School of Music alumna wins Grammy Award
An alumna of the School of Music at UNCSA has won a Grammy Award as part of the creative team that won in the best musical theater album category. The 66th annual Grammy Awards were announced Sunday, Feb. 4.
Alumna Mary-Mitchell Campbell (H.S. Music '92) won her first Grammy for her role as a producer on “Some Like It Hot.” Campbell was also the music supervisor for the production. Campbell received an honorary doctorate from UNCSA when she returned to speak at commencement in 2019.
Mary Mitchell-Campbell
Voice alumna Joanna Gates (B.M. Music '04) was nominated as a member of The Crossing, a professional chamber choir, in the best choral performance category for the album “Carols After a Plague,” conducted by Donald Nally. Gates has previously won three Grammy Awards with The Crossing, in 2018, 2019 and 2023.
About the School of Music
The School of Music at UNCSA combines intensive individual study under artist faculty with a variety of performance opportunities, presenting more than 200 recitals, concerts and opera productions each year, including collaborations with other UNCSA arts schools and a guest artist series. In addition to its undergraduate and graduate programs, it houses one of the nation’s only four-year residential arts high school programs. The School of Music is also home to the renowned A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute, a tuition-free, graduate-level professional training ground for exceptional young vocalists.
UNCSA School of Music alumni have gone on to perform with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Nero String Quartet, Giannini Brass, Camel City Jazz Orchestra, and Metropolitan and Chicago Lyric operas, among many others. Prominent alumni include: violist Richard O'Neill, member of the renowned Takács Quartet; acclaimed tenor René Barbera; Broadway veteran T. Oliver Reid; Lachezar Kostov, associate principal cello of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; New York Philharmonic violinist Lisa Kim; violinist and Beyoncé collaborator Jessica McJunkins; Elizabeth Sobol, president and CEO of Saratoga Performing Arts Center; jazz vocalist and composer Becca Stevens; saxophonist Eddie Barbash, formerly with the house band for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”; Nia Imani Franklin, composer and Miss America 2019; and the Dan River Girls (Fiona Burdette, cello; Ellie Burdette, double bass and voice; and Jessie Burdette, viola).
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February 05, 2024