Meet Costume Designer Alonzo V. Wilson from HBO’s Treme
At the Well Suited Opening Reception -Wear Your Beads!
Purchase Admission at the door or call us at 910.395.5999

Enjoy a performance by New Orleans native, Grammy winner and nominee Leon Kid Chocolate Brown. Curator Bradley Sumrall from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art will also attend the reception. Purchase tickets at the purchase link above, in person or by phone at (910)395.5999.

Be the first to view the exhibition with Wilmington native Alonzo V. Wilson, creator of the incredible costumes. Get an inside look from his personal perspective. Grammy award winner and nominee Leon Kid Chocolate Brown will perform. Bradley Sumrall from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art will also be attending the opening. Includes a drink ticket and New Orleans inspired appetizer. Reserve your tickets online, by phone or in person. $10 per member

ILLUSTRATED TALK AND WALKTHROUGH with Alonzo V. Wilson, costume designer and Bradley Sumrall, curator

Saturday May 18 2PM
CAM Members: Free, Students with valid ID: $5.00, Public: $10.00
PURCHASE ADMISSION at the door or call 395.5999

Costume designer and Wilmington native Alonzo Wilson and curator Bradley Sumrall, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA will give an brief illustrated overview of Treme the neighborhood, HBO’s critically acclaimed series of the same name, and the Mardi Gras Indians in the Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall. Followed by an exhibition walkthrough in the Hughes Wing.

MUSIC IN THE COURTYARD Series: Elijah’s Best, soul, R&B, rock, beach, jazz, blues and country

Thurs. June 6 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
CAM Members and Students: $5.00, Non-members: $10.00
PURCHASE ADMISSION

Elijah's Best 2012 summer series concert was great and memorable fun and they’re sure to top themselves with this return. A soul dance and concert band that pulls out all the stops showcasing a range of music that makes you tap your feet and want to get up and dance. Come enjoy an imaginative mix of music from Elijah's Best, led by Elijah Boney (keyboards, songwriter and music arranger) with Donald (Dino) Age, (bass guitar, vocals), Christopher L. Boney (bass), and Albert Gaines, Sr. (drummer and vocals).

Ensure you have a seat, purchase on CAM's website above, by phone or in person. Music held in CAM’s lovely Courtyard weather permitting, indoors if not. CAM’s café is open for Thursday evening meals and refreshments featuring a signature drink celebrating the Courtyard series.

MUSIC IN THE COURTYARD Series: Darryl Donnell Murrill and A Step Above

Thurs. July 11 (NOTE: special 2nd Thurs. date) 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
CAM Members and Students: $5.00, Non-members: $10.00
PURCHASE ADMISSION

Darryl Donnell Murrill has the wherewithal to make the saxophone sing with a unique flare rooted in gospel with much jazz influence. He tantalizes with a saxophone sound described as smooth, yet soulful with melodic measures of syncopation, vibrato, and range of note selection. Darryl is a singer, producer, songwriter, plays more than five different instruments, and owner of Ablaze Sound Productions; recording studio.

Whether performing solo or with his group A Step Above, he endeavors to make music that enriches listeners spiritually and to present a positive, enjoyable music experience as they relax to the sounds of smooth jazz, old and new school rhythm and blues.

Ensure you have a seat, purchase on CAM's website above, by phone or in person. Music held in CAM’s lovely Courtyard weather permitting, indoors if not. CAM’s café is open for Thursday evening meals and refreshments featuring a signature drink celebrating the Courtyard series.

MUSIC IN THE COURTYARD Series: Whiskey Creek, bluegrass/Americana

Thurs. Aug. 1 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
CAM Members and Students: $5.00, Non-members: $10.00
PURCHASE ADMISSION

Whiskey Creek originated on the banks of the creek by the same name. The group plays a mix of bluegrass, Americana, and original songs infused with historical and contemporary themes. Featuring Deb Ross on fiddle, Dave Storniolo on bodhran (Irish drum), Rick Olsen on harmonica, Dargan Frierson on upright bass and guitar, and Philip Gerard on guitar, banjo, Dobro, and hammered dulcimer, Deb's fiddle and Dave's bodhran lend a Celtic air to many of their renditions, while Philip, Dargan, and Rick add three-part harmonies. Ensure you have a seat, purchase on CAM's website www.cameronartmuseum.com, by phone or in person. Music held in CAM’s lovely Courtyard weather permitting, indoors if not. CAM’s café is open for Thursday evening meals and refreshments featuring a signature drink celebrating the Courtyard series. See a solo video performance of Philip Gerard's newest song, "Under the Hatteras Light," at Kenan Hall online Here.

Pro Musica: New Music Series

Cameron Art Museum presents Pro Musica, a new concert series celebrating the works of living composers and other new music from the 20th And 21st centuries. Our inaugural concert will feature the Sonata for Violin and Piano, composed by Steven Errante, UNC Wilmington Professor of Music and Conductor of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra. Preceding the performance Dr. Errante will discuss his music and composing in the 21st century. The program will include works by two other leading American composers, Dances in the Madhouse, by David Leisner and Incantation, by Augusta Read Thomas along with works by Astor Piazzolla and Joaquin Turina. The performers include Danijela Zezelj-Gualdi, violin, Paolo Gauldi, piano and Robert Nathanson, guitar.

ABOUT THE MUSICIANS:

Most Wilmingtonians know Dr. Steven Errante as the conductor of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra since he has led them since 1986. He is also the founding conductor of the Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra and teaches theory, composition, and conducting at UNC Wilmington. His compositions and arrangements have been recorded by the Wilmington, North Carolina and London Symphonies. He has written numerous commissioned pieces such as Battleship North Carolina March and Festival Dances. He was chosen as the first composer commissioned for the Vanguard Premieres series sponsored by the Vanguard Voices choir in Michigan and recently was asked on the tenth anniversary of that commission to rescore it for choir and full symphony orchestra.

Italian pianist Paolo André Gualdi has played recitals in Italy, Brazil and the United States, both as a soloist and chamber musician. He has appeared with many orchestras including the Atlanta Philharmonic, Georgia Philharmonic, DeKalb Symphony, Wilmington Symphony, Florence Symphony, and the Universidade de Caxias do Sul Symphony Orchestra. He has given numerous recitals for music organizations such as A.Gi.Mus., Accademia Ori, and Accademia Amadeus (Italy); Universidade Federal do Rio Grande so Sul and Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Brazil); International Piano Series of Charleston, American Liszt Society, Cincinnati Conservatory, and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival (U.S.A.). Gualdi regularly gives master classes and lectures nationally and internationally at universities, conservatories and other music institutes, including New Mexico State University and College of Charleston (U.S.A.); the federal universities of Porto Alegre, Santa Maria and Pelotas (Brazil); Cittadella della Musica (Italy), and others. He has served on the faculties of Elon University, Emmanuel College, Oxford College of Emory University, and is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Francis Marion University.

Dr. Danijela Žeželj-Gualdi, violinist and violist, was born in Croatia where she began to study violin in 1984. By eleven, she had already become the youngest member of the Zadar Chamber Orchestra. Together with this orchestra she performed at important Croatian venues and festivals such as Musical Evenings in St. Donat and the Zagreb Academy of Music. As an active performer she played both the violin and viola extensively in solo recitals throughout the U.S and Eastern Europe. She has been featured as a concerto soloist with the DeKalb Symphony, Wilmington Symphony, Tallis Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Tennessee and the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Žeželj-Gualdi is also a passionate interpreter of contemporary music. In 2004 she was a featured soloist in the Composer in Residence concerts at Hodgson Hall, Athens (with renowned contemporary composers Augusta Reed Thomas and James MacMillan.)

Her involvement as an orchestral musician has been varied and diverse. As a member of the Carnegie Mellon University Symphony Orchestra she performed at Carnegie Hall in 2001. Recently she has served as both assistant concertmaster and also principal viola in the UGA Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with the Symphony Orchestra PRO ARTE from Vienna, Novi Sad Opera Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Augusta Symphony Orchestra, Gwinett Ballet Orchestra, Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of University of Gratz, Symphonietta Belgrade, and Voivodina Youth Orchestra. Prior to current position as a Violin and Viola Instructor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Dr. Danijela Žeželj-Gualdi served on the faculty of Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta, GA.

Robert Nathanson is an active recitalist, orchestral soloist, and ensemble performer giving concerts throughout the United States, as well as performances in Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, Austria, Slovenia, and Canada. A champion of new music, Robert has commissioned, premiered, and recorded works by David Kechley, William Neil, Jing Jing Luo, Ernesto García de León, Leo Brouwer, John Anthony Lennon, Ernesto Cordero, Marilyn Shrude, Shih-Hui Chen and others. He has also been touring as part of the Ryoanji Duo (saxophone and guitar) and Duo Sureño (soprano and guitar) since 1992 and 1999 respectively. He has recently released Images, a CD recording of all new music for guitar and saxophone, and At the Edge of the Body’s Night, a CD of new music for soprano, saxophone and guitar. A Liscio Recording artist, Robert has also recorded two solo CDs entitled New York Sally and Exposure. Recent performances include as soloist with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra (2010), the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra (2011) and with Frank Bongiorno, saxophone (the Ryoanji Duo), at the 2012 World Saxophone Congress at St. Andrews University in Scotland , the 2009 Guitar Foundation of America Convention and the 2009 Radford University International Guitar Festival. In June 2009, Robert hosted and produced the second annual New Music Festival at UNCW performing as part of the Ryoanji Duo and Duo Sureño with Nancy King. Robert has gained particular recognition in the Southeast as a past participant of both the Southern Arts Federation and North Carolina Touring Programs. Robert is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.