CORPORON SPECIAL GUEST CONDUCTOR IN MAINE: Jacqueline Townsend (DMA '18) Director of Wind Studies at the University of Southern Maine hosted UNTCoM's Director of Wind Studies and Regents Professor, Eugene Migliaro Corporon, as he conducted at the culminating concert of the USM conducting workshop.

https://usm.maine.edu/publicaffairs/band-leaders-gather-hone-conducting-skills-usms-school-music

VOCAL JAZZ SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCED: The College of Music announces its first-ever scholarship endowment in Vocal Jazz. The grant made to the Division of Jazz Studies is from the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation.

www.ellafitzgerald.com/foundation

His PhD is in music education with a piano pedagogy emphasis.

FACULTY IN PITTSBURGH: Assistant Professor and tenor, William Joyner sang the role of Siegmund while Professor Jonathan Eaton, the UNT Margot and Bill Winspear Chair in Opera Studies, directed Pittsburgh Festival Opera's production of Wagner’s “The Valkyrie.”

https://pittsburghfestivalopera.org/

Attendees of the national convention in Dallas (TX) visited the #UNT campus Thursday with a number of lectures and recitals planned and open to the public.

https://organ.music.unt.edu/instruments

https://organhistoricalsociety.org/

Sean Powell, Chair of Music Education presented "One-Dimensional Praxis: The Ideology of Performance and Competition in Music Education" https://mdg31.weebly.com/sean-robert-powell.html

Associate Professor Donna Emmanuel and Assistant Professor Crystal Gerrard co-presented "Reconceptualizing Community Engagement: An Ecology of Wholeness" https://mdg31.weebly.com/crystal-gerrard--donna-emmanuel.html

A student note of thanks posted on the office door of Benjamin Graf, Senior Lecturer of Music Theory.

Writing about inclusivity, "...the formal jazz-study hubs for aspiring musicians, such as the Juilliard School, Berklee College of Music, the University of North Texas College of Music, the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, and the University of Michigan, which have opened the music to women and other students from all backgrounds." Seven mentioned in the article will be guests on campus while two have performed on campus. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/07/women-in-jazz-sisterhood

ALUMNUS NEWS: Jesse Orth (MM '10 & DMA '15) has been appointed to a tenure track faculty position at Texas A&M University at Kingsville as Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium.