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  • 7 buildings
  • 300 practice rooms
  • 8 Performance Halls
    • 235 seat Recital Hall
    • 300 seat Lyric Theater
    • 635 seat Concert Hall
    • 1,100 seat Winspear Performance Hall
    • Stan Kenton Jazz Recital Hall
    • Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater
    • Organ Recital Hall
    • Main Auditorium
  • 100 full-time faculty
  • 50+ part-time faculty
  • 50+ guest artists annually
  • 900+ events per season
  • 40+ performance ensembles
  • extensive media library
  • multiple study abroad opportunities

Among its most distinguished graduates…

  • Principal Cellist, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor, Chicago Symphony Chorus
  • Associate Principal Oboist, Cleveland Orchestra
  • Trombonist, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Principal Timpanists, Fort Worth and Detroit Symphonies
  • Principal Double Bassist, Honolulu Symphony Orchestra
  • Associate Concertmaster, National Symphony Orchestra
  • first winner of the Dallas International Organ Competition
  • Grammy and Emmy award winning composers and recording artists
  • more than 30 college and university department chairs and music deans
  • more than 1600 music education graduates teaching in elementary and secondary schools throughout the United States
  • more than 70 graduates who are members of the premier military service bands, choruses and orchestras in Washington, D.C.
  • winners of the Los Angeles Liszt, the Belarussian, the Bartók/Kabalevsky, and the Walter Naumburg piano competitions, among others
  • solo singers on the rosters of the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House, Vienna State Opera, Opéra National de Paris and many others

Did you know that the UNT College of Music…

  • was given Stan Kenton’s complete library
  • houses the Texas Center for Music and Medicine
  • has a nationally recognized program in early music
  • has released four CDs nominated for Grammy awards
  • is the home of the first jazz studies program in the nation
  • hosts more than 50 internationally recognized guest artists annually
  • Wind Symphony has released over 30 recordings and toured Japan and Scandinavia
  • owns the only 18th-century French prototype organ in the United States and one of the largest university organs in North America
  • A Cappella Choir performed for 7,000 people in 3 concerts at Disney Concert Hall for ACDA in spring 2005
  • Symphony Orchestra and University Choir have performed in New York City’s Lincoln Center stages 17th-century operas with original instrumentation and performance practices
  • faculty includes winners of Chopin and Cliburn Competitions, a winner of the Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society and prize winning composers, performers and scholars
  • is the home of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI), one of the premier centers for electroacoustic composition and intermedia in the world
  • has student and faculty exchanges in the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, Ghana, South Africa, India, China, Taiwan, Japan, Italy, England, France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil and many other countries
  • One O'Clock Lab Band has traveled by invitation to the major jazz festivals in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia, and throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and was invited by the King of Thailand for a concert and tour
  • has a Music Library that is a major national research center with more than 270,000 volumes of books, periodicals, microforms, and electronic resources in addition to more than 500,000 sound recordings ranging from Edison cylinders to modern digital formats