Music

Alyson Smith

Categories: Student Spotlights Tags: Music

Hometown: Charlotte, NC BM in Music Performance (Piano) and BS in Finance with Accounting Concentration 2024 How did you first get interested in music?I’ve always been interested in music and my parents soon took notice and enrolled me in lessons. Through trial and error, they bought me a violin, guitar, and finally a piano. The […]

Professors’ Loray Mill Strike Musical Receives Cultural Vision Grant

Categories: News Tags: Music, Theatre

Professors Sequina DuBose and Laura Waringer have received a Cultural Vision Grant from the Arts & Science Council in support of their project to create a new musical theatre work based on the story of the 1929 strike at the Loray Mill in Gastonia. The $20,000 grant was announced on December 6. Cultural Vision Grants […]

Monisha Moore

Categories: Student Spotlights Tags: Music

Hometown: Misenheimer, NC BA in Music and a Minor in Japanese 2025 How did you first get interested in music?Starting in church choirs from a young age, I’ve always had a love and passion for music. During my high school years, that passion grew greatly thanks to the nurturing guidance of my choir teacher. She […]

Valerie DaPolito

Categories: Student Spotlights Tags: Music

Hometown: Buffalo, NY BA in Music Education with a concentration in Choral and General Music K-12 Graduatio 2024 How did you first get interested in music?I have been in choir my entire life, and I played violin in orchestra for 10 years! I knew going into college I wanted to study something I was passionate […]

Kevin Dang

Categories: Student Spotlights Tags: Music

Hometown: Charlotte, NC B.M. in Instrumental/General Music Education and a Minor in Psychology 2024 How did you first get interested in music?I started learning music in 6th grade band, and it has stuck with me to this day. I didn’t think about teaching until my junior year of high school where I decided that I […]

Seven Faculty Receive ASC Artist Support Grants

Categories: News Tags: COA+A, Dance, Music

Seven current College of Arts + Architecture faculty members are among the recent recipients of grants from the local Arts & Science Council (ASC). Professor of Voice and Opera workshop Brian Arreola, Professor of Dance E.E. Balcos, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Audrey Baran, Associate Professor of Clarinet Jessica Lindsey, Assistant Professor of Trumpet Eric […]

International Education Week Concert Demonstrates the Social Impact of Singing Together

Categories: News Tags: Music

A recent informal music concert at EPIC, the Energy Production & Infrastructure Center, demonstrated the social impact of singing together. Performing as part of UNC Charlotte’s celebration of International Education Week, three groups of students showed how creating music together teaches teamwork and expands the understanding of different places and peoples. On November 14, civil […]

Voice Students Win Awards at NATS State Auditions

Categories: News Tags: Music, Theatre

The College of Arts + Architecture had nine students compete in the recent Musical Theatre Student Auditions for the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Signing (NATS), which took place on November 10 and 11 at Meredith College in Raleigh. Founded in 1944, the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) […]

Honoring the People Who Worked on the Land

Categories: News Tags: Dance, Music

On a recent sunny afternoon, a cool breeze blew through the trees, picking up fall leaves and making them dance through the air. As leaves swirled, students in stunningly colorful outfits sang and clapped, encircling a magnificent oak tree in a vibrant ring of music and movement. UNC Charlotte dance and music students had traveled […]

University Chorale Performs with Charlotte Symphony and Master Chorale

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The University Chorale joined the Charlotte Master Chorale and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra to perform Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms in two concerts, September 28 and 30. Also on the program was The Ordering of Moses, an oratorio by R. Nathanial Dett, featuring Assistant Professor Jason Dungee, tenor, in the role of Moses. Founded in 1951, […]