STUDENT SUCCESS: Congratulations to UNT DMA student Joshua Brown on his appointment as Director of Choral Activities at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

STUDENT SUCCESS: DMA candidate, Ryan Sullivan, has been appointed as Director of Choral Activities at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas.STUDENT SUCCESS: DMA candidate, Ryan Sullivan, has been appointed as Director of Choral Activities at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Junior tuba performance major, Mason Soria, received a fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival and School of Music in Colorado this summer. Mason is currently principal tuba with the UNT Symphony Orchestra and is an alum of the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra.

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: Joshua Taylor, adjunct instructor of Sacred Music, had an article published in the Call to Worship Journal, a quarterly publication of the Presbyterian Church (USA), entitled “And This Shall Be Our Response to Violence: Singing in Times of Trial.” It chronicles his experience planning the music for the interfaith service in Dallas, Texas for the fallen police officers in 2016.

UNT produces more military musicians than any other university in the United States.

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Brandon K. McDannald (DMA '18) is guest conducting the Florida Wind Band and is in his second year as Director of Bands at the University of Tampa, where he directs the wind ensemble and jazz band, coordinates the music education program, supervises student teachers, and teaches applied horn.

Joseph Klein, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair of the Division of Composition Studies, said, "Since graduating from UNT in 2014, Daniel Sabzghabaei has had an impressive record of commissions and performances. His inclusion as one of four emerging artists in this year's Eurasia Festival is just the most recent in a series of significant national and international festivals that have featured Daniel's work. He is rapidly establishing himself as a distinctive voice among young composers."

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