Friday, September 5, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Friday, October 3, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Sunday, October 5, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 7:30 PM Friday, October 10, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 7:30 PM Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 7:30 PM Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Friday, November 14, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Friday, November 21, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Saturday, December 6, 2008 - 8:00 PM Sunday, December 7, 2008 - 2:00 PM
Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 8:00 PM
Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 3:00 PM
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Sunday, February 8, 2009 - 3:00 PM
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 7:30 PM Friday, February 13, 2009 - 7:30 PM Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 2:00 PM
Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 8:00 PM
Friday, February 20, 2009 - 8:00 PM Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Friday, February 27, 2009 - 8:00 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 8:00 PM
Monday, March 2, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 7:30 PM Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 8:00 PM Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Friday, April 3, 2009 - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 7:30 PM Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Friday, April 24, 2009 - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 13, 2009 - 8:00 PM Sunday, June 14, 2009 - 2:00 PM
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Friday, September 5, 2008 - 8:00 PM
The September Prelude V will feature the Chiara String Quartet performing works by Brahms and Chausson with UNC faculty pianist Mayron Tsong and faculty violinist Richard Luby.
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Singer-songwriter/banjo player Abigail Washburn, with Grammy-winning banjo star and Sparrow Quartet producer Béla Fleck, Grammy-nominated fiddler Casey Driessen, and roots/classical cellist Ben Sollee — a raw, inventive, crosscultural take on traditional folk and old-time music.
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Pianist, composer and scholar, Stefan Litwin, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Music's newest faculty member, offers a debut recital introducing some of his own works along with music of European modernist and avant-garde composers.
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Hard-swinging, powerful, fast, insanely skillful and downright fun, the 16-piece Vanguard Jazz Orchestra big band hails from New York City’s legendary jazz mecca, The Village Vanguard.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Internationally acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Kenny Werner joins NCJRO for the world premiere of his extended composition for soloists James Ketch, trumpet, and Stephen Anderson, piano.
Friday, October 3, 2008 - 8:00 PM
The fast and furious dance music of south Louisiana's Creole people is in the hands of the masters with these two exuberant party bands. Emmy Award winner and four-time Grammy nominee Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr. appears with musician and songwriter Nathan Williams.
Sunday, October 5, 2008 - 7:30 PM
At the age of 13, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter was hailed as "the greatest prodigy since the young Yehudi Menuhin." She remains one of todays most celebrated violinists. The exceptional Camerata Salzburg chamber orchestra has appeared with a host of renowned international artists.
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 7:30 PM Friday, October 10, 2008 - 8:00 PM
A visceral and highly political dance theater piece featuring live performers, documentary, animation and film, To Be Straight With You is an explosive, angry, powerful and sometimes shocking exploration of intolerance, religion and sexuality.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 7:30 PM
The UNC Symphony Orchestra and UNC Opera Director and soprano Terry Rhodes perform Peter Lieberson's highly acclaimed, award-winning "Neruda Songs" (2005).
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 7:30 PM
A soul-stimulating, post-modern spectacle, Vivien and The Shadows melds film, performance, race, gender and sexuality. Singaporean director Ong Keng Sen gathers some of the best talents in performing arts and transports us into the world of Vivien Leighs Blanche DuBois, inspired by A Streetcar Named Desire.
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 7:30 PM
The world's preeminent viola da gamba performer Jordi Savall leads his Barcelona-based early music ensemble in a rich and colorful program based on Cervantes' Don Quixote.
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Fourteen dancers from across Africa come together in Heddy Maalems explosive interpretation of the infamous Stravinsky/Nijinsky ballet. Bold and unflinching, Maalems The Rite of Spring is placed in Africa and features atmospheric film projections.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 7:30 PM Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Universally recognized as pioneers, Druid is at the fore of Irish theater and has received wide acclaim for its new productions of the works of the great Irish playwright John Millington Synge. Presenting two plays each night The Shadow of the Glen and The Playboy of the Western World.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Shaker, the newest work from creators Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak, is an eerily beautiful, grey winter day, observed through whirling snow from the window of a fast-moving train. A dance-theater piece rich in poetic imagination, its magical, enchanted world is interspersed with humor, joy, pain and sadness.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 7:30 PM Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 7:30 PM
In less than a decade, the Kirov Orchestra has become internationally acknowledged as one of the world's super orchestras. Valery Gergiev, artistic director and principal conductor of the Mariinsky Theater, is one of the most in-demand conductors in the world today.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 7:30 PM
One of the great innovators in jazz, Pulitzer Prize-winning saxophonist/composer Ornette Coleman has played a seminal role in American music. Identified with the free jazz movement of the 1960s, he belongs to that rare breed of artists/thinkers whose influence extends far beyond the realm of their chosen medium.
Friday, November 14, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Lauded around the world for his sheer vocal beauty and the consummate intelligence of his musical interpretations, baritone Matthias Goerne is highly respected as a Lieder singer and is acclaimed on the concert stage, where he appears with the world’s foremost orchestras and conductors.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Featuring traditional and contemporary music for winds performed by the UNC Symphony Band and Wind Ensemble, featuring the UNC-Chapel Hill Music Department's newest ensemble conductor.
Friday, November 21, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Pilobolus revels in a startling mix of physical prowess, humor, beauty and invention. Creating zany, moving shapes with an overwhelming acrobatic agility, these dancers become live sculptures, combining intense periods of improvisation and creative play.
Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Nothing decks the halls like the fiery sounds of a 17-piece big band. Get a jump on the season with a mighty blast of seasonal spirit and cheer it's guaranteed to bring a smile to everyone in the house.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 - 8:00 PM Sunday, December 7, 2008 - 2:00 PM
A holiday season staple, Robert Weiss Nutcracker is a fantasy classic, capturing the irrepressible imagination of a childs world in which all things are possible.The original work was Tchaikovskys third and last major ballet.
Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 7:30 PM
The first jazz composer to win the Pulitzer Prize in music, New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis also was the first artist to win jazz and classical Grammy Awards in the same year. His Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra features 15 of jazz music's leading soloists, drawing from an extensive repertoire.
Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 8:00 PM
A wildly inventive comic romp from Mexico City, Monsters and Prodigies revels in the outrageous lifestyles, musical brilliance, decadence and violence surrounding the rock-star sex symbols of the Baroque male sopranos as it satirizes a bizarre musical sensation that persisted for three centuries.
Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 3:00 PM
Brahms Clarinet and Horn Trios and Britten's Cello Sonata, performed by UNC-Chapel Hill faculty musicians.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Orchestra of St. Luke's has earned a reputation as America's foremost chamber orchestra, with an annual series at Carnegie Hall and yearly collaborations with renowned artists. This evening's evocative program centers around Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, whose association with nature is pivotal to his work.
Sunday, February 8, 2009 - 3:00 PM
Carolina Woodwind Quintet. UNC-Chapel Hill's long-established, distinguished resident faculty ensemble previews music from their forthcoming CD.
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 7:30 PM Friday, February 13, 2009 - 7:30 PM Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 2:00 PM
William Shakespeare's delightful romantic comedy pokes fun at the fanciful language of love in this witty battle of the sexes.
Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 8:00 PM
Grammy Award-winning virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn has been celebrated for her innovative interpretations, thoughtful musicianship and technical perfection. Her intoxicating stage presence and emotional sophistication belie her young age, while extensive international performances mark her as one of today's most distinguished recording artists.
Friday, February 20, 2009 - 8:00 PM Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 8:00 PM
Continuous City tells the story of a traveling father and his young daughter, whose relationship is transformed by hypermodernity. This experimental piece explores a vast, fragmented cityscape of real and virtual locations from Chapel Hill to India and beyond.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 7:30 PM
The heart and soul of New Orleans, The Neville Brothers define the deep musical spirit of the city with a heartstopping blend of blues-soaked grooves, funk, social commentary and pure joy. Appearing with New Orleans' super-charismatic multiple-Grammy-winning keyboard/vocal legend Dr. John.
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 7:30 PM
The sound of jazz is unmistakable the brilliance of Louis Armstrong's trumpet, the subtlety of a Billie Holiday ballad, the moodiness of a Duke Ellington or Gil Evans composition.
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