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DocuSign Envelope ID:6368FECC-3C91-49C7-983E-AA65A76D339E <br /> Ucp3r nent of <br /> MUS1, <br /> Brent Wissick <br /> Professor, Area Head of tring <br /> to Offices lot Person Hall <br /> Email= bswissic @i rmalLunc.edu <br /> es'Phones 919-962-3763 <br /> Brent Wissick is the Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Term Professor in the Department of Music <br /> UNC-CH, where he has taught cello, viola da ganiba and chamber music since 1982. A member of Enseml <br /> Chanterelle and principal cellist of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, he is also a frequent guest with Americ. <br /> Bach Soloists, Folger Consort, Boston Early Music Festival, Concert royal, Dallas Bach Society, Vancou,� <br /> Early Music Festival and Collegio di Mus%ca Sacra in Poland. With these ensembles has recorded for t <br /> Centaur, Albany, Koch, Radio Bremen, Bard and Dux labels as well as in the soundtrack for the Touchsto <br /> film Casanova. His online video article, "The Cello Music of Bononcini" can be viewed in the peer-review <br /> Journal cif Seventeenth epturry Music and several of his teaching videos are posted on the website of the Vi( <br /> da Gamba. Society of America. He served as president of that society from 2000 through 2004 and chaired <br /> international Pan-Pacific Gamba Gathering in Hawaii during the summer of 20071 <br /> In addition to teaching cello at UNC, he directs its Cello Choir, Viol Consort and Baroque Ensemble; he al <br /> teaches classes in Historical Performance Practices and String Methods for Music Education Students as w <br /> as a First-Year Seminar in the Physics of Music with Laurie McNeil, chair of the Physics Department. He 11 <br /> served as mentor of the Kenan Music Scholars and is chair of the String Area. <br /> His current research and performance interests include the cello music of Benjamin Britten, Chopin's Ce: <br /> Music on period instruments and French Gamba Music. A graduate of the Crane Sflhool of Music at Pots& <br /> College in NY and of Penn State (MM cello,1978),he also studied with John Hsu at Cornell university and A <br /> an NEH Fellow at Harvard in the 1993 Beethoven Quartet Seminar. He has taught at the College of <br /> Scholastica in Mirvaesota (1978-82), Chautauqua Institution and the 1997 Aston Magna Academy at Yale; a <br /> has presented lectures, master classes and recitals at schools, colleges and workshops throughout Nor <br /> America,Europe,Asia and Australia. <br /> Visit the Strings Area gage <br /> UNC Consort of Viols <br />