Kirsten Soriano is welcomed in her new position as Associate Dean for Operations. Dr. Soriano has more than twenty years of experience in academic and arts administration for organizations, including the Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Ensemble Dal Niente, for which she is the founder and served as Executive Director. During this time, Ensemble Dal Niente produced over one hundred concerts in Chicago and New York and received the Kranichsteiner Stipendium Preise during the 45th Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt, Germany.

Oscar Macchioni has accepted an invitation to join the UNT College of Music faculty as an Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy. Dr. Macchioni’s academic credentials include the Téchnico Instrumentista Especialidad Piano from the Universidad Nacional de Tucumá (Argentina), the Artist Certificate in Piano from the Krakow Academy of Music (Poland), the Master of Music in Piano Performance from Louisiana State University and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Arizona. In addition to being an accomplished performing artist, he is a published scholar with credits including a solo-authored book, a solo-authored book chapter, a series of published journal articles, six CD recordings and an impressive list of solo recitals and performances. He comes to Denton from the University of Texas at El Paso.

UNT Associate Professor of Music Theory, David Heetderks, has published a book review of David Temperley's “The Musical Language of Rock” in Music Theory Online, one of the flagship journals of the Society for Music Theory (SMT).

Joshua R. Brown (DMA ’20) has been named Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Choral Studies and Chair of Ensembles at Dallas Baptist University effective Fall 2023. He is also Executive Director of Voces Pacis - Voices of Peace, a Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex-based choral organization.

The University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts has selected Quincy Davis as a 2023-224 Advancement of the Arts Faculty Fellow. He will create a new musical composition for large ensemble titled “Empathy Suite,” inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic and the death of George Floyd.

University of North Texas Professor of Collaborative Piano and Vocal Coaching and founder and president of the International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society - IKCAS, Elvia Puccinelli, has announced the launch of "On Collaborating." The journal is a multi-media platform connecting performance and research in collaborative piano.

Held in New York City, the 2023 national conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) is once again well represented by 12 University of North Texas students, alumni and faculty.

Sarah Dunbar (DMA ’19 multiple woodwinds, MM ’17 multiple woodwinds, BM ’15 in jazz saxophone and BM ’15 in classical saxophone) accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Music (classical and jazz saxophone) at Jacksonville State University in Alabama.

ALUMNUS CONTINUES MILITARY MUSIC CAREER: Ian E. Charleton MUCM (SW) (BM ’99 MM ’01) joins the Navy Band Southeast as Assistant Director and Senior Enlisted Leader, Master Chief Musician (Surface Warfare). Charleton joins after a successful tour as the Assistant Director and Senior Enlisted Leader at Navy Band Northwest. He enlisted in the Navy as a saxophone and clarinet instrumentalist May 2001.

Duran Ritz (BM ’11) and his Vancouver, BC based alternative rock band RARE AMERICANS received a Canadian JUNO Award nomination for "Breakthrough Group of the Year." Duran played drums in the One O'Clock Lab Band^®.

Congratulations to The Metropolitan Opera and University of North Texas College of Music alumna Latonia Moore receiving Best Opera Recording at the 65th GRAMMY Awards for "Fire Shut Up in My Bones."

Assistant Professor of Viola, Daphne Gerling, awarded the Fredell Lack Outstanding Young Studio Teacher Award from the Texas String Teachers Association. TexAsta president Kevin Garcia-Hettinger presented the award.