Dear Students and Faculty and Staff Colleagues, The Department of Music at UNC-Chapel Hill stands in solidarity with Asian and Asian American students, faculty, and staff across campus and most especially in our own music community. The ongoing rise of … Read more

by Assistant Professor Marc Callahan, director of UNC Opera “On the volcanoes of El Salvador live magic dogs called cadejos. The people who live in the villages on the slopes of the volcanoes have always loved the cadejos. They say … Read more

During the Fall 2020 semester, while we were all isolated for health and safety, students in Allen Anderson’s Advanced Composition class (MUSC 266) in the Department of Music at UNC joined forces at a distance with students in Professor Marc … Read more

Summer School is just around the corner! Registration opens March 15, so take a peek at all the courses the music department will be offering this summer! Session 1 MUSC 112: Richard Luby International Violin Symposium Associate Professor Nicholas DiEugenio, … Read more

In honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day this past Monday, we wanted to revisit some of our favorite DWW installments highlighting women this year. Do you know a BIPOC woman musician we should highlight in the future? … Read more

by Audrey Ladele On March 6th at 7:30 pm, live-streamed on YouTube, the UNC Department of Music will present the Winterreise Concert, featuring faculty member Marc Callahan, and guest artists Keiko Sekino (piano) and Andrew Myers (art). Since Callahan’s first … Read more

by Professor Jocelyn Neal Music theory is not the sort of discipline that regularly makes headlines, but in the past year, it has shown up in the spotlight regularly. The catalyst for all this attention has been an increasingly passionate … Read more

by Catherine Zachary, Communications Coordinator In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death this past summer, many musicians across the country and the world found themselves asking “What can I do?”. Here in the department, it has spurred numerous conversations about … Read more

As we look forward to our first live-streamed concert of the semester, we wanted to take a look back at the revolutionary technology that makes it all possible during these unprecedented times. First used by our jazz faculty for their … Read more

Assistant Professor LaToya Lain recently participated in the songSLAM Festival with Sparks and Wiry Cries in New York City. In this special interview for “Do the Work Wednesdays” she discusses what it was like to record a newly commissioned piece … Read more