Trumpeter Nick Owsik, (BM '17, MM '19) and former member of The One O'Clock Lab Band won a position with the Army Jazz Ambassadors of The United States Army Field Band.

Thomas Schwan, DMA student in piano performance, won First Prize in the 2020 World Bach Competition - Keyboard & Plucked Instruments Professional Category with 273 musicians from 39 countries taking part organized by the Boulder Bach Festival.

After 17 years, University of North Texas Regents Professor Emeritus of French Horn, William Scharnberg, has retired as Editor of The Horn Call, the official publication of the International Horn Society.

Assistant Professor of Music Theory, David Heetderks, has published an article in Music Theory Spectrum, a journal for the Society for Music Theory. His article, "Play with Closing Markers: Cadential Multivalence in 1960s Prechoruses and Related Schemas." It argues that the moment that the verse leads to a chorus in a 1960s pop song is often the most climactic in the song because it uses melody, text, and chords to create ambiguous boundaries.

Associate Professor of Wind Studies and Conductor of the Wind Orchestra, Andrew Trachsel, was appointed Chair of the Division of Conducting and Ensembles. He began his four-year term serving the students, faculty and staff of the division overseeing the areas of Choral Studies, Early Music Studies, Opera Studies, Orchestral Studies and Wind Studies.

Centennial High School A Cappella Choir in Frisco, Texas, formerly directed by UNT DMA student Francis Cathlina, received third place in the 2019-2020 high school division of the American Prize in Choral Performance.

The East Carolina University Chamber Singers, directed by James Franklin (DMA ’14) was awarded second place in the 2019-2020 college/university division of the American Prize in Choral Performance.

Daniel Pinilla, (MM ’16, DMA ’20) accepted a position with the University of Idaho Lionel Hampton School of Music as Lecturer of Guitar.

“A visual music performance that evokes the dream state as a field for divination, interdimensional time travel and superconscious transformation.” UNT Professor of Composition Studies and Coordinator for Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA).

Baylor University School of Music A Cappella Choir, directed by Brian A. Schmidt (MM ’10, DMA ’12), was named winner of the college/university American Prize in Choral Performance.