It’s purpose. Not a pipe dream. SCHOOL OF MUSIC

HIGH SCHOOL UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATE

CONCENTRATIONS You will pursue your passion. You will perfect your talent. Brass You will achieve your purpose as an accomplished, professional musician.

Composition

Guitar

Harp

Opera INTENSIVE At UNCSA’s School of MENTORED TRAINING Orchestral Conducting INDIVIDUAL STUDY Music, you will learn from ACCOMPANIED BY professional musicians Working closely with who are active performers. a major studio teacher Organ UNMATCHED You will regularly display as master-apprentice, PERFORMANCE your skills, performing in you’ll receive highly- Percussion OPPORTUNITIES recitals, concerts and other personalized instruction. performances throughout You’ll also gain a thorough the year. Piano foundation in music theory, literature and style.

Collaborative Piano A CONSERVATORY EXPERIENCE EDUCATING THE Strings WHOLE ARTIST Ours is a rigorous conservatory approach Voice Our comprehensive liberal where you’ll immerse arts college curriculum daily in the study of your and high school academic Woodwinds art. Your training will be program provide a broad professional-level. Your education, producing focus will be a professional well-rounded artists who career. think critically, creatively MAJOR ENSEMBLES and collaboratively.

Cantata Singers

Jazz

Percussion

Symphony Orchestra

Wind Ensemble Living and working among musicians and other artists, you will be motivated to take your talent to new levels.

A CAMPUS A COMMUNITY ARTISTIC CULTURE UNLIKE OF ARTISTS COLLABORATION ANY IN THE COUNTRY The University of North As a musician, working Carolina School of the in an interdisciplinary Arts is composed of environment of five conservatories – dancers, actors, Music, Dance, Design & filmmakers, designers, Production, Drama, and technicians, you’ll and Filmmaking. learn to effectively As a result, you’ll find collaborate as a artistic passion and professional – inspiration all around a valuable skill you’ll you. You will learn by carry into your career. doing. And every day, your fellow artists will help bring out your very best. NO OTHER With more than 200 MUSICIANS SCHOOL OF MUSIC recitals, concerts and WANTED: CAN MATCH THE operas each year, as well as professional WEALTH OF Orchestra for The opportunities within Nutcracker PERFORMANCE . Ensembles the Winston-Salem for contemporary OPPORTUNITIES community, you’ll grow dance. Recording YOU’LL FIND as a performer in the sessions for film AT UNCSA. best possible way – scores. Pit players for by performing. fully-staged musicals. Accompaniment for opera. Composition students paired with choreographers. Whether touring, playing a gig in town, or serving in ArtistCorps (a program of AmeriCorps), you will experience what the life of a professional musician is like.

You’ll have a multitude of opportunities to perform in front of audiences

– not sit on the sidelines. The Hollywood Reporter ranks UNCSA #5 for music schools in the United States. VISITING ARTISTS OUR DEAN Notable guest artists from Our conservatory’s Dean is the world of music often Brian Cole, an accomplished visit campus to teach and conductor who has led orchestras perform with our students. and operas throughout the United A sampling of recent guest States, Europe, South America and artists includes: the Caribbean. He leads a world- class faculty, each with impressive AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET credentials of their own. BERLIN PHILHARMONIC WIND QUINTET A RENOWNED FACULTY CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY Our Music faculty are working OF LINCOLN CENTER artists who bring vast performance Part of an ongoing partnership of experience – from international concerts and master classes symphony orchestras to local and

regional ensembles. Their real- world perspectives enrich the EIGHTH BLACKBIRD classroom each day, broadening Four-time Grammy-winning contemporary students’ understanding of the classical ensemble contemporary music landscape. EMERSON STRING QUARTET

SIR JAMES GALWAY Legendary flutist

RICHARD GOODE Noted pianist and leading interpreter of Classical and Romantic music

WILLIAM KANENGISER Award-winning guitarist and founding member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

MIDORI Internationally-known violinist, devoted educator and innovative community engagement activist

MIRO STRING QUARTET

NEXUS PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Described by The New York Times as “the high priests of the percussion world”

MENAHEM PRESSLER Founding member and former pianist of Beaux Arts Trio

Intense, demanding, and rewarding: PRISM SAXOPHONE QUARTET

You’ll work one-on-one with an CAROLINE SHAW accomplished, professional musician. Youngest-ever Pulitzer Prize winner in Music (2013), Grammy-winning singer and violinist

FREDERICA VON STADE World-renowned mezzo-soprano A.J. FLETCHER OPERA INSTITUTE

An elite professional training ground for exceptional young vocalists, this tuition- free, graduate-level opera program includes extensive performance opportunities in fully- staged productions, scenes, touring, and outreach.

CHRYSALIS CHAMBER MUSIC INSTITUTE

Developed in partnership with the renowned Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, this graduate program is dedicated to the development of outstanding chamber musicians through seminars, coachings, rehearsals, performances and career development with the world-class musicians of Lincoln Center.

AMPLIFYING PERFECTION

UNCSA’s performance venues include the 1,380-seat “Watson Chamber Music Hall is the Stevens Center, a magnificently restored neoclassical best small hall I have ever played. theatre located in downtown Winston-Salem; the 590-seat Crawford Hall, with a 35-stop The Hamburg Steinway ‘D’ C.B. Fisk organ; the 300-seat Watson Chamber piano is extraordinary.” Music Hall, designed by renowned acoustician Rein Pirn; and the 38-seat Hood Recital Hall, an intimate space ideally suited for – Richard Goode, World-Renowned Pianist chamber and solo recitals. Exceptionally skilled and highly experienced, graduates leave UNCSA well prepared for lives and careers as professional musicians.

UNCSA ALUMNI INCLUDE: KRISTEN AND JOSH HOLRITZ ROBERT OPPELT Principal Flute and Associate Concertmaster Principal double bass, EDDIE BARBASH of the Chattanooga Symphony, members National Symphony Orchestra of the Schaafritz Duo Founding member and saxophonist of and Stay Human, the house band JUSTIN POINDEXTER for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert LEO HURLEY Manager for Education and -based composer, collaborator Community Programs at Jazz at RENÉ BARBERA with librettist Charles Osborne on the Lincoln Center, founding member of the recent transgender opera The Body Politic acclaimed Americana music ensemble, Operatic tenor, Paris Opera, Lyric Opera of Silver City Bound Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Winner of 2011 Placido Domingo’s Operalia STEFAN JEZIERSKI Horn, Berlin Philharmonic SHARON ROBINSON ERIKA BOYSEN Cello, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Assistant Professor of Flute, ULLA JORGENSEN UNC-Greensboro Principal flute, JULIAN ROSE Danish Radio Symphony Artist-in-Residence, RICHARD BUCKLEY Flute Center of New York Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, LISA KIM Austin Opera Violin, New York Philharmonic BECCA STEVENS Jazz, Folk and Pop Singer & Songwriter MIKAEL DARMANIE DANIEL MCKELWAY Pianist for Warp Trio Assistant Principal Clarinet, COLIN TRIBBY Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Principal, SUCCESS OF NOTE PATRICIA KING AND RJ Reynolds Magnet School for the IAN MCVOY Visual and Performing Arts; percussionist ORLANDO HADDAD Winner of the International School of Music Grammy-nominated Brazilian-American Harp Contest of Mexico TICHINA VAUGHN graduates are duo, Minas Mezzo-soprano, Stuttgart Opera succeeding in all areas of music, across the REBECCA NUSSBAUM RACHYL DUFFY country and around Program Director of ArtistCorps, RU-PEI YEH Viola, San Diego Symphony the world – from the an artist-driven service opportunity Cello, New York Philharmonic New York Philharmonic, ROBERT FRANZ Cleveland Orchestra Associate Conductor of the and Berlin Houston Symphony, Music Director of Philharmonic to the Windsor Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera of Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Orchestra Chicago, Stuttgart Opera and Paris Opera. WINSTON-SALEM: AFFORDABLE GREAT RETURNS A FOCUS ON QUALITY THE ARTS Money Magazine UNCSA offers a wealth reported that recent Known as the City of of opportunities at an UNCSA graduates Arts and Innovation, unmatched value. As earn approximately Winston-Salem is one of the 17 campuses 22 percent more than a flourishing arts of the University of their counterparts at community – and the North Carolina, our other schools with ideal conservatory tuition is a fraction a similar focus on location. Free from of that of private arts the arts. the high cost of living schools. and stresses of a large metropolitan center, our artists are able to focus and immerse in their art. In a city like New York, you may see a lot of work. At UNCSA, we’re creating it.

VISIT UNCSA APPLY & AUDITION

To appreciate the The School of Music Learn more about UNCSA conservatory provides programs audition schedules experience and in a variety of and the application our unique artist instruments. In process at: ABOUT UNCSA community, you need addition to your online uncsa.edu/apply to see them firsthand. application, you will or call: (336) 770-3290. STUDENTS Get started by visiting need to audition for 263 High school our website: uncsa.edu. the music faculty in 907 Undergraduate Then schedule your your area of interest. 133 Graduate visit to campus. All auditions are held on the campus of FACULTY the University of 141 Full-time North Carolina School 76 Visiting/adjunct of the Arts in + Numerous guest artists Winston-Salem, N.C. RATIO 9 to 1 Student to faculty

FACILITIES 11 Performance and screening venues

PERFORMANCES 300+ Public performances and screenings annually Apply | Audition | Visit uncsa.edu