BIO
BIO
BIO
BIO
Dr. Bill Bares
Musician - Educator - Scholar - Promoter
PRESS
Radio Appearances
Jazz in Asheville
UNC Asheville Vinyl Listening Party: “Sing Me a Song of Songmy”
with Dr. Bill Bares, UNCA Faculty (Oct 26, 2021)
"Virtual Concert on April 11 Benefits Area Music Students.”
(Laurel of Asheville, April, 2021),
Waters and Harvey Show, “A New Theme,” (July 9, 2021)
"Acoustic Asheville: The Core" (MountainXpress, Aug 31, 2019)
”Best of WNC 2017: The Core: Best Jazz Band)” (MountainXpress, Aug 7, 2019)
“UNCA Pays Tribute to ECM Records at White Horse” (MountainXpress, May 9, 2019)
"Lecture on Jazz Improvisation by Bill Bares – Reverence, Race and Rhetoric" (UNC Asheville, Feb 26, 2019).
"Bill Bares Launches New Jazz Series on March 1st" (MountainXpress, Feb 20, 2017))
“Bill Bares CD Release to Feature Asheville Art Trio” (Sept 30, 2016)
“Key of Bares” (Bold Life, Mar 2015)
“Birth of the Cool” (CVNC: An Online Arts Journal in North Carolina, Feb 9, 2014)
“Big Band Theory” (Mountain Xpress, Aug 28, 2013)
Featured artist, “Asheville Jazz Unlimited” (MAIN FM 103.7, Aug 14, 2013)
”Best of WNC 2013 (Hard Bop Explosion: Best Jazz Band)”
(Mountain Xpress, Aug 7, 2013)
“Sunday Jazz Showcase at Isis” (Laurel of Asheville web exclusive; Nov 2013)
“Jazz Profile: Bill Bares” (Rapid River Magazine, May 2013)
“Golden Age” (Mountain Xpress, March 5, 2013)
“On an Upward Swing” (UNCA Magazine Feature; March 2013)
“Rhapsody in Blue” (Take 5 Hot Picks, April 13, 2012)
UNCA Big Band Featuring Cory Pesaturo (Asheville Citizen Times, Feb 11, 2012)
UNCA Radiohead Big Band Concert (Asheville Citizen Times, Oct 15, 2011)
Experimental / Environmental Music
"Endless Field Residency at UNC Asheville,” (Ramsey Library Podcast/Videocast, Oct 4-5, 2019)
“UNCA Pays Tribute to ECM Records at White Horse, May 22” (MountainXpress, May 9, 2019)
“Jonathon Keats in Concert: Copernican Music Composition” (UNC Asheville Press Release).
Sneak Peek, Copernican Composition with Jonathon Keats (UNC Asheville,
"“Concert Aimed at the Cosmos Debuts at UNCA” (Black Mountain News)
“Act Locally, Think?” (UNC Asheville Press Release, April 18, 2018).
“Jonathon Keats Unveils his Universal Orchestra” (Blue Banner, April 25, 2018)
“Free Guided Lecture and Listening Session with Bill Bares at UNC Asheville” (MountainXpress, Jan 18. 2017).
“UNC Asheville Assistant Professor Tunes into Music and the Environment” (Blue Banner, Feb 22, 2016).
“Ecomusicologies 2014 and the Sounds of Plants,” Sustainable Music Blog, November 30, 2014.
“Ecomusicologies 2014 and Birdsong,” Sustainable Music Blog, November 24, 2014.
Ecomusics 2014 Brings World-Renowned Musicians and Scholars to UNC Asheville, Oct. 2–6 (UNCA Press, Fall 2014)
The Nature of Music – Student Ecomusic Ensemble Readies for Role in Conference (UNCA Press, Fall 2014)
UNC Asheville Greenfest: Greenway Opening, Music, More (Asheville Citizen-Times, Fall 2014)
Details on UNC Asheville’s biggest-ever Greenfest (Mountain Xpress, Fall 2014)
“Ecomusic: Environmental Science and Music” (UNCAsheville Magazine, Fall 2014)
Radio Interview, Ecomusicologies Conference (WCQS, Oct 1, 2014)