Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano, Dave Meder, releases “New American Hymnal.” The recording features fellow UNT faculty member Philip Dizack on trumpet. Meder describes the project “think of it as a "book of worship" for our American "civic religion."
Darrel Hale edits Mountain Peak Music's "The Big Book of Sight Reading Duets for Bassoon.”
UNT Assistant Professor of Music Business, Jessica Muñiz-Collado, has been published in the music trade magazine Music Connection Magazine. Her article "C.R.E.A.M. - Get the Money" can be found on the MC website homepage.
Oscar Macchioni has accepted an invitation to join the UNT College of Music faculty as an Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy. Dr. Macchioni’s academic credentials include the Téchnico Instrumentista Especialidad Piano from the Universidad Nacional de Tucumá (Argentina), the Artist Certificate in Piano from the Krakow Academy of Music (Poland), the Master of Music in Piano Performance from Louisiana State University and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Arizona. In addition to being an accomplished performing artist, he is a published scholar with credits including a solo-authored book, a solo-authored book chapter, a series of published journal articles, six CD recordings and an impressive list of solo recitals and performances. He comes to Denton from the University of Texas at El Paso.
Elizabeth McNutt, UNT flute faculty member and director of the New Music Ensemble, is showcased in SHOUTOUT DFW.
UNT Associate Professor of Music Theory, David Heetderks, has published a book review of David Temperley's “The Musical Language of Rock” in Music Theory Online, one of the flagship journals of the Society for Music Theory (SMT).
The University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts has selected Quincy Davis as a 2023-224 Advancement of the Arts Faculty Fellow. He will create a new musical composition for large ensemble titled “Empathy Suite,” inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic and the death of George Floyd.
Amy Woody joins the UNT faculty as Lecturer in Wind Studies and Director of Athletic Bands. She currently serves the College of Music as a Doctoral Conducting Associate. Prior to UNT, Ms. Woody served as the Director of Bands (2014–2021) and Associate Director of Bands (2007–2014) at John H. Guyer High School in Denton. The Guyer Wind Ensemble was named a Commended Winner in the 2021 Mark of Excellence New Music Category, a 2018 Mark of Excellence National Winner, and a 2018 Western International Band Conference Invited Ensemble in Seattle, Washington. She currently serves as the Chief Programs Officer for the Premier Lone Star Wind Orchestra. She earned the MM in clarinet performance from the Eastman School of Music and BME in music education from Baylor University.
University of North Texas Professor of Collaborative Piano and Vocal Coaching and founder and president of the International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society - IKCAS, Elvia Puccinelli, has announced the launch of "On Collaborating." The journal is a multi-media platform connecting performance and research in collaborative piano.
University of North Texas Distinguished Research Professor of Music and Anthropology, Steven Friedson, will keynote speak at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. Ritual Transformations of Consciousness is the institute's second annual conference in the Black sacred arts underway May 15 in New Haven, Connecticut.
