UNT Trombone Studio

Alumnus J. Walter Hawkes (BM) received a Daytime Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Composition and Music Direction" for his work on the animated series "Wonder Pets" on Nickelodeon. Coincidentally, this is the second Emmy Hawkes has won (the other was in 2008 in the same category and for the same show).

Walter's trombone playing was featured on the Norah Jones release "Not Too Late" (Blue Note) and he was featured with Ms. Jones on the TV show "Austin City Limits." Hawkes also was awarded a 2009 fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Congratulations to Walter Hawkes!

Check out his personal website here, or his Myspace page here.

Information courtesy of UNT's "Counterpoint" Music magazine