Music Department

Sep 22, 2020

Orchestras and choirs prepare new music for virtual Brickyard debut

September 11, 2020 | eazander The challenges musicians are facing during the coronavirus pandemic are largely rooted in the inability to gather. Performance venues are closed, traveling is discouraged, and ensembles are unable to rehearse and perform together. Virtual choirs and orchestras are producing pre-recorded

Tanner Compton's Minecraft character, dressed in red graduation robes, addresses an audience of other Minecraft players/NC State graduates in the Minecraft version of PNC Arena

May 11, 2020

Seniors Build Their Own Graduation on Minecraft

A group of seniors organized and created their own graduation ceremony within the virtual world of Minecraft.

Mar 2, 2020

Exploring the Margins: Tift Merritt’s first orchestra composition is inspired by the history of Dix Hospital

By David Menconi Way back in 1908, a man named Lewis Hyder was involuntarily committed to Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh. He was 30 years old, recently returned from a four-year stint in the military, and he had threatened to burn down the barn on his father’s farm. So off to Dix he went, but…

Feb 29, 2020

Inherited Trauma Informs New Music

Flutist and composer Allison Loggins-Hull is one of four artists commissioned to create a new work for the orchestras of NC State during this “20 for ’20” themed season.

Feb 5, 2020

Orchestral Bluegrass

Thrilling. Once in a lifetime. Totally exhilarating. That’s a sample of reactions from NC State Department of Music orchestra students (and their professor, Dr. Peter Askim) in response to a transformative experience in October 2019. The International Bluegrass Music Association was in town for the annual World of Bluegrass festival. North Carolina’s Balsam Range, 2018 IBMA…

Feb 3, 2020

Wes Parker Named University College Outstanding Teacher

This year, University College has selected Dr. Wes Parker, Director of the Jazz Studies, as the winner for the Outstanding Teacher Award. Dr. Parker’s work and teaching have been praised by students and co-workers alike.

Jan 21, 2020

How Daniela Patino-Zabaleta used her SUPER-Curricular Seed Grant to Explore Music Consumption Around the World

by: Qulea Anderson Daniela Patino-Zabaleta, an NC State senior majoring in Business with an Arts Entrepreneurship minor, received a University Fellowship Office SUPER-Curricular Seed Grant in 2018. The University Fellowship Office offers the grant that provides funding for promising undergraduate students to build on their undergraduate studies by participating in an extraordinary summer experience that should enhance…

Lucas Sanders practices playing piano using the Piano+ interactive method book created through a DELTA Grant in partnership with Olga Kleiankina from the Department of Music. Photo by Erin Zanders. The student is playing piano and has a tablet in front of him with the Piano+ loaded on the screen.

Sep 10, 2019

Class Piano Goes Digital

Through a DELTA Grant, a team of staff members partnered with Associate Teaching Professor Olga Kleiankina from the Department of Music to transform MUS 107: Class Piano I by creating an interactive web book to replace the standard method book.

Jan 22, 2019

Research Award Named in Honor of Dr. Gary Beckman

Gary Beckman of the arts entrepreneurship program, based in the Department of Music, has been a pivotal and influential figure in his field for over a decade.

Jan 17, 2019

University College Outstanding Teacher Nominees

Every college within NC State nominates exemplary teachers each year to represent their college. This year, University College considered five spectacular candidates for its nominee for the Outstanding Teacher Award.