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Arts and Lecture Series

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The cast of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night performed April 2011

Spring 2012 Calendar of Events

Download the Fall 2011 calendar.

January 17, 2012 at 7 pm in Hamlin Recital Hall
NGU Chamber Players Recital

Leslie Warlick, violin; Michael Weaver, viola; Brenda Leonard, cello; Brian Gencarelli, double bass, Fabio Parrini, piano. Works by Mozart, Rossini, Handel-Halvorsen, and Mendelssohn.  tickets required - available January 9 in the SOT box office

February 7, 2012 at 7 pm in Hamlin Recital Hall
NGU Faculty Recital with Brenda Leonard, cello andturn Kimberlee Turnbough, piano

 NGU faculty cellist Brenda Leonard will be joined by pianist Kimberly Turnbough,  from the faculty of Newberry College in Newberry, SC.  They will play works spanning three centuries by Vivaldi, Beethoven, Brahms, and Vaughan Williams.   tickets required - available January 23

February 13, 2012 at 7 pm Hamlin Recital Hall
Kate Steinbeck, Guest Flute Recital katewith Maria Parrini, cello, and Fabio Parrini, piano


Flutist Kate Steinbeck
enjoys a varied career as performer, teacher and innovative music producer. She holds a MM from the SF Conservatory where she studied with Tim Day (SF Symphony). In 2000 she created Keowee Chamber Music, which has become Pan Harmonia. Her company presents concerts and outreach throughout the region and was recognized by a prestigious NEA grant for Artistic Excellence in 2010. Kate has co-produced two critically acclaimed CDs: Light in the Corner with Byron Hedgepeth and Luminescence with guitarist Amy Brucksch. tickets required - available January 23


February 15-18 and 22-25, 2012 at 7:30 pm Billingsleywomen Theatre

“I may be small, but I've got giant plans to shine as brightly as the sun, I'll be ASTONISHING” Jo March

 Based on Louisa May Alcott's novel, LITTLE WOMEN, and the adventures of Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March as they grow up in Civil War America. Now, the acclaimed novel has been brought to life as a hit Broadway musical filled with glorious music, dancing and  lots of heart! LITTLE WOMEN embodies the complete theatrical experience, guaranteeing a night filled with laughter, tears, and a lifting of the spirit. This powerful score soars with the sounds of personal discovery, heartache and hope.

 Note: No children under the age of 5 will be admitted to this show.
tickets required CLICK HERE

NGU students may pick up tickets beginning February 6 at 11 am in the Box Office (School of Theatre Building). Please bring your ID card for your ticket.

February 22, 2012 at 7 pm in Hamlin Recital Hall
NGU Art Faculty Exhibition Lecture


Members of North Greenville University's art faculty will present a lecture concerning their current exhibition of works. The lecture corresponds to the Art Faculty exhibition which is on display from February 20th through March 16th.  tickets required - available February 13

February 27, 2012 at 7 pm Turner Chapel
Pemberton Jazz Quartet

Roger Pemberton is a woodwind player who has recorded albums with many artists, including Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson, Less Hooper, and has produced two jazz albums. Pemberton is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina and has been an arranger and studio musician with the Merv Griffin television show in New York.
NO tickets required

March 13, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Hamlin Recital Hall
Patti Tate, 2012 State Teacher of the Year

Patti Tate, an AP English teacher at Northwestern High School in Rock Hill, SC currently serves as the 2012 South Carolina Teacher of the TateYear.   “In my classroom, every choice I make involves the best interests of the students.”   Her beliefs for teaching begin with the idea that “all students can learn,” but she adds an important ending—“in their own individual way so each student can experience success.”   Finally, learning about students’ lives and building trust completes her philosophy—she teaches to individual students.   The cliché “one size fits all” does not work in her classroom.  Basically, her philosophy of teaching begins and ends with the students. 

Patti, a National Board Certified Teacher, holds a bachelor’s degree in English Education from Appalachian State University and a Master’s degree in English Education from Converse College. tickets required - available February 27

March 21, 2012 at 7 pm in Hamlin recital Hall
Art Lecture by Rebecca Stockham (photographer)


“Whether it is my large, abstract prints or my smaller, scanned images, through my art, I point out the unnoticed. Beauty in something reviled or ignored. Reverence in the mundane.”

Rebecca Stockham received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University's Photography and Film Department in 1996. She received her BA in Art from Lander University in 1993. As part of the Honors International Program at Lander University, she studied at the Exeter College of Art in Exeter, England in 1992. In 1999, she spent the summer studying in Beijing, China with New York University. She has taught as an adjunct faculty in photography at Virginia Commonwealth University and Greenville Technical College, as a visiting faculty at Furman University and in the lifelong learning program at Tri-County Technical College. Rebecca is a founding member of the ArtBomb Studios where she has her darkroom. She exhibits her work nationally in solo, group and juried art exhibitions. She has been with the ARMES program since 1998.  
tickets required - available February 27

April 2, 2011 at 5pm and – 7 pm in Hamlin Recital Hall
“The Sound of Drums” 

Come for an evening of entertaining beats, melodies, noise, and pyrotechnics!  The NGU Percussion Department will perform exhilarating pieces for percussion soloists, trios, quartets, and quintets, utilizing all sorts of instruments.  “Praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.” – Psalm 150:5  (program will be 1 hour in length)
tickets required - available March 19 

April 3, 2012 at 7 pm in Turner Chapel
Concert Choir Spring Concert
NO tickets required

 April 4, 2012 at 7 pm in Hamlin Recital Hallfabio parrini
Alberto Parrini, cello, and Fabio Parrini, piano
Alberto ParriniPrincipal cellist of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Alberto Parrini holds degrees from the Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School, and has performed worldwide as part of the New York Philharmonic, American Chamber Players, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra, the St. Lawrence and Zukofsky string quartets, and other prestigious ensembles. His festival appearances include Evian, Tanglewood, Taos, Verbier, Ottawa, Montreal, San Miguel de Allende, Spoleto U.S.A., Music@Menlo, The Weekend of Chamber Music and the Piatigorsky seminar. He joins his brother Fabio, piano coordinator at NGU (see www.fabioparrini.com), for this recital featuring works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, and Kodaly.tickets required- available March 19

April 9, 2012 at 7 pm in Hamlin Recital Hall
Spring Flute Choir
  
The concert will include works for just a few "fluters" and works involving as many as twenty flute players. The North Greenville flute choir will be joined by the Southern Harmony flute choir which performed this past summer at the National Flute Convention in Charlotte. Flutes of all sizes will be included in the concert.(program will be 1 hour in length) tickets required- available March 19

April 10, 2012 at 7 pm in Hamlin Recital Hall
Brass Ensembles
tickets required - available March 19

April 11, 2012 at 7 pm in Hamlin Recital Hall
Katie Mahan, piano
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Internationally acclaimed pianist Katie Mahan returns to NGU for a Debussy recital. Performance highlights of her 2011-12 season include recital appearances in Monte Carlo, Berlin, Munich, and Baden-Baden, Germany; Dubai, UAE; Vienna, Eisenstadt, and Seefeld, Austria; Arosa, Switzerland; London, England; Lanzarote, Spain; and Denver, Colorado; as well as a series of all-Debussy recitals in the Strathmore "Music in the Mansion Series" in Maryland, the Roerich Museum in New York City, and NGU. Concerto appearances include Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 with the Wiener Residenz Orchester in Vienna, Austria; Chopin’s Concerto No. 1 with the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra; Brahms’ Concerto No. 2 with the Denver Philharmonic; and Gershwin’s Concerto in F with the West Virginia Symphony.
tickets required
- available March 19

April 16, 2012 at 7 pm in Turner Chapel
Concert Band
NO tickets required

April 19, 2012 at 5 pm in Hamlin Recital Hall
Chamber Concert with the North Greenville Singers and the NGU String Ensemble
tickets required
- available March 19

April 23, 2012 at 7 pm Turner Chapel
Jazz Band Concert
NO tickets required

April 24, 2012 at 7 pm in Turner Chapel
NGU Orchestra Concert
NO tickets required