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UVA Music Department

Piano faculty Dr. Francesca Hurst gave a piano master class and performed a solo piano recital in the Peebles Theater at Christopher Newport University‘s Ferguson Center for the Arts on November 30, 2023. This concert was sponsored in part by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

Her website: https://www.francescahurst.com

12/09/2023

Office for the morning - UVA Music Department piano juries were today. 🎹🎶 I heard some beautiful playing. And isn’t this a lovely space? The painting is a copy of The School of Athens by Raffaello. I finally made it to the UVA bookstore too.

12/08/2023

Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, A.D Carson, talks about the use of AI in the music industry. Access the whole interview video on Gizmodo following the link below.

https://gizmodo.com/even-ai-rappers-are-harassed-by-police-ai-unlocked-1851048859?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=gizmodo_email

12/08/2023

The UVA Music Department congratulates Omar Ernesto Guzmán Fraire who successfully defended his dissertation, Revuelta Débil — Instituent Modes of the Ungovernable: Life as an Aural / Critical Art Practice.

The textual document presents an extensive and profound collection of creative work produced over the past five years, meanwhile providing insight into both theoretical and personal contexts. During the defense, Omar offered works from each of three categories established by the dissertation — erasure / palimpsest, quotation / montage, and body / space.

12/05/2023

Charlottesville Symphony Music Director Benjamin Rous and Symphony Principal Percussionist I-Jen Fang have big parts to play during WTJU’s Classical Marathon this week!

Ben’s program, “Symphonic Favorites” airs at 9:00am on Wednesday, December 6. “Banging the Drum for Female Composers”, hosted by I-Jen, airs Wednesday the 6th at 7:00pm.

12/05/2023

56th Annual Messiah Sing-In tonight at 8pm in Old Cabell Hall!🎄

Join Charlottesville community members as well as singers from the University Singers, the UVA Chamber Singers, the Virginia Glee Club and the Virginia Women's Chorus, as they fill Old Cabell Hall with Handel’s glorious music! Singing participants for the event sit in sections arranged according to vocal part (soprano, alto, tenor, bass), the orchestra sits on stage, while non-singers are encouraged to listen from the Loge and Balcony. Copies of the vocal score will be available for those who do not have their own, and orchestral parts will be made available in advance for instrumentalists.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students, and may be purchased at the UVA Arts Box Office, (434) 924-3376, or online at https://artsboxoffice.virginia.edu/. Tickets will also be available at the door.

12/04/2023

Applications are being accepted for five-year fully funded PhD positions in Composition and Computer Technologies (CCT) at the University of Virginia to begin in fall of 2024.

Deadline for applications: January 15, 2023
Apply at: https://applycentral.virginia.edu/apply/
The UVA Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ competitive 5-year support PhD packages include monthly and summer stipends, full tuition, and health insurance for all admitted students (including for international students).

UVA Music’s CCT program emphasizes the integration of instrumental, electronic, and computer-based composition, considered as part of a diverse multimedia and interdisciplinary 21st Century field of art, design, and music.

UVA Music faculty and staff collaborate to create a unique climate of creative and technical research. In addition to composing original works, students have opportunities to create their own new technologies and become involved with on-going CCT research groups. Current research involves multichannel digital audio composition, improvisation, motion capture , music for dance, installation, songwriting, new media opera, video game design, vocal and chamber music composition, visual music, ecoacoustics, and the creation of new interfaces for musical expression.

Compositions by CCT composers are performed by visiting ensembles, faculty performers, and resident ensembles such as the New Music Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble (MICE), and others. Recent visiting groups playing graduate student compositions include Loadbang, Meehan/Perkins, Dither, Da Capo Chamber Players, JACK Quartet, Talujon Percussion Quartet, and the Relache and Verge Ensembles. New music from CCT is also presented annually at the Digitalis and Technosonics Festivals. The Music Department brings many exciting scholars, technologists and artists to work with graduate students, and recently hosted SEAMUS 2020 and Co-hosted NIME 2018.

12/03/2023

Join this amazing performance on Tuesday, December 5 at the Jefferson School! Creative Music Ensemble (CME) is high-level performance and research ensemble composed of string/wind instruments, piano, vocal, and computer electronic music, directed by composer/creative flutist Nicole Mitchell. They will perform works by Mitchell, in addition to repertoire by innovative jazz and creative music composers of the 21st century. The event is open to public, and the concert will start at 8PM.

11/30/2023

Thank you for the caroling and the poinsettia!🌹 Join the 83rd Annual Virginia Glee Club Christmas Concerts this Friday, December 1, 2023 at 9:30 PM in Old Cabell Hall after Lighting of the Lawn AND this Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 8:00 PM in University Baptist Church. 🎄

Tickets $20 general admission / $5 UVA student through the UVA Arts Box Office at [email protected] or 434.924.3376 or at the door.

11/30/2023

Please come to our Candlelight Concerts - they're an immersion into the spirit of the season!

Tickets - Fri 6 PM - University Baptist: https://virginia-womens-chorus.square.site/product/40th-annual-candlelight-concerts-friday-december-1st-8-pm-/36?cs=true&cst=custom

Tidkets - Sat 3:30 PM - University Baptist: https://virginia-womens-chorus.square.site/product/40th-annual-candlelight-concerts-saturday-december-2nd-3-30-pm-/37?cs=true&cst=custom

More info here: https://www.virginiawomenschorus.org/events

11/30/2023

Home - UVA Arts Box Office UVA Arts Box Office is the consolidated and centralized box office, supporting the arts departments and programs at the University of Virginia. We service over 250 events each year, and our offices are located on the Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds in the lobby of the UVA Drama Building.

11/22/2023

Looking for some great music this holiday weekend?

UVA Music Faculty Violinist Daniel Sender will be the featured guest on three upcoming programs with the Garth Newel Piano Quartet. The concerts will take place on Nov 23rd , 24th , and 25th at the Garth Newel Music Center and include masterworks such as the Schumann Piano Quintet, Amy Beach Violin Sonata, Franck Piano Quintet, and more!

More information and tickets at https://www.garthnewel.org/event/thanksgiving-holiday-weekend-beach-and-mendelssohn/

11/17/2023

And if you are a music alum, we would love it if you stopped by Old Cabell Hall to say hello!

Consider this your sign to plan a trip back to Grounds.

11/17/2023

The UVA Chamber Singers will present a special concert of music for choir and organ, celebrating the newly restored 1926 E.M. Skinner organ at St. Paul’s Memorial Church. The concert takes place tonight, Friday, November 17th – 7:30 pm at St. Paul’s (1701 University Ave.) Tickets are available –only in advance ending at 1pm – at the UVA Arts Box Office in the Culbreth building, online at http://tickets.artsboxoffice.virginia.edu or by calling (434) 924-3376.

11/17/2023

John D'earth is as busy as always...Sitting in with Dave Matthew's Band gigs at JPJ, guesting at Virginia Tech, and of course teaching, but tonight is the most important event, his UVA Jazz Ensemble performs in Old Cabell Hall at 8pm. You can purchase tix at https://artsboxoffice.virginia.edu/ or at the door starting at 7:30.

11/16/2023

The University of Virginia Department of Music presents a concert featuring visiting guest artist Michael Gause, trumpet, tonight, November 16th, 2023 at 7 pm in Old Cabell Hall. Michael Gause will be accompanied by pianist John Mayhood for this free recital of works by Torelli, Pankhurst, and Neruda.

Michael Gause is the Assistant Professor of Trumpet at the University of Iowa School of Music. The concert is free and open to the public.

11/16/2023

Register for the new class with Professor Matthew Burtner! "Eco-Sonics: Environmental Sound Art Composition" (MUSI 2559 100, Spring 2024)

From singing glaciers to coral reef rhythms, from infrasonic elephant vocalizations to ultrasonic moth hearing, Eco-Sonics explores the world of environmental sound and music from a creative perspective. No previous music experience is required; listening with open ears and mind is!

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Our Story

The McIntire Department of Music is the center of musical life at the University of Virginia, offering countless opportunities in performance, composition, and academic study. Our programs are open equally to music majors and non-majors, and our graduate program welcomes students from diverse musical and academic backgrounds. Each year we present over 200 public events, from student recitals to faculty ensemble performances to concerts and lectures by world-famous guests. And every semester our courses enroll over 1000 students from all over the university, some who plan professional careers in music, others who combine their musical interests with studies in other areas.

The department’s fifty faculty are nationally and internationally renowned for their expertise, and include some of the most popular teachers at the university. They have received many prestigious grants and awards, performed around the world with celebrated artists, and produced numerous successful compositions, recordings, books, and articles. Their course offerings include more than fifteen performing ensembles, private lessons in all the major instruments and voice, and classes in composition, music technology, classical music, film music, world music, jazz, folk music, and popular music of many kinds.

The department has two splendid facilities. Located on the university’s central Lawn, Old Cabell Hall houses one of the finest historic auditoriums in the United States along with rehearsal and practice spaces, classrooms, faculty offices, a digital music studio, and the largest music library in Virginia. The spectacular Hunter Smith Band Building is located next to the Art and Drama departments on the university’s Arts Grounds, and features state-of-the-art rehearsal and practice spaces for the department’s band program and more.