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Departinent of <br /> Music <br /> Brent Wissick <br /> Professor, Area Head of String <br /> K Office: 102 Person Hall <br /> ® Eniail: bswissic@ email.unc.edu <br /> w Phone: gig-962-3-/63 <br /> Brent Wissick is the Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Term Professor in the Depart- ")f Music <br /> UNC-CH, where he has taught cello, viola da gamba and chamber music since 1982. A mere i : f Ensernl <br /> Chanterelle and principal cellist of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, he is also a frequent guE­ cl 1-1 imeric <br /> Bach Soloists, Folger Consort, Boston Early Music, Festival, Concert Royal, Dallas Bach Sr;. Vancom <br /> Early Music Festival and Collegio di Musica Sacra in Poland. With these ensembles has �;­ded for t <br /> Centaux, -Mbany, Koch, Radio Bremen, Bard and Duly labels as well as in the so-undti-ack foi Touchsto <br /> film Casanova- His online video article, "The Cello Music of Bononcini" can be viewed in fl aer-review <br /> JouriialQfSez)eiiteeiztlz-(7epittiry k1usio and several of his teaching videos are posted on the wc.-[i�ih of the Vi( <br /> da Gamba Society of America. He served as president of that society from 2000 through 2o(-, 11 chaired <br /> international Pan-Pacific Gamba Gathering in Hawaii clh-u-ing the Summer Of 200-7. <br /> In addition to teaching cello at UNC, he directs its Cello Choir, Viol Consort and Baroque F ale lie a] <br /> teaches classes in Historical Performance Practices and String Methods for Music Education_ 1r 5nts as w <br /> as a First-Year Seminar in- the Phvsics of Music with Laurie McNeil, chair of the Phy,-ics Dei !: ent. He b <br /> served as mentor of flie Kenan Music Scholars and is chair of the String Area. <br /> His current research and performance interests include the cello music of Benjamin Britt,-Z-,, :, opin's Ce <br /> Music on period instruments and French Gamba Music. Agraduate of the Crane School of],11: -, atPotsdt <br /> College,in n'and of Penn State (MNLl cello-. ig�78'1,he also studied with John Hsu at Cornell U, -i".r and i% <br /> an NEH Fellow at Harvard in the ic)a,- Beethoven Quartet Seminar. He has tauijit at liege of <br /> Scholastica in Minnesota (1-078-82), Chautauqua Institution and the igg- Aston Magna Acacl, : ,t Yale; a] <br /> has presented lectures, master classes and recitals at schools, colleges and workshops -it Nor <br /> Ameri.ca,Europe,Asia and Australia. <br /> Visit the Strings Area page <br /> UNC Consort of Viols <br />