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NC School of the Arts (Winston-Salem) - 2008-9, & PR
about 2009-10
NCSA School of Music.
$. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday September 27
music@watson: Jacquelyn Bartlett, harp, Sheila Browne, viola. Allison
Gagnon, piano, Joseph Genualdi, violin, Eric Larsen, piano, Kevin
Lawrence, violin, Laura Manko, viola, Paul Sharpe, bass, Marilyn
Taylor, soprano, & Brooks Whitehouse, cello
Program: Mendelssohn Bicentennial
Concert - Sextet for Piano and Strings, Piano
Trio in D Minor, & songs, t.b.a., plus The Evening
Bell for harp & piano
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday
September 30
music@watson: Ron Rudkin, saxophone,
Steve Haines, bass, Rick Dior, drums, & Jonathan
Lefcoski, piano
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday October 11
music@watson: Aleck Karis, piano, & faculty
artists t.b.a.
Program: Technology Concert - Edward Jacobs: new work;
Mario Davidovsky: Prize winning Synchronisms
No. 6; & music by Michael Rothkopf
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Sunday October 19
music@watson: Georgyn Geetlein,
Marylin
Ball Brown, Steven Chandler, John Williams, Barbara Efland Delon, Sandie Plexico
Salvaggio-Walker, Bruce Moss, Patricia Mc Caffrey, Joyce Reehling, Mercedes
Alicea, & Robert Rocco.
Program:
Rose Bampton (d.8/21/07) Memorial Concert - songs, arias, duets, & trios
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 2:00 p.m.
Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday October 21
music@watson: Taimur Sullivan, saxophone, Allison Gagnon, piano, & Tadeu
Coelho, flute
Program:
Billie for alto saxophone &
boom box, & Epitaphe de Jean Harlow
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday October 25
emerging artists concert: NCSA Symphony Orchestra, Ransom Wilson,
conductor, with with
member of the Schools of Drama and Design and Production
Program:
Birthday Celebration - Elliott Carter:
Holiday Overture; Bizet: L’Arlésienne (with
an English adaptation by Gerald Friedman); & J. Strauss
II: waltzes & polkas t.b.a.
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday October 28
emerging artists concert: Flute Students of Tadeu Coelho, with
Robert Rocco, piano
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Friday October
31
AJ Fletcher Opera Institute, James Allbritten, music director, & Steven
LaCosse, stage director
Program: Opera Scenes
Program: Fletcher Opera fellows perform scenes from the repertoire.
DeMille Theater, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30
p.m.
Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday November 1
emerging artists concert: UNCSA Philharmonia, Ransom
Wilson, conductor
Program: Ponchielli: La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours;
Michael Torke: Ash; & Beethoven: Symphony No. 1.
Crawford Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30
p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Friday November 7
emerging artists concert: NCSA Wind Ensemble, Mark Norman, director
Program: Music by John Adams, Brian Balmages, & Bernstein: & John
Mackey:
Concerto for Saxophone (NC premiere)
Stevens Center , UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30
p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday November 11
emerging artists concert: Trombone Choir, James
Miller, director
Program: Music by Thomas Beversdorf, Bach,
Slide Hampton, & James Miller
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30
p.m.
Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday November 15
music@watson: Judith Saxton & Kenneth Wilmot,
trumpets, David Jolley, horn,
James Miller, trombone, & Matt Ransom IV, tuba
Program:
Music for Brass from Around
the
World by by Witold Lutoslawski, Bach, Karel Husa, Ives, Debussy,
Gottschalk, Lennon/McCartney, & Michael Giacchino*
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
*"... feature concert concluding a day of free Brass
Symposium events...."
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Tuesday November 18
emerging artists concert: NCSA Jazz Ensemble,
Ron Rudkin, director, with Ray Anderson, trombone
Thrust Theater, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30
p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday November 22
emerging artists concert: NCSA Symphony Orchestra,
John Mauceri, Andrew McAfee, Valentino Piran, & Konstantin
Dobroykov, conductors, & with Corey Dundee,
saxophone, & Kristen Vanderschaaf,
flute
Program: Brahms: Academic Festival
Overture; Strauss:
Ein Heldenleben; Russell
Peck:
The Upward Stream; & Frank Martin:
Ballade, for flute & orchestra
Stevens Center, Winston-Salem. 7:30
p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday December 2
music@watson: David Jolley, horn, & Allison Gagnon, piano
Program: Music by Beethoven, Messiaen,
Gliére, Scriabin,
Glazounov, & Margaret Brouwer
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA,
Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday December 6
music@watson: Tadeu Coelho, flute, John Ellis, oboe, Igor
Begelman, clarinet,
Saxton Rose, bassoon, David Jolley, horn, & Taimur Sullivan,
saxophone
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA,
Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Sunday December 7
music@watson: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (John Gibbons,
harpischord Lily Francis, Ida Kavafian, Cho-Liang
Lin, & Arnaud Sussmann, violins,
Beth Guterman & Paul Neubauer, violas, Priscilla Lee & Fred
Sherry, cellos,
Kurt Muroki, bass, Tara Helen O’Connor & Carol Wincenc, flutes)
Program: Handel: Harpischord Concerto in B-flat;
Corelli: Christmas Concerto; Vivaldi: "Goldfinch" Concerto; &
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nos. 4 & 5
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday December 9
emerging artists concert: Guitar Students of Gerald Klickstein & Joseph
Pecoraro
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday January 6
music@watson: Philidor Percussion Group (John R. Beck,
Rob Falvo, Wiley A. Sykes III, & Peter Zlotnick)
Program:
Old School, New School - historic & recently-composed music
for percussion, including premieres
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday January 10
music@watson: Glenn Siebert, tenor, Janine Hawley, mezzo-soprano, & Allison
Gagnon, piano
Program:
Songs for All Seasons by Berlioz &
Britten, & a premiere
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday January 13
emerging artists concert: nu (Contemporary Ensemble), Ransom
Wilson, director
Program: Steve Reich:
Eight Lines; Louis Andriessen: De Snelheid; : John Orfe:
Oyster; & John Adams: Gnarly Buttons
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday January 17
music@watson: Prism Saxophone Quartet (Matthew Levy, Timothy McAllister,
Zach Shemon, & Taimur Sullivan) with Tadeu
Coelho, flute
Program: Music by
Salvatore Sciarrino, Martin
Bresnick, William Albright, & Mark
Engebretson (premiere)
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday January 24
music@watson: Jon Nakamatsu, piano
Program: Music
by Haydn &
Chopin; & R. Schumann: Papillons, & Carnaval
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday January 27
music@watson: Faculty artists t.b.a.
Program:
Mozart Birthday Concert
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Wednesday, Friday, & Sunday January 28 & 30 & February
1
AJ Fletcher Opera Institute, James Allbritten, music director, & Steven
LaCosse,
stage director
Program: Donizetti:
L’elisir d’amore
Stevens Center, Winston-Salem. 8p except 2p Sunday
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday January 31
emerging artists concert: NCSA Philharmonia,
Andrew McAfee, Valentino Piran, Konstantin Dobroykov, Mikael
Darmanie, & Joseph Edwards, conductors
Program: Mozart:
Die
Zauberflöte:
Overture; Jennifer
Higdon:
Light; Dvorák:
Serenade for Strings;
& Haydn:
Symphony No. 104
Crawford Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday February 3
music@watson: Paul Sharpe, double bass, with Sheila
Browne, viola, & Allison
Gagnon, piano
Program: Peter
Fischer: Sonata; & John
Tartaglia: Fantasia
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Friday & Sunday February 6 & 8 -
Raleigh
A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute at the UNCSA, James Allbritten, conductor, & Steven
LaCosse, stage director
Program: Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) (in
Ital. w/Engl. supertitles)
Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. 2/6 @ 8p & 2/8 @ 2p
$.
336/631-1534 or http://www.fletcheropera.com/
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Saturday February 14
music@watson: Karen Beres,
Sheila Browne,
Allison Gagnon, Joseph Genualdi, Janine Hawley, David Jolley, Eric Larsen,
Kevin Lawrence, Robert Rocco, Saxton
Rose, Judith
Saxton, Taimur Sullivan, & Brooks Whitehouse
Program:
Ménage a Trios - music by Bernstein, Nin, Gubaidulina,
Turina, Hindemith,
& John Harbison
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday February 17
music@watson: Brooks Whitehouse, cello, with Kevin
Lawrence & Janet Orenstein, violins, Sheila Brown, viola, & Edmund
Bullock, pianist/composer, & with
the Greensboro Youth Chorus
Program:
Music by Tcherepnin & Dohnanyi; & Edmund Bullock:
Piano Quintet, arr. Bullock: "Ode
to Joy"'
& a new
work tb.a.
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday February 21 & Tuesday February
24
emerging artists concert
Program: Chamber Music performed by student ensembles
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday February 28
music@watson: Bad Boys of [double] Bass (David Murray, Volkan Orhon,
Paul Sharpe, & Anthony
Stoops)
Program includes a new work
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday March 3
emerging artists concert: Jazz Ensemble, Ron Rudkin, director
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30
p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Thursday March 5
music@watson: Raphaella Smits, guitar
Program: Music by Napoleon
Coste,
Bach, & Johann Kaspar Mertz.
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday March 7
emerging artists concert: Wind Ensemble, Mark Norman, director, with
Kevin Lawrence, violin
Program: Music by Karel Husa,
Bernstein,
James
Syler, &
Dan Welcher; & Michael
Daugherty:
Ladder
to
the
Moon,
featuring
faculty
artist
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Sunday March 8
emerging artists concert: Steven LaCosse, stage
director, & Mary Ann Bills, piano
Program:
Undergraduate Opera Scenes
Program: Scenes from the operatic repertoire.
Thrust Theater, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 3:00 p.m.
Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday March 28
music@watson: Allison Gagnon,
Joseph Genualdi,
Marilyn Taylor, Brooks Whitehouse, & Kenneth Frazelle
Program: Music by Kenneth Frazelle - Appalachian Songbook
II (premiere) & a new piano trio
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday March 31
music@watson: Jacquelyn Bartlett, harp, Sheila Browne, viola
Program: Music by Bax,
Britten, & Prokofiev
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday April 4
music@watson: Tadeu Coelho, flute, & Eric Larsen, piano
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday April 14
music@watson: Tadeu Coelho, flute,
Eric Larsen, harpsichord, John Ellis, oboe, & Saxton
Rose, bassoon
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday April 18
emerging artists concert: UNCSA Symphony Orchestra, Ransom Wilson,
conductor, wih Timothy Fain, violin
Program: Beethoven:
Fidelio: Overture; Brahms:
Symphony No. 1; & Richard Danielpour:
Violin Concerto.
Stevens
Center, Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday April 25
emerging artists concert: Piano students of Clifton Matthews
Program:
Scarlatti
Sonatas t.b.a.
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday April 28
emerging artists concert: Percussion Ensemble, John R. Beck, director
leads the student ensemble.
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday May 2
emerging artists concert: Contemporary Ensemble, Ransom Wilson, director
Program:
Young
Composers Concert
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday May 5
emerging artists concert: Flute students of Tadeu Coelho.
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Wednesday, Friday, & Sunday May 6, 8, & 10
AJ Fletcher Opera Institute, James Allbritten,
music director, &
Steven LaCosse, stage director
Program: Haydn: Il mondo
della luna (The World in the Moon)
DeMille
Theater, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 8p except 2p Sunday
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday May 12
emerging artists concert: Jazz Ensemble, Ron Rudkin, director
Thrust Theater, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Saturday May 16
emerging artists concert: Guitar students of Gerald Klickstein
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Sunday May 17
emerging artists concert: Wind Ensemble, Mark Norman, director, with
the US Marine Band's Tuba/Euphonium Quartet.
Program:
Scott Lindroth:
Spin Cycle; &
H. Owen Reed:
La Fiesta
Stevens
Center, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Tuesday May 19
emerging artists concert: Guitar students of Joseph Pecoraro
Watson Chamber Music Hall, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
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Friday May 22
emerging artists concert: UNCSA Grand Symphony Orchestra (UNCSA Symphony
& NCSA Philharmonia), Ransom Wilson, conductor, with Hsin-I Huang,
piano
Program: Yefgeniy Sharlat: Nocturne, for violin and orchestra; & Rachmaninov:
Symphony No. 2, & Rhapsody
on a
Theme
of
Paganini
Stevens
Center, UNCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
$12/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm
- UNCSA ANNOUNCES PLANS TO USE STUDENT ORCHESTRA
FOR 2009 PRODUCTION OF THE NUTCRACKER
To Raise Additional Funds for Student Scholarships
WINSTON-SALEM – University of North Carolina School of the Arts
(UNCSA) Chancellor John Mauceri and UNCSA Board of Trustees Chairman
Charles C. Lucas III announced today that the school will use its own
student orchestra to provide the live music for the 2009 production
of The Nutcracker, in order to shore up its scholarship program in
these challenging financial times.
Engaging the student orchestra to play The Nutcracker will be a benchmark
moment in the history of the production, which has previously been
accompanied by the Winston-Salem Symphony.
“We have agonized over this decision, and have thought a great
deal about UNCSA's continued commitment to our local arts institutions,” Chancellor
Mauceri said. “However, UNCSA has an enormous challenge to
overcome in its scholarship program for the foreseeable future, due
to the loss of income from the university's endowment – the
same challenge being faced by every other institution of higher education
in this country. It’s my responsibility to take appropriate
steps to protect our students and our future.”
Charles C. Lucas III, chairman of the UNCSA Board of Trustees, echoed
those sentiments. “We are being forced to make difficult decisions
so that we can fulfill our core mission of educating students,” Lucas
said. “Last month, we held an all-school meeting on the budget,
and we asked our faculty and staff to identify priorities for us.
An overwhelming majority identified scholarships as critical to the
future of UNCSA. It is the board’s responsibility to ensure
that the school does everything it can to meet its scholarship and
financial aid obligations.”
Michael Rothkopf, interim dean of the UNCSA School of Music, said, “Scholarship
funding is key to our ability to recruit and retain the best musicians
from North Carolina and beyond. It is also one of the key elements
to creating a top-tier music school at UNCSA.”
Last year, UNCSA paid the Winston-Salem Symphony a total of $109,000
for performing for the 10 public and two public school performances
of The Nutcracker at UNCSA’s Stevens Center in downtown Winston-Salem.
“Using our own student orchestra will net our School of Music
approximately $80,000 in scholarship funds,” Chancellor Mauceri
said.
UNCSA’s endowment decreased from $17.2 million in June 2008
to $12.9 million in December 2008. As a result, the school has lost
a substantial amount of investment income for student scholarships
from this year to next. In March, officials said that the school
would need $450,000 to bring the scholarship aid up to that of the
present year’s level.
“We have approached donors of endowed scholarship funds to ask
them to consider a supplemental gift for annual scholarship for next
year,
and donors have been generous,” said UNCSA Chief Advancement
Officer Suzanne Hilser-Wiles. “But given that everyone has
been hard hit by the economy, these friends of the school simply
can’t make up for all of the money that was lost due to the
downturn in the stock market.”
Hilser-Wiles added that the proceeds of the 2007 all-school musical
West Side Story provided extra scholarship money for the past two
years, but all of that has been paid out. The school continues to
work with current donors and to seek new funding sources to bridge
the gap, she added.
The student orchestra that will be assembled to play for The Nutcracker
will be conducted by Ransom Wilson, director of the UNCSA Symphony
Orchestra and artist-teacher of conducting in the UNCSA School of
Music, and himself an alumnus.
UNCSA School of Dance Dean Ethan Stiefel has already announced plans
to present a new staging of The Nutcracker in December 2009 – one
that “preserves the tradition and charm of this holiday classic,
yet looks to bring some new and fresh ideas to life.”
The Nutcracker will be performed for the general public at 2 and
7:30 p.m. Dec. 5 and 6, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10 and 11, and at 2 and
7:30 p.m. Dec. 12 and 13 at the Stevens Center. There also will be
four performances for schoolchildren.
Chancellor Mauceri said that the University of North Carolina School
of the Arts remains committed to the Winston-Salem community. “We
take our community partnerships seriously,” he said. “We
know that without the support of our local citizens, our school would
not be what it is today.”
UNCSA officials estimate that the school provides $350,000 per year
in goods and services directly to the community, by giving reduced
rental rates (at the Stevens Center and on-campus performance venues)
to arts organizations such as the Winston-Salem Symphony, Piedmont
Opera Theatre, the National Black Theatre Festival and others, as
well as community endeavors. These include:
* Providing outreach into the community, the state and beyond,
by taking dance (such as Peter and the Wolf), chamber music, and
opera (such as The Baker of Seville) performances into the public
schools, hospitals and retirement communities;
* Regularly hosting statewide festivals such as the Festival of North Carolina
Dance and the North Carolina Thespian Festival on campus;
* Providing public performances of dance, drama and music, as well as screenings,
in the area (such as the Shallowford Series in Lewisville); and
* Providing a Community Music School and a Preparatory Dance Program for the
community.
In addition, UNCSA also allows the RiverRun International Film Festival
to use school facilities rent-free, as an official activity of the
UNCSA School of Filmmaking. RiverRun recently announced its ticket
sales for the just-concluded festival were nearly 20 percent above
last year.
The school receives no income from RiverRun.
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