Júlia Coelho is a UNT doctoral candidate in vocal performance (DMA) and musicology (PhD) with related fields in early music and in music theory. This Presser Award supports a recording project of her song cycle-monodrama, “O Tempo fora do Tempo: uma viagem cronológica sobre o Tempo e Doença" (“Time Outside of Time: A Chronological Journey on Time and Illness,” 2023), written for Pierrot Ensemble and Júlia Coelho, soprano. The work sets her poetry written in European Portuguese to the music of composer Kory Reeder.

University of North Texas musicology PhD student studying Iberian and Latin American music and who is also artistic director of the Austin Baroque Orchestra, Billy Traylor, conducted “Terremoto!,” a retelling of the story of the 1755 Lisbon, Portugal earthquake through Baroque orchestra and choir. Concerts were performed in Austin and San Antonio.

Professor of Music Theory, Stephen Slottow, was interviewed by Berry Crawford on Simplicity Zen Podcast about his practice history and book, "The Americanization of Zen Chanting," published by Boydell & Brewer.

Assistant Professor of Music History, Brian Wright presents his paper, “Before Bootsy: James Brown’s Early Electric Bassists and the Development of Funk,” at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, United States branch Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Assistant Professor of Music History Brian Wright's article, "What Kenny G Can Teach Us About Jazz," published in the Journal of Jazz Studies.

Penned by UNT Assistant Professor of Music History, Beth Snyder, the Winter 2023 edition of Music & Politics has published An Impulse to Transfigure and Render New'--The Anglo-Austrian Music Society in Wartime and Early Post-war Britain.

Associate Professor of Music History, Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden, has received, in a rare occurrence, TWO nationally competitive awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities. An NEH Summer Stipend will support her research for a project entitled “Stories of Music, Luxury, and Loss in the Age of Revolutions (1760s–1820s).” The second award is the NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society allowing Dr. Geoffroy-Schwinden to carry out eight months of archival research at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. This research will culminate in a book about the musical and sonic world of the du Pont women's community from the French Revolution to the American Civil War.

Tamar Sella joins us as Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Division of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. Her current research is “an ethnographic study of contemporary Mizrahi performance and cultural memory that seeks to illuminate the ways in which ongoing Jewish diasporic formations reframe colonial and racial logics in Israel/Palestine.” She holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD from Harvard University. She comes to us from Rice University where she is the Samuel W. and Goldye Marian Spain Postdoctoral Fellow.

During the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory (SMT) conference held in Utah, UNT student Xiao Yun’s paper, "The Ignored Modal Mixture—The Chromatic Submediant in Minor Keys,” received the Best Student Paper award.

University of North Texas Distinguished Research Professor of Music and Anthropology, Steven Friedson, will keynote speak at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. Ritual Transformations of Consciousness is the institute's second annual conference in the Black sacred arts underway May 15 in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy won an award for outstanding multi-author publication from the Society for Music Theory featuring one chapter by Associate Professor of Music Theory David Heetderks with another by Doug Donley (MA ’16, PhD ‘21) and Andrew Vagts (PhD ‘20).