School of Music
U N C G
School of Music
U N C G
The UNCG School of Music has been recognized for years as one of the elite
music institutions in the United States. Fully accredited by the National
Association of Schools of Music since 1938, the School offers the only
comprehensive music program from undergraduate through doctoral study in
both performance and music education in North Carolina. From a total
population of approximately 14,000 university students, the UNCG School of
Music serves nearly 600 music majors with a full-time faculty and staff of more
than sixty. As such, the UNCG School of Music ranks among the largest Schools
of Music in the South.
The UNCG School of Music now occupies a new 26 million dollar music building,
which is among the finest music facilities in the nation. In fact, the new music
building is the second-largest academic building on the UNCG Campus. A large
music library with state-of-the-art playback, study and research facilities houses
all music reference materials. Greatly expanded classroom, studio, practice
room, and rehearsal hall spaces are key components of the new structure. Two
new recital halls, a large computer lab, a psychoacoustics lab, electronic music
labs, and recording studio space are additional features of the new facility. In
addition, an enclosed multi-level parking deck is adjacent to the new music
building to serve students, faculty and concert patrons.
Living in the artistically thriving Greensboro—Winston-Salem—High Point “Triad”
area, students enjoy regular opportunities to attend and perform in concerts
sponsored by such organizations as the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, the
Greensboro Opera Company, and the Eastern Music Festival. In addition,
UNCG students interact first-hand with some of the world’s major artists who
frequently schedule informal discussions, open rehearsals, and master classes at
UNCG.
Costs of attending public universities in North Carolina, both for in-state and out-of-
state students, represent a truly exceptional value in higher education.
For information regarding music as a major or minor field of study, please write:
Dr. John J. Deal, Dean
UNCG School of Music
P.O. Box 26167
Greensboro, North Carolina 27402-6167
(336) 334-5789
On the Web: www.uncg.edu/mus/
James Houlik
saxophone
Vahan Sargsyan
piano
Guest Recital
Monday, January 24, 2005
7:30 pm
Organ Hall, School of Music
Program
Aria Eugène Bozza
(1905-1991)
Sonata in G minor Johann Sebastian Bach
Allegro (1685-1750)
Adagio
Allegro
Rhapsody (2003) Robert Glenn Palmer
Milonga del Angel Astor Piazzolla
(1921-1992)
Song Set No. 1
To Be Announced
Intermission
Aria, BWV 590 Johann Sebastian Bach
arr. by Christopher M. Brown
Sonata – When Mountains Rising (1983) Sherwood Shaffer
bold and surging…
past singing springs…
to reach the stars…
Song Set No. 2
To Be Announced
Adagio and Rondo Carl Maria von Weber
(1786-1826)
Excursion (1977) Mike Tomaro
From the golden Age…
Valse Hilda (1922) Clyde Doerr
Saxema Rudy Wiedoeft
(1893-1940)
James Houlik performs on the Selmer saxophone.
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The hall is equipped with a listening assistance system.
Patrons needing such assistance should contact an usher in the lobby.
Patrons are encouraged to take note of the exits located throughout the hall.
In an emergency, please use the nearest exit, which may
be behind you or different from the one through which you entered.
The London Daily Mail calls him “the world’s great saxophone virtuoso,” and James Houlik
gives evidence of being at least one of the busiest saxophonists on the planet. In recent
seasons, he has performed in recital, with orchestra, and with wind groups in such far flung
places as Istanbul (Turkey), Prague (Czech Republic), Pretoria (South Africa), Taranto
(Italy), Chengdu (China), and from California to New York in the U.S. Houlik’s recordings,
with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the
Keystone Wind Ensemble, and many other groups, have spotlighted some of the more than
eighty works that have been composed for him. In addition to his preeminence as a soloist
on the tenor saxophone, Houlik is a uniquely gifted teacher, presenting clinics and master
classes wherever he goes as well as serving on the faculty of the Mary Pappert School of
Music at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. In a word, James Houlik is “brilliant” – Cue
Magazine – New York.
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Vahan Sargsyan is a native of Yerevan, Armenia, where he studied piano at the Komitas
Conservatory. He has also studied in the United States, and is now a staff accompanist at
Duquesne University. Mr. Sargsyan has appeared as soloist with the Pittsburgh
Symphony, and his solo engagements have taken him throughout Europe and South
America. He performed at the request of the Armenian Ambassador in Washington, D.C.,
in January 2005.
UNCG Faculty Composers’ Concert
Music of Kiorpes, Carroll, Engebretson, Bass,
Haines, Smith, and Salmon
Tuesday, January 25 · 7:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Grace Lin, violoncello
DMA Recital
Thursday, January 27 · 7:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
performance
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School of Music
U N C G
James Houlik
saxophone
Vahan Sargsyan
piano
Guest Recital
Monday, January 24, 2005
7:30 pm
Organ Hall, School of Music
Program
Aria Eugène Bozza
(1905-1991)
Sonata in G minor Johann Sebastian Bach
Allegro (1685-1750)
Adagio
Allegro
Rhapsody (2003) Robert Glenn Palmer
Milonga Astor Piazzolla
(1921-1992)
Song Set No. 1
To Be Announced
Intermission
Aria, BWV 590 Johann Sebastian Bach
arr. by Christopher M. Brown
Sonata – When Mountains Rising (1983) Sherwood Shaffer
bold and surging…
past singing springs…
to reach the stars…
Song Set No. 2
To Be Announced
Adagio and Rondo Carl Maria von Weber
(1786-1826)
Excursion (1977) Mike Tomaro
From the golden Age…
Valse Hilda (1922) Clyde Doerr
Saxema Rudy Wiedoeft
(1893-1940)
James Houlik performs on the Selmer saxophone.
_____
The hall is equipped with a listening assistance system.
Patrons needing such assistance should contact an usher in the lobby.
Patrons are encouraged to take note of the exits located throughout the hall.
In an emergency, please use the nearest exit, which may
be behind you or different from the one through which you entered.
