Here, Heroes Wear Masks
Music students in the Voertman Concert Hall lobby reminding our community that the University of North Texas requests that everyone wear a face mask indoors to keep our campus community safe.
Music students in the Voertman Concert Hall lobby reminding our community that the University of North Texas requests that everyone wear a face mask indoors to keep our campus community safe.
Jennifer Betzer, (DMA ’20) has been appointed as instructor for the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble, one of the premier harp ensembles in the United States and is located in Atlanta, Georgia.
Three university choral programs led by University of North Texas Choral Studies alumni have been invited to perform for the 2022 National Collegiate Choral Organization conference. Brian A. Schmidt is Associate Professor of Choral Music and Director of Graduate Choral Studies at Baylor University School of Music, Karen Kenaston-French is Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities at The University of Texas at Arlington - Department of Music and Cameron F. LaBarr is Director of Choral Studies and Associate Professor at Missouri State University Music Department. https://ncco9.ncco-usa.org/cpv#wmu
Jeongmin Ha (BM '21) was named a finalist of the Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition 2021.
“’Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ at the Met, a watershed moment for American opera,” so says Michael Andor Brodeur in a review of the show's premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. "Billie, the mother of the Blow boys, sung in a show-stealing star turn by soprano Latonia Moore, who brought equal measures of grace and force to the role, and provided an emotional center of gravity that kept the family — and the opera — well-anchored."
Anna Jalkéus (Graduate Artist Certificate ’17) has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Jazz Voice at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden.
Raymond Rowell, Assistant Dean for Enrollment Management and External Affairs, was interviewed in Voertman Concert Hall for a documentary outlining the College of Music partnerships with the Texas Health Presbyterian, Dallas and the Dallas ISD.
Music Department Chair at Southwestern Assemblies of God University, Tyrone Block (MM ‘09, DMA ’15), was featured in an article in the Waxahachie (Texas) Daily Light.
Austin Ford, trumpet (BM ’21) has been named winner of the 2021 The United States Army Band Solo Competition Winner (collegiate division).
Conducted by Andrew Trachsel, the University of North Texas Wind Orchestra features two world premieres of Gerard Schurmann film overtures, the Texas premiere of Lindsay Bronnenkant's Tarot and a rarely-heard gem by 20th-century African-American composer, William Grant Still, To You, America!