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Israeli pianist and UNC-CH faculty to perform in upcoming concerts

By ANDREA BELOFF
UNC-CH News Services

CHAPEL HILL -- A performance by Israeli pianist Allan Sternfield will be among concerts presented this month by the music department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. All concerts are free and held in Hill Hall auditorium unless noted.

Sternfield's concert Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. will feature European and Israeli music. Brooks de Wetter-Smith, a flutist and UNC-CH music professor, will join Sternfield in concert.

Sternfield has appeared as a soloist with orchestras, in chamber music concerts and on the radio in the United States, Europe, Israel, South America and the Far East. He also has been a faculty member of the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance since 1976.

Penelope Jensen, soprano, and Michael Zenge, fortepiano, will perform Schubert's “Lieder” at 8 p.m. Nov. 16. The music was inspired by the poetry of August and Friedrich Schlegel. Jensen teaches music at Duke University; Zenge is a music professor at UNC-CH.

On Nov. 18 at 8 p.m., the Carolina Choir, conducted by Susan Klebanow, will perform works by Buxtehude, Mendelssohn, Bruckner and Mozart.

The 15-member Collegium Musicum, a UNC-CH vocal and instrumental group of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, will offer a concert, “Sacred and Secular Music of the 15th Century,” at 8 p.m. Nov. 21 in Person Recital Hall. Directed by UNC-CH graduate student Lisa Chensvold, the group will perform a collection of renaissance and baroque music.

The UNC-CH Concert Band, conducted by Jeffrey Fuchs, will perform at 3 p.m. Nov. 23. The concert will feature traditional wind-band literature, including “Commando March” by Samuel Barber, a British band piece by Gordon Jacob and Cajun folk songs by Frank Ticheli.

Other upcoming concerts include a performance by the UNC-CH Guitar Ensemble Nov. 23 at 8 p.m. The 14 guitarists will play “Lobos” by Heitor Villa, movements by Bocclerini, modern pieces transcribed by Terry Riley and many more.

On Nov. 25, the UNC-CH Glee Clubs, conducted by Daniel Huff and Marilee Vana, will perform at 8 p.m. The men and women's clubs will sing both together and separately.

For more information about the music department's concerts, call (919) 962-1039.

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(Beloff is a junior journalism and political science major from Norfolk, Mass.)

Music Department contact: Will Anderson (919) 962-1039

News Services contact: Laura J. Toler