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and CEO of Piedmont Craftsmen in Winston-Salem. First prize will be $800. Summer Theatre returns The lights are coming back on for the School of Theatre and Dance’s ECU/Loessin Summer Theatre. Because of budget cuts, the 2011 season of the summer program was canceled; in 2010, there were no campus productions, but the program staged shows at the Roanoke Island Festival Park. This summer, the program will put on at least one production in Burnette Studio Theatre on campus. Jeffrey Woodruff, managing director of the summer program, says plans call for creating a repertory company of about two dozen
be a member of the New York State Summer School of the Arts faculty, teaching voice and theater arts classes, and she will sing in recital at the School of the Arts in July.
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actors to put on productions in Greenville, New Bern, Goldsboro and again at Roanoke Island near Manteo. This summer’s playlist consists of Thornton Wilder’s classic Our Town, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a children’s play, Seven in One Blow. A play or plays will be produced on campus the week of June 18, at Roanoke Island Festival Park the week of June 25, at the Cullman Theatre at Tryon Palace in New Bern the week of July 2 and at the Paramount Theatre in Goldsboro the week of July 9. Summer camp s The annual ECU Summer Guitar Festival takes place July 14-17, and workshop director Elliot Frank is bringing back
Music Festival in western North Carolina July 7-24. In August, the quartet will be in residence at the Interlochen College of Creative Arts. The East Coast Chamber Orchestra, of which she is a founding member, will play at the Skaneateles Festival in New York Aug. 28-Sept. 2.
Violist Melissa Reardon will be active with both chamber music ensembles that she plays in. With the Enso String Quartet, she will participate in the Madeline Island Music Camp in Wisconsin June 25-30 and the Swannanoa Chamber
Cellist Emanuel Gruber will travel to Israel in June to record works for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and then will participate as performer and teacher at
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veterans of earlier workshops to instruct and perform. Featured performers this summer will be Jason Vieaux, Duo Spiritoso (Andrew Zohn and Jeffrey McFadden), and the AkermanTeixeira Duo (Mary Akerman and Robert Teixeira). In addition, Mark Edwards, who was the solo competition winner in 2011, will perform, as will Frank. The guitar workshop is open to students of all skill levels who want to acquire or improve skills on the classical guitar. Other ECU summer music camps and workshops include: Band Camp, June 17-22, for grades 6-12. Scott Carter, director of the camp, says instruction will be provided in concert band, small ensemble and solo performance, and special
the Summit Music Festival in New York in August. The recording is one of three sets of compositions for cello and piano by Romantic composers undertaken by Gruber. In 2011, he recorded works by Mendelssohn and Schumann; the Mendelssohn recording was released last summer, and the Schumann recording is in final editing. Flutist Christine Gustafson will take part in a new music festival in May and June in Goldsboro,
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coaching will be available in jazz performance techniques as well. Choral Camp, June 24-29, for grades 7-12. Andrew Crane, director of the camp, says this year’s program will give participants an opportunity to enhance their choral singing skills, with instruction aimed at strengthening vocal skills, music reading and aural perception of music. Private voice or piano lessons also will be available. Drama Camp, Aug. 6-10, will again be divided into three sections for ages 5-10, 11-13 and 14-18. The final showcase program is scheduled Aug. 10, 6-7 p.m. North Carolina Suzuki Institute, July 8-13, traditional student institute.
under the direction of Dr. Jeremy Thompson, who has come to North Carolina from McGill University in Canada. The festival will focus on works by 19th and early 20th century French composers. Later in the summer, she will collaborate with Boston composer Elena Ruehr on a piece for flute and piano, which is to be given its premier at ECU before the end of the year.