Inter Alia: North Carolina Forests
Inter Alia: North Carolina Forests
Artist Residency and Concert
October 20-25, 2025
Performance: Friday, October 24
Brendle Recital Hall, 7:30pm
In an unprecedented collaboration, the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra and the Wake Forest University Symphony Orchestra perform together in a free side-by-side concert at Brendle Recital Hall on the campus of Wake Forest University.
Conducted by J. Aaron Hardwick, the program features Jean Sibelius’s radiant Symphony No. 3 in C Major and the world premiere of “Inter Alia,” a new work for soprano and orchestra by composer David Kirkland Garner. Based on a poem of the same name by Ishion Hutchinson — a 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize finalist — the piece explores tree species native to Western North Carolina, including on the campus of Wake “Forest.” Soprano Jodi Burns from the UNCSA School of Music faculty joins the orchestras in this unique collaboration, showcasing students from both institutions in a powerful celebration of nature, music and creative partnership.
Schedule of events
Wednesday: October 22, 2025
Outdoor Poetry Reading with Ishion Hutchinson
2pm – 3pm, Scales Breezeway, Scales Fine Arts Center
Rain Location: Hanes Gallery, Scales Fine Arts Center
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Composition Masterclass with David Kirkland Garner
3:45pm – 5:15pm, SAAB 101, University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Thursday: October 23, 2025
Movement Ecologies (ENV 303-A) with Ishion Hutchinson and David Kirkland-Garner
9:30am – 10:45am, Wellbeing Center – Room B203, Wake Forest University
Friday: October 24, 2025
Open House Event with Ishion Hutchinson & David Kirkland-Garner
12:30pm – 2pm, Carswell Hall, Room 212, Wake Forest University
Bookmarks Book Sale
Before & After the Concert
Pre-Concert Lecture with Dr. Lucy Alford:
“Singing as We Circle: Branch, Blossom, and Bond in Inter Alia”
6:45pm-7:15pm, M201, Scales Fine Arts Center
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Inter Alia: North Carolina Trees
Concert by WFU Symphony Orchestra + UNCSA Symphony Orchestra
7:30pm, Brendle Recital Hall – Wake Forest University
Featured artists:
Ishion Hutchinson
Poet
W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities,
Cornell University
David Kirkland Garner
Composer
Associate Professor,
University of South Carolina
Jodi Burns
Soprano
UNCSA School of Music
Project Partners:
- Wake Forest University
- University of North Carolina School of the Arts
- Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts
- Wake the Arts Center, Wake Forest University
- Bookmarks, Winston Salem, NC
- Department of Music, Wake Forest University
- Department of Environment & Sustainability Studies, Wake Forest University
- The Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability, Wake Forest University
- The Office of Sustainability, Wake Forest University
- The Humanities Institute, Wake Forest University
