Assistant Professor of Music History Brian Wright's article, "What Kenny G Can Teach Us About Jazz," published in the Journal of Jazz Studies.

OPERA America announces that UNT Associate Professor and Music Director of UNT Opera, Stephanie Rhodes Russell, as recipient of a 2023 Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors. She will conduct THE KNOCK (Aleksandra Vrebalov, composer; Deborah Brevoort, librettist) at Cincinnati Opera. “These grants open doors for women artists by incentivizing professional opera companies of all sizes to engage women in key artistic roles. These hires enrich the production and performance of new operas and works from the inherited repertoire and inspire future generations of creative artists who identify as women.”

Assistant Professor Daphne Gerling elected to President-Elect of the American Viola Society. Dr. Gerling has served on the AVS board since 2014 and is coordinator of the 2024 American Viola Society Festival in Los Angeles.

Sunnyside Records releases new 10 track album, “Way Back.” (funded in part by a 2022 @UNT Scholarly and Creative Activity award from the College of Music). One track called "Wintry Mix," is inspired by the North Texas landscape and weather.

The Journal of Research in Music Education has published Sassy and Strong: Intersections of Race, Attractional Orientation, and Gender Expression Within Music Education, by UNT Professor of Music Education, Don Taylor and colleague Rashaad Calaham. The narrative examines the experiences of a successful Black gay choral teacher in Texas.

Chair of the Division of Music Education, Sean Powell, published by Oxford University Press. The Ideology of Competition in School Music is available through Oxford University Press website.

Penned by UNT Assistant Professor of Music History, Beth Snyder, the Winter 2023 edition of Music & Politics has published An Impulse to Transfigure and Render New'--The Anglo-Austrian Music Society in Wartime and Early Post-war Britain.

The Journal of the American Musicological Society published Songs of the New World and the Breath of the Planet at the Orbis Spike, 1610: Toward a Decolonial Musicology of the Anthropocene by Andrew J. Chung, UNT Assistant Professor of Music Theory.

Marques L.A. Garrett joins us as Associate Professor of Choral Activities in the Division of Ensembles and Conducting. He earned a PhD in Music Education in Choral Conducting at Florida State University, the MM from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a BA from Hampton University. As a highly sought-after composer, his largest work to date, "Dreamland: Tulsa 1921" was a collaboration with librettist Sandra Seaton commissioned by Dallas, Texas based Turtle Creek Chorale telling the story of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. His research areas include vocal music of Black composers, non-idiomatic choral music of Black composers, the choral music of R. Nathaniel Dett, Negro spirituals and choral conducting/rehearsal techniques. He is the editor/compiler of "The Oxford Handbook of Choral Music by Black Composers" published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Garrett comes to Denton from the Glenn Korff School of Music at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.

UNT Assistant Professor of Music Education, Erika J. Knapp, along with colleagues, published Moving beyond data collection: Fostering community engagement in community music schools in the International Journal of Music Education.