Josefina Maldonado, mezzo-soprano, (BM’19), returns to Severance Hall to be featured soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra in 3 performances of Julia Perry’s “Stabat Mater” conducted by Dalia Stasevska.

The College of Music announces that Liudmila Georgievskaya will join the faculty as Assistant Professor of Piano.

UNT Willis Library Special Collections presented horn player and UNT alumnus, Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, authors of Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love.

With a by-line by Carly May Gravley, the Dallas Observer published an article highlighting the @UNT commercial music degree. It includes interviews with program coordinator Federico Llach, alumna Ashleigh Smith and Grammy-winning producer and engineer Tre Nagella.

The UNT College of Music joins in celebrating Julie Hohman’s appointment as Director of the UNT Murchison Performing Arts Center.

Students Serim Kim and Natalie Wagner have been selected for the Women In Jazz Organization Mentors program. Natalie will be studying with saxophonist, Erica Von Kleist while Serim will be working with pianist, Dawn Clement Music. The mentorship is “designed to connect and enrich the community of women and non-binary people in Jazz. The program provides strong role models to up-and-coming jazz musicians and composers in a safe and supportive environment and offers a way for established jazz musicians and composers on the scene to actively participate in and help shape the future of their art form.”

The College of Music announced that Mark Tempesta will join the faculty as Assistant Professor of Voice and Vocal Pedagogy.

Trumpeter Jacquelyn Lankford, (DMA ’19), announced one of Yamaha Music USA’s 40 Under 40 Music Educators for 2024. She created and lead Women Composing for Trumpet Competition and the Powerful Women in Music Concert Series. She is Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Mississippi State University.

University of North Texas musicology PhD student studying Iberian and Latin American music and who is also artistic director of the Austin Baroque Orchestra, Billy Traylor, conducted “Terremoto!,” a retelling of the story of the 1755 Lisbon, Portugal earthquake through Baroque orchestra and choir. Concerts were performed in Austin and San Antonio.

UNT College of Music Assistant Dean for Scholarships and External Affairs, Raymond Rowell, appeared on Arts Engines with Aaron Dworkin. The show “highlights the perspectives of the thought leaders and game-changers who are creating significant impact in the field of the arts.” Arts Engines reaches more than 100,000 weekly making it one of the most widely viewed arts shows in the United States.

Chair of the Division of Instrumental Studies and Professor of Clarinet, Kimberly Cole Luevano, received the 2024 Creative Impact Award from the University of North Texas Division of Research and Innovation. The award is granted to a member of the faculty, “whose research accomplishments or creative endeavors have been truly outstanding.”

Two-time Grammy-winning University of North Texas alumnus LECRAE (’02) became a four-time winner. He won for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for “Church Clothes 4.” He studied sociology and electronic media as a UNT student and was influenced by the College of Music.