David Childs and Raquel Rodriquez Samayoa conduct the University of North Texas Brass Band at 7:30 tonight in the Murchison Performing Arts Center. The world premiere of Mill City Flourish, by Stamp will be conducted by Raquel Rodriquez Samayoa. Other selections include works by Lovatt-Cooper, Williams, Bates, Price and Jenkins.

Music students in the Voertman Concert Hall lobby reminding our community that the University of North Texas requests that everyone wear a face mask indoors to keep our campus community safe.

Three university choral programs led by University of North Texas Choral Studies alumni have been invited to perform for the 2022 National Collegiate Choral Organization conference. Brian A. Schmidt is Associate Professor of Choral Music and Director of Graduate Choral Studies at Baylor University School of Music, Karen Kenaston-French is Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities at The University of Texas at Arlington - Department of Music and Cameron F. LaBarr is Director of Choral Studies and Associate Professor at Missouri State University Music Department. https://ncco9.ncco-usa.org/cpv#wmu

“’Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ at the Met, a watershed moment for American opera,” so says Michael Andor Brodeur in a review of the show's premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. "Billie, the mother of the Blow boys, sung in a show-stealing star turn by soprano Latonia Moore, who brought equal measures of grace and force to the role, and provided an emotional center of gravity that kept the family — and the opera — well-anchored."

https://tinyurl.com/WPMoore

Raymond Rowell, Assistant Dean for Enrollment Management and External Affairs, was interviewed in Voertman Concert Hall for a documentary outlining the College of Music partnerships with the Texas Health Presbyterian, Dallas and the Dallas ISD.

Austin Ford, trumpet (BM ’21) has been named winner of the 2021 The United States Army Band Solo Competition Winner (collegiate division).

https://www.usarmyband.com/competitions.

Dzmitry Ulasiuk (DMA ‘21) will be performing with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra at the Plaza Theater in El Paso, the Plano Symphony Orchestra at the Eisemann Center in Richardson and with the Irving Symphony Orchestra at the Irving Arts Center.

Dave Meder’s new album, “Unamuno Songs and Stories,” featuring Philip Dizack with Quincy David and Eric Hitt was showcased in Lab West.

Clay Couturiaux conducts the Concert Orchestra performing Concerto in B-flat Major for Two Pianos, Opus 63 by Jan Ladislav Dusík, Petronel Malan and Steven Harlos, piano and the Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Opus 88 in Winspear Performance Hall at the Murchison Performing Arts Center

Before you find your seat for the opera TONIGHT in the Lyric Theater, be sure to enjoy the 7 p.m. performance of the Texas Boys Choir in the Winspear Performance Hall both located in the Murchison Performing Arts Center.

Conducted by the music director of the National Theatre in Prague, Jaroslav Kyzlin, the UNT Opera presents the final performance Prodaná nevěsta (The Bartered Bride) by Bedřich Smetana with libretto by Karel Sabina, TOMMOROW afternoon at 3. Sung in Czech.

Tyler Tashdjian, DMA student, and 3-2-1 Winds will perform at the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Conference. Their presentation, American Works for Wind Quintet, includes Samuel Barber’s “Summer Music” and Robert Muczynski’s “Quintet for Winds.” The NACWPI 2021 conference is hosted by Texas Woman's University. Ensemble members include Tracy Collins, flute, Brooke Van Veen, oboe, Tyler Tashdjian, clarinet, Gabby Swackhamer, horn and Joshua Nordland, bassoon.