by Catherine Zachary The Department of Music is thrilled to announce that North Carolina native, Grammy® Award-winning baritone Lucas Meachem, will be Artist in Residence with us from February 24 through March 1. Beginning on Sunday Evening, Feb. 24, in recital … Read more
Congratulations to Associate Professor Anne MacNeil, co-PI of The Virtual Studiolo, and her colleagues on their recent award from the National Endowment for the Humanities! Thanks to the generous support of the NEH, The Virtual Studiolo team will undertake the … Read more
In light of Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees’ Recommendation for the Disposition and Preservation of the Confederate Monument, on December 5th the Department of Music faculty voted to reaffirm our position against any public display of the statue. The … Read more
MUSC 155: The Art and Culture of the DJ Led by Professor Mark Katz, this course is an exploration of the important, often misunderstood role of the DJ in modern musical life, with particular attention to the ways in which DJing … Read more
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Nicholas DiEugenio, violin, and Lecturer Mimi Solomon, piano, on their album Unraveling Beethoven being honored as Best of Show of the Gold Medal Winners by Global Music Awards! “Best of Show honors go to Nicholas DiEugenio … Read more
By Parth Upadhyaya Tonu Kalam has been the Music Director and Conductor of the UNC Symphony Orchestra for 31 years, and most years, Kalam’s group has collaborated with a faculty performer for concerts. But the collaboration on the UNC Symphony … Read more
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Students in MUSC 381: Analysis of Songcraft will be presenting original songs they wrote over the course of the semester at the Downbar at Linda’s Bar & Grill on Dec. 7 at 1 p.m. The event is free … Read more
MUSC 211.003, UNC Symphony Band The Symphony Band, conducted by Erin Cooper, is composed of approximately sixty students and performs a variety of original wind literature and orchestral transcriptions. Membership is open to all university students regardless of major. The … Read more
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Chérie Rivers Ndaliko on winning the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Kwabena Nketia Book Prize for her book Necessary Noise: Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo. According to the SEM, the purpose of the Kwabena Nketia Book Prize … Read more
By Parth Upadhyaya When former UNC Department of Music chair Louise Toppin asked Professor John Caldwell if he wanted to revive Gamelan Nyai Saraswati in the fall of 2017, he knew it wouldn’t be easy. But after an almost two-year … Read more
