Performer Details
Performer Bio Synopsis
Founded in the fall of 2024, CORolina is a quartet comprised of four horn
professors across North Carolina. Travis Bennett (Western Carolina
University), Dakota Corbliss (Appalachian State University), Abigail Pack
(University of North Carolina-Greensboro), and Maria Serkin (University of
North Carolina School of the Arts) enjoy performing all varieties of the
repertoire, including new imaginations of familiar tunes, standard repertoire, music by underrepresented composers and new commissions. The group enjoys performing and teaching across the region to
aspiring chamber musicians, horn players and to the music community at large. CORolina has been featured in recital at multiple universities, the Southeast Regional Horn Conference, the International Horn Symposium, and are excited to be guest performers at the International Women's Brass Conference (2027).
CORolina Horn Quartet
Conductor's Bio
Dr. Abigail Pack, Professor of Horn at University of NC – Greensboro since 2008, native of Roanoke, Virginia, holds degrees from East Carolina University (BMA – Music Education), University of Iowa (MM – Performance), and University of Wisconsin-Madison (DMA – Performance and Pedagogy) where she was a Bolz Teaching Fellow. She has held faculty positions at James Madison University (2001 – 2008), Knox College in Galesburg, IL (1994 – 1996), Western State College in Gunnison, CO (1996 – 1998).
Dr. Pack has performed with the Barton Symphony Orchestra, Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Wintergreen Summer Music Festival Orchestra, the Southwest Chamber Orchestra and the internationally esteemed Monarch Brass. She currently performs with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Greensboro Opera, Opera Roanoke, Amici Musicorum, and has performed with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, Greensboro Symphony, Winston Salem Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, and the North Carolina Brass Band. She is also a founding member of the System-5 Brass Quintet. Other venues have included performances with the Iowa Brass Quintet, Western Slope Brass Band, Massanutten Brass Band and the Southeast Chamber Brass.
Recent performance and presentation highlights include national and international clinics, presentations, and performances such as the annual Southeast Horn Conference, the Western International Band Conference, and as a regular clinician for the American Band College in the Pacific Northwest in Oregon and Washington. Other performances and presentations include the National Flute Association (Washington D.C. with the Montpelier Winds), several International Horn Symposiums (University of Montreal, the University of Cape Town, South Africa, University of Alabama, and Ithaca College), the International Midwest Band and Orchestra Conference (Chicago 2003, 2008, 2022, 2025), the Kennedy Center of The Performing Arts (Washington), the International Women’s Brass Conference (2012, 2025) and the International Double Reed Conference (Athens, GA). She can be heard on the Centaur Record label and found at www.thehornprofessor.com
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