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.
Twenty percussion faculty and students of the University of North Texas College of Music presented concerts and clinics at Poland’s Krakow Academy of Music, The Opole School of Music and served as featured soloists/judges and clinicians for Europe's largest percussion festival, Drum Fest and the Polish National Marimba/Vibraphone Competition. Former faculty member Nicholas Williams (BM ‘97, MM ‘04, DMA ‘09) conducts the Opole Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra involving UNT students and faculty.
l-r Dave Hall, Michael Crawford, Mark Ford, Paul Rennick and José Aponte. Students include John Thomas Baker, Jase Ballard, Desmond Bigler, Jacob Fullinwider, Aidan Henderson, Sam Koch, Raina Liao, Sophia Lo, Nathan Siegel, Zeke Strawn, Denton Sutherlin and Maddie Wallace.
Seraph Brass performed as part of the 119th University of North Texas Rawlins Fine Arts Series. Included as an artist in Seraph Brass is Raquel Samayoa, UNT alumna (DMA ‘08) and Associate Professor of Trumpet.
The Sarasota Music Festival (Florida) hosted University of North Texas Professor of Clarinet, Kimberly Cole Luevano, as Summer Music Faculty.
