Congratulations Daniel Foose
Affiliated Grammy winner as bassist for best Traditional Pop Vocal Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical – Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, “Love for Sale” Affiliated Winner - Daniel Foose, (BM '05, MM '07).
Affiliated Grammy winner as bassist for best Traditional Pop Vocal Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical – Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, “Love for Sale” Affiliated Winner - Daniel Foose, (BM '05, MM '07).
Affiliated Grammy winner as vocalist for Best Instrumental Composition - “Eberhard” by alumnus, the late Lyle Mays (1953-2020). Gary is UNT Alumni BA '92, MA '14.
Affiliated Grammy winner as vocalist for Best Instrumental Composition - “Eberhard” by alumnus the late Lyle Mays (1953-2020). She is BM 95, MM '99 and principal lecturer in jazz studies.
The 2021 Presser Foundation Graduate Award has been designated to doctoral ethnomusicology student Meng Ren. Her project supports her dissertation titled "Forbidden Sound: The Art, Culture, and Politics of Chinese Hip-Hop." According to the Presser Foundation, "The program is designed to encourage and support, in a special way, the advanced education and career of truly exceptional graduate music students who have the potential to make a distinguished contribution to the field of music."
Master of Music student in jazz violin, Alexa Torres Skillicorn, awarded a Fulbright research award for her project, "Ethnography of Practice: An Embodied Jazz Violin Praxis in Poland." She will study in Poland following her research as a Presser Graduate Scholar in France and Belgium.
Graduate student Claire Bradley has won a horn position with the United States Army “Pershing’s Own” Ceremonial Band. Claire will graduate from UNT this spring with her Master of Music degree in horn performance.
Rob Parton, Chair of the Division of Jazz Studies, recently served as guest artist or clinician at fourteen locations across the United States.
The 2022 International Women's Brass Conference hosted by the University of North Texas College of Music. myiwbc.org/conference/
“Sociological Thinking in Music Education,” edited by UNT Professor Sean Powell, Chair, Division of Music Education and colleagues, has been published by Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press). See it here: tinyurl.com/PowellBook
Jazz Guitar Today’s Thomas Amoriello, Jr. recently featured University of North Texas student Noah Myers. See story and video: tinyurl.com/NoahMyersUNT