Concert Calendar
2009-2010 Academic Year
For further information call the Music Department Office at 919-962-1039.
Directions to Hill Hall available here. All concerts are free admission, unless otherwise noted.
CSMC
= Carolina
Symposia in Music and Culture
WSN Series =
William S. Newman Series Event
HHA = Hill Hall Auditorium
HH107 = Hill Hall Room 107
MH = Memorial Hall
PRH = Person Recital Hall
KMB = Kenan Music Building
GH = Gerrard Hall
View the Calendar for 2009/2010.
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February 2010
16 Festival on the Hill: Open Exhibit of Electro-Acoustic Music • 10:00AM, Fed Ex Global Education Center - Peacock Atrium - FREE • Open exhibit of electro-acoustic music representing 31 composers internationally • The public is invited to browse the exhibit between 10am-5pm each day.
16 Festival on the Hill • Digital Arts Festival Opening Concert • 08:00PM, Memorial Hall - *Free Event • This concert will feature premieres of new collaborative digital visual/musical works by UNC faculty composers Allen Anderson and Stephen Anderson and premieres of new works by Frances White and Rodney Waschka (NC State) • with UNC faculty performers Lynn Glassock, Richard Luby, Thomas Otten, Brooks Smith, and Brent Wissick. The concert is free as are all Festival on the Hill events - funding by the Department of Music, the Institute of Arts and Humanities, and Dean William Andrews.
17 Festival on the Hill • Digital Arts Festival Panel Discussion • 12:15PM, Kenan Music Building 3029 • Bring a bag lunch and join guest composers and UNC composition faculty for a panel discussion of technology in music and the visual arts.
17 UNC Symphony Orchestra • Scholarship Benefit Concert • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Winners of 2009 UNC Concerto Competition: Cynthia Burton, violin; Joncie Sarratt, mezzo-soprano • Music by Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Rimsky-Korsakov
18 Festival on the Hill • Electro-Acoustic Studio Concert • 05:00PM, Person Recital Hall - FREE • Music from the UNC Electro-Acoustic Studio • Compositions incorporating digital technology by UNC student composers and student composers from NIU, UO, and UB.
18 Digital Arts Festival: All Night Dance Party! • 09:00PM, TBA • Hosted by UNC professor Mark Katz with music by local and nationally-known DJs with visual art by UNC Professor Francesca Talenti
19 Women’s Choral Showcase • 08:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Area high school choruses join the UNC Women’s Glee Club
21 Symphony Band and Wind Ensemble • 03:00PM, Memorial Hall •
21 New Wine in Old Bottles • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • UNC Cello Choir and Consort of Viols, with Brook de Wetter-Smith, flute, and Elaine Funaro, harpsichord
24 Jazz Fest • 04:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Meet the Artists: Jam Session • UNC Jazz faculty with visiting artists
25 Jazz Fest • 09:00AM, Carolina Union Great Hall • Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Festival
25 Jazz Fest • 03:30PM, Carolina Union Great Hall • UNC Jazz Band with guest artists
25 Jazz Fest • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • The North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra
26 Jazz Fest • 04:00PM, Kenan Rehearsal Hall • UNC Jazz Combos
26 Jazz Fest • 08:00PM, Memorial Hall • The Terrence Blanchard Group
26 Jazz Fest • 11:00PM, West End Wine Bar • Jazz After Hours Jam Session
27 Jazz Fest • 01:00PM, Kenan Music Building • Workshops and clinics
27 Jazz Fest • 08:00PM, Memorial Hall • UNC Jazz Band with guest artists
27 Jazz Fest • 11:00PM, West End Wine Bar, Chapel Hill • Jazz After Hours Jam Session
28 UNC Music Spectrum Concert • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • A collection of performances by Department of Music faculty and students
March 2010
14 Workshop and masterclass: Allen Vizzutti, trumpet • 07:00PM, Kenan Rehearsal Hall •
15 Masterclass: Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor • 04:00PM, Person Recital Hall • Internationally renowned tenor in a special open-to-the-public masterclass with UNC vocal students
17 Wednesday at Four • 04:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Student Recital
19 WSN Series: An evening with pianist Stefan Litwin • 08:00PM, Gerrard Hall • "... carried from the battle field, I think of you." Hidden messages in Robert Schumann's Piano Sonata, Op. 11 in F-sharp minor
21 Bach and Rameau • 03:00PM, Person Recital Hall • Bach arias and sonatas for gamba and harpsichord • Brent Wissick, viola da gamba; James Richman, harpsichord; Jeanne Fischer, soprano; Valentin Lanzrein, baritone
25 Mark D. Sanders, songwriter • 12:00PM, Graham Memorial Building (Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence) • Mark D. Sanders (Grammy-winning songwriter and member of the Nashville Songwriters Foundation Hall of Fame) acoustic concert ** free
26 CSMC: Anne Walters Robertson • 04:15PM, Person Recital Hall • University of Chicago
26 Music on the Hill • Trip Threes • 08:00PM, Memorial Hall • Mozart concertos for piano and strings • Pianists Mayron Tsong, Thomas Otten and Wonmin Kim, with UNC string faculty
30 Brass Studio Recital • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium •
31 Masterclass: Marion Pratnicki, soprano • 04:00PM, Person Recital Hall •
31 Carolina Choir and UNC Chamber Singers • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium •
April 2010
9 CSMC: Robert Hatten - MOVED TO APRIL 23 • 04:15PM, Person Recital Hall • Indiana University
11 UNC Guitar Ensemble • 02:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium •
13 Music on the Hill • UNC Symphony Orchestra with Carolina Choir, UNC Chamber Singers and UNC Glee Clubs • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • Steven Harlos, piano soloist; Kiera Duffy, soprano; John Tessier, tenor; Brian Leerhuber, baritone; Tonu Kalam, conductor • Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana; premiere of new piano concerto by Stephen Anderson
14 Music on the Hill • War and Peace • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band
16 UNC Opera presents the world premiere of Searching for Spinoza • 08:00PM, NELSON MANDELA AUDITORIUM OF THE FedEx GLOBAL CENTER • music and lyrics by Thomas Conroy, book by Suzanne Ishee
17 UNC Opera presents the world premiere of Searching for Spinoza • 08:00PM, NELSON MANDELA AUDITORIUM OF THE FedEx GLOBAL CENTER • music and lyrics by Thomas Conroy, book by Suzanne Ishee
18 University Band • 03:00PM, Forest Theater •
18 UNC Opera presents the world premiere of Searching for Spinoza • 07:30PM, NELSON MANDELA AUDITORIUM OF THE FedEx GLOBAL CENTER • music and lyrics by Thomas Conroy, book by Suzanne Ishee
19 UNC Opera presents the world premiere of Searching for Spinoza • 07:30PM, NELSON MANDELA AUDITORIUM OF THE FedEx GLOBAL CENTER • music and lyrics by Thomas Conroy, book by Suzanne Ishee
19 UNC Opera presents the world premiere of Searching for Spinoza • 07:30PM, NELSON MANDELA AUDITORIUM OF THE FedEx GLOBAL CENTER • music and lyrics by Thomas Conroy, book by Suzanne Ishee
20 UNC Opera presents the world premiere of Searching for Spinoza • 07:30PM, NELSON MANDELA AUDITORIUM OF THE FedEx GLOBAL CENTER • music and lyrics by Thomas Conroy, book by Suzanne Ishee
21 Wednesday at Four • 04:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Student Recital
22 UNC Jazz Band guest artist, TBA • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium •
23 UNC Jazz Combos • guest artist, TBA • 04:00PM, Kenan Rehearsal Hall •
23 CSMC: Robert Hatten, Indiana University • 04:15PM, Person Recital Hall •
24 World Music Concert • Charanga Carolina and Gamelan Nyai Saraswati • 03:00PM, Kenan Rehearsal Hall • Cuban music and Indonesian gamelan music
25 UNC Glee Clubs • 03:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium •
25 A Festival of Early Music • 07:30PM, Person Recital Hall • UNC Baroque Ensemble and Consort of Viols
29 North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • Walkin' and Swingin' with Mary Lou Williams