The Department of Music presents a Faculty & Friends Concert featuring the Charlotte Strings Collective.

The Charlotte Strings Collective is composed of students, faculty, and alumni from UNC Charlotte, Davidson College, and Winthrop University; students and alumni from Northwest School of the Arts; members of the Charlotte Symphony; local orchestra directors; freelance musicians; private string teachers; and public school music educators.

The group came together virtually in the Summer of 2020 as a musical affirmation that Black Lives Matter. Since then they have performed at places and events such as the College Music Society National Conference, the American String Teachers Association National Conference, the North Carolina Music Educators Association Conference, the Jazz Room in Charlotte, UNC Charlotte, Winthrop University, Bridging Musical Worlds (a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), I am Queen in collaboration with the Charlotte Symphony, the Tosco Music Party, as an opening act for the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the Charlotte SHOUT Festival, the City of Charlotte's summer concert series at Five Points Plaza, the Community Building Initiative annual breakfast, and at the Black Notes Festival in Charlotte.

This concert is free to everyone.

PROGRAM
Symphony in G Major by Joseph Bologne
Visions of Tomorrow and Echoes of Valor by Adrian Gordon
Lunar Songs by Jessie Montgomery (featuring soprano Sequina DuBose)