Brownsville, Texas welcomes Aaron Jensen (DMA ’20) as Assistant Professor of Trumpet at UT – Rio Grande Valley.

Alejandro L. Madrid (MM ’99) announced as a 2022 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Research. He is Professor in the Department of Music at Cornell University where he is described as a “cultural theorist who specializes in music and expressive culture from Latin America and Latinxs in the United States. Working at the intersection of musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance studies, Madrid’s scholarship interrogates neoliberalism, globalization, and postmodernity while exploring questions of embodiment, affectivity, and politics in transnational settings."

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Current University of North Texas choral music education student Sarah Decker and Grammy Affiliate Winner for Best Choral Performance as a member of the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus included in the recording of Symphony No. 8 by Mahler. Sarah was an alto with the LACC for five years and performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale multiple times.

Congratulations to our hometown public school district as Denton Independent School District Fine Arts is named one of the “Best Communities for Music Education” for the 15th consecutive year.

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As it celebrates its 200th anniversary, Royal Academy of Music has elected Sungji Hong, UNT music composition faculty member, as an Associate. This designation is made to Academy alumni who have distinguished themselves in and made a significant contribution to their music career. She will travel to London in September to receive the honor from Dame Jenny Abramsky, Chair of the Governing Body who is also Chair of the Board of Governors of the Royal Ballet.

The Guggenheim Foundation announced that UNT composition faculty member Sungji Hong is recipient of a 2022 Fellowship. Since 1925, Guggenheim Fellowships have been offered “to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions… to those making their mark in the social sciences, natural sciences, humanities and creative arts.”

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https://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/sungji-hong
https://www.sungjihong.com/

Charlie Kim (MM '12 performance and collaborative piano), tenor and Grammy Affiliate Winner for Best Choral Performance as a member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale included in the recording of Symphony No. 8 by Mahler.

Affiliated Grammy winner as vocalist for Best Instrumental Composition - “Eberhard” by alumnus, the late Lyle Mays (1953-2020). Gary is UNT Alumni BA '92, MA '14.

The 2021 Presser Foundation Graduate Award has been designated to doctoral ethnomusicology student Meng Ren. Her project supports her dissertation titled "Forbidden Sound: The Art, Culture, and Politics of Chinese Hip-Hop." According to the Presser Foundation, "The program is designed to encourage and support, in a special way, the advanced education and career of truly exceptional graduate music students who have the potential to make a distinguished contribution to the field of music."

Graduate student Claire Bradley has won a horn position with the United States Army “Pershing’s Own” Ceremonial Band. Claire will graduate from UNT this spring with her Master of Music degree in horn performance.

The 2022 International Women's Brass Conference hosted by the University of North Texas College of Music. myiwbc.org/conference/

Jazz Guitar Today’s Thomas Amoriello, Jr. recently featured University of North Texas student Noah Myers. See story and video: tinyurl.com/NoahMyersUNT