Yana A. Lowry, Musicology
| Office Location: | 011 Biddle Music Building |
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- Education:
Bachelor of Music University of North Carolina at Greensboro (summa cum laude) 2008 Bachelor of Arts Univeristy of North Carolina at Greensboro 2008
- Specialties:
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Musicology
Performance
- Areas of Interest:
- Use of folk music in art music by Eastern European composers
Nationalism in the music of Eastern Europe
Mass song in early Soviet period
Use of music in fiction
Language and Music
Baroque flute and historical performance
Flute works by Soviet Composers
- Duties:
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, fall 2009: Bryan Gilliam, MUS 157 (MUS HST III: After 1850)
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Student Excelence Award, UNC Greensboro, May, 2008
- Katherine Robinson Everett History Award, UNC Greensboro, May, 2007
- Selected Grant Support
- James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University.
Performance
- Duke New Music Ensemble, 2008-present
- Honors Lecture-Recital, UNC Greensboro, 2008: "Soviet Flute Music in early 1960s: its Background and Guide to Performance"
- Winner, UNC Greensboro Concerto Competition: Jacques Ibert's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, 2007
- Finalist, Lagrange Symphony Orchestra Competition, 2007
- Flautist, Greensboro Opera Company, Greensboro, NC, 2007
- Performance based scholarship, UNC Greensboro, 2004-2008
- Winner, National Young Artist Competition, Kazakhstan, 1998
- Prize, Best Performance of Music by Kazakh Composers, 2008
- Solo Recitals, UNC Greensboro, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008