With financial assistance from the Mellon Foundation, Anuj Bhutani has received a Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant to write a new piece for Khemia Ensemble.
UNT’s Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater hosts Professor of Composition Jon Christopher Nelson’s performance of works from the Neuma Records release of The Persistence of Time and Memory. It is, "...inviting the listener to perceive connections with sounds they may remember from their past."
Daniel James Chan (BM ‘04) has released season one original score digital album of NBC’s Quantum Leap.
As part of the 150th anniversary of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas, the temple collaborated with AURORA in producing “Light Years - An Innovative Art and Technology Experience.” The Temple commission by David Stout, UNT Professor of Composition Studies, is titled “In Their Arms We Hold the Sky,” a panoramic film and music work.
The 2023 Presser Foundation Graduate Award winner is Colin Stokes. He is a UNT College of Music PhD student in the Division of Composition Studies. His proposal was titled “Otherness Together, a collaborative intermedia piece exploring issues of racial identity, transnationality, and otherness.” The piece will be created in collaboration with United Arab Emirates-born Palestinian visual artist Qais Assali. 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."
Kirsten Soriano is welcomed in her new position as Associate Dean for Operations. Dr. Soriano has more than twenty years of experience in academic and arts administration for organizations, including the Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Ensemble Dal Niente, for which she is the founder and served as Executive Director. During this time, Ensemble Dal Niente produced over one hundred concerts in Chicago and New York and received the Kranichsteiner Stipendium Preise during the 45th Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt, Germany.
Elizabeth McNutt, UNT flute faculty member and director of the New Music Ensemble, is showcased in SHOUTOUT DFW.
Held in New York City, the 2023 national conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) is once again well represented by 12 University of North Texas students, alumni and faculty.
The National Symphony Orchestra with violinist Anne Akiko Meyers performed the world premiere of Blue Electra composed by UNT College of Music alumnus and multi-Grammy® award-winning Composer Michael Daugherty (BM ’76 - Composition).
Grammy, Oscar, 24-time Emmy nominee and 10-time Emmy winner, Bruce Broughton, returns to the University of North Texas College of Music as Media Composer In Residence for the seventh year.
Jon Nelson, Professor of Composition, received a University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement for the Arts Faculty Fellowship (IAA) for 2022-2023. The IAA allows faculty members a semester of leave to pursue creative research in the arts to promote artistic and creative expression at UNT.
The American Viola Society announced the winner of the 2022 Maurice Gardner Competition for Composers. First Prize was awarded to Daniel Sabzghabaei (BM '14, Honors College), for “Under This Blue of My Land” for viola and voice to be performed at the 2022 AVS Festival and the 47th International Viola Congress.
Anuj Bhutani (BM '21) has been awarded the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation's Morton Gould Award for “On Letting Go” for solo cello and live electronics.
The 2022 version and 38th edition of Fiske Guide to Colleges includes the University of North Texas College of Music to its list of “Large Universities Strong in Music.” There are 31 universities on this list.
The Hollywood Reporter has included the University of North Texas College of Music to its list of Top 20 Music Schools. Coming in at number 19, be sure to see the ranking details on page 78 at tinyurl.com/THRUNT
College Gazette named the University of North Texas the Best Performing Arts College in the United States. According to the authors, “These [ten institutions] are exceptionally prestigious schools that regularly invite major guest artists to campus, are highly selective, and have stellar faculty who are accomplished performing artists themselves.” In addition to the significant offerings of the College of Music, the ranking includes our friends in UNT Department of Dance and Theatre along with the extensive UNT Music Library.
http://collegegazette.com
The Yamaha Institution of Excellence program has included the UNT College of Music in its inaugural list of 10 distinguished colleges and universities recognizing extraordinary commitment to innovation in the study of music. “These schools rise to the level of exceptional academic leadership that first inspired Yamaha to introduce this vital program and we are eager to join with them in a shared mission,” said Dan Rodowicz, senior director, Institutional Sales, Yamaha. According to John W. Richmond, dean of UNT’s College of Music, “We are thrilled to be included in Yamaha’s inaugural class of Institutions of Excellence and are eager to evolve our relationship with Yamaha Corporation of America (YCA) from a transactional one to a collaborative one. We envision collaborations across domains in music performance, music technology, music education, music production/distribution, instrument design/engineering/testing, music business and musicians’ health. We believe this new way of work to be enlightened and momentous. We can’t wait to get started!”
https://tinyurl.com/yamahaunt
