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.”

UNT Assistant Professor of trumpet and co-director of the UNT Brass Band, featured in Brass Band World Magazine 
https://www.brassbandworld.co.uk/preview/index.php

Assistant Professor of Jazz Violin, Scott Tixier, performed on the Best Contemporary R&B Album (John Legend).

Soprano Latonia Moore portrayed Serena in the Metropolitan Opera production of Porgy and Bess - Best Opera Recording.

Mellonee Burnim (BM ‘71) gave the keynote address at the 2021 Society for Christian Scholarship in Music Conference presenting "Aretha's Amazing Grace: Symbol of African American Religious and Cultural Identity."
http://tinyurl.com/UNTMelloneeBurnim

Assistant Professor of Music Theory Andrew Chung’s article, Music as sexual violence? Investigating the case of bar/club-based sex trafficking and sonic harm, was published in the interdisciplinary journal. 
http://tinyurl.com/19qwn84n

Jacqueline Foertsch, chair of the Faculty Awards Committee, announced Eric Nestler, Distinguished Teaching Professor (Saxophone), as recipient of a 2021 President’s Council Teaching Award.