Alumnus to Georgia
The Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia has announced that Nicholas Enrico Williams (DMA ’09, MM ’04, BM ’97) as Professor of Conducting and Director of Bands.
The Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia has announced that Nicholas Enrico Williams (DMA ’09, MM ’04, BM ’97) as Professor of Conducting and Director of Bands.
J.D. Burnett (DMA ’13) has been announced as Director of Choral Activities for the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.
Current University of North Texas DMA student in choral conducting, McKenna Stenson, has been appointed as Associate Director of Choral Studies/Professor of Practice at the University of Kansas.
Stephen F. Austin State University has named Gary T. Wurtz (DMA ’01, MM ’87, trumpet) dean of the Micky Elliott College of Fine Arts. He was formerly director of the SFA School of Music.
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Vivek Virani published his article, “From Satsang to Stage: Negotiating Aesthetic Theologies and Aspirational Subjectivities in a North Indian Bhajan Competition,” in his discipline’s flagship journal, Ethnomusicology.
Opera Lafayette presents “Marie Antoinette’s Musical Legacies” series with UNT Associate Professor of Music History, Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden, discussing Antoinette's musical legacies among women in revolutionary and Napoleonic France.
Zoe Czarnecki has been named a 2022 Fulbright recipient to Germany.
Brownsville, Texas welcomes Aaron Jensen (DMA ’20) as Assistant Professor of Trumpet at UT – Rio Grande Valley.
Samuel Gaskin (MM '18) has been named a 2022 Fulbright recipient of the Study/Research Program to France.
Alejandro L. Madrid (MM ’99) announced as a 2022 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Research. He is Professor in the Department of Music at Cornell University where he is described as a “cultural theorist who specializes in music and expressive culture from Latin America and Latinxs in the United States. Working at the intersection of musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance studies, Madrid’s scholarship interrogates neoliberalism, globalization, and postmodernity while exploring questions of embodiment, affectivity, and politics in transnational settings."