Two guest soloists, each skilled in the art of improvisation, appeared in New York City on Friday night with the cutting-edge chamber group Ensemble Signal. One soloist was human: Nicole Mitchell, the veteran flutist, composer and bandleader whose albums and performances are regularly (and rightly) celebrated by jazz critics.
SPICMACAY at UVA is excited to welcome TM Krishna to UVA as a part of his US tour on October 15th at McLeod Hall! The event seeks to give the music lovers of the Charlottesville community a cost-free opportunity to enjoy Indian classical music from a world-renowned Carnatic vocalist. TM Krishna will be accompanied by Akkarai Subhalakshmi on the Violin and Praveen Sparsh and Vijay Ganesh on the Mridangam.
The University Singers filled Carr’s Hill, the home of University of Virginia President Jim Ryan, with song Thursday evening, opening this semester’s “Arts on the Hill” series. Directed by faculty conductor Michael Slon, the University’s flagship choral ensemble’s 90-plus students performed for a crowd of more than 100 UVA faculty and staff members, students and guests.
University Records is a student-led organization that connects like-minded musicians, organizes performances and practices, manages equipment and helps to engage beginners in the UVA music scene.
ARTS ON THE HILL: An Immersive Choral Experience with the University Singers with Director Michael Slon on October 6th • 5pm • Carr’s Hill • FREE by Lottery! Won't you join us?
UVA Welcomes New Music Faculty: Nicole Mitchell & JoVia Armstrong! Read more about them here!!
A violin concerto, a Beethoven symphony, a choral masterwork, folk tunes, dances, a sonic exploration of the cosmos and more! – Charlottesville Symphony Music Director Benjamin Rous has curated a 2022-23 season that will delight nearly every musical taste.
When Christine Moore (Engr ’92) came to the University of Virginia, it was with the plan to become an electrical engineer like her father and a hope to continue playing her flute. “I quickly realized that electrical engineering wasn't the best fit for me,” she remembered. She switched her major to chemical engineering and discovered the tremendous musical opportunities at UVA.
Making Noise, a performance series that originated in 2014 by Music Librarian Matthew Vest, has hosted a number of dramatic, musical, and dance performances over the years. Vest said, “[Making Noise] makes the library itself a locus of the types of scholarly and artistic conversations that typically happen in non-library spaces, simply by inviting music and noise into a controlled environment.”
Leah Reid, an Assistant Professor of Music Composition, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Provided by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career scholars and artists who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exhibit exceptional creative ability in the arts while exhibiting great promise for their future endeavors.
The University of Virginia Chamber Singers joined ensembles from five other universities and conductor Murry Sidlin for a special performance of the Verdi Requiem, as part of the Defiant Requiem project.
FIRST-EVER Arts on the Hill: Battle of the Bands | April 14, 2022
