First-year UNC student and Musical Empowerment teacher Lauren Ragsdale and her vocal student D’Arlene always begin their weekly lessons with warm-ups. Lauren tells D’Arlene to stretch, roll her neck and vibrate her lips. Room 208 of the United Methodist Church soon fills with the sound of chromatic pia...

Sounds of student performances filled the University United Methodist Church on Saturday, April 7, 2018 at the Musical Empowerment at UNC-Chapel Hill Spring Recital. Over 80 teacher-student pairs participated, representing a variety of ages and instruments. Students and teachers performed for family, f...

Teacher-Student Spotlight

Lindsay Player serves in an integral position for Musical Empowerment as one of the leading organizations at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but teaching is her priority. It’s where it all started for her. As a senior, Lindsay has been teaching since her freshman y...

Teacher-Student Spotlight

“Wait, you’re going to be doing what?” UNC-Chapel Hill senior Ryan turns and asks his student, Cesar. Cesar just announced he’ll be the lead piano player for a production of The Lion King at St. Thomas More Catholic School this winter, which Ryan said came as a delightful surpr...

Watch the video below from StoryDriven's "Reel Durham" campaign on one of our students, Melodie Tun. Check out the full blog post and video here.

**To read Daphne and Sarah, Episode I: The Descendants, click here.**

It was spring 2017 and plague had struck Chapel Hill. The unpredictable weather changes left people unsure of their wardrobe choices, their hearts weary, and their immune systems defeated.  

Perhaps that’s a bit dramatic, but flu seaso...