This week we’re featuring our Choral Ensembles, MUSC 211, sections 4-7! Carolina Choir, MUSC 211.004 Chamber Singers, MUSC 211.005 UNC Men’s Glee Club, MUSC 211.006 UNC Women’s Glee Club, MUSC 211.007 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and … Continued

Eugene Falk Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dr. Severine Neff received the Ruth A. Solie Award from the American Musicological Society for her book, The Rite of Spring at 100, co-edited with Maureen Carr and Gretchen Horlacher, along with John Reef. Congratulations … Continued

MUSC 212.001, UNC Opera UNC Opera performs a wide range of opera, operetta, and musical theater repertory, including both standard and new works. UNC Opera generally presents one mainstage production per semester, often double-cast with orchestra, in Hill Hall Auditorium, … Continued

By Parth Upadhyaya Halloween is over and the hundreds of students in costumes have cleared Franklin Street, but UNC Opera is still casting spells. Director Marc Callahan’s group will perform a condensed version of Handel’s Alcina, a Baroque opera, on … Continued

Musc 166: Introduction to Composition & Music 266: Advanced Composition This semester, Professor Allen Anderson (Chair), is teaching Musc 266: Advanced Composition, and next semester Professor Lee Weisert will teach Musc 166: Introduction to Composition and Professor Stephen Anderson will … Continued

The Department congratulates Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music Dr. Annegret Fauser on being ASCAP’s 2018 recipient of the  Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism for her book Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. The Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism … Continued

MUSC 214.006, UNC Baroque Ensemble The Baroque Ensemble uses baroque violins, violas, cellos, violone, harpsichords, organ, archlute, and sometimes early winds or natural brass. The Department does own some instruments of this type for student use. Occasionally, singers are invited … Continued

MUSC/WGST 248: Women in Opera                         Operas—from Georges Bizet’s Carmen to George and Ira Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess—are multimedia spectacles to which women have contributed both onstage and behind … Continued

By Parth Upadhyaya From the time they were five years old both, Nicholas DiEugenio and Mimi Solomon have been enamoured with composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Now, the husband and wife are paying homage to their idol. Violinist and professor, DiEugenio, … Continued

MUSC 211.002 – UNC Wind Ensemble The Wind Ensemble, conducted by Evan Feldman, is composed of approximately fifty-five of the finest wind and percussion performers at the university. Although its members come from many different states and a variety of … Continued