Faculty and Friends Concert Series opens with DuPont and Frisch

The Music Department’s 2015-16 Faculty and Friends Concert Series opens on Tuesday, Sept.15, with a performance by Assistant Professor Carl DuPont, bass-baritone, and Associate Professor Mira Frisch, cellist. Fellow music faculty member Brian Arreola and Gregory Thompson, associate professor of music at Winston-Salem State University, will provide accompaniment.

The Sept. 15 program will feature music for combined cello, voice and piano, including an aria from J.S. Bach’s “St. Matthew’s Passion” and settings of traditional African American spirituals. Music that showcases each performer individually, such as an aria from Wagner’s opera “Tannhäuser;” three songs by African American composer Robert Owens; the “Ballade in F Minor” by Chopin; and a set of variations by Niccolò Paganini, adapted for cello by Luigi de Silva and performed entirely on one string, will be part of the program.

The concert is set for 7:30 p.m. in the Rowe Recital Hall. Tickets are $18 for general admission, $12 for UNC Charlotte faculty and staff, $10 for seniors and $8 for students and are available online or by calling 704-687-1849. Rowe Galleries will be open one hour prior to the performance. The current exhibition is “Verve: The 2015 Alumni Biennial Exhibition.”

The 2015-16 Faculty and Friends Concert Series will offer five additional programs; the Faculty Brass Quintet is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 27.