Carolina Performing Arts is presented by the Office of the Executive Director for the Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Carolina Performing Arts serves diverse audiences through multi-disciplinary performing arts programs in presentation, creation, and education. Each season will engage, inspire, and entertain audiences through innovative performances. Carolina Performing Arts commissions new work, sponsor artist residencies, and organize collaborative projects with local, national, and international partners. 

Carolina Performing Arts presents the very best from the full spectrum of the performing arts — internationally renowned recitalists and orchestras, dance and chamber ensembles, jazz, folk, and world music performers, and opera and theatre.

Through Carolina Performing Arts, the Office of the Executive Director for the Arts commits itself to inviting outstanding professional artists to perform and to teach; to foster a deep appreciation of a wide variety of the performing arts in the University, in the local community, and throughout the region; and to establish Carolina as a leader in the performing arts in the southeastern United States.

In short, Carolina Performing Arts strives to reflect the mission of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to serve all the people of the State, and indeed the nation, as a center for scholarship and creative endeavor.

--  Emil Kang, Rev. August 2008