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"distinguished performers in a splendid setting"
"ncsa ensembles and class recitals"
All graduate students and college seniors are required to give recitals in order to qualify for a degree. Spread throughout the year, these recitals are an opportunity for students to prove themselves as accomplished soloists. A schedule of student recitals may be found HERE.
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SEPTEMBER
music@watson:
(Mon) Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
NCSA faculty and alumni perform arrangements for jazz septet. Featuring Ron Rudkin and Taimur Sullivan, saxophones; Judy Saxton, trumpet; Jim Miller, trombone; John R. Beck, drums; Jon Metzger, vibes; and Nathan Scott, bass.
music@watson:
(Sat) Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Brad Edwards, trombone professor at the University of South Carolina, collaborates with pianist Winifred Goodwin in a recital program which will include Richard Peaslee's Arrows of Time, a jazz-inspired work and Marc Phillips' cryptically title T.Rex for trombone and tape; does the T. stand for trombone or Tyrannosaurus? Edwards will also perform an original composition, Four Impromptus for Low Bone Alone.
music@watson:
(Sat) Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Faculty Artists Tadeu Coelho, Eric Larsen and Brooks Whitehouse perform music by Gabriel Pierné, Bohuslav Martinu, George Crumb, and the world premiere of David McHugh’s Sonata for Alto Flute and Cello.
OCTOBER
music@watson:
(Sat) Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Called “the high priests of brass” (Newsweek), the American Brass Quintet performs at the North Carolina School of the Arts for the first time in ten years. Formed in 1960, the group holds residencies at The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival, in addition to touring internationally. The Quintet's program will feature editions of Renaissance music prepared by ABQ trumpeter Raymond Mase (former NCSA faculty member), selections of 19th Century Brass Band music from the archives of the 26th North Carolina Regimental Band, and a recent American Brass Quintet commission by composer Joan Tower. Sponsored by Bill and Judy Watson.
music@watson:
(Tue) Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Faculty Artist James Miller performs music featuring the trombone, including the premiere of a work by the winner of the NCSA Student Composer Competition.
music@watson:
(Sat) Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
A performance in honor of former NCSA faculty member Aaron Shearer. Manuel Barrueco, a former student of Shearer’s, is recognized as a leading figure in the guitar world today. Called by the New York Times “a superior musician,” Barrueco has performed with orchestras and in recital throughout the world. His performance will include music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Joaquin Turina, Isaac Albeniz, and Barrueco’s arrangements of pieces by Astor Piazzola. Made possible
music@watson:
(Tue) Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Judith Saxton performs her debut Faculty Artist recital in music for trumpet, joined by pianist Allison Gagnon, with support from percussionist John R. Beck and bassist Paul Sharpe. Works will feature a variety of trumpets in a wide panoply of styles, including the premiere of a work by the winner of the NCSA Student Composer Competition.
Fisk@30:
(Fri) Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m., Crawford Hall
Guest Artist Robert Parkins opens the year-long celebration of the Fisk Organ’s Thirtieth Anniversary with a program of organ repertoire from early Spanish, French Baroque, French and German Romantic, and J. S. Bach. Dr. Parkins is University Organist of Duke University and Professor of the Practice of Music.
NOVEMBER
music@watson:
(Sat) Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Composer Lawrence Dillon hosts a performance of theater and music, with guest actors Robert Beseda and Cinny Strickland Graham. Also performing will be musicians Sheila Browne, Allison Gagnon, Janine Hawley, Kevin Lawrence, Rebecca Nussbaum, Adele O’Dwyer, Robert Rocco, Judith Saxton, Paul Sharpe and Taimur Sullivan.. Included on the program will be premieres of Entrance, Dark Circles, and Exit, as well as reprise performances of What Happened and Still Point.
music@watson:
(Tue) Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Faculty artist Judith Saxton is joined by pianist Allison Gagnon, violinist Joseph Genualdi and soprano Marilyn Taylor in a program of trios, including The Mystic Trumpeter featuring the poetry of Walt Whitman.
emerging artist concert:
(Fri) Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
Conductor Mark Norman leads the NCSA Wind Ensemble in guest composer Anthony Iannaccone’s Sea Drift. Other works include Donald Grantham's J'ai été au bal, Ralph Vaughan Williams' Folk Song Suite, and Gunther Schuller's Blue Dawn into White Heat.
music@watson:
(Sat) Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Faculty Artists Igor Begelman, Sheila Browne, Tadeu Coelho, Joseph Genualdi, Kevin Lawrence, Taimur Sullivan and Brooks Whitehouse perform music by Lawrence Dillon, Kenneth Frazelle and guest composer Anthony Iannaccone. Also, James Allbritten leads the NCSA Cantata Singers in Iannaccone’s Whitman Songs.
emerging artist concert:
(Tue) Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m., Thrust Theater
Ron Rudkin leads the NCSA Jazz Ensemble in big band favorites.
Fletcher Opera Institute:
(Fri) Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m., Thrust Theater
Fletcher Fellows perform scenes from the operatic literature. Steven LaCosse, stage director; James Allbritten, artistic director; Angela Ward, vocal preparation/pianist
emerging artist concert:
(Sat) Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
The debut of Ransom Wilson as Music Director of the NCSA Symphony Orchestra. Concerto Competition winners Whitney Reagan and Geoffrey Seelen will perform concertos by Carl Nielsen and Henri Tomasi, and Maestro Wilson will lead the orchestra in three celebratory works: Aaron Jay Kernis’s New Era Dance, Maurice Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole and Bolero.
music@watson:
(Tue) Nov. 27, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Guest violist Karen Ritscher, from the Oberlin Conservatory, and faculty artist Allison Gagnon perform music by Joan Tower, Toru Takemitsu and Benjamin Britten.
DECEMBER
emerging artist concert:
(Mon) Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
John R. Beck leads the NCSA Percussion Ensembles.
emerging artist concert:
(Tue) Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Students of Gerald Klickstein and Joseph Pecoraro perform.
music@watson:
(Wed) Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Renowned guitarist Ricardo Iznaola performs.
music@watson:
(Thu) Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Excerpts from The Fairy Queen and King Arthur performed by NCSA student instrumentalists and vocalists.
JANUARY
music@watson:
(Tue) Jan. 8, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Flutist Tadeu Coelho, Oboist John Ellis, Clarinetist Igor Begelman and Saxophonist Taimur Sullivan perform works for woodwinds, including the premiere of a piece by the winner of the NCSA Student Composer Competition.
music@watson:
(Sat) Jan. 12, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
The Four Seasons Chamber Festival comes to NCSA, with faculty artist Joseph Genualdi and former faculty member Robert McDonald joined by violinist Ani Kavafian, violist Ara Gregorian and cellist Michael Kannen performing nineteenth-century masterpieces by Schubert, Schumann and Franck.
emerging artist concert:
(Tue) Jan. 15, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Ransom Wilson leads NCSA’s newest student ensemble in a concert of contemporary music. Free admission.
music@watson:
(Thu) Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Piano Trio in residence at the Blair School of Music, the Blakemore Trio features violinist Carolyn Huebl, cellist Felix Wang, and pianist Amy Dorfman Concert will include music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Alfonso Montecino and Franz Schubert.
music@watson:
(Sat) Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Faculty pianist Clifton Matthews performs a solo recital consisting of Janacek’s On an Overgrown Path, Rachmaninoff’s Sonata No. 1 and the premiere of a new work by his daughter, Rachel Matthews.
music@watson:
(Tue) Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Music by Benjamin Britten, Camille Saint-Saëns and Charles Martin Loeffler, performed by Sheila Browne, John Ellis, Allison Gagnon, Joseph Genualdi, Kevin Lawrence, Judith Saxton, Paul Sharpe and Brooks Whitehouse.
Fisk@30:
(Fri) Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m., Crawford Hall
Students of Jack Mitchener perform as part of the thirtieth-birthday celebration of the Fisk Organ in Crawford Hall.
music@watson:
(Tue) Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
The annual concert of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Fletcher Opera Institute:
(Wed) Jan. 30, 8:00 p.m., Stevens Center
(Fri) Feb. 1, 8:00 p.m., Stevens Center
(Sun) Feb. 3, 2:00 p.m., Stevens Center
(Fri) Feb. 8, 8:00 p.m., Fletcher Theater, Raleigh
(Sun) Feb. 10, 2:00 p.m., Fletcher Theater, Raleigh
The Fletcher Opera Institute presents “The Devil and Kate,” based on a story in Bozena Nemcová’s Folk Tales and Legends (1845), the drama by J. K. Tyl (1850) and a poem by Ladislav Quis (1883). Libretto by Adolf Wenig in an English translation by Ian Gledhill. James Allbritten, music director; Angela Ward, musical preparation; Steven LaCosse, stage director; TBA, guest choreographer.
FEBRUARY
music@watson:
(Tue) Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Faculty cellist Brooks Whitehouse’s Watson debut recital features transcriptions of works originally composed for other instruments. Included will be a performance of Brahms’s Sonata in G Major for violin and Kodaly’s Galanta Dances for orchestra. The program will also feature the Andante from Herbert’s Cello Concerto arranged for cello ensemble, in which Whitehouse will be accompanied by his students.
fisk@30:
(Fri) Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m., Crawford Hall
The organist of Notre-Dame de Paris and the Conservatoire de Paris will perform in Crawford Hall as part of the Fisk Organ thirtieth-birthday celebration.
music@watson:
(Sat) Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio plays a solo recital. Program will include Mozart’s Rondo in A Minor, Beethoven’s op.110 Sonata, Debussy’s Estampes and Schubert’s Sonata Op. posth. In B-flat major. Made possible by a gift from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.
music@watson:
(Tue) Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Faculty violinist Joseph Genualdi performs.
emerging artist concert:
(Sat) Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
(Tue) Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Student chamber ensembles in performance.
MARCH
emerging artist concert:
(Sat) Mar. 1, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
NCSA Clarinet Instructor Igor Begelman performs Victor Babin's Hillandale Waltzes with the NCSA Wind Ensemble. Conductor Mark Norman leads the Ensemble in American composer David Maslanka's monumental A Child's Garden of Dreams, and Mozart's famed Serenade No. 10 in B-flat "Gran Partita."
music@watson:
(Mon) Mar. 3, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Music for trumpet and piano, with guest Jens Lindemann. Lindemann has played in every major concert venue in the world; from the Philharmonics of New York, Los Angeles, London, Manchester, Munich, Hamburg, Lucerne and Berlin to Tokyo's Suntory Hall and even the Great Wall of China. His career has ranged from appearing internationally as an orchestral soloist, recording with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, being heralded as an official trumpeter for the N.H.L. Stanley Cup finals to playing lead trumpet with the renowned Canadian Brass.
emerging artist concert:
(Tue) Mar. 4, 7:30 p.m., Thrust Theater
Ron Rudkin leads the NCSA Jazz Ensemble with guest trumpeter Jens Lindemann.
music@watson:
(Fri) Mar. 28, 8:00 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
(Sat) Mar. 29, 2:00 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Guest residency by the Emerson String Quartet, made possible by support from the Anne Cannon Forsyth Visiting Artist Fund. Winner of eight Grammy Awards, including Best Classical Album, the Emerson String Quartet is one of the most renowned chamber ensembles of all time. Formed in 1976, the group has maintained the same personnel for over thirty years, refining its performances into what New Yorker magazine has called “…perfect harmony; the players are in tune in all senses of the phrase." Program TBA.
APRIL
- emerging artist concert:
(Tue) Apr. 1
Students of Joseph Pecoraro perform.
music@watson:
(Sat) Apr. 5, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Music for violin and piano by J. S. Bach, Charles Ives and Franz Schubert.
Fisk@30:
(Fri) Apr. 11, 7:30 p.m., Crawford Hall
Jack Mitchener performs as part of the thirtieth-birthday celebration of the Fisk Organ in Crawford Hall, joined by flutist Tadeu Coelho, violinist Kevin Lawrence and trumpeter Judith Saxton.
emerging artist concert:
(Sun) Apr. 13, 3:00 p.m., DeMille Theater
One-act operas performed by NCSA Voice students. Steven LaCosse, stage director; Mary Ann Bills, musical director/pianist.
emerging artist concert:
(Sat) Apr. 19, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
NCSA celebrates the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Stevens Center with a special orchestra concert. Concerto Competition winner Laura Manko performs Bela Bartok’s Viola Concerto. Also, Ransom Wilson leads the orchestra in Franz Liszt’s Les Preludes, Zoltan Kodaly’s Hary Janos Suite and Randall Woolf’s Hee Haw.
emerging artist concert:
(Tue) Apr. 22, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
John R. Beck leads the Percussion Ensembles.
emerging artist concert:
(Sat) Apr. 26, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
New music by composition students of Lawrence Dillon, Kenneth Frazelle and Michael Rothkopf.
emerging artist concert:
(Tue) Apr 29, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Students of Clifton Matthews perform the twelve sections of this piano masterpiece.
MAY
music@watson:
(Sat) May 3, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Violist Sheila Browne, cellist Brooks Whitehouse and pianist Allison Gagnon perform music to celebrate Johannes Brahms’s 175th birthday.
emerging artist concert:
(Tue) May 6, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Students of Gerald Klickstein perform.
Fletcher Opera Institute:
(Thu) May 8, 8:00 p.m., DeMille Theater
(Fri) May 9, 8:00 p.m., DeMille Theater
(Sat) May 10, 8:00 p.m., DeMille Theater
(Sun) May 11 2:00 p.m., DeMille Theater
The Fletcher Opera Institute presents the American Opera “Street Scene,” with music by Kurt Weill and libretto by Elmer Rice, after his own play. Includes lyrics by Langston Hughes. Michael Shell, guest stage director; James Allbritten, music director; Angela Ward, musical preparation.
emerging artist concert:
(Tue) May 13, 7:30 p.m., Thrust Theater
Ron Rudkin leads the big band.
emerging artist concert:
(Sun) May 18, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
The NCSA Wind Ensemble welcomes The Philidor Group in a performance of North Carolina Composer Russell Peck's The Glory and the Grandeur, a concerto for percussion trio and wind symphony. Conductor Mark Norman also leads the ensemble in Gustav Holst's Hammersmith and H. Owen Reed's electric La Fiesta Mexicana.
emerging artist concert:
(Fri) May 23, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Center
Maestro Ransom Wilson leads the NCSA Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, NCSA alumnus Keith Gates’s Sonatina for Saxophone and Orchestra, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. With faculty artist Taimur Sullivan, saxophone, as guest soloist.
emerging artist concert:
(Sun) May 25, 2:00 p.m., Crawford Hall
James Allbritten leads the NCSA chorus.
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