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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.
The Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia has announced that Nicholas Enrico Williams (DMA ’09, MM ’04, BM ’97) as Professor of Conducting and Director of Bands.
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.
Current University of North Texas DMA student in choral conducting, McKenna Stenson, has been appointed as Associate Director of Choral Studies/Professor of Practice at the University of Kansas.
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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Vivek Virani published his article, “From Satsang to Stage: Negotiating Aesthetic Theologies and Aspirational Subjectivities in a North Indian Bhajan Competition,” in his discipline’s flagship journal, Ethnomusicology.
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.
Zoe Czarnecki has been named a 2022 Fulbright recipient to Germany.
Brownsville, Texas welcomes Aaron Jensen (DMA ’20) as Assistant Professor of Trumpet at UT – Rio Grande Valley.
Samuel Gaskin (MM '18) has been named a 2022 Fulbright recipient of the Study/Research Program to France.
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."
Mason Soria (BM ’20) has won the full-time principal tuba position with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra (Virginia).
