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.
Associate Professor of Music History, Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden, has received, in a rare occurrence, TWO nationally competitive awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities. An NEH Summer Stipend will support her research for a project entitled “Stories of Music, Luxury, and Loss in the Age of Revolutions (1760s–1820s).” The second award is the NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society allowing Dr. Geoffroy-Schwinden to carry out eight months of archival research at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. This research will culminate in a book about the musical and sonic world of the du Pont women's community from the French Revolution to the American Civil War.
University of North Texas Associate Professor of Cello, Horacio Contreras, with fellow Reveron Piano Trio’s, Simón Gollo and Ana María Otamendi, have released Iberoamérica: Trios by Villa-Lobos, Turina, and Ponce. Released by Ibs Classical. Photo: Natali Herrera-Pacheco.
UNT Professor of Music Theory, David Bard-Schwarz, has a published chapter titled, “Modes of Understanding Disruption in the First Movement of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony,” in the book Ästhetische Normativität in der Musik. Edited by Tobias Janz and Jens Gerrit Papenburg, the publisher is Verlag Vittorio Klostermann edit the book.
Manhattan Concert Productions (MCP) presents the UNT Professor of Choral Studies, Allen Hightower, conducting "Requiem" by John Rutter. The festival chorus performs with the New York City Chamber Orchestra and soloists as part of MCP’s Masterwork Series.
Michael Crawford becomes Lecturer in Music Education along with additional teaching duties in the Percussion Area starting Fall 2023. In May 2021, Michael graduated from @UNT with his PhD in Music Education.
As part of the 150th anniversary of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas, the temple collaborated with AURORA in producing “Light Years - An Innovative Art and Technology Experience.” The Temple commission by David Stout, UNT Professor of Composition Studies, is titled “In Their Arms We Hold the Sky,” a panoramic film and music work.
The Houston Symphony Chorus director and UNT Professor of Choral Studies, Allen Hightower, shown being acknowledged by Itzhak Perlman at the conclusion of the Houston Symphony performance of “Requiem” by Mozart recently conducted by Perlman at Jones Hall for the Performing Arts in Houston.
