Carmen Cusack has been Tony nominated for “Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role” for her performance in “Flying Over Sunset.” See the awards show June 12 on CBS.

Current University of North Texas DMA student in choral conducting, Jordan Boyd, joins the music faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio as Associate Director of Choral Studies/Professor of Practice.

J.D. Burnett (DMA ’13) has been announced as Director of Choral Activities for the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.

https://tinyurl.com/BurnettUNTUTA

Stephen F. Austin State University has named Gary T. Wurtz (DMA ’01, MM ’87, trumpet) dean of the Micky Elliott College of Fine Arts. He was formerly director of the SFA School of Music.

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Opera Lafayette presents “Marie Antoinette’s Musical Legacies” series with UNT Associate Professor of Music History, Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden, discussing Antoinette's musical legacies among women in revolutionary and Napoleonic France.

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.

https://tinyurl.com/NAMMDISD

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.”

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