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RECENT ACTIVITIES
Performances by music majors, Traven Harrington and Richard
Stanley at the Spring 2008 commencement ceremony
Recent commercial for NASCAR run in California featuring
students from UNC Charlotte's Department of Music
(link here - WMV format)
The UNC Charlotte Saxophone Quartet (with coach Reese
Manceaux, pictured below) performed at the national conference of the
North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) in Columbia, SC in
April 2008. They performed the world
premiere of Dr. Walter S. Hartley's "Suite No. 3" for
saxophone quartet in addition to Mintzer's Quartet No. 1.
Pictured above (from L to R) is Dr. William Campbell
(professor of saxophone and director of Jazz Ensembles at
UNC Charlotte), Chris Rocca (baritone sax), Josh Lancaster
(tenor sax), Michael Harvey (alto sax),
John Page (soprano sax), and Dr. Walter S. Hartley.
The 2008 edition of the Charlotte Youth
Wind Ensemble was a great success, thanks in no small part
to the efforts of (from left to right): Neil Underwood
(North Lincoln High School); Larry Wells
(Northwestern High School)-guest conductor; Dr. Larry Marks
(UNC Charlotte)-conductor, Brian Balmages-guest
conductor/composer, Stan Michalski-guest conductor, and Blair Smith (Jay M.
Robinson High School)--Percussion Ensemble conductor.
The Wind Ensemble's program included
Joseph Wilcox Jenkins' American Overture for Band;
Steven Bryant's Dusk; Ney Rosauro's Concerto
for Vibraphone and Wind Ensemble, Mvt. III (Jason
Piers, soloist); Nathan Daughtrey's Mercury Rising
(for Percussion Ensemble): David Maris' American Flute
Salute (Molly Underwood, soloist); Bryan Balmages'
Fusion; and Julie Ann Giroux's La Mazquita de
Cordoba.
UNC-Charlotte Wind Ensemble 2007
Performance of Walter Hartley's (pictured in front row) "Concerto
for Three Trombones and Band" was performed at a recent
concert of the UNC Charlotte Wind Ensemble (pictured
below) with (above from L to R-back row)
conductor, Larry Marks, Michael Palmer (band director at
Cannon School, Concord), Fred Boyd (professor of low
brass-UNC Charlotte), and Royce Lumpkin (chair of the Music
Department).
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