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The Department of Music announces the 2016-17 Masterclass Series. The Department will bring seven esteemed musicians to campus to coach music students this academic year. These professionals represent top-notch local musicians as well as guest artists performing with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Opera Carolina. Students in the College of Arts + Architecture benefit greatly […]

The UNC Charlotte Department of Music will host a piano sale in Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts, August 4 – 6. The Department has had the use of new, first-class pianos on a no-cost basis for the 2015-2016 school year, in an arrangement provided through an association with the Rockley Family Foundation. These instruments, […]

A group of UNC Charlotte theatre and music faculty and alumni will perform Cherry Jackson’s play, In The Master’s House There Are Many Mansions, at the New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) in New York City, August 12-18. Performing as the Twilight Repertory Company, the ensemble is led by Associate Professor of Theatre James Vesce, […]

A design project by School of Architecture Director Chris Jarrett and Associate Professor of Architecture Peter Wong has received the Citation Award in the Activate North Carolina 2016 Urban Housing Competition. Activate North Carolina is a program of AIANC, the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects, that seeks to engage architects, designers, and […]

Students in the School of Architecture Master of Urban Design program will present at the Civic By Design Forum on July 12, 5:30 to 6:30 pm, at Levine Museum of the New South. The students, under the direction of Assistant Professor Ming Chun-Lee, will present proposals on “Building a TRUE College Town through a Complementary […]

Anne R. Belk Distinguished Professor of Violin David Russell will direct a three-day seminar this fall that explores the musical and cultural legacy of the period, from 711 until 1492, in which the Moors governed Spain. The seminar, Masterclass Al-Andalus, will be held October 10-13 at Wildacres Conference Center in Little Switzerland, NC, and is […]

A new book edited by Caridad Svich, the Department of Theatre 2016 Distinguished Alumna, will launch on June 25 at the Theatre Communications Group national conference in Washington, D.C. Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field presents perspectives on audience engagement and performance spaces from a wide range of theatre practitioners, including playwrights, directors, and actors. […]

A quartet of UNC Charlotte music students will perform at two international conferences during the month of July: the International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), which will take place July 5-9 in San Francisco, and the International Society for Music Education (ISME) 32nd World Conference on Music Education, which will take place July […]

The Johnson Band Center, the new building constructed for the UNC Charlotte “Pride of Niner Nation” Marching Band, has received two design awards. In May, the building received a 2016 Merit Award from the South Carolina chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). This month, the Charlotte chapter of the AIA also chose the […]

Work for the City of Beaufort, South Carolina, led by Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design David Walters with alumnus Craig Lewis (Master of Public Administration) and a team of UNC Charlotte alumni, has won a Charter Award from the Congress of the New Urbanism (CNU). Among the nation’s premier urban design awards, the […]