Sean Murphy (DMA '19, MM '13), owner of Murphy Music Press, LLC has published Fanfare Politeia composed by Kimberly K. Archer. The new composition is being premiered today by the "The President's Own" United States Marine Band during the 2021 Presidential Inauguration Ceremony.
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Yamaha Drums recently announced that John Sturino (MM ’18, BM ’16) was added to the roster of Yamaha Artists. Sturino is based in New York and is drummer, arranger, composer and educator.https://tinyurl.com/YamahaSturino
Annette Nevins writes for Denton County Magazine about the UNT College of Music efforts to expand livestreaming capacities to continue reaching the community.
See page 50 at https://tinyurl.com/UNTLivestream
Kris Chesky, Professor and co-director of the Texas Center for Performing Arts Health, joins the Association for Body Mapping Education Scientific Advisory Board.
The International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers (ISJAC) has recognized alumna Courtney Wright as co-winner of the 2021 ISJAC/University of South Florida Owen Prize in Jazz Composition and the inaugural ISJAC/USF Prize for Emerging Black Composers.https://isjac.org/news/2021-isjac-usf-prize-winners-announcement
Professor of Euphonium, David Childs, presented “Reflections - David Childs and Friends - A New Year’s Eve Concert” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtThp8yHvmE
Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano, Dave Meder, received a grant enabling his trio to tour the Southeast (USA). Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Opera News features University of North Texas alumna Latonia Moore and speaks to her “coming of age in a time when operas by Black composers and on Black subjects are finally getting recognition by major opera companies.” Story by #NaomiAndré. Images by Jeffery Salter.
In an announcement via an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Phillip Kennedy Johnson (MM ’03), said he will begin writing both monthly issues of Action Comics which launched Superman in 1938. His duties begin March 2021.
