North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has appointed Jovan Alexander Wilson interim director of University Bands, effective July 22, 2022.

The North Carolina Central University (NCCU) Teaching Artist Certificate Program has received a statewide initiative grant from the North Carolina Arts Council.

Behind every successful creative idea, invention or product is a lawyer working to obtain a patent or trademark. Some of the greatest ideas and items are protected by intellectual property law in some way.

NCCU Department of Music student Jawan Davidson was awarded a $10,000 scholarship by the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective and Amazon Music’s Your Future Is Now initiative.

NCCU’s Office of Alumni Relations hosted the “Lunchtime Jazz” on April 9, 2021, featuring music performed by students in the NCCU Jazz Studies Program.

Members of University Choir and Music Professor Roberta Laws created the voting incentive #MakeThemHearYou.

NCCU Jazz Studies Assistant Professor Lenora Helm Hammonds has released an album featuring NCCU students, faculty and alumni.

North Carolina Central University is saddened by the loss of Mr. Ellis Marsalis Jr., an iconic musician, pianist and the patriarch of the Marsalis family, who passed away on April 1, 2020.

The NCCU Big Band Jazz Ensemble will participate in its annual Valentine’s Day performance alongside musicians from Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The NCCU Jazz Ensemble will perform at Lincoln Center in New York City during the debut of the Jack Rudin Jazz Championship, a two-day invitational band competition.