Oct. 3 (Saturday)

Judith Saxton and Allison Gagnon

Trumpeter Judith Saxton and pianist Allison Gagnon play music by Jean Clergue, Ennio Porrino and Jan Koetsier, all of which they will subsequently record for an upcoming CD release.  Also, saxophonist Taimur Sullivan joins Saxton and Gagnon for an arrangement of Jean Rivier’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Trumpet and Strings.

Oct. 3

7:30 p.m. at Watson Chamber Music Hall
$12 adults / $10 seniors and students

Oct. 10 (Saturday)

Schumann Bicentennial Celebration Concert

Kevin Lawrence, Sheila Browne, Brooks Whitehouse and Lauren Winkelman perform Schumann's Piano Quartet in Eb Major in celebration of the great German Romantic composer Robert Schumann; additional faculty artists including Alexander Fiterstein, Allison Gagnon, Janine Hawley, David Jolley, Eric Larsen, David Winkelman and graduate student Louise Grevin will perform Fantasiestücke, Frauenliebe und Leben, and the Andante and Variations. School of Music students Hsin-I Huang with School of Drama student Ian Antal will also be featured in Schön Hedwig.

Oct. 10

7:30 p.m. at Watson Chamber Music Hall

$12 adults / $10 seniors and students

Oct. 13 (Tuesday)

Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan, world-renowned photographer, environmental activist and spokesperson for social change, presents a lecture to kick-off the ACCORD Initiative (Artists Contributing to Civic-Oriented and Responsive Democracy).  Jordan will share his perspectives on how artists help citizens recognize the greatest challenges facing our society. Sponsored by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts.

Oct. 13

7:00 p.m. at Thrust Theatre

FREE. Please call to reserve seats.

Oct. 15 (Thursday)

Letters from Composers

Tenor Glenn Siebert and guitarist Gerald Klickstein perform Dominick Argento’s Letters from Composers, a vocal setting of letters by Chopin, Mozart, Bach, Debussy, Puccini and Robert Schumann; additional UNCSA faculty artists perform pieces by these composers.

Oct. 15

7:30 p.m. at Watson Chamber Music Hall

$12 adults / $10 seniors and students

Oct. 24 (Saturday)

Symphony Orchestra

Maestro James Allbritten leads the student orchestra in concert featuring Concerto Competition winner Erica Boysen as flute soloist performing Jacques Ibert’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra.

Oct. 24

7:30 p.m. at Stevens Center

$13 adults / $11 seniors and students

Oct. 27 (Tuesday)

Alexander Fiterstein, Clarinet

Faculty Artist Alexander Fiterstein, winner of the 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, makes his Watson Hall recital debut.  Joined by pianist Steven Beck, Fiterstein will perform music by Johannes Brahms, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Lawrence Dillon and Claude Debussy.  

Oct. 27

7:30 p.m. at Watson Chamber Music Hall

$12 adults / $10 seniors and students

Oct. 29 -31(Thursday - Saturday)

"Fences" by August Wilson

Directed by Michele Shay

Featuring members of Studio III and IV        

Arguably one of the greatest American plays of our time, this Pulitzer prize winning saga expresses the bitter pain of a failed black baseball player and the dawning of a new age of opportunity for his family.

Oct. 29

Special Benefit Performance to benefit The Larry Leon and Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin/Winston-Salem Urban League Endowed Scholarship Fund at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts

7:30 p.m. at Catawba Theatre, Performance Place

Oct. 30-31

8:00 p.m. at Catawba Theatre, Performance Place

$12 adults / $10 seniors and students

NOTE: Special benefit performance on opening night, Oct. 29. Tickets are $50 which includes a post-show champagne and dessert party with the actors and director. For more info, call the Office of Advancement at 336-770-3330.

Oct. 31 (Saturday)

Trombone Choir

The 2009 Brass Symposium concludes with a performance by trombone students of James Miller.

Oct. 31

7:30 p.m. at Watson Chamber Music Hall

FREE