The Department of Music is proud to announce the performance and research series dates for the 2024-2025 academic year. Tickets for the Martha Flowers Ensemble series and William S. Newman Artists series will go on sale on September 1. UNC Music majors, minors, and students enrolled in lessons or ensembles receive one complimentary ticket to each event of these series.
We’re pleased to offer the Martha Flowers Ensemble (MFE) series (formerly the Scholarship Benefit Concert series), a collection of department ensemble performances supporting student activities across the department. The series is named in honor of Ms. Flowers’ trailblazing contributions at UNC and beyond. Tickets to all MFE Series events are available for $10 ($5 for students and UNC faculty/staff).
October 3 • UNC Jazz Band • 7:30 pm • Moeser Auditorium
October 11 • UNC Hip Hop Ensemble • 8:00 pm • TBD
October 22 • UNC Symphony Orchestra • 7:30 pm • Memorial Hall
October 23 • UNC Wind Ensemble & UNC Symphony Band • 7:30 pm • Memorial Hall
November 9 • UNC Opera • 8:00 pm • Moeser Auditorium
November 10 • UNC Opera • 3:00 pm • Moeser Auditorium
November 14 • UNC Jazz Band • 7:30 pm • Moeser Auditorium
November 16 • Carolina Choir & UNC Chamber Singers • 7:00 pm • Moeser Auditorium
November 17 • UNC Glee Club • 3:00 pm • Moeser Auitorium
November 23 • Carolina Bluegrass Band • 8:00 pm • Moeser Auditorium
December 3 • UNC Wind Ensemble & UNC Symphony Band • 7:30 pm • Memorial Hall
December 4 • UNC Symphony Orchestra • 7:30 pm • Memorial Hall
February 20 • UNC Symphony Orchestra with the annual Concerto Competition Winners • 7:30 pm • Moeser Auditorium
February 26 • UNC Wind Ensemble & UNC Symphony Band • 7:30 pm • Memorial Hall
April 5 • UNC Opera • 8:00 pm • Moeser Auditorium
April 6 • UNC Opera • 3:00 pm • Moeser Auditorium
April 11 • UNC Hip Hop Ensemble • 8:00 pm • TBD
April 15 • UNC Wind Ensemble & UNC Symphony Band • 7:30 pm • Memorial Hall
April 16 • UNC Symphony Orchestra • 7:30 pm • Memorial Hall
April 24 • UNC Jazz Band • 7:30 pm • Moeser Auditorium
April 26 • Carolina Choir & UNC Chamber Singers • 7:00 pm • Moeser Auditorium
April 27 • UNC Glee Club • 3:00 pm • Moser Auditorium
April 29 • Carolina Bluegrass Band • 7:30 pm • Moeser Auditorium
We are proud to offer the 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).
December 2 • A Langston Hughes Celebration • 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. This program remembers and honors Hughes reading and speaking in Gerrard Hall on the UNC campus on Dec 1, 1931. This concert is c o-sponsored by the Stone Center and the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies.
January 19 • Music of Monteverdi • 3:00 pm • Moeser Auditorium
Experience an afternoon of Monteverdi 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 • 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.
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Conversations in Modern Music is funded by the Jaroslav F. and Barbara S. Hulka Fund for Music in the Chapel Hill community. This series endeavors to enhance the musical interests of an informed community audience by bringing performers, composers, and music historians with an expertise in new music to UNC. Concerts will be paired with a public lecture or open rehearsal in order to provide community audiences with opportunities to engage with composers and performers about the ideas that inform their music. All performances and talks are free and open to the public.
October 26 • Kafka Fragments (Kafka-Fragmente) by György Kurtág • Curtis Macomber, violin, and Susan Narucki, soprano • 8:00 pm • Moeser Auditorium
Talk TBA
Stellar new music champions Susan Narucki (soprano) and Curtis Macomber (violin) in two rare performances of the hellishly difficult but exhilaratingly beautiful Kafka Fragments. Hungarian composer György Kurtág’s seventy-five-minute multi-movement work uses fragments of texts from the diaries of Franz Kafka, to create a kaleidoscopic world of sound, sense and expression. Each fragment – some lasting less than a minute –is singular and potent; each movement offers a glimpse of a distinct viewpoint, and each gains in meaning through juxtapositions throughout the work as a whole. -New Music USA
February 13 • Hub New Music • 7:30 pm • Moeser Auditorium
Talk TBA
Dubbed “contemporary chamber blazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st-century repertoire” (Washington Post). Founded in 2013, Hub has commissioned dozens of new works for its distinct combination of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. The “nimble quartet of winds and strings” (NPR) actively collaborates with today’s most celebrated composers on projects that traverse today’s richly diverse musical landscape.
The UNC Music Research Forum hosts invited lectures by distinguished music scholars from around the world and informal research presentations by members of our department and colleagues across campus. It serves as an intellectual hub for the department and is open to all. The Forum is held on the final Friday of each month during the semester from 3:30-5:00 pm in Person Recital Hall.
