Get to Know ...
Name- Diane Bolden-Taylor
- Title
- Professor of Music
- College
- Performing and Visual Arts
- Program
- Music Program
- Years Teaching
- 16 (all at UNC)
- Degrees
- B.M. in Music Education at Millkin University,
- M.M. in Vocal Performance at Indiana University,
- DMA in Doctor of Musical Arts at University of Texas at Austim
- Areas of expertise/Research interests
- Researching classical music of black composers.
- You might not know that I
- walk my dog every morning.
- When I let my hair down
- I can find be found reading. I love any voice book I can get my hands on.
- My welcome-to-teaching moment that I’ll never forget was
- Once during my first year of teaching voice lessons I asked a student if she could play the piano well enough to play the melody line of the songs she was learning. She emphatically said “Yes, of course. I have been playing the piano for seven years!” She didn’t realize I was going to ask her to sit down at the piano and actually sight-read a melody line. Well she couldn’t even find middle “C” on the piano. I have learned not be believe everything the students tell me.
- I chose UNC because
- one of my friends and colleagues from Europe told me about their experience and how beautiful Colorado is, and how the students get a lot of personal contact with professors, I love the idea of a more intimate college setting.
- Confucius would say my teaching philosophy is
- You may not see the light at the end of the tunnel but it is there!
- If I’m not teaching a class, or in my office, you can find me on campus at
- the U.C. in the lounge.
- I cannot live without
- my family.
- If I hadn’t become a teacher, I would be a nurse.
- Yearbook quote (advice you like to give to students or best advice you’ve received) “It’s not over until it’s over. If you fail today, that doesn’t mean it’s forever.” And “If you knew everything, you wouldn’t have to come to college.”
- Links
- Faculty Web page
- Professional Activity