Alumnus from the University of North Texas division of music history, theory and ethnomusicology, Emily Roman (BA ’22), was recipient of a University Writing Award for her essay, “Nietzsche’s Wagner.”
University of North Texas music education and flute graduate, Emily Fiasco (BM ’12), won the July 13 episode of Jeopardy! She is also cousin to UNT College of Music development support coordinator, Phillip Marion (BM '14). She is shown here on set with host Mayim Bialik (l).
Upon basic training completion, Teddy Van Winkle, trombone, will join the USAF Band of the Golden West in Fairfield, California.
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.
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.
Countertenor and University of North Texas lecturer, Daniel Bubeck, was among the soloists singing El Niño composed and conducted by John Adams at The May Festival with the Festival Chorus, Youth Chorus and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Emily Hicks wins grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She’ll be working in Germany on her project, “Music of Augsburg: The Cultural Impact of Civic Musicians in Early Modern Germany.” She will visit the Stadtarchiv Augsburg and the Staats-und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, to examine the Augsburger Baumeisterbücher (city council financial documents), guild books and craftsmen files related to musician employment from the era.
Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Andrew Chung, published a review-essay entitled “Music Theory Splintered Up, Not Broken Down: The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory,” in Music Theory Spectrum.
Senior, Seth Carter, has been invited to be a featured recitalist at the 2022 The United States Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conference as a Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival Artist Division Gold Medalist. Seth is a University of North Texas double major in tuba performance and music education.
Conducted by University of North Texas alumnus Clinton Hardy, (MMED ’18), Trinity Springs Middle School Varsity Treble Choir has been invited by the Texas Music Educators Association to perform at the 2023 state convention in San Antonio.
University of North Texas Associate Professor of Harp, Jaymee Haefner, along with colleague Matt Milewski, recently premiered three works at the American Harp Society, Inc. national conference in South Dakota. In a concert entitled “Stringscapes” Crimson Duo performed Libby Larsen’s, “…snow-haze, moonlight,” Jeffrey Paul’s “The Dust in My Eyes, the Cracks on My Hands” and Kirsten Soriano, Composer's “Aqua Luminous.”
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Jordan Boyd and McKenna Stenson have each been named finalists for the American Prize Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting.
Tenor, Vineel Garisa Mahal (MM ‘19), has just been announced as a member of the GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer. See Vineel solo with the University of North Texas A Cappella Choir, conducted by Allen Hightower, in a 2017 performance at 5:25 below.
Rector Martin Procházka of Palacky University in Olomouc welcomed (l-r) Paul Leenhouts, UNT early music studies director; Martin Procházka; Benjamin Graf, coordinator of the UNT Czech Republic music initiative and graduate assistant Karim Ayala Pool, DMA violin student.
The Texas Music Educators Association announces that the University of North Texas Wind Symphony, conducted by Eugene Migliaro Corporon, will perform at the 2023 state convention in San Antonio.
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.
Artega Wright performed the role of Porgy in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess for the Des Moines Metro Opera reflecting his mainstage debut. He is a DMMO Frank R. Brownell III Apprentice Artist.
The Children's Chorus of San Antonio announced Carolyn Cruse (BM ’94) as its new Artistic Director.
University of North Texas Professor of Jazz Saxophone, Brad Leali, spoke to Dallas/Fort Worth’s NBC Channel 5 about African American Music Appreciation Month.
The Jazz Journalists Association names Amanda Ekery (BM ’16, Honors College) as the 2022 El Paso Jazz Award Hero. She is "committed to the growth, evolution and advancement of gender equality within jazz's national and international communities."
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.
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.
Michael League, four-time Grammy winner, featured in the June issue of DownBeat Magazine.
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.
