University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adjunct Faculty Position: Bluegrass Fiddle Lecturer The Music Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill solicits applications for a faculty member to teach fiddle, starting August 2018. The Music Department … Read more

The Department of Music is excited to announce this year’s incoming class of graduate students. There are seven new students in total from all across the country interested in unique and exciting research topics. Professor David Garcia, Director of Graduate … Read more

We’re getting good vibes from Bluegrass Unlimited! The article below is published in the August edition of the magazine, Bluegrass Unlimited. Congratulations to the Carolina Bluegrass Band and their director, Russell Johnson! This article is published here courtesy of Bluegrass … Read more

Some ensembles require auditions that will happen during the first week of classes in August (8/20-8/25/2018). See below for more information on how to sign up to audition for those ensembles. Carolina Bluegrass Band Auditions will be held for the … Read more

The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Student Auditions occur annually all over the country, beginning with Chapter Auditions at the local level. After Chapter Auditions the qualifying singers proceed to the Regional Auditions. In 2014, the first National … Read more

Jennifer P. Walker, a PhD student in Musicology, received a highly competitive ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship for research on her dissertation “Sounding the Ralliement: Republican Reconfigurations of Catholicism in the Music of Third-Republic Paris, 1880–1905.” The first musicology PhD student … Read more

Gina Bombola (PhD ’17) has been awarded the Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award of the University of North Carolina for her dissertation “Can’t Help Singing: The Modern ‘Opera’ Diva in Hollywood Film, 1930–1955.” The honor “highlights original and innovative work” across … Read more

                    David F. Garcia’s Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins has been awarded a Commendation by the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, which “recognizes outstanding … Read more

Amanda Black(left) and H. Meg Orita(right), two graduate students in the musicology PhD program, have been awarded graduate fellowships in the College of Arts and Sciences. Amanda Black was named to the first cohort of the Thomas S. Kenan Graduate … Read more

  By Parth Upadhyaya The UNC Department of Music will welcome earspace to campus this week. The group held a workshop on Wednesday, March 21 in Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall, where they read works written by UNC music students. … Read more