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UNC Asheville's Music Department will continue its fall concert season with five performances in November, ranging from jazz to chamber music. The concerts, which will be held on campus, feature faculty, student and guest musicians. Admission is $5 at the door.The UNC Asheville Jazz Ensemble will present a big band concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, at UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. UNC Asheville students will perform pieces by Duke Ellington, Hoagy Carmichael and ensemble director David Wilken. Melodie Galloway, assistant professor of music at UNC Asheville, will be a guest singer with the band. The UNC Asheville Chamber Singers will perform “Arts in the Atrium: A Musical Experience in Choral Sound-Painting,” at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8, in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith University Union Grotto. Under the direction of Melodie Galloway, the advanced vocal ensemble will perform repertoire from renaissance, baroque and modern composers. Many of the pieces will be performed a cappella. UNC Asheville student ensembles, including the Flute Choir, String Quartet and Brass Quintet will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, at UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. The student performers are under the direction of Judi Lampert, Inez Redman and Casey Coppenbarger. The UNC Asheville Percussion Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, at UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. The concert will include the premier of student compositions by Benjamin Falcon and Reid Weigner, as well as a modern interpretation of traditional Brazilian samba rhythms. The UNC Asheville Chamber Orchestra will perform a concert of classical music at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, at UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. The performance will include music by Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart and Handel. Featured soloists include UNC Asheville students Sarah Fouharty, Amanda Fujikawa, Sara Kabliska, Aurora Keeler, Holly Rhymes and Erica Schinasi, and UNC Asheville alumna Maria Potapov. The orchestra is conducted by Ron Clearfield. For more information or to reserve a $40 season ticket, call UNC Asheville’s Music Department at 828/251-6432, or visit www.unca.edu/music. (Image provided by www.unca.edu/music.)
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