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Countdown to First Day of Classes: 1️⃣Today's countdown features the UNCW Percussion Ensemble! 🥁📓Course #: MUS130-204🎓I...
08/19/2025

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 1️⃣
Today's countdown features the UNCW Percussion Ensemble! 🥁

📓Course #: MUS130-204
🎓Instructor: Mr. Mitch Hebert
⏰Meeting Times: MW, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
✅Credits: 1.00

The Percussion Ensemble performs a mix of musical styles arranged for an assortment of percussion instruments. No audition is required to join this ensemble.

Want to know more? Email Mr. Mitch Hebert at [email protected].

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 2️⃣Today's countdown features the UNCW Pop/Rock Ensembles! 🎸📓Course #: MUS130-201🎓In...
08/18/2025

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 2️⃣
Today's countdown features the UNCW Pop/Rock Ensembles! 🎸

📓Course #: MUS130-201
🎓Instructor: Dr. Jonathan Kladder
⏰Meeting Times: R, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
✅Credits: 1.00

The UNCW Pop/Rock Ensembles are small instrumental and vocal ensembles performing contemporary music. The type of group depends on the availability of personnel. Meets one to two hours weekly with instructor for coaching plus individual practice and weekly rehearsal with partner(s). Previous training is required.

Want to know more? Visit us at our Ensemble Fair in the Cultural Arts Building from 2:00-4:00 PM TODAY, August 18th or email Dr. Jonathan Kladder at [email protected].

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 3️⃣Today's countdown features the UNCW Pep Band! 🏀📓Course #: MUS188🎓Instructor: Mr. ...
08/17/2025

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 3️⃣
Today's countdown features the UNCW Pep Band! 🏀

📓Course #: MUS188
🎓Instructor: Mr. Dachuan Cao
⏰Meeting Times: M, 5:00 PM - 5:50 PM
✅Credits: 1.00
💵 Financial Compensation Provided

The Pep Band is dedicated to the study and performance of contemporary music written for athletic bands. This ensemble provides music at men’s and women’s basketball home games and other university events. Audition is not required to join this ensemble.

Want to know more? Visit us at our Ensemble Fair in the Cultural Arts Building from 2:00-4:00 PM on Monday, August 18th or email Mr. Dachuan Cao at [email protected].

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 4️⃣Today's countdown features the UNCW University Chorale! 🎤📓Course #: MUS186🎓Instru...
08/16/2025

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 4️⃣
Today's countdown features the UNCW University Chorale! 🎤

📓Course #: MUS186
🎓Instructor: Dr. Aaron Peisner
⏰Meeting Times: MW, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
✅Credits: 1.00

The singers of the University Chorale study and perform repertoire of various historical periods and styles appropriate for large chorus. No audition is required to join this ensemble.

Want to know more? Visit us at our Ensemble Fair in the Cultural Arts Building from 2:00-4:00 PM on Monday, August 18th or email Dr. Aaron Peisner at [email protected].

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 5️⃣Today's countdown features the UNCW Symphonic Band! 🎺📓Course #: MUS185🎓Instructor...
08/15/2025

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 5️⃣
Today's countdown features the UNCW Symphonic Band! 🎺

📓Course #: MUS185
🎓Instructor: Mr. Dachuan Cao
⏰Meeting Times: MW, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
✅Credits: 1.00

The Symphonic Band is an outstanding ensemble consisting of highly talented woodwind, brass and percussion players, including both music majors and non-music majors. Enrollment is open to all UNCW students with previous instrumental experience and the necessary skills to perform on a wind or percussion instrument. This ensemble rehearses three hours per week and typically performs two concerts each semester.

Want to know more? Visit us at our Ensemble Fair in the Cultural Arts Building from 2:00-4:00 PM on Monday, August 18th or email Mr. Dachuan Cao at [email protected].

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 6️⃣Today's countdown features the UNCW String Ensemble! 🎻📓Course #: MUS187-002🎓Instr...
08/14/2025

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 6️⃣
Today's countdown features the UNCW String Ensemble! 🎻

📓Course #: MUS187-002
🎓Instructor: Dr. Clark Spencer
⏰Meeting Times: MW, 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
✅Credits: 1.00

The String Ensemble is dedicated to the study and performance of orchestral literature. This ensemble rehearses a minimum of two hours per week and gives two or three performances per semester.

Want to know more? Visit us at our Ensemble Fair in the Cultural Arts Building from 2:00-4:00 PM on Monday, August 18th or email Dr. Clark Spencer at [email protected].

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 7️⃣Today's countdown features the UNCW Jazz Ensemble! 🎷📓Course #: MUS184🎓Instructor:...
08/13/2025

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 7️⃣
Today's countdown features the UNCW Jazz Ensemble! 🎷

📓Course #: MUS184
🎓Instructor: Dr. Gabriel Sánchez Porras
⏰Meeting Times: TR, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
✅Credits: 1.00

The Jazz Ensemble develops idiomatic performance techniques of jazz music in a variety of styles and mediums through the study of its musicians, as well as examines performance practices throughout its history. Auditioning is required for this ensemble.

Want to know more? Visit us at our Ensemble Fair in the Cultural Arts Building from 2:00-4:00 PM on Monday, August 18th or email Dr. Gabriel Sánchez Porras at [email protected].

🎼 NEW FACULTY HIRE: Welcome to our Interim Director of Bands, Mr. Dachuan Cao! We look forward to having Mr. Cao lead ou...
08/13/2025

🎼 NEW FACULTY HIRE: Welcome to our Interim Director of Bands, Mr. Dachuan Cao! We look forward to having Mr. Cao lead our ensembles.

Originally from China, Mr. Cao is deeply committed to advancing wind band music education in his home country and promoting cross-cultural exchange through music. He currently serves as Conductor-in-Residence of the Beijing Wind Orchestra and has presented numerous lectures, conducting workshops, and concerts throughout China.

Cao is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Wind Conducting at the University of North Texas, where he studies under Professor Eugene Migliaro Corporon. He served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow in the UNT Wind Studies program for the past four years.

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 8️⃣Today's countdown features the UNCW Chamber Singers! 🎼📓Course #: MUS183🎓Instructo...
08/12/2025

Countdown to First Day of Classes: 8️⃣
Today's countdown features the UNCW Chamber Singers! 🎼

📓Course #: MUS183
🎓Instructor: Dr. Aaron Peisner
⏰Meeting Times: TR, 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM
✅Credits: 1.00

Chamber Singers is UNCW's premier choral group. Singers study and perform a variety of repertoire written for a smaller choir or chamber group. The ensemble rehearses three hours per week. Auditioning is required for this ensemble.

Want to know more? Visit us at our Ensemble Fair in the Cultural Arts Building from 2:00-4:00 PM on Monday, August 18th or email Dr. Aaron Peisner at [email protected].

🎼UNCW MUSIC ENSEMBLE FAIR📅August 18th, 2:00-4:00 PM📍Cultural Arts Building LobbyTo our returning Seahawks, welcome back!...
08/11/2025

🎼UNCW MUSIC ENSEMBLE FAIR
📅August 18th, 2:00-4:00 PM
📍Cultural Arts Building Lobby

To our returning Seahawks, welcome back! To our new students, welcome home! Stay involved with music on campus by registering for one of UNCW's music ensembles! Have questions? No problem! Stop by our come-and-go UNCW Music Ensemble Fair on Monday, August 18th 2:00-4:00 PM. We can help find the right ensemble for you and assist with any scheduling concerns you may have. Open to ALL students! You will have the opportunity to speak with students and instructors from Band, Choir, Orchestra, Jazz, Pop Rock, and Digital Ensembles.

To current, incoming, and prospective Music Education majors: join us for the Music Education Orientation and Social on ...
08/06/2025

To current, incoming, and prospective Music Education majors: join us for the Music Education Orientation and Social on Monday, August 18, at 4:30-5:30 in CAB 1080. Get to know your classmates and professors, learn about the program, and eat some food!

🎼 NEW FACULTY HIRE: Welcome to our new Lecturer of Voice, Dr. Emily Skilling! We look forward to having Dr. Skilling on ...
07/31/2025

🎼 NEW FACULTY HIRE: Welcome to our new Lecturer of Voice, Dr. Emily Skilling! We look forward to having Dr. Skilling on campus.

Dr. Skilling enjoys a varied career in both performing and teaching. Professional role credits include Countess Ceprano in Verdi’s Rigoletto (Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra), Ulrica in Un ballo in Maschera (Boheme Opera New Jersey), Dame Quickly in Falstaff (Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance), Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte (The CoOPERAtive Program), and Barcarolle in The Bremen Town Musicians (Opera on the James). In recent years, she has performed as a soloist with the American Bach Soloists Academy (Bach’s Mass in B Minor), Messiah University (Handel’s Messiah), Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra (Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky), Peachtree Rd United Methodist Church Atlanta (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9), and Georgia State University (Duruflé’s Requiem). Additionally, Dr. Skilling has extensive choral experience, having performed with the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, Kinnara Ensemble, Orpheus Chamber Singers, Transept Ensemble, and the world-renowned Westminster Choir.

Dr. Skilling formerly served on the voice faculty at the University of North Georgia and has taught Primary and Secondary Applied Voice at the Eastman School of Music.

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