UNT Assistant Professor of Composition, Sungji Hong, has been selected as a Civitella Ranieri Music Fellow for their 2024 and 2025 seasons. "Civitella Ranieri Fellowships are awarded through a careful nomination and jury process by a rotating group of distinguished artists, academics, and critics that ensures access to a highly diverse group of emerging and accomplished candidates from around the world." The residency is hosted in a 15th-century castle in the Umbrian region of Italy.

UNT Assistant Professor of Music Business, Jessica Muñiz-Collado, becomes music industry representative for the Board of Directors of The College Music Society.

Professor of Music Theory, Stephen Slottow, was interviewed by Berry Crawford on Simplicity Zen Podcast about his practice history and book, "The Americanization of Zen Chanting," published by Boydell & Brewer.

In Fall 2022, College of Music Assistant Professor of Jazz Violin, Scott Tixier, performed solo jazz violin at the Carnegie Hall world premiere of the Jon Batiste composition, “American Symphony.” Tixier appears in the Netflix-produced documentary and trailer chronicling the Batiste creation of the original symphony while his wife, Suleika Jaouad, undergoes cancer treatment.

Winners of the 2022-2023 National Opera Association Opera Production Competition announced. The judges gave a total of 24 awards from the 87 applicants. The University of North Texas College of Music production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” by André Previn & Philip Littell was named Division VII 1st place winner. UNT Associate Professor and Music Director of Opera, Stephanie Rhodes Russell, conducted, Taylor Rachel Carnes was stage director, Donna Marquet was scenic designer and Michael Robinson designed costumes. NOA divisions are based on student classification, production size and budget. Photo: Cathy Vanover.

Crystal Gerrard-Ramirez, UNT Assistant Professor of Music Education, published an article, A Completely Different World': A Counterstory of Transfronterizx Experiences, in the Journal of Research in Music Education.

The American Musicological Society has bestowed its Lewis Lockwood Award, which goes to the best book by an early career scholar, to @UNT Associate Professor of Music History, Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden for her first book, “From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution,” published by Oxford University Press, 2022.

Assistant Professor of Jazz Trumpet - Improvisation Emphasis, Philip Dizack, was featured in a six-page interview in a Polish language magazine where he also was headliner for their festival - Jazz nad Odra

Associate Professor of Trumpet and UNT alumna, Rachel Samayoa (DMA '08), has been elected to the board of directors of the International Trumpet Guild.

UNT Associate Professor of Harp, Jaymee Haefner, appeared on the September/October issue of Harp Column along with a feature article titled Next In Line.