Degrees from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (BA, 1984), University of California, San Diego (MA, 1986), and Indiana University (DMus, 1991). Composition studies with Roger Reynolds, Robert Erickson, Harvey Sollberger, and Claude Baker. Interests in intermedia composition, musical process, and fractal aesthetics. UNT appointment: 1992.
Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Faculty
Joseph Klein
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Chair of Composition Studies
Chair of Composition Studies
Courses taught:
MU 2005 •
(940) 565-4926
Beginning/Class Composition, The Music of Frank Zappa
Kirsten Broberg
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Degrees from Concordia College, (BM, 2001), University of Minnesota (MA, 2003), and Northwestern University (DMus, 2009). Composition studies with Augusta Read Thomas, Jay Alan Yim, Jason Eckardt, and Judith Lang Zaimont. Interests in spectral music, orchestration, extended instrumental techniques, musical process, text setting and music for dance. UNT appointment: 2013.
Courses taught:
MU 1005 •
(940) 369-7040
Orchestration, The Contemporary Voice, Spectralism
Bruce Broughton
Composer-in-Residence
Award-winning composer of film, television, video game, and concert music. Credits include scores to the films Silverado (Academy Award nomination), Tombstone, The Rescuers Down Under, and Young Sherlock Holmes (Grammy Award nomination, Saturn Award); the television series Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, Quincy, M.E., Dallas, and dozens more (record 10 Emmy Award wins and 24 nominations); and the video game Heart of Darkness. Performances by the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the National Symphony, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. UNT appointment: 2017.
Sungji Hong
Lecturer
Degrees from University of York (PhD, 2004), Royal Academy of Music in London (MMus, 2000), and Hanyang University (BA, 1997). Composition studies with Nicola Lefanu, Robert Saxton, and Paul Patterson. Interests in orchestration, music for dance, text setting, mixed media, and music with non-western instruments. UNT appointment: 2018.
Courses taught:
MU 2008 •
(940) 891-6816
Sophomore Composition Seminar, Composer/Choreographer Collaboration
Panayiotis Kokoras
Associate Professor
Director of CEMI
Director of CEMI
Degrees from University of York (MA, 2000; PhD, 2004). Composition studies with Tony Myatt, Yiannis Ioannidis, and Anri Kergomard. Interests in sound-based composition (instrumental and electroacoustic), mixed music, transcontextuality, music information retrieval compositional strategies, and timbre studies. UNT appointment: 2012.
Courses taught:
MU 2004 •
(940) 565-4651
Studies in Timbre, Music for Videogames, Acoustic Ecology
Andrew May
Associate Professor
Interim Director of CEMI (2019-20)
Interim Director of CEMI (2019-20)
Degrees from Yale University (BA, 1990), California Institute of the Arts (MFA, 1994), and University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2000). Composition and computer music studies with Roger Reynolds, Miller Puckette, Mel Powell, and Jonathan Berger. Interests in chamber music with live interactive computer systems, statistical analysis of real-time music data, extended notations and improvisation; also an active violinist. UNT appointment: 2005.
Courses taught:
MU 1003 •
(940) 891-6816
History and Techniques of Electroacoustic Music, Interactive Composition, Music of György Ligeti, Performing Electroacoustic Music
Elizabeth McNutt
Principal Lecturer
Director of Nova Ensemble
Director of Nova Ensemble
Degrees from St. Louis Conservatory (BM, 1990) and University of California, San Diego (MA, 1994; DMA, 2000). Flute studies with Harvey Sollberger, John Fonville, and Jacob Berg; computer music studies with Miller Puckette. Specialization in performance of experimental and virtuosic new repertoire, including computer music; collaboration in development of new works. UNT appointment: 2005.
Courses taught:
MU 2012 •
(940) 565-3706
Nova Ensemble, Contemporary Notation and Performance Practices, Performing Electroacoustic Music
Jon Nelson
Professor
Associate Dean for Operations
Associate Dean for Operations
Degrees from Bethel College (BA, 1982) and Brandeis University (MFA, 1988; PhD, 1991). Composition studies with Allen Anderson, Arthur Berger, Martin Boykan, and Charles Dodge. Extensive experience in electroacoustic and acoustic music with specializations in software synthesis, digital signal processing, and set-theoretical compositional strategies. UNT appointment: 1996.
Courses taught:
MU 247C •
(940) 369-7531
Programming Virtual Instruments, Composing for Loudspeakers, Physical Modeling, Structural Multiplicities
Drew Schnurr
Assistant Professor (Composition and Media Arts)
Degrees from Western Michigan University (BM, 1996), University of Southern California (MM, 2005), and University of California Los Angeles (PhD, 2013). Media composer for numerous world brands and media conglomerates. Concert composer and sound artist with diverse range of international commissions and exhibits. Interests in sonic-visual aesthetics, music and speech, film music and music/sound for new media. UNT appointment: 2018.
Courses taught:
MU 2003 •
940-369-7286
Music in Film and Digital Media, Sonic-Visual Aesthetics, Digital Orchestration
David Stout
Professor (Composition and New Media)
Coordinator of iARTA
Coordinator of iARTA
Degrees from the University of Oregon (BFA, 1980 — Visual Art & Design) and California Institute of the Arts (MFA, 1985 — Film/Video & Music). Intermedia, Cinema, Music and Performance studies with Ed Emshwiller, Jules Engel, Jim Pomeroy, Barry Schrader, Michael Scroggins, Gene Youngblood and Bill Viola. Interdisciplinary art and technology works include live cinema performance, generative systems, video-dance, animation, sound-art, and telematic video events that integrate multi-screen environments as an extension of performer, audience and architecture. UNT appointment: 2009.
Courses taught:
MU 345 •
(940) 369-5127
Intermedia Performance Arts, Inter-Arts Seminar.
Affiliated Faculty
These faculty teach courses outside of the Composition Division that help support the program's mission for collaborative and interdisciplinary opportunities
Affiliated Faculty
These faculty teach courses outside of the Composition Division that help support the program's mission for collaborative and interdisciplinary opportunities
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli
Distinguished Research Professor (Physics, Chemistry)
Degrees from the University of Rome - La Sapienza (Laurea in Physics, 1989) and the International School for Advanced Studies (PhD in Condensed Matter Theory, 1993). Composer, flutist, computational materials physicist, and an active member of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI) and the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA). Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Institute of Physics, and Parma Recordings Artist. Main artistic focus on experimental music and new media, music and data, interactive performance, art and science. UNT Appointment: 2012.
Courses taught:
PHYS 314 •
(940)369-8596
Computational Physics, Advanced Computational Physics
Richard DeRosa
Professor (Jazz Studies)
Director of Jazz Composition and Arranging
Director of Jazz Composition and Arranging
Degrees from New Jersey City University (BM in Music Education, 1977) and Manhattan School of Music (MM in Jazz Composition, 1984). Composition studies with Mike Gibbs. Extensive experience in jazz composition and arranging for big band and orchestra as well as film/video/TV scoring, musical theater, and vocal ensemble writing in jazz and traditional styles. UNT appointment: 2010.
Courses taught:
MU 339 •
(940) 565-4655
Jazz Arranging, Advanced Jazz Arranging, Graduate Jazz Arranging, Composition for the Media.
Jonathan "Capital" Patterson
Assistant Professor of Popular and Commercial Music
Degrees from University of Southern California (BA in Interdisciplinary Studies, 1997; DMA in Guitar Performance, 2011) and University of California, Berkeley (MA in Ethnomusicology, 1999). Research areas include Japanese music, language, and culture, commercial music, popular music performance, and audio production. UNT appointment: 2018.
Courses taught:
MU 2010
Audio Recording & Editing, MIDI Sequencing, Songwriting.
