The Diapason named Destin Wernicke (BM ’20 drum set), current Graduate Artist Certificate student in organ performance, to its list of 20 Under 30 Class of 2021 showcasing individuals who are ‘setting the pace for the future of the pipe organ, harpsichord, carillon, church music, and organ and harpsichord building.’

https://www.thediapason.com/content/diapason-20-under-30-class-2021

Mezzo-soprano Laura Krumm (MM ’12) is highlighted by San Francisco Opera article, “Inspired by Figaro, Mezzo-Soprano Laura Krumm Tackles The Barber of Seville.” Photo: Kristen Loken

https://tinyurl.com/UNTKrumm

Florida’s Pasco-Hernando State College (PHSC) has named Lauren Baker Murray (DMA ’02), as the inaugural executive director for the new Instructional Performing Arts Center (IPAC). Photo: Stephanie Roberts.

 DMA student and Teaching Fellow in the Division of Vocal Studies, Bree Nichols, was named a Fulbright Program scholar. Her work in the Czech Republic will create the first anthology of Czech art songs while including public performances and collaborative efforts with Czech universities.

Scott Scully, (BM ’99) tenor, made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Young Prisoner in From the House of the Dead in 2009 and begins his 11th season as a performer with the Metropolitan Opera. He is an affiliated Grammy winner for his participation in the LA Opera recording of Corigliano’s The Ghost of Versailles. In recent seasons, he has added Joe in La fanciulla del West, Remendado in Carmen, Gastone in La Traviata, Borsa in Rigoletto, Messenger in Samson et Dalila, Domo I in Der Rosenkavalier, the Dancing Master in Manon Lescaut, Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro, 2nd Priest in Die Zauberflöte, and Young Servant in Elektra.

Ariel Glassman was recently announced as one of 20 recipients of the ASCAP Foundation 2021 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards for her big band work, Captain Iso. 

https://www.arielshaglassman.com/bio/

The Dallas based Orpheus Chamber Singers announced the appointment of J.D. Burnett (DMA ’13) to the position of Artistic Director effective January 1, 2022.
 

https://www.orpheuschambersingers.org/

Texas Society for Music Theory - TSMT awarded Yiyi Gao) the Colvin Award for best student presentation at its annual meeting. Her presentation was entitled "Unveiling the Poetic-Musical Narrative and the Incomplete 'Urlinie': Recontextualizing Robert Schumann's Song 'Wehmut' Op. 39/9."

MidAmerica Productions tapped Ryan Sullivan, (DMA ’19) to conduct a concert of Felix Mendelsohn’s Jesu, Meine Freude and Antonín Dvořák’s Te Deum. He is Assistant Professor, Director of Choral Activities and Vocal Studies Coordinator at Arkansas State University.

The Southern Plains Chapter of The Society for Ethnomusicology awarded its 2020 Vida Chenoweth Prize for best paper to Yang Chen (MA, Ethnomusicology, ‘20). His paper is titled “Sounding the Ancestors: Sangpuy Katatepan Mavaliyw and the Ancestral Spirit Imaginary.”