UNC Asheville’s Music Department will wrap up its spring concert season with seven performances in April.

The UNC Asheville Chamber Orchestra will perform two concerts on Sunday, April 1, in Lipinsky Auditorium. The first concert will be held at 4 p.m. This show will include traditional symphony music by Grieg, Haydn and Schubert. Admission is $5 at the door. A second performance, featuring Terry Riley's trance-like "In C," will begin at 5 p.m. The minimalist, one-hour piece first performed in the 1960s will also feature the projection of fractal images. Admission is free.

UNC Asheville's Concert Band and Percussion Ensemble will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in Lipinsky Auditorium. Performances will range from traditional marches and symphonies to African melodies and contemporary rock. During this concert, the University Singers and the Percussion Ensemble will premiere "The Stolen Child," an original composition adapted from a W.B. Yeats poem. UNC Asheville music faculty member Matthew Richmond composed the piece specifically for the two groups. Admission is $5 at the door.

The Fourth Annual Invitational Jazz Festival will be held Saturday, April 14, in Lipinsky Auditorium. High school jazz ensembles will perform for clinicians throughout the day. The UNC Asheville Jazz Lab Band will then take center stage at 5 p.m. with special guest saxophonist Roger Pemberton. Admission is $5 at the door.

A variety of UNC Asheville jazz combos will present vocal and instrumental selections at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Lipinsky Auditorium. Students will perform under the direction of UNC Asheville music faculty members David Wilken and Rich Willey. Selections include works by Herbie Hancock, Hank Monley, and Rogers and Hammerstein.

The UNC Asheville University Singers, String Quartet and Guitar Ensemble will perform at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in the Basilica of St. Lawrence, 97 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. Music faculty Melodie Galloway, Inez Redman and David Stevenson will direct the program. A donation is requested at the door.

The Blue Ridge Orchestra will present a concert of classical orchestral music at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in Lipinsky Auditorium. The program will feature UNC Asheville Concerto Competition winner Ginger Kowal in a Mozart violin concerto. Other performances include pieces by Brahms and Rimsky-Korsakov. General Admission is $10, $7 for students and senior citizens, and $5 for children at the door.

UNC Asheville's Concert Band, University Singers, Symphony, String Quartet and Flute Choir will wrap up the season with a performance at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 29, in Lipinsky Auditorium. Music faculty John Entzi, Melodie Galloway, Wayne Kirby, Judi Lampert and Inez Redman will direct the program.

For more information, call UNC Asheville’s Music Department at 828/251-6432.