 in San Francisco, and the International Society for Music Education (ISME) 32nd World Conference on Music Education, which will take place July […]

Music student Ben Shafer has been accepted to attend Music House, an international music festival hosted by The Philadelphia Orchestra. The intensive training program, held on the campus of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania from June 15 through July 1, provides college students and young professionals the opportunity to work directly with musicians of The […]

Assistant Professor of Voice Carl DuPont will compete in the 20th International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, to take place in Leipzig, Germany, July 4-16. The competition will be held in the categories of voice, organ, and cello/Baroque cello and consists of four competitive rounds in each category. Participants were chosen in a juried pre-selection process […]

The UNC Charlotte “Pride of Niner Nation” Marching Band has been selected as the official band to represent the United States in Normandy, France, in June 2018. The performance will mark the 74th anniversary of D-Day. Each year, one band is chosen to represent the U.S. at the D-Day commemoration. The honor was historically reserved […]