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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

John Foy

John Foy
Piano Technician

Office: Hill Hall 09
Email: jfoy@unc.edu
Phone: (919) 962-7432

John Foy began his career in piano technology as an undergraduate piano performance major at Oberlin Conservatory, working as a student assistant in the piano rebuilding shop in 1977.  After earning a BA in Music from Oberlin, he completed the two-year program in piano technology at the North Bennet St. Industrial School in Boston, MA in 1981.  He established a piano tuning and repair business in Winston-Salem, NC maintaining instruments for Salem College and Wake Forest University.  In 1985, he opened a piano rebuilding business that is now located in downtown Greensboro, NC and has grown to include 4 additional piano technicians.  He has been a Registered Piano Technician (RPT) of the Piano Technicians Guild for 27 years and has taught numerous classes at both regional and national PTG conferences.  In 1998, John traveled to Cuba with Send a Piana to Havana -- a non-profit humanitarian organization that donates pianos and piano technology expertise to the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba.

 
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