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Anthony Dean Griffey to Join Music Faculty as Artist-in-Residence We are delighted to welcome internationally renowned tenor Anthony Dean Griffey to our faculty this year as artist-in-residence. His affiliation with UNC-Chapel Hill adds to the strong reputation in the Arts which Carolina is building. During the year, Mr. Griffey will be coaching and teaching master classes to our voice students and to our Kenan Scholars’ cohort, working with chamber music students and UNC Opera students, and speaking in select academic classes.
Announcing the 2009-2010 Kenan Music Scholars The Music Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is delighted to announce the appointment of the following four Kenan Music Scholars set to enter the university in fall 2009. They will join our eight current Kenan Music Scholars in this exciting and innovative program.
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Music Department Faculty

Andrew M. McAfee

Andrew M. McAfee
Lecturer

Office: 3025 Kenan Music Building
Email: amcafeerr@nc.rr.com
Phone: 919-787-3022

Andrew M. McAfee

Andrew McAfee is the Music Director/Conductor of the Triangle Youth Ballet in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he has conducted performances of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker in December 2008 and Sleeping Beauty in May 2008 and March 2009. He was a finalist for the Durham Symphony Music Director position with whom he conducted the 2008 Durham Symphony Pops summer series. He also conducted a benefit concert premiering the Symphony No. 1 by Ari Picker in November 2008. Mr. McAfee has twice been the Interim Music Director/Conductor of the Chapel Hill Philharmonia and was the founding Conductor of the Triangle Youth Orchestra.

During his 15 years as principal horn with the North Carolina Symphony (1992-2007), Mr. McAfee studied the art of baton technique for 9 summers with Maestro Harold Farberman at the Conductor's Institute at the Hartt School in Connecticut, twice in Bulgaria (with the Varna Philharmonic), and at Bard College in New York. Mr. McAfee was also the Associate Conductor of the La Cueva High School Band in Albuquerque New Mexico and Assistant Conductor of the Senior Orchestra for 8 summers at the Sequoia Symphonic Music Camp in California. Upon moving to Raleigh he has appeared as a guest conductor with the Mozart Festival and the Durham Symphony Pops summer series. He worked with world-renowned Flutist/Conductor Ransom Wilson and the extraordinary John Mauceri at the North Carolina School of the Arts where he completing his Masters in Conducting in May of 2009.

Mr. McAfee comes from a musical family and was introduced to classical music at an early age. By the age of 15 he was principal horn with the Merced Symphony in California, where at 17 he made his debut as a horn soloist playing Weber’s “Concertino in E.” He has since performed the Britten “Serenade” with the Salisbury Symphony, the Saint-Saens "Concertpiece" with the Enloe Wind Ensemble, the Strauss “Concerto No. 1” and the Hubler “Concertstuck” with the North Carolina Symphony, and Schumann's "Concertstuck" with the Longview Symphony in Texas.

His chamber music career began with a music scholarship to play with the California State University Fresno “President’s” Wind Quintet and to study with Dr. James H. Winter. The quintet traveled and performed in Europe and Taiwan, and won awards at the Coleman Competition and Carmel Music Festival. Locally he has appeared regularly with the Malarme Chamber Players, the Symphony Winds (performing numerous educational programs in schools) and the Carolina Wind Quintet (UNC Faculty).

Mr. McAfee completed his Bachelor of Music in Performance at Northwestern University where he studied conducting with John P. Paynter and horn with Dale Clevenger, Norman Schweikert and other members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and Sante Fe Opera, St. Louis Symphony and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestras. He has held full time horn positions with the Honolulu Symphony, Columbus Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, and the North Carolina Symphony. Mr. McAfee has also been a guest clinician at the Southeast Horn Workshop and is a chamber music coach at UNC and for area ensembles and workshops. He has a website that features 12 videos on horn technique (hornlessons.org) and is currently working on publishing his book “Horn Embouchure Technique.”

To further study group dynamics, Mr. McAfee has worked with corporate coach Thomas Griggs, Ph. D., President and CEO of New Science Consulting Group, Inc., in Raleigh, attended the Barbara Brennan School of Healing for one year and has completed numerous leadership and emotional process seminars with an international men’s organization, The ManKind Project, a group called to reclaim the sacred masculine of our time through initiation, training and action in the world.

www.hornlessons.org

For information regarding the Brass Area at UNC, please visit:
https://music.unc.edu/undergrad/Areas/brass/brass-study-and-performance.html
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