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
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August 2009
23 First-Year and Transfer Students Orientation Meeting • 01:00PM, Kenan Rehearsal Hall •
September 2009
1 Guest Artist: Norman Spivey, baritone • 07:30PM, Person Recital Hall • Ecoute: Pieces of Reynaldo Hahn
2 Masterclass: Norman Spivey, baritone • 04:00PM, Person Recital Hall •
2 Dez Cordas Duo • 07:30PM, Person Recital Hall • Matthew Slotkin, guitar, and Craig Butterfield, double bass
4 CSMC: Michael Puri • 04:15PM, Person Recital Hall • University of Virginia
9 WSN Series • Choir of King’s College London • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • Music from the Spanish and English Renaissance
11 WSN Series & Music on the Hill • September Prelude VI: A Festival of Early Music • 08:00PM, Gerrard Hall • Featuring faculty musicians from Juilliard, Yale, Bard and UNC on period instruments • Music by Telemann, Handel and Rameau
15 A CD Celebration! • 07:30PM, West End Wine Bar, Chapel Hill • Jazz from new recordings by Jim Ketch, trumpet; Stephen Anderson, piano; Steve Haines, bass • with Chad Eby, saxophones; Wally West, tenor saxophone; Thomas Taylor, drums
20 WSN Series • Carolina Wind Quintet with Wonmin Kim, piano • 03:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Music by Glinka, Reinecke and Poulenc
20 Guest Artists: The Brad Linde Jazz Ensemble • The Birth of the Cool at 60 and Lester Young's Centennial • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium •
21 Masterclass: Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor • 04:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Internationally renowned tenor in a special open-to-the-public masterclass with UNC vocal students
23 Symphony Band and Wind Ensemble • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • with guest trumpet soloist Jim Ketch performing the Neruda Trumpet Concerto
25 Music on the Hill • The Vega Quartet • Two Anniversaries and More France and Romance • 08:00PM, Gerrard Hall • with Richard Luby, violin, and Mayron Tsong, piano • Music by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Chausson
26 An Evening of Song • 08:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Songs and duets featuring members of the voice and piano faculty
28 Composer Concert • Duo XXI: Anna Cromwell, violin, and Mira Frisch, cello • 07:30PM, Person Recital Hall • New works for violin and cello by Stephen Anderson, Abbie Betinis, Joe Dangerfield, David Maki and Ronald Parks.
29 North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • Jazz by the Numbers
30 Korean Music: Performance and Lecture • 03:30PM, 107 Hill Hall •
October 2009
1 UNC Jazz Band with guest artist, Jim Rotondi, trumpet • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium •
2 UNC Jazz Combos with guest artist Jim Rotondi, trumpet • 04:00PM, Kenan Rehearsal Hall •
14 Music on the Hill • UNC Symphony Orchestra • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • Premiere of 10x10 commissioned work, Of Angels and Neurones, by Michael Gandolfi, and Schumann's Symphony No. 3, Rhenish
15 Music on the Hill • Tragicomedia • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • Paul O'Dette, lute; Steven Stubbs, Baroque guitar; Erin Headley, viola da gamba; with UNC voice and string faculty
16 CSMC: Ingrid Monson, Harvard University • 04:15PM, Person Recital Hall •
16 An Evening of Song • 08:00PM, Person Recital Hall • Songs and arias featuring UNC voice students
17 Wing Singers: A Celebration in Song • 02:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • A concert in honor of Stafford Wing’s forty years of teaching, featuring Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Victoria Livengood and other former students
18 Scenes from L'Egisto: UNC Opera and Baroque Ensemble • 02:00PM, Ackland Art Museum •
20 Faculty Recital: Susan Moeser, organ • 07:30PM, Chapel of the Cross •
25 Raleigh and Chapel Hill Community Bands • 03:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium •
28 Wednesday at Four • 04:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Student Recital
29 Sonatas of Beethoven for Violin and Piano • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Richard Luby, violin, and Jane Hawkins, piano
30 Guest artist: Henri-Paul Sicsic, piano • 08:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Piano faculty, University of Toronto. Music by Chopin, Ravel and Albeniz
31 Masterclass: Henri-Paul Sicsic, piano • 03:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Piano faculty, University of Toronto
November 2009
1 Death in Moscow: Britten’s Third Cello Suite • 07:30PM, Person Recital Hall • A recital with commentary • Brent Wissick, cello, and guest faculty and students
3 Discovering Indonesia • 05:30PM, FedEx Global Education Center--Nelson Mandela Auditorium and Atrium • A lecture on Indonesian culture followed by music and traditional cuisine, as well as a textile exhibit.
3 Brass Studio Recital • 08:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • James Ketch, David McChesney, Andrew McAfee and Michael Kris, with students from the trumpet, horn and low brass studio
5 CANCELED: New Music from the Composition Seminar • 07:30PM, Person Recital Hall • rescheduled date TBA
7 WSN Series • Emerging Artist Concert • 08:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • ENHAKE chamber music ensemble • Clarinet-cello-violin-piano ensemble performs repertoire from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Contemporary eras
8 Guitar Ensemble • 02:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium •
9 Visiting Faculty Recital: Phillip Bush, piano • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Music by Bach, Brahms and Dutilleux
10 Salsa and Swing Dance • 08:30PM, Kenan Rehearsal Hall • Charanga Carolina with UNC Jazz Band
11 Carolina Choir • with the Bruckner Orchestra of Linz • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • Dennis Russell Davies, conductor • Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 7: A Toltec Symphony, Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
13 University Chamber Players • 08:00PM, Person Recital Hall •
15 Music on the Hill • Trip Fives • 03:00PM, Gerrard Hall • Quintets of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Brahms • Carolina Wind Quintet, UNC string faculty and Stefan Litwin, piano
18 Wednesday at Four • 04:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Student Recital
20 Fall Horn Blast Fest Spiel (UNC Horn Recital) • 06:00PM, Person Recital Hall • Performers: UNC Horn students of Andrew McAfee performing horn solos accompanied by Nancy Whelan. UNC Horn Ensemble featuring Michael Hrivnak and Andrew McAfee performing Tico-Tico with Horn Ensemble.
20 Music on the Hill • UNC Opera • 08:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Cavalli’s 17th-century opera L’Egisto • with UNC Baroque Ensemble
21 Music on the Hill • UNC Opera • 08:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Cavalli’s 17th-century opera L’Egisto • with UNC Baroque Ensemble
22 Glee Clubs • 04:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium •
23 Symphony Band and Wind Ensemble • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall •
December 2009
2 Carolina Choir and UNC Chamber Singers • Celestial Voices • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Spherical Madrigals and Music of Brahms, Walton and Whitacre
3 UNC Jazz Band with guest artist Tim Armacost, saxophone • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium •
4 UNC Jazz Combos with guest artist Tim Armacost, saxophone • 04:00PM, Kenan Rehearsal Hall •
8 UNC Symphony Orchestra • Respighi’s Pines of Rome • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • Sibelius' Karelia Suite, Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead, and Respighi's Pines of Rome
10 North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • My Favorite Things: Holiday Jazz Concert
12 UNC Gamelan Nyai Saraswati - MOVED TO DEC. 15 • 04:00PM, Kenan Rehearsal Hall • This event has been rescheduled to Dec. 15 at 7 pm
13 UNC Consort of Viols • Early Music from England • 03:00PM, Person Recital Hall •
15 UNC Gamelan Nyai Saraswati • 07:00PM, Kenan Rehearsal Hall • Javanese ensemble music
January 2010
16 All-Carolina Invitational Male Choral Festival Concert • 06:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium •
22 Music on the Hill • Ravel Chansons Madecasses and Walton Façade • 08:00PM, Gerrard Hall • with Evan Feldman, Brooks de Wetter-Smith, Donald Oehler, Matthew McClure, Brent Wissick, Lynn Glassock and Terry Rhodes
24 Masterclass: Anton Kuerti, piano • 02:00PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Internationally renowned pianist and pedagogue in a special open-to-the public masterclass for UNC students
28 WSN Series • P’ansori: Korean Music and Storytelling • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Chan E. Park, performer
February 2010
7 Masterclass: Scott Hartman, trombone • 06:00PM, Kenan Rehearsal Hall • Professor of trombone and chamber music at Yale University in an open-to-the-public masterclass with UNC students
16 Festival on the Hill • Digital Arts Festival Opening Event • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • featuring premieres of new collaborative digital visual and musical works • with UNC faculty performers Lynn Glassock, Richard Luby, Brooks Smith and Brent Wissick.
17 Festival on the Hill • Digital Arts Festival Panel Discussion • 12:00PM, Kenan Music Building • Technology in music and visual art
17 UNC Symphony Orchestra • Scholarship Benefit Concert • 07:30PM, Hill Hall Auditorium • Winners of 2009 UNC Concerto Competition
18 Festival on the Hill • Digital Arts Festival • 10:00AM, TBA • Open art exhibit and performance of electronic music from composers throughout the world • The public is invited to browse the exhibit any time during the day
18 Festival on the Hill • Digital Arts Festival • 07:00PM, Person Recital Hall • Music from the UNC Electro-Acoustic Studio • Compositions incorporating digital technology by UNC student and faculty composers
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
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, Chamber Singers and UNC Glee Clubs • 07:30PM, Memorial Hall • Steven Harlos, piano soloist • 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 and Department of Dramatic Art present the world premiere of Searching for Spinoza • 08:15PM, Elizabeth Kenan Theater • music and lyrics by Thomas Conroy, book by Suzanne Ishee
17 UNC Opera and Department of Dramatic Art present the world premiere of Searching for Spinoza • 08:15PM, Elizabeth Kenan Theater • music and lyrics by Thomas Conroy, book by Suzanne Ishee
18 University Band • 03:00PM, UNC Forest Theater (rain site: Hill Hall Auditorium) •
18 UNC Opera and Department of Dramatic Art present the world premiere of Searching for Spinoza • 03:00PM, Elizabeth Kenan Theater • music and lyrics by Thomas Conroy, book by Suzanne Ishee
19 UNC Opera and Department of Dramatic Art present the world premiere of Searching for Spinoza • 04:00PM, Elizabeth Kenan Theater • music and lyrics by Thomas Conroy, book by Suzanne Ishee
19 UNC Opera and Department of Dramatic Art present the world premiere of Searching for Spinoza • 08:15PM, Elizabeth Kenan Theater • music and lyrics by Thomas Conroy, book by Suzanne Ishee
20 UNC Opera and Department of Dramatic Art present the world premiere of Searching for Spinoza • 08:15PM, Elizabeth Kenan Theater • 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