During the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory (SMT) conference held in Utah, UNT student Xiao Yun’s paper, "The Ignored Modal Mixture—The Chromatic Submediant in Minor Keys,” received the Best Student Paper award.
UNT won the 2023 National Trumpet Competition - Yamaha College Large Ensemble Division held in Boulder, Colorado. Flanked by competition officials, members of the ensemble are l-r Emily Tourgeman, McKenna Hill, Abby Ward, Tyler Sarver, Guillem Toro Senent, Remy Gilboe, Ben Gerkins and Parker Burkey. Faculty coaches are Caleb Hudson, Raquel Samayoa and John Holt.
Flute student and College of Music Ambassador Kiana Kawahara awarded 1st place in the undergraduate student category for the Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for the 2023-2024 academic year by the UNT Office of the Vice Provost for Student Success. The “competition was created to promote intellectual debate and discussion on ethics as related to students’ areas of study at UNT.”
UNT graduate bassoon student, Molly Smit, was named a finalist at the 2023 Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition. International Double Reed Society Toulouse Graduate School
In Hot Springs, UNT Choral Conducting Associate Kenneth Sieloff, first-year MM student, conducted the Arkansas All-State Tenor/Bass choir.
University of North Texas UNT Opera Graduate Artist Certificate student, Taylor Carnes, has won a National Opera Association's JoElyn Wakefield-Wright Stage Director Fellowship.
The Society for Ethnomusicology Southern Plains Chapter presented its Vida Chenoweth Prize to PhD student, Rachel Schuck, for her paper, "Virtual Aaraathanai:” Assimilation Practices in Dallas Tamil Church Worship, August 2020-January 2021."
Renée McGee, trumpet, has been selected to receive an "Air Force Diversity Fellowship" by The United States Air Force Band and includes a residency to rehearse and perform with the Airmen of Note in Washington, DC in July. Photo: Jerry Almonte.
Along with his family, incoming music education graduate student, Robert T. Gibson, was honored by the NAACP Springfield, Missouri with their Community Trailblazer award for music dedication and contributions and named June 9, 2022 as Robert T. Gibson Day.
Music education and saxophone major, Luke Vanek, has received the 2021-2022 undergraduate Presser Award. This award, considered the most prestigious undergraduate award in music at the University of North Texas is provided by The Presser Foundation. The recipient “should show a high level of academic and musical accomplishment and embody the qualities of leadership and citizenship. The recipient is one who has grown individually and who has contributed earnestly to the success of the school of music.” Moving forward, the recipient will be referred to as a Presser Scholar.
