William S. Newman Artists Series
We are proud this year to offer the UNC community another installment of our long-running William S. Newman Artists Series: select concerts celebrating the alliance of scholarship and performance that animates the lives of music faculty and students at Carolina.
Tickets to all WSN Series events are available for $15 ($10 for students and UNC faculty/staff). UNC Music students, faculty, and staff receive one complimentary ticket for each performance. Tickets will be available for purchase online or at the door.
William S. Newman Artists Series – 2024-2025
Fall 2024
December 2 • Songs in a Troubled Key • 7:30 pm • Person Recital Hall
A Langston Hughes Celebration: Five Poems of Hughes set by UNC faculty member John Caldwell for soprano and chamber ensemble, featuring UNC faculty soprano, Latoya Lain and a small chamber ensemble. This program remembers and honors Hughes reading and speaking in Gerrard Hall on the UNC campus in late November 1931 and also include music by Margaret Bonds, a longtime collaborator with Langston Hughes.
Spring 2025
January 19 • TENET on Tour: Double Take • 3:00 pm • Moeser Auditorium
Experience an afternoon of Monteverdi and Purcell performed by TENET: A New York Ensemble of Voices and Instruments specializing in 17th-century music, led by director Jolie Greenleaf. Tickets can be purchased from Mallarme or at the door that afternoon.
March 1 • Schubertiade | Gut Instinct III • 7:30 pm • Person Recital Hall
A 19th-century Salon of music by Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Franz Schubert featuring the UNC Kenan Pleyel piano. Performers include Mimi Solomon and Nick DiEugenio with guests Kieren Campbell, James Wilson, Jessica Troy, and Kako Boga.
March 2 • Inna Faliks, piano • 3:00 pm • Moeser Auditorium
A unique program of storytelling through performance and readings of Faliks’ book “Weight in the Fingertips, a Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage.” This concert is co-sponsored by the Kenan Music Scholars program and the UNC Piano Area.
March 23 • Faculty Chamber Music • 3:00 pm • Moeser Auditorium
Faculty Chamber Music with clarinetist Donald Oehler, pianist Mimi Solomon, and violist Simon Ertz.