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Cole, UNCSA Music Dean, Named Interim Chancellor

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber
Published July 11, 2019 at 10:14 PM EDT
Brian Cole has been named interim chancellor for UNCSA. Photo courtesy of UNCSA.

 

UNC System leaders have named Brian Cole as new interim chancellor for the School of the Arts.

Cole has been the dean of the university's School of Music for the last three years, overseeing operations programs on the graduate, undergraduate, and high school levels.  

He has conducted orchestras and opera both in the United States and internationally. At the School of the Arts, he's been executive director of two pre-professional graduate institutes — the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute and the Chrysalis Chamber Music Institute.

He'll replace Lindsay Bierman, the chancellor for the last five years. Bierman announced in May that he'd be stepping down to become chief executive of UNC-TV Public Media North Carolina. 

Cole takes over at UNCSA August 1.
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Paul Garber
Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.
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