Allen Hightower will direct as they perform at the 2021 national conference of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). Only 24 choirs from across the United States have been invited. A Cappella is one of only three university mixed choirs invited nationally and the only mixed university/college choir from Texas. This is the fourth appearance of the UNT A Cappella choir at the national conference in 22 years conducted under Mel Ivey, Jerry McCoy and, now, Allen Hightower. The conference will be held in Dallas in March 2021.

Sarah Dunbar, (DMA '19, MM '17, BM Jazz Studies '15, BM Classical Saxophone '15), accepted the position of as Assistant Professor of Music - Woodwinds (tenure-track), at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX.

Jonathan Welsh writes, "...this is an utterly magnificent disc." Meilin Ai, (DMA '19), full-time faculty member of the Conservatory of Music of the Sichuan Normal University in China, recorded this album in Winspear Hall of UNT's Murchison Performing Arts Center.

The 43rd annual Student Music Awards were awarded to UNT Jazz Singers, Jennifer Barnes, director, Wes Dziedzic for Outstanding Scat Soloist on “Course” and Outstanding Improv Soloist: Vaughn Faison on “Estrogenia” along with Avenue C, Kathryn Sherman, director and Hanna Song as Outstanding Scat Soloist on “Beautiful Moons Ago”. See pages 71 & 84.

An article penned by Clare Carrasco (PhD, Musicology, '16), "The Unlike Pair: Impressionism, Expressionism, and Critical Reception of Schoenberg and Schreker’s Chamber Symphonies," appears in the Journal of Musicology 37/2 (2020)

Wes C. Moore, (DMA '12) is now Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Dallas Baptist University. As well, he continues as DBU's Chair of the Department of Music.

An in-progress photo of changes to the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater.

UNT College of Music DMA student Hyunjee Lee won 2nd prize of the Myrna Brown Flute Competition.