{"id":51589,"date":"2017-03-27T09:52:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/douglas-james\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T12:53:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:53:48","slug":"douglas-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/faces\/douglas-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas James"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2017\/03\/Douglas_James_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52797 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2017\/03\/Douglas_James_small.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2017\/03\/Douglas_James_small-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2017\/03\/Douglas_James_small-300x300.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/400;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Emeritus of Guitar, Hayes School of Music, Appalachian State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1979<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Education:<\/strong><br>Doctor of Musical Arts, University of Arizona (1993)<br>Master of Music, UNC Greensboro (1983)<br>Bachelor of Creative Arts, UNC Charlotte (1979)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hometown:&nbsp;<\/strong>Charlotte, NC&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Douglas James has appeared in concert as a classical guitarist throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Mexico. He has been a featured guest artist at many music series, festivals, and notable venues, including New York&#8217;s Carnegie and Merkin Halls. He has won the top prize in the Arturo Toscanini Solo Guitar Competition (Italy) and twice been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Doug studied at UNC Charlotte, the arts curricla were interdisciplinary, and visual and performing arts shared space in Rowe Arts building. &#8220;The Bachelor of Creative Arts&nbsp;program as it was initially conceived offered students an enormous amount of freedom and self-direction,&#8221; he says.&#8221;This was already the path I was accustomed to, so it served me very well and reinforced those traits in me.&#8221; He fondly remembers&nbsp;creating music and modern dance performances with fellow student&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/faces\/hardin-minor\">Hardin Minor<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/faces\/hardin-minor\">.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pursuing his guitar studies at UNC Greensboro and the University of Arizona, Doug became an expert in&nbsp;early 19th-century \u201cRomantic\u201d guitar and its performance practice. He features 19th-century instruments in his performances of the Classical and Romantic literature and has recorded three critically acclaimed CDs for the Cala Vista label on authentic period instruments. Reviewing one album,&nbsp;<em>Classical Guitar<\/em>&nbsp;(England) wrote, &#8220;Douglas James clearly has a great deal of sympathy for this repertoire and a carefully worked out approach to its interpretation &#8230; everything is animated by concern for the life of the music on its own terms and in its own time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The close mentorship of his UNC Charlotte guitar teacher, Michael Moseley, profoundly shaped Doug&#8217;s&nbsp;musical path. &#8220;I would say that the personal attention students receive from faculty is most beneficial, and unusual for programs at such large institutions as UNC Charlotte.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doug has served on the Advisory Board and the Board of Trustees of the Guitar Foundation of America and&nbsp;directed&nbsp;the annual&nbsp;Appalachian GuitarFest at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, where he was&nbsp;professor of guitar. Doug retired from teaching at Appalachin in 20222. 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