UNC Music Graduation
Ceremony
Sunday, May
11, 2008
2:00 pm, Hill Hall Auditorium.
Commencement
speaker:
Grammy Award winning opera singer Jessye Norman.
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All student recitals are free and
open to the public.
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UNC
Welcomes Concert Pianist
Stefan Litwin
The Music Department is delighted to
welcome Stefan Litwin as George Kennedy Distinguished Professor of
Music. He is a renowned concert pianist, and is also highly active as a
composer and as a musicologist. His 1998 recording of Jean Barraqué’s
ferociously difficult Piano Sonata won the French Grand Prix du Disque,
and he has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships at the
Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and Christ College, Cambridge.
He performs widely across Europe and the U.S. as a solo
artist, in chamber music, and with leading orchestras, in a repertory
ranging from Beethoven through to the avant garde. In addition to
championing new music, he has produced pioneering recordings of
modernist European and American works of the first half of the
twentieth century by Schoenberg, Berg, Debussy, and Janáček, as well as
Charles Ives and Henry Cowell. In addition, he has obtained
international success with his interpretations of the music of Bach,
Beethoven and Schubert, and he is currently recording the complete
Beethoven sonatas.
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