UNT welcomes Barbara Dietlinger to the faculty of the College of Music as Assistant Professor of Music History. She comes to us from the University of Southern Mississippi where she served as an Assistant Professor of Music.

Júlia Coelho is a UNT doctoral candidate in vocal performance (DMA) and musicology (PhD) with related fields in early music and in music theory. This Presser Award supports a recording project of her song cycle-monodrama, “O Tempo fora do Tempo: uma viagem cronológica sobre o Tempo e Doença" (“Time Outside of Time: A Chronological Journey on Time and Illness,” 2023), written for Pierrot Ensemble and Júlia Coelho, soprano. The work sets her poetry written in European Portuguese to the music of composer Kory Reeder.

Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Andrew J. Chung, has been awarded a nine-month fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. Chung’s fellowship will assist him in the completion of his book, “Music’s Long Anthropocene: The Climate of Empire and the Sound of Ecological Disaster.”

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.