Music

Hometown: Brown Summit, NC Degree: B.M in Instrumental Music Education Graduation Year: 2027 How did you first get interested in music? I didn’t grow up in a musical family, so my first musical introduction was watching the nearby high school bands march in the Greensboro Winter Parade. I started playing the tuba in sixth grade, […]

The series is an interdisciplinary demonstration of universal skills using live music.

Brian Arreola’s Zavala-Zavala is based on a true story.

Hometown: Charlotte, NC B.A. in Music and a Minor in French 2027 How did you first get interested in music?I’ve been singing since I could talk, though I never imagined I’d be able to pursue it. It always seemed too frivolous, like someone else’s lucky dream come true that I couldn’t possibly have. Then one […]

Hometown: Fayetteville, NC Degree: BM in Music Education Graduation Year: 2026 How did you first get interested in music?When I was in elementary, middle, and high school I loved participating in music however I could. It was in high school that I really fell in love with it though, I participated in concert band, marching […]

Hometown- Raleigh, NC B.A. in Music and B.S. in Computer Science 2026 How did you first get interested in music?My sister played bass clarinet while she was in high school and encouraged me to join my middle school band. After being in a large middle school band, I transferred to a small middle school where […]

Faculty and alumni from the College of Arts + Architecture are among 54 artists to receive 2024 Creative Mecklenburg Grants from the Arts & Science Council (ASC). The grants were open to Mecklenburg County-based artists of all disciplines and provide funding of up to $3,000. Grantees represent creative disciplines from visual art and music to […]

“There are so many great opportunities as a result of being in Charlotte,” says Christian Souza. “Say yes to everything that you can.” His openness to opportunity has placed Souza, who graduates this month with a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance, on stages and in spaces across the city and in competitions along the […]

Voice students Christian Souza and DeLenn Rumbolo recently brought home prizes from the Mid-Atlantic NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) Student Auditions, held March 7-22 at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Souza, a student of Brian Arreola, was awarded First Place in the Advanced Post-Baccalaureate Classical Tenor, Baritone, Bass division, and Rumbolo, a […]

Assistant Principal at Sun Valley High School in Monroe and Director of Music at Quail Hollow Presbyterian Church