Arts and Culture at Wake Forest University
The Dance Program offers multiple dance classes – from beginning classical ballet, modern, jazz, and social dance to advanced technique. Its repertoire includes works in all dance disciplines: jazz, modern and classical ballet. The Wake Forest University Dance Company produces two remarkable concerts each year, performing choreographic works by national renowned, faculty and selected student choreographers.
November 22, 2009
3:00 PM
Brendle Recital Hall, Scales
Contact: Carol Brehm
336-758-5364
The Wake Forest Wind Ensemble will perform"Music with a Spanish Flair"in its concert. The centerpiece of the program is a new work for wind ensemble, Symphony No. 3,"Don Quixote,"by Robert W. Smith.
Conductors will be Kevin Bowen, director of bands, and Philip Morgan, associate director of bands.
November 22, 2009
7:30 PM
Brendle Recital Hall, Scales
Contact: Carol Brehm
336-758-5364
Guest artist Ben Verdery, guitar.
An internationally renowned recording artist who is head of the guitar program at Yale University.
December 2, 2009
7:30 PM
Brendle Recital Hall, Scales
Contact: Carol Brehm
336-758-5364
The Wake Forest Orchestra's fall concert will present a program that includes Rossini's Overture to"The Barber of Seville,"Paul Hindesmith's Five Pieces for String Orchestra and Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony.
David Hagy, orchestra director, will conduct.
December 3, 2009
7:30 PM
Brendle Recital Hall, Scales
Contact: Carol Brehm
336-758-5364
Brian Gorelick, conductor
This winter's Holiday Choral Concert will be a fundraiser for the Concert Choir's Italy Tour on March 5-11, 2010. In May 2007 the ensemble toured Vienna and Austria, performing internationally for the first time in its 60-year history.
The group's second international tour will include performances in Rome, Anzio, and Assisi. The holiday program will feature choral anthems and traditional music for the season.
Also performing on the program will be the Collegium Vocal Ensemble, the Clarinet Choir, and the Wake Forest Chorale.
The admission charge for this concert will help cover the choir's travel expenses in March.
Anyone wishing to reserve tickets may do so by calling the Music Department Office at 758-5364
Brendle Recital Hall, Scales
Brendle Recital Hall, Scales
Brendle Recital Hall, Scales
Brendle Recital Hall, Scales
Brendle Recital Hall, Scales
October 23, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contact: Joanna Porter
336-758-5026
Master Class with Persis Parshall Vehar, composer-in-residence at Canisius College, Buffalo, New York
The master class will consist of selections from the Concerto for Clarinet,"City of Light,"by Persis Vehar, featuring Wake Forest faculty Eileen Young, clarinet, and Persis Vehar, piano; and solo selections for clarinet and saxophone by Persis Vehar, featuring Wake Forest students from the studio of Eileen Young, with Thomas Turnbull, accompanist. The master class will also include a presentation by Ms. Vehar on composition and compositional techniques.
October 22, 2009
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Contact: Carol Brehm
336-758-5364
Music for Chorus and Guitar.
The concert will feature the Wake Forest Concert Choir, the Collegium Vocal Ensemble, guest artist Carlos Perez, virtuoso guitarist from Chile, and guitar students of Patricia Dixon.
The concert will be part of the new Wake Forest Guitar Series and tickets will be on sale at the door for $10 for general admission and free to Wake Forest faculty, staff, and students.
Anyone wishing to reserve tickets may do so by calling the Music Department Office at 758-5364.
October 13, 2009
11:00 AM
Contact: Carol Brehm
336-758-5364
The Rep Hour features the following performers:
1. Jacob Eichhorn, clarinet
Thomas Turnbull, piano
2. Leah Wagner-Stout, mezzo soprano
Thomas Turnbull, piano
3. Emily Sigler, flute
Ann Listokin, piano
4. Elizabeth Hartley, alto saxophone
Thomas Turnbull, piano
5. Virginia Browne, soprano
Ann Listokin, piano
October 8, 2009
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Contact: Carol Brehm
336-758-5364
An honors recital performed by students chosen by department faculty based on their performances of the last year.
September 20, 2009
3:00 PM
Contact: Carol Brehm
336-758-5364
Adam Carter, cello; Jeanette Jang, violin guest recital
A recital featuring works by Bach, Ravel, Halvorsen and Ysae