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.

The Texas Choral Directors Association has awarded a professional scholarship to incoming choral conducting graduate student Ken Sieloff.

Music Across the Pond includes University of North Texas DMA student McKenna Stenson in its faculty. The Summer program takes place June 4-27 in Cornwall and Oxford, England.

The National Student Auditions of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) named University of North Texas vocal performance undergraduate student, Matthew Dexter, as Honorable Mention in his category at their Chicago national conference.