UNCSA FOUNDATION CHECK REQUEST SCHEDULE CHANGE
Due to a high volume of check requests being received by the Foundation at noon on Wednesday and limited staff to process those requests, the UNCSA Foundation is changing the cut off time for check requests. Effective Tuesday, March 23th, the Foundation will process check requests received by 5:00pm on Tuesday in that week’s check run. Any check requests received after 5:00pm on Tuesday will be processed the following week.
We appreciate your cooperation with this new schedule.
Submitted by Cindy Liberty, UNCSA Foundation, Inc
ELENA BRIGHT SHAPIRO SCHOLARSHIP FUND BENEFIT PERFORMANCE
The Friday, May 7th performance of Spring Dance will be a special benefit for the Elena Bright Shapiro Scholarship Fund. For that one night only, Dance Dean Ethan Stiefel and alumna Gillian Murphy, both principal dancers with American Ballet Theatre, will perform George Balanchine’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier. In addition, Elena’s brother and UNCSA Dance alumnus Sam Shapiro will perform Lacrymosa, choreographed by the late Edward Stierle, also a UNCSA Dance alumnus. Other works on the program will include Salute, a world premiere by Johan Kobborg of London’s Royal Ballet; Concerto Grosso by José Limón; and Country Dances by Twyla Tharp.
We hope that you all will join us for what is sure to be a very special evening of dance and a chance to celebrate the life of this gifted alumna by helping to support the scholarship established in her memory. Because it is a benefit performance, we will not offer any complimentary tickets that evening. Tickets are available for $25-50 for Orchestra seating and $15-30 for Balcony seating by contacting the UNCSA Box Office at 721-1945, or by ordering online at www.uncsa.edu/performances.
Submitted by Suzanne Hilser-Wiles, Chief Advancement Officer
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE CHECK RUN CYCLE FOR March
NOTE: It is still Accounts Payable policy (section 3) that 7 days be given to process direct pay request! PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY!!
Submitted by Debbie Spence, Financial Services
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY’S BIRDFEST
Community Service Committee will be participating in the Habitat for Humanity’s BirdFest. BirdFest is a two-day annual fundraising event for
Habitat Forsyth celebrates artists and their contributions to our community. It combines great art, food and drink with a party featuring a silent and live art auction.
http://www.habitatforsyth.org/BirdFest.asp
http://www.habitatforsyth.org/brochure_invite_to_artist.pdf
Submitted by Kurt Linney, Community Service Committee
ATTENTION GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE STUDENTS
Information and ticket order forms were put in your UNCSA mail boxes on Friday, February 26th.
This is just a reminder, if you would like Graduation tickets – You have 1 week left to respond.
Please look this information over and fill the provided form out and drop your ticket order form in the designated boxes in the Mailroom or at Watson Hall. Please make sure to specify on your ticket order form if any of your invited parties has a disability, so that we will be able to better accommodate them.
The deadline is Friday, March 26th
Submitted by Kathi Rainwater, Stevens Center
CENSUS 2010: WHERE SHOULD COLLEGE STUDENTS BE COUNTED?
College undergraduates and graduate students that live on campus or rent local housing during the school year are counted as residents of Winston-Salem for Census 2010. Please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwNipwbPk4 and watch the video to learn more about how college students are counted. Census forms will be available after spring break. Please take a moment to fill it out. It is quick and easy. Your participation will help ensure Winston-Salem receives its appropriate share of Federal funding.
Submitted by Jim DeCristo, Office of the Chief Operating Officer
“THE GROGGY STOP” COFFEE SHOP
CONGRATULATIONS TO DRAMA STUDIO 4 for reaching their fund-raising goal for their May trip to Los Angeles! We will miss your smiling faces and beautiful singing voices in “THE GROGGY STOP”. But they have passed the torch ~ starting with the Spring 2010 term, the students currently in Drama Studio 3 will be running “THE GROGGY STOP” COFFEE SHOP as a fundraiser for their trip to Los Angeles next Spring. “The Groggy Stop” will be open once again every weekday morning when classes are in session from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Whether you are on your way to class or on your way to your office, why not stop by the lower level of the Academic House and pick up a cup of Krankie’s coffee or some other beverage, and a pastry? (There is even on-street parking!) Please stop by and meet the new Groggy Stop staff!
Submitted by Mary Graves, University Programs
CAREER DEVELOPMENT GRANTS FOR SPRING TERM 2010 COMING SOON!
Applications will be available to all students beginning the first day of Spring Term.
Career Development Grants are available to all UNCSA full-time students for any project that has a positive impact on professional career plans. The maximum amount awarded per grant is $500. Only one application submission per funding round is permitted.
Deadline is April 9, 2010
For samples, questions or applications, please contact Career Services at 631-1202 or careerservices@uncsa.edu
Submitted by Gabriela Camacho, Career Services
SCHOOL OF MUSIC NEWS & EVENTS
Student News
Kiah Abendroth, graduate student in trumpet, recently placed second in the North Carolina Federation of Music Clubs’ recent competition. Held annually, this competition welcomes a broad range of classical instruments including piano, organ, voice, harp, strings, and orchestral winds and brass. Kiah also attended the Trumpet Festival of the Southeast at University of Alabama on February 26-28th. Performances and clinics were given by trumpeters Phil Smith (principal, NY Philharmonic), Thomas Hooten (principal, Atlanta Symphony), and Pat Harbison, as well as notable composer Joseph Turrin.
Sumner Williams, 12th grade trumpet student, will be headed to Vienna, Salzburg and Munich as principal trumpet with the Greensboro Youth Symphony March 26 – April 4. They will perform two concerts, receive coaching from members of the Berlin Philharmonic, and hear rehearsals of the orchestra, as well as attend the opera Carmen at the Vienna Volksoper.
Kiah and Sumner are students of trumpet faculty Judith Saxton.
Jie Fang, a HS 11 piano student of Eric Larsen, was a winner in the Raleigh Symphony Concerto Competition and will perform the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 with the Symphony in May. Jie was the 2nd Prize winner in the Winston-Salem Symphony Peter Perrett Youth Talent Search competition and was offered a concert as soloist with the Winston-Salem Youth Symphony.
Benjamin Garner, a graduate piano student of Eric Larsen, played a recital in Winston-Salem at Arbor Acres in January.
Daniel Griffiths, a HS 12 piano student of Eric Larsen, was advanced to the semi-final round of the Chopin Piano Competition and Festival at Meredith College.
Rashad Hayward (C1) and Charlton Holt (HS11) recently performed the finale of Krommer’s double clarinet concerto with the Durham Symphony conducted by William Henry Curry as winners of the symphony’s Young Artist Competition. Zihao Yang (HS11) performed Weber’s Concertino as a soloist with the Piedmont Wind Symphony as a winner of the Piedmont Wind Symphony Concerto Competition. Zihao was also featured in an article in the Winston-Salem Journal which also mentioned Charlton Holt and Rashad Hayward’s recent accomplishments. He will also perform as a soloist with the Raleigh Symphony in May. All are students of clarinet faculty Alexander Fiterstein.
Hsin-I Huang, a first year college student of Eric Larsen, played recitals in Independence, VA and Shallowford Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem.
Yoana Kyurkchieva, a PAC piano student of Eric Larsen, played a recital in Winston-Salem at Arbor Acres in January. She has also performed recitals in Independence, VA and at Shallowford Presbyterian Church in Winston Salem.
Emerson Rhudy and Dustin Wilkes-Kim, both students of violin faculty Sarah Johnson, were among the youngest ensemble members to be selected to perform on the Winter Chamber Music Festival in February in Watson Hall. The other members of their quartet were Sean Mulligan and Moriah Brooke, students of viola faculty Sheila Browne and cello faculty Brooks Whitehouse, respectively.
Dustin Wilkes-Kim, 8th grade violin student of Sarah Johnson, won 2nd place in the MTNA Regional competition in Birmingham, Alabama and 3rd in the Senior Division of the WSSO Peter Perret Talent Search. Dustin also gave a full recital with Ivan Seng at First Christian Church in the Community Concert series on March 14. He has been accepted to the Aspen Music Festival this summer to work with Cleveland Institute of Music faculty artist Paul Kantor.
Faculty News
Music by composer Lawrence Dillon will be featured on a number of concerts throughout the country this spring. On March 20th, the Mallarmé Chamber Players will perform Bacchus Chaconne on their gala concert in Durham, NC. The following day, violinist Danielle Belén will perform Façade on her faculty recital at the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles. On March 26th, Esopus Musicalia will perform Devotion in Woodstock, NY. In addition to the US premiere of String Quartet No. 5: Through the Night at UNCSA on April 10th the Emerson Quartet will perform the work again on April 14th in Seattle, Washington and on April 25th on their Smithsonian Series in Washington, DC. On May 8th, the Idyllwild Symphony Orchestra, led by Peter Askim, will give the world premiere of Figments and Fragments in Idyllwild, CA, with a second performance the following day at REDCAT in Los Angeles. And on May 16th, the Daedalus String Quartet will give the New York premiere of String Quartet No. 4: The Infinite Sphere on the Howland Chamber Series.
In addition to the performances, Naxos has just released Lawrence Dillon’s Music for Violin digitally. The recording features Sphinx Grand Prize Winner Danielle Belén. And his Albany Records release was reviewed in Fanfare Magazine as follows: “Dillon, with his vivid imagination and his ear for vocal and instrumental color, [is] a terrific composer. [This CD makes] you want to pay better attention, not just to the music but to the world in which you live.”
In February, faculty clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein performed as a guest artist with the Paris Piano Trio for the Miami Friends of Chamber Music series. In March he performed the Stamitz Clarinet Concerto with the Gottingen Symphony in Germany conducted by Wolfram Christ (former principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic under Karajan). Fiterstein has recently joined the roster of Barrett Vantage Artists (a leading music management company in New York).
Faculty pianist Allison Gagnon presented a recital with featured guest artist Bonita Boyd for the South Carolina Flute Society’s Spring Flute Festival, held March 19-20 at Converse College in Spartanburg, SC. Allison traveled directly to Albuquerque, NM, where she is participating in the 2010 National Conference of the MTNA, which will kick off the organization’s Year of Collaborative Music. On April 5 she will appear in recital with faculty colleague Judith Saxton in Springfield, MO, and on April 21 in Toronto, Canada she will share a recital for Toronto’s Mozart Society with Canadian bassoonist Lisa Chisholm. This duo’s first CD, “Stolen Gems,” was recorded in January at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. It features music by Schumann and Brahms written originally for voice and for cello, and will be released later this spring.
The Society for Strings, NYC, has appointed faculty pianist Eric Larsen as the Interim Director of the Meadowmount School of Music in Westport, NY. Naxos will release the Meadowmount Trio’s recording of the Chausson Trio and the Chasusson Concerto. Mr. Larsen is joined by the Vihan String Quartet (Prague) in the Chausson Concerto.
William Ryden’s Wonderland Rags for Piano Trio have been published by Masters Music Publications (Kalmus). Mr. Larsen edited the piano part and has recorded the Rags on the CD “Rags, Spells and Tangos” available on HM Records 1219.
Mr. Larsen performed a recital with violist Patricia McCarty in February at the Boston Conservatory of Music. He can be heard with the American Chamber Trio at Loyola University in Chicago on March 19 and at the Annenberg Theatre in Palm Springs, CA on April 6. He returns to China with the American Chamber Trio in late May for 10 days of concerts and master classes.
The Opus Concert Series will feature accompanist Robert Rocco and NoteWorthy in a full-length program of choral music on Saturday, March 20 at Christ United Methodist Church, 410 Holden Road in Greensboro. The concert will include Robert’s arrangement of “My Favorite Things” as well as his original composition entitled “Everyday People.” The Opus Series is dedicated to featuring musical ensembles from the Piedmont Triad. It is closely allied with the Greensboro Cultural Arts Center. NoteWorthy is a part of Triad Pride Men’s Chorus and has been heard by audiences in Kansas City, Denver, Montreal, Columbus, and Miami. All Opus Series concerts are free and open to the public.
Judith Saxton performed Lauren Bernofsky’s “Fantasia” as the opening entree for the Lynn University Contemporary Music Festival in January, where fellow UNCSA colleague Kenneth Frazelle was the featured composer. This followed her afternoon master class with the Lynn Conservatory trumpet and brass students. She also performed the same piece and presented clinics to all three bands at the award-winning Hillgrove High School in Powder Springs, GA on March 9.
Upcoming Performances
music@watson: Saxton Rose, Bassoon
(Sat) Mar. 27, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Faculty Artist Saxton Rose performs his Watson debut recital, “Guided by Voices: Music for Bassoon Inspired by Song,” music of Brahms, de Falla, Luigi Orselli and Philippe Hersant. $12 adults / $10 seniors and students
emerging artist concert: Flute Class Recital
(Tue) Apr. 6, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
Students of Tadeu Coelho perform. $12 adults / $10 seniors and students
music@watson: Emerson String Quartet
(Sat) Apr. 10, 7:30 p.m., Watson Chamber Music Hall
The Emerson String Quartet performs Lawrence Dillon’s String Quartet No. 5: Through the Night, a set of variations on the Welsh melody “All Through the Night,” commissioned in honor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Also on the program: quartets by Franz Schubert and Antonin Dvorák. $12 adults / $10 seniors and students
Submitted by Martha Urbanik, School of Music
2010 STATE HEALTH PLAN ANNUAL ENROLLMENT NOW OPEN
2010 Open Enrollment is currently in progress until April 9th. Please go online and enroll today. You must take action or you will continue in the Basic Medical Plan (70/30) effective July 1, 2010. As of today only 108 employees enrolled.
How to enroll?
- Go to https://uncsa.hrintouch.com
- Enter the following information:
- Login ID: Your first name, the first initial of your last name and the last 4 digits of your social security number
- Initial password: your social security number without spaces or dashes (Your password has been reset to your social security number)
- Example for employee John Doe with SSN 111-22-3333:
Login ID is JohnD3333 and Password is 111223333
- Click Login
- Once you are logged in, click the eBenefitsNow link in on the left side.
- Click Complete Enrollment to begin
If you need help enrolling or accessing the internet, please attend one of the Open Enrollment Sessions that will be held in the Student Computer Lab (Hanes Commons -1st Floor) Dates and Times below:
March 24th (12:45-2pm)
April 1st (1pm-3pm)
April 8th (1pm-3pm)
April 9th (1pm-3pm)
Call Keyona McNeill for assistance. 336-770-1451
Submitted by Keyona McNeill, Human Resources
SUNDAY PIANO RECITAL AT SHALLOWFORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
UNCSA piano students of Eric Larsen, Hsin-I Huang and Yoana Kyurkchieva, will perform a piano recital on Sunday, March 21, 2010, 3 pm, at Shallowford Presbyterian Church, Lewisville, NC. The church is located at 1200 Lewisville-Clemmons Rd. Works by Chopin, Bach/Busoni, Ginastera and Shostakovich. Admission is free.
Submitted by Joe Mount, Office of Outreach & Career Services