Students

Nine UNT-affiliated composers were selected to participate in the SEAMUS 2012 Conference at Lawrence University, 9-11 February 2012: student composers L. Scott Price and Greg Dixon; alumni composers Ethan Hayden, Chapman Welch, Mikel Kuehn, Daniel Zajicek, Eli Fieldsteel, and Elainie Lillios; and former faculty member Butch Rovan.

Doctoral composer Mark Oliveiro's composition for Soprano and Piano, Il Garrot, was awarded an Honorable Mention Citation in the International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2011, sponsored by the National Academy of Music.

The following North Texas composers will be participating in Electronic Music Midwest at Kansas City Kansas Community College (30 September - 1 October 2011): students Jonathan Jackson, Greg Dixon, and Dan Tramte; and alumnae Da Jeong Choi and Elainie Lillios.

Mei Votum (My Prayer, 2008) for solo piano by doctoral composer Da Jeong Choi will be performed by Young Lang Kim (Chair and piano faculty at Myongji University) at the International Conference 2011 of the College Music Society in Seoul and Gyeongju, South Korea (3-10 July 2011).

The percussion ensemble arrangement of Lift up My Hands to You (2004) by doctoral composer Da Jeong Choi was performed by Delaware Percussion Ensemble at the University of Delaware, (Newark, DE) on 11 April 2011. Choi's Explorations of a Drum (2003; rev. 2009) for solo snare drum was performed by Greg Neblett at Morehead State University (Morehead, KY) on 17 April 2011; this work has also been included on the suggested performance lists of PAS Italy-International Competition (2-14 September 2011).

Doctoral composer Da Jeong Choi's Mons Montis (Great Rock, rev. 2010) for multi-percussion solo and 2-channel electroacoustic music was presented at Electro-acoustic Music on Radio New Zealand Concert (Wellington, New Zealand) on 17 December 2010.

Doctoral composer Greg Dixon's stereo electroacoustic work, Disconnect, was performed at Sonic Vigil on 17 July 2010 at St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral (Cork, Ireland) and at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival on 14 October 2010 at Lewis College (Romeoville, IL). Another stereo electroacoustic work, You Station, was performed at EMTWO on 16 November 2010 at Ball State University (Muncie, IN).

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community, in collaboration with the Australasian Computer Music Association (ACMA) has announced the results of the 11th edition of JTTP (Jeu de Temps/Time Play). This year's winners included doctoral composer Mark Oliveiro in the Australasian section (for In Maluga) and 2010 Bourges resident artist Émilie Payeur in the Canadian section (for Triptyque). The 2010 edition of this project was open to young and/or emerging sound artists/composers from (or living in) either Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.

Several works by doctoral composer Da Jeong Choi were performed and premiered on a European Concert Tour in 2010. The program included Prelude (2002), Chasing Invisible Light (2009), Pontis (2007), improvvisazione con le mani (2010 world premiere), Mei Votum (2008), and Dear My Friend (2002), performed at Spazio Paraggi Gallery in Treviso, Italy (2 July 2010), at Berlin Jeil Church in Berlin, Germany (4 July 2010), at Eglise Presbyterienne Coreenne du Pont-Neuf in Paris, France (11 July 2010). Works were performed by guitarist Roberto Benetton, cellist Hun Sun Chae, bassoonist Sung Chan Hong, pianist Young Mi Seo, pianist Agnese Toniutti, and choreographer/pianist/vocalist Da Jeong Choi.