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featuring Chapel Hill and Carrboro musicians, music teachers, past and present students.

This blog page is for anyone with musical connections to Chapel Hill and Carrboro, to share their reminiscences of their time here.  Please use the contact page to send your story (with dates), and it will be posted on this page.

Dr. Mary Frances Boyce - Violinist, violist, musicologist

9/7/2013

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Mary Frances Boyce, has a BA in music from the University of Rochester, an MA in music theory from the Eastman School of Music and a Ph.D. in musicology from UNC-Chapel Hill. She has performed on baroque violin and viola with Musica della Collina in Chapel Hill, the Carolina Baroque, the North Carolina Bach Festival, UNC Baroque Ensemble and with many other groups in North Carolina and Nebraska. 
Dr Boyce has taught violin, viola, and cello privately in Chapel Hill for 48 years. She has been one of the directors of the Raspberry Ridge String Camp for 21 years and taught at the North Carolina Suzuki Institute for many years. She was an adjunct instructor at Methodist University where she taught music history, music theory, string techniques and in the honors program. She directed the Methodist University Chamber Ensemble. She also taught strings at Trinity School. She formerly served on the boards of Music for Children and the Piedmont Youth Orchestra  She currently teaches private lessons in violin, viola, cello. She is active in the Chapel Hill Bible Church, and is on the Advisory Board of Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill.



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Jane Brinkley
2/4/2018 02:21:29 pm

Mary Fran, is anyone still sponsoring a string sheet music giveaway, the way you and Nancy B. used to do? Due to illness I have not played since late 2016, and won't again, so would like to mine on to people who would use it.
Jane B.

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