Josefina Maldonado, mezzo-soprano, (BM’19), returns to Severance Hall to be featured soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra in 3 performances of Julia Perry’s “Stabat Mater” conducted by Dalia Stasevska.
UNT Willis Library Special Collections presented horn player and UNT alumnus, Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, authors of Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love.
With a by-line by Carly May Gravley, the Dallas Observer published an article highlighting the @UNT commercial music degree. It includes interviews with program coordinator Federico Llach, alumna Ashleigh Smith and Grammy-winning producer and engineer Tre Nagella.
UNT jazz piano master of music student, Tomás Jonsson, placed 2nd in the jazz division at the University of South Africa International Piano Competition held in Pretoria. He as well won Best Jazz Ballad.
The UNT College of Music joins in celebrating Julie Hohman’s appointment as Director of the UNT Murchison Performing Arts Center.
McKenna Stenson (DMA ’23 – Choral Conducting) has joined the choral conducting faculty at Florida State University.
Cody Thomas Myre (BM ’19, Composition) will have his work titled, “Broken Glass” for concert band, premiered at Carnegie Hall June 2024 by Switzerland’s Das Blasorchester Stadtmusik Luzern at the New York Sounds of Summer Music Festival. The piece was selected as the winner of the 2023 World Projects Composition Competition.
Trumpeter Jacquelyn Lankford, (DMA ’19), announced one of Yamaha Music USA’s 40 Under 40 Music Educators for 2024. She created and lead Women Composing for Trumpet Competition and the Powerful Women in Music Concert Series. She is Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Mississippi State University.
UNT percussion alumnus (BM '99) performed on the album "Some Like it Hot" winning a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album during the 66th Edition of the Grammy awards.
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra won a Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music album for "Live: Orpheum Theater Nola," a collaboration with Lost Bayou Ramblers. Flutist alumna Sarah Schettler (MM ’98 and MM ’99) and alumnus William Schettler (BM ’99), double bass, are both musicians in the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and are included on the recording.
