STUDENT SUCCESS: Master of Music jazz pianist Michael Clement received the "Yamaha Award" at the American Jazz Pianist Competition in New York City, judged by Elio Villafranca, Jim McNeely, and Jeremy Siskind. The award covers production costs for a future album recording at Yamaha Artist Services.
Among other experiences and accolades, Williams is a member of the University of North Texas College of Music Advancement Board.
He will perform with the Army Concert Band in June on the West steps of the U.S. Capitol.
STUDENT SUCCESS: Congratulations to UNT DMA student Joshua Brown on his appointment as Director of Choral Activities at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
He is violist in UNT's inaugural undergraduate string quartet, the Primo Volo String Quartet. photo: Elle Logan
STUDENT SUCCESS: DMA candidate, Ryan Sullivan, has been appointed as Director of Choral Activities at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas.STUDENT SUCCESS: DMA candidate, Ryan Sullivan, has been appointed as Director of Choral Activities at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Associate Professor of jazz saxophone, Brad Leali, has won the UNT FOUNDATION COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD. "On behalf of the UNT Foundation and the Office of Faculty Success, we appreciate your service and leadership to the students, the community and the campus. Your dean and department chair were instrumental in your nomination for this award," Linda Holloway, PhD, CRC, Interim Associate Vice Provost, Office of Faculty Success.
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: DMA student, Limeng Zhang, recently performed at Carnegie Hall as a first prize winner of the International Golden Classical Music Awards
FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: Joshua Taylor, adjunct instructor of Sacred Music, had an article published in the Call to Worship Journal, a quarterly publication of the Presbyterian Church (USA), entitled “And This Shall Be Our Response to Violence: Singing in Times of Trial.” It chronicles his experience planning the music for the interfaith service in Dallas, Texas for the fallen police officers in 2016.
Brian Anderson - “Gratuitous Repetition and Formal Function in Scarlatti’s Sonatas”; Bryan Stevens- “Theorizing Sonata Form from the Margins: The Spanish Keyboard Sonata from 1744 to c. 1790”; Levi Walls - “Composing out Notre-dame: How Louise Bertin Musically Represents the Hugolian Themes of Fate and Decay in La Esmeralda”.
UNT produces more military musicians than any other university in the United States.
ALUMNA SUCCESS: Yu Nishiyama (BM '17), a Jazz Studies graduate, has been named as one of 18 recipients of the ASCAP Foundation 2019 Herb Alpert Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award.
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Brandon K. McDannald (DMA '18) is guest conducting the Florida Wind Band and is in his second year as Director of Bands at the University of Tampa, where he directs the wind ensemble and jazz band, coordinates the music education program, supervises student teachers, and teaches applied horn.
Sichuan Normal University is a first-tier university in Sichuan province, China. The Conservatory of Music has 2,080 undergraduate students, 214 graduate students, and 108 faculty. It offers degrees in instrumental performance, vocal performance, music pedagogy, and musicology.
