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May 11, 2021

Kirsten Paige joins Department of Music faculty

The Department of Music welcomes Assistant Teaching Professor Kirsten Paige who will join NC State in August to teach musicology.  Paige comes to NC State after three years as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in Stanford University’s liberal arts program for first-year undergraduates. She said she especially enjoys teaching first-year students because of the fresh,…

May 3, 2021

Staying connected through learning

Associate teaching professor Olga Kleiankina curates a virtual lecture and master class series to help her piano students connect with one another online while challenging them in new ways.

May 3, 2021

Shining light on Black opera

Musicology lecturer Kristen Turner joins the working team for the Black Opera Research Network, an international organization supporting scholars and creators of Black opera.  Musicology lecturer Kristen Turner is a scholar who enjoys working on a variety of projects. She is currently writing two books, has several journal publications that came out recently, hosts a…

May 3, 2021

Honoring our piano pioneers

A new piano performance scholarship is named in honor of Marilyn Lynch and Phyllis Vogel, faculty who built the piano program at NC State and helped shape the music department. When an anonymous donor made a generous gift to endow a new piano performance scholarship in the Department of Music, they left it up to…

Apr 29, 2021

End of Year Virtual Concerts

Join us on our YouTube channel Thursdays at 7pm in May for virtual concert events celebrating the work of our student-musicians and faculty this spring. Links to access the YouTube Premieres will be added to this page once they are available. Thursday, May 13, 7pm: Concert Bands & Pep Band Virtual Concert The NC State Symphonic…

Apr 29, 2021

Dance Team wins ACC and National Championships

The NC State Dance Team, part of the NC State Marching Band, became the first-ever ACC Dance Team Champions on April 2, and followed that win with an impressive performance at the virtual National Dance Alliance (NDA) Collegiate National Championship, finishing first in the Dance Gameday Division 1A competition, and second in the Team Performance…

Apr 29, 2021

Every note we play together is a win

After nearly a year of online classes, faculty and students return to the rehearsal hall to make music together. With our COVID-19 mitigations in place, it doesn’t look the same. But it sounds triumphant. It takes enormous teamwork, expense and creativity to teach and make music in an entirely new way, and that’s exactly the…

Apr 28, 2021

Dr. Olga Kleiankina receives prestigious undergraduate teaching award

Associate teaching professor Olga Kleiankina, director of piano studies, became the first-ever recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Award from the Department of Music and University College on April 13.  The award, one of the most prestigious undergraduate teaching awards at NC State, was presented along with several others by the Alumni Association in…

Apr 21, 2021

Exploring Inherited Trauma and Mental Health through New Musical Works – May 2

Experience the virtual world premieres of works by composers Allison Loggins-Hull and Tift Merritt, whose compositions have been influenced by legacies of intergenerational trauma and the evolution of mental health treatment in the United States. World Premieres The new works are performed by the NC State orchestras—the Raleigh Civic Symphony (MUS 121) and Raleigh Civic…

Mar 16, 2021

Wolf Tones | Volume 3, Issue 2

The spring 2021 issue of Wolf Tones magazine is here! The new digital format includes video content and is easy to share. In this issue, read all about the ways that we’re making music safely this semester, the amazing work our faculty are doing, and an exciting new piano scholarship named for our piano program’s…