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The NCSA Percussion Ensemble returns to Roanoke Island Festival Park in Manteo, NC July 28th – August 1st for the NCSA Summer Performance Festival. John R. Beck leads the group including current students ALEX AUCOIN, RAY LAFFOON, SHAWN MARCINOWSKI, and JARED STEWARD.
Tenor ERICH BARBERA travels to San Francisco to perform as a young artist with the Merola program this summer.
Flutist ERIKA BOYSEN performs at the 2008 NFA Masterclass Performers Competition in August in Kansas City as a result of being one of the winners for the masterclass competition.
Students of Joseph Genualdi travel with him to Leipzig this summer to study for one month at the EuroArts Festival held at the Mendelssohn Hochschule. Among those involved are BRIANA BORTH, DARRYL BLACK, TINA CULVER, COLIN LAURSEN, ORIN LAURSEN, RACHEL PERKINS, REBECCA PERNICANO, CHARLES SHAFER, ALEXANDER ST. ANGELO.
Saxophonists OWEN BRODER, TRAVIS CALVERT, COREY DUNDEE, RYAN LEMOINE ANNALISE STALLS, JOEY TRAHAN, and participate in the NCSA Summer Performance Festival in Manteo.
OWEN BRODER has been selected for the Monterey Jazz Festival’s “Next Generation Jazz Orchestra,” one of the top honors for a jazz student in the United States. With the ensemble he records a compact disc, and performs with Maceo Parker, Christian MacBride, and at Rotterdam’s North Sea Jazz Festival. This is the 2nd year Broder has been invited to participate in the jazz ensemble.
JODI BURNS, JOSH CONYERS, AMY HARTSOUGH and MARVIN KEHLER are featured in Summer Sounds in Manteo this summer in vocal works organized by Marilyn Taylor between July 13th and July 18th.
TRAVIS CALVERT has been selected as a Fellow for the Lincoln Center Institute, commencing in June in New York. NCSA voice students JOSH CONYERS, KAREN HAYDEN, JOSH HUPP, ALONA METCALF and JARAE PAYTON are apprentices at The Magnolia Baroque Festival, June 17th - 22nd, participating in several concerts.
Flutist ABI CLARK attends the ARIA International Summer Academy this summer.
MATT DARSEY & ANDREA DOBBS attend the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont. Both are viola students of Sheila Browne.
Flutist NORMAN GONZALES was selected to be one of 2 flutes at the Kent Blossom Music Festival, but will be instead attending the Aspen Music Festival as a Fellowship student in The American Academy of Conducting at Aspen Orchestra. He was accepted into the Masters program at the New England Conservatory, but has decided to attend the Eastman School of Music as the Teaching Assistant for flutist/teacher Bonita Boyd.
Fletcher Fellow KYLE GUGLIELMO will travel to Italy this summer to sing the role of Schaunard in La Boheme, with the Ravenna Orchestra conducted by Joseph Rescigno, produced by La Musica Lyrica, a summer festival in Nova Feltria, Italy.
EMILY HORNBAKE, who studies viola with Sheila Browne, will be on tour with the Florida Ambassadors of Music.
HSIN-I HUANG, a high school student of Eric Larsen, won first prize in the Daniel Piano Competition hosted by Furman University, Greenville, SC. Pianists from across the United States and Canada competed in three rounds of solo piano repertoire. Along with YOANA KYURKCHIEVA, Hsin-I will attend Meadowmount School of Music in Westport, NY this summer.
Composer LEO HURLEY, a student of Lawrence Dillon, has received a $1500 commission from the Lines Ballet (Alonzo King, Artistic Director) to compose music for their dance program. As part of the commission, Hurley will spend the first week in June working directly with the choreographer and dancers.
MARVIN KEHLER, a student of Marilyn Taylor, competed with 12 vocalists and took home a $1,500 cash prize at the sixth annual Heafner-Williams Vocal Competition Sunday at the Lincoln Cultural Center. Kehler, a native of California, recently made his debut with the Piedmont Opera as Giuseppi in “La Traviata.” CHRISTOPHER ERVIN, who studies with James Allbritten, received $100 encouragement grant.
SARAH LABINER, a voice student of Marilyn Taylor, will travel to Italy to sing and study Italian as part of Canta in Italia, Wichita State University.
GREG LLOYD will participate in the NCSA Summer Performance Festival in Manteo as part of the Jazz Band’s residency there in late June – early July.
LAURA MANKO will be attending the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont. Laura is a viola student of Sheila Browne.
Violist THOMAS MCSHANE, a student of Sheila Browne, will be attending the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival.
JAIME NAMMINGA, a student of Allison Gagnon, will be a member of the piano
accompanying staff for NCSA's summer program.
In the fall, clarinet student LIAM SCOTT will become a freshman at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.
The NCSA Saxophone Quartet -- ANNALISE STALLS, soprano; JOEY TRAHAN, alto; COREY DUNDEE, tenor; RYAN LEMOINE, baritone -- won 3rd Place at the North American Saxophone Alliance Quartet Competition in April, at the University of South Carolina. Twenty-five of the top saxophone schools around the country, including New England Conservatory, Northwestern, Michigan State, University of Texas, University of Minnesota, Arizona State, University of North Texas, were represented, with most of the performers representing Masters and Doctoral programs.
JOEY TRAHAN will be the saxophone instructor at NCSA’s Musica Piccola this summer.
CATHERINE TSAO will be a semi-finalist at the The Texas Flute Society 23rd Annual Myrna Brown Flute Competition.
Fletcher Fellow ADAM ULRICH has been engaged as a young artist with Central City Opera this summer.
Flutist KRISTEN VANDERSCHAAF will be attending the International Festival-Institute at Round Top for six weeks starting June 1st.
KYLE WALKER, a student of Clifton Matthews, was Runner-up in NCFMC Honigman State Piano Competition and awarded $100. He also won first place in the Omega Psi Phi National Talent Hunt on April 19th in Charleston SC, winning a $1500 prize. He also won 2nd place in the Senior Piano Division Competition at ECU, winning $500 on April 19th.
High school clarinetist QIUDI ZHANG has been chosen to be the recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award. As a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist, she receives $10,000 to assist with music-related needs (such as tuition or equipment). She also performs on a live taping of “From the Top,” a radio show hosted by Christopher O’Riley and carried by public radio stations across the country. The program will air in mid-May. In addition, the recipients participate in cultural leadership training to become a community advocate for the arts, and create and implement their own performance outreach activity. In the fall, Qiudi will become a freshman at UNC Chapel Hill, where she has been chosen to receive the Kenan Fellowship, a special award given to the most outstanding young artists for their studies at UNC. Qiudi has received scholarship offers from the New England Conservatory and Eastman, but chose to stay in North Carolina.
The School of Music Complex, designed by Calloway, Johnson, Moore & West of Winston-Salem, features a 300-seat chamber music/recital hall, administrative offices, and rehearsal spaces.
Watson Chamber Music Hall was designed by renowned acoustician Rein Pirn, whose credits include Spivey Hall in Atlanta. The hall is complemented by a lobby, box office, green room and dressing rooms.
The academic wing houses administrative offices for the School of Music and includes teaching studios, a conference room, an orchestral rehearsal room, and an opera/choral rehearsal room.
Funding for the complex came from the $42.5 million higher education bonds, passed by N.C. voters in the fall of 2000.
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