Assistant Professor of Jazz Trumpet - Improvisation Emphasis, Philip Dizack, was featured in a six-page interview in a Polish language magazine where he also was headliner for their festival - Jazz nad Odra
Rosana Eckert directed the Kansas Honor Jazz Choir at the Kansas Choral Directors Association Summer convention in Topeka.
Sunnyside Records releases new 10 track album, “Way Back.” (funded in part by a 2022 @UNT Scholarly and Creative Activity award from the College of Music). One track called "Wintry Mix," is inspired by the North Texas landscape and weather.
Through a national juried competition, Jack Lanhardt (BM ’23) has received a Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award. The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation describes recipients as up-and-coming composers and are proud to be a part of their creative journey.
UNT graduate jazz piano student, Tomás Jonsson, WON The 2023 Jacksonville (Florida) Jazz Festival Piano Competition.
Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano, Dave Meder, releases “New American Hymnal.” The recording features fellow UNT faculty member Philip Dizack on trumpet. Meder describes the project “think of it as a "book of worship" for our American "civic religion."
UNT Assistant Professor of Music Business, Jessica Muñiz-Collado, has been published in the music trade magazine Music Connection Magazine. Her article "C.R.E.A.M. - Get the Money" can be found on the MC website homepage.
The University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts has selected Quincy Davis as a 2023-224 Advancement of the Arts Faculty Fellow. He will create a new musical composition for large ensemble titled “Empathy Suite,” inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic and the death of George Floyd.
University of North Texas Assistant Professor of Jazz Violin, Scott Tixier, was on the Yale campus as a guest of Hilary Hahn during her artist-in-residence. He also held a Masterclass on jazz strings improvisation.
Sarah Dunbar (DMA ’19 multiple woodwinds, MM ’17 multiple woodwinds, BM ’15 in jazz saxophone and BM ’15 in classical saxophone) accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Music (classical and jazz saxophone) at Jacksonville State University in Alabama.
Former first trumpet with the North Texas State University’s (UNT) One O'Clock Lab Band® Dan Fornero performed with the Oscar Awards Orchestra during the 95th presentation.
Duran Ritz (BM ’11) and his Vancouver, BC based alternative rock band RARE AMERICANS received a Canadian JUNO Award nomination for "Breakthrough Group of the Year." Duran played drums in the One O'Clock Lab Band®.
Congratulations to The Metropolitan Opera and University of North Texas College of Music alumna Latonia Moore receiving Best Opera Recording at the 65th GRAMMY Awards for "Fire Shut Up in My Bones."
Congratulations to Snarky Puppy and University of North Texas College of Music alumni Michael League, Shaun Martin, Justin Stanton, Chris Bullock and Mike Maher for receiving Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for "Empire Central" at the 65th GRAMMY Awards."
Michael Clement (BM ’18, MM ’21) won the inaugural Bob Ravenscroft International Jazz Piano Competition.
UNT Associate Professor Alan Baylock directed the First Jazz Band during the Arkansas All-State Music Conference – All-State Clinic performances.
Brendon Wilkins (BM ’16, MM ’19, Honors College) is serving as director of jazz ensemble, wind ensemble and applied music associate teaching woodwinds at Colby College.
Associate Professor and Division of Jazz Studies Chair, Rob Parton, directs both the Florida and New Mexico All State Jazz Bands.
Richard Scheinin spotlights saxophonist and composer Billy Harper (’65) in The New York Times.
Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano, Dave Meder, announced as a recipient of a commission from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works for Denton, Texas-based Psalmic Echoes Quartet. New Jazz Works ‘provides grants to U.S. jazz ensembles to create, perform, and if desired, record new works.’ It’s supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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.
Jeff Antoniuk (BM ‘90) is founder and CEO of JazzWire, Inc. a “creative and collaborative online learning community for Jazz students.”
Assistant Professor of Jazz Guitar's newest book, “Into the Labyrinth, An Anatomy of Position Playing for Jazz Guitar” released by Mel Bay Publications Inc.
Founded by University of North Texas alumna, Amanda Eckery (BM ’16, Honors College), El Paso Jazz Girls is recognizing its 5th Anniversary. In an effort to help celebrate, the UNT College of Music recently forwarded nine instruments for their student use.
Tyler Mire’s (BM ’10, MM ’12) Multiplayer Big Band released its first album "Critical Hits", featuring arrangements and originals from classic games such as Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger and Sonic the Hedgehog featuring more than 32 current and former University of North Texas North Texas Jazz | UNT Division of Jazz Studies alums.
