Carol Pollard joined the College of Music Advising team in 1998 and serves as the director of undergraduate advising. Carol serves on several UNT advising leadership committees. She was awarded the UCAN Eagle Award for Academic Advising in 2005, a UNT Staff Contribution Award in 2006 and the UCAN Professional Development Award in 2009. Her previous teaching experience includes beginning music theory and private piano and voice.

Jon Christopher Nelson's electroacoustic music has been performed widely throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America, and has been honored with numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Fulbright Commission. He is also the recipient of a Bourges Prize, Luigi Russolo Prize, and numerous electroacoustic commissions.

Virtuoso flutist Elizabeth McNutt discovered her passion for new and adventurous music almost as soon as she began playing. She has dedicated herself to this path, commissioning and premiering countless new works and becoming an expert interpreter of the masterpieces of the last century.

Composer Andrew May is best known for innovative instrumental works with live interactive computer systems, and has created numerous tools for statistical tracking and modeling of musical behaviors. Most of their works, however, explore issues of interaction in an acoustic context, using extensions of notational practice to celebrate the subtle and varied ways performers negotiate time and phrasing in chamber ensembles. This grows from May's life-long engagement as a performer, primarily on the violin (they also play mandolin, guitar, and viola da gamba).

Kokoras is an internationally award-winning composer and computer music innovator, and currently Professor of composition and CEMI director (Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia) at the University of North Texas. Hailing from Greece, he underwent formal training in classical guitar and composition in Athens (Dip), Greece, and later in York, England (MA, PhD). He taught for many years at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.

Born in Los Angeles in 1962, Joseph Klein is a composer of solo, chamber, and large ensemble works, including instrumental, vocal, electroacoustic, and intermedia compositions. His music—which has been described as “a dizzying euphoria... like a sonic tickling with counterpoint gone awry” (NewMusicBox) and exhibiting a “confident polyvalence [that] heightens its very real excitement” (The Wire)—reflects an ongoing interest in processes drawn from such sources as fractal geometry, chaos, and systems theory, often inspired by natural phenomena.

Praised as a world-class artist, and with an international reputation in several facets of the music industry, Rosana Eckert wears many hats as a versatile live and studio vocalist, a dynamic improviser, a creative songwriter and arranger, and a masterful educator of jazz and voice. She has performed and recorded with many jazz luminaries, including Christian McBride, Bobby McFerrin, George Duke, Bill Mays, Jon Faddis, Marvin Stamm, and the New York Voices.

Richard DeRosa received a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Composition in 2015 for his big band composition Neil which is dedicated to Neil Slater, the former director of the One O’Clock Lab Band (University of North Texas). His 8-movement work titled Life in Poetry and Music, featuring world-renowned vocalist Kurt Elling supported by a jazz quartet, orchestra, and treble choir, was premiered at UNT in March 2022.

Colleen Conlon serves as the Senior Graduate Academic Counselor in the advising offices for the University of North Texas College of Music.

The music of award-winning composer Kirsten Soriano has been presented on public radio, public television and film festivals and has been performed by internationally renowned artists at world-class venues such as Carnegie Hall.