Assistant Professor Daphne Gerling elected to President-Elect of the American Viola Society. Dr. Gerling has served on the AVS board since 2014 and is coordinator of the 2024 American Viola Society Festival in Los Angeles.
Bryan Stevens Espinosa (PhD, Music Theory, ‘22), becomes Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Sam Houston State University.
UNT’s tuba and euphonium ensemble perform at the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference in Tempe, Arizona.
Crysten Ivy has won a clarinet position with the U.S. Marine Fleet Bands.
Lab West (Room 282) begins. The work includes infrastructure changes, acoustic improvements, new seating, the addition of an elevator, and restroom renovations, with additional improvements to enhance educational and audience experiences.
The UNT Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble performed at the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference in Tempe, Arizona.
Sunnyside Records releases new 10 track album, “Way Back.” (funded in part by a 2022 @UNT Scholarly and Creative Activity award from the College of Music). One track called "Wintry Mix," is inspired by the North Texas landscape and weather.
Daniel James Chan (BM ‘04) has released season one original score digital album of NBC’s Quantum Leap.
Aaron Jensen, trumpet (DMA ’20) becomes Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia (USA).
Eldred Marshall (DMA ’18) leads Mansfield Philharmonic as artistic director and conductor. D Magazine describes the ensemble as one of the most diverse orchestras in the United States.
University of North Texas PhD student Thomas Rinn has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Music Education at Texas State University, San Marcos.
The Journal of Research in Music Education has published Sassy and Strong: Intersections of Race, Attractional Orientation, and Gender Expression Within Music Education, by UNT Professor of Music Education, Don Taylor and colleague Rashaad Calaham. The narrative examines the experiences of a successful Black gay choral teacher in Texas.
Chair of the Division of Music Education, Sean Powell, published by Oxford University Press. The Ideology of Competition in School Music is available through Oxford University Press website.
Through a national juried competition, Jack Lanhardt (BM ’23) has received a Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award. The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation describes recipients as up-and-coming composers and are proud to be a part of their creative journey.
UNT graduate jazz piano student, Tomás Jonsson, WON The 2023 Jacksonville (Florida) Jazz Festival Piano Competition.
Penned by UNT Assistant Professor of Music History, Beth Snyder, the Winter 2023 edition of Music & Politics has published An Impulse to Transfigure and Render New'--The Anglo-Austrian Music Society in Wartime and Early Post-war Britain.
Matthew Dexter, bass-baritone, received the 2022-2023 Presser Award. Considered the most prestigious undergraduate award in music at UNT, the Presser Foundation Undergraduate Scholar award is presented annually to a student, at the conclusion of his or her junior year, who has shown extraordinary musical and academic accomplishments. The winner is nominated and selected by the UNT music faculty and receives the award from the Presser Foundation, which awards annual scholarships, grants and funds for furthering music education and music in America. The organization was founded in 1916 by Theodore Presser, music publisher and philanthropist.
The Journal of the American Musicological Society published Songs of the New World and the Breath of the Planet at the Orbis Spike, 1610: Toward a Decolonial Musicology of the Anthropocene by Andrew J. Chung, UNT Assistant Professor of Music Theory.
Marques L.A. Garrett joins us as Associate Professor of Choral Activities in the Division of Ensembles and Conducting. He earned a PhD in Music Education in Choral Conducting at Florida State University, the MM from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a BA from Hampton University. As a highly sought-after composer, his largest work to date, "Dreamland: Tulsa 1921" was a collaboration with librettist Sandra Seaton commissioned by Dallas, Texas based Turtle Creek Chorale telling the story of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. His research areas include vocal music of Black composers, non-idiomatic choral music of Black composers, the choral music of R. Nathaniel Dett, Negro spirituals and choral conducting/rehearsal techniques. He is the editor/compiler of "The Oxford Handbook of Choral Music by Black Composers" published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Garrett comes to Denton from the Glenn Korff School of Music at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.
UNT Assistant Professor of Music Education, Erika J. Knapp, along with colleagues, published Moving beyond data collection: Fostering community engagement in community music schools in the International Journal of Music Education.
Kourtney Strade-Austin (PhD ‘22, Performing Arts Health) has accepts the position of Assistant Professor of Voice/Choir at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Associate Professor of Music History, Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden, has received, in a rare occurrence, TWO nationally competitive awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities. An NEH Summer Stipend will support her research for a project entitled “Stories of Music, Luxury, and Loss in the Age of Revolutions (1760s–1820s).” The second award is the NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society allowing Dr. Geoffroy-Schwinden to carry out eight months of archival research at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. This research will culminate in a book about the musical and sonic world of the du Pont women's community from the French Revolution to the American Civil War.
University of North Texas Associate Professor of Cello, Horacio Contreras, with fellow Reveron Piano Trio’s, Simón Gollo and Ana María Otamendi, have released Iberoamérica: Trios by Villa-Lobos, Turina, and Ponce. Released by Ibs Classical. Photo: Natali Herrera-Pacheco.
Lindsay Pope (DMA ‘19) won the position of Assistant Professor of Choral Activities at the University of Massachusetts. She won the American Choral Directors Association Julius Herford Dissertation Prize and has been serving UMASS as interim DCA.
UNT Professor of Music Theory, David Bard-Schwarz, has a published chapter titled, “Modes of Understanding Disruption in the First Movement of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony,” in the book Ästhetische Normativität in der Musik. Edited by Tobias Janz and Jens Gerrit Papenburg, the publisher is Verlag Vittorio Klostermann edit the book.
