- August 2016 Congratulations Students Percussionists Benji Baker and Adrian Valdarrama won positions in the Japan tour of the Off Broadway show Blast.Third-year DMA soprano Samantha Kantak was a featured soloist at the McCall Summerfest. Under the baton of Music Director David Itkin, she performed a concert of arias and an evening of hits from Broadway. She studies with Carol Wilson.Dan Kyzer, doctoral classical guitar student, took 4th prize at the Sierra Nevada Guitar Festival.Incoming freshman tubist Mason Soria won the Mock Orchestra Audition Competition at the 2016 Rafael Mend...
- February 2016 CongratulationsStudentDoctoral student Timothy Harenda has been named a finalist in the 2016 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition for his piece Purple Quartz. One of 4 finalists, the winners will be announced at the SEAMUS National Conference at Georgia Southern University.Brandon K. McDannald (DMA, horn) was named Interim Director of Bands for Texas Woman's University for Spring 2016. He will conduct their band, jazz band, teach music education classes, and horn.Laura Pillman won First Place in the Coeur d'Alene Symphony Young Artist Competition. She will perform the Ib...
- December 2015 CongratulationsStudentsDoctoral Teaching Fellow Justin Binek (DMA Jazz Studies, '17), has been invited to be a performer and clinician at the 2016 Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. The NYJF is part of a larger National Arts Festival, which has been held annually every July since 1974. Justin will be performing at multiple venues with other clinicians from around the world; he will also be giving master classes and workshops and directing the NYJF choir. For more information, visit http://www.youthjazz.co.za/.Daniel Matthews was awarded an...
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June 2015 Congratulations
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Jazz Studies doctoral teachingfellow Justin Binek and WesternMichigan University professor emeritus Diana Spradling co-authored "Pedagogy For The Jazz Singer," which was published inthe June issue of the Choral Journal, theofficial publication of the American Choral Directors Associati...
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May 2015Congratulations
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At the spring meeting ofthe AMS-Southwest Chapter, held at UNT on April 11, Robert MichaelAnderson gave a talk, “Lateness and the Death of the Poetic Idea:Beethoven’s Funeral March in Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen,” aswinner of the Hewitt-Öberdörffer Award.
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April 2015 Congratulations (with One Sadness at the End)
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March 2015 Congratulations
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JoelAuringer’s (DMA, clarinet, student of Kimberly Luevano) article “FreeImprovisation and the Studio Instructor” was published in the fall 2014 NACWPI Journal.
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February 2015 Congratulations
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January 2015 Congratulations
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