DENTON (UNT), Texas -- A University of North Texas broadcast student will visit the White House April 28 for the first College Reporter Day, an opportunity for student reporters to discuss issues relevant to college campuses with senior administration officials.
Jessy Diamba, a 20-year-old junior broadcast and digital journalism major in the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism, will join a select group of other student reporters from around the nation for a day full of briefings and events at the White House, including a briefing...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The University of North Texas Grammy-nominated One O'Clock Lab Band has an exciting summer in store – they are recording a new album and heading to Australia.
"Our student musicians will assist in leading concerts and clinics at the James Morrison Academy, perform for thousands of jazz students from all across Australia as featured headliner at the Generations of Jazz Festival, and collaborate with numerous jazz professionals and jazz orchestras from Australia and around the world," said One O'Clock Lab Band Director Jay Saunders. "This is a major recruiting...
What: Daniel Pardo, winner of the 2016 Sherman-Barsanti Inspiration Award, is reuniting his band From a Land Far Away for a Dallas concert.
When: 7 p.m. June 11 (Saturday).
Where: Gilley's – South Side Music Hall, 1135 S. Lamar St., Dallas.
Cost: $25, concert only; $50, concert and three hour drink ticket; $75, concert, dinner and drinks.
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- University of North Texas College of Music student Daniel Pardo has won the $10,000 top prize in UNT's 2016 Sherman-Barsanti...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- University of North Texas alumnus Fouad Fakhouri has been honored with a $1.1 million endowment by the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra. The Fouad K. Fakhouri Endowment for Artistic Excellence will be used to help support activities of the orchestra including its seasonal concerts.
"My experience with the FSO has been exceptionally rewarding and fulfilling," Fakhouri said. "I have been able to achieve the artistic goals that I set when I first took over as music director and feel really positive and very proud of the...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The University of North Texas College of Music will expand offerings of classes in career development and music entrepreneurship this fall in a new focus on entrepreneurship and music. The field of study will help students develop their careers as musicians.
"Among nationally recognized music programs such as UNT's, there has been a growing recognition that we need not only to train our students to be superb musicians but also prepare them for the current job market in which they will often be self-employed or work in...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Ermir Bejo, University of North Texas College of Music doctoral student, has won the prestigious ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer award. The award honors the late Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and former ASCAP Foundation President Morton Gould's lifelong commitment to encouraging young creators.
"The composition faculty is absolutely thrilled that Ermir has earned this honor – one of the top two honors in our field for composers under 30," said Joseph Klein, chair of composition studies. "Every year, hundreds of composers apply for these awards, of which...
DENTON (UNT), Texas – The Grammy-nominated One O'Clock Lab Band and other College of Music jazz and music ensembles will perform jazz standards, mariachi, steel drum and a variety of other music at the University of North Texas Showcase Stage April 29 to May 1 (Friday to Sunday) at Denton's Arts & Jazz Festival.
"Most of the performing our students do is formal and indoors – large concerts in Winspear and Voertman halls, degree...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Former WFAA-TV investigative reporter Byron Harris, whose career spanned more than 40 years, will receive the C.E. "Pop" Shuford Hall of Honor Award from the University of North Texas' Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism.
The Shuford Hall of Honor Award recognizes individuals for professional and educational lifetime achievement and distinguished contributions to the journalism profession. The award is named for C.E. "Pop" Shuford, the faculty...
A UNT materials scientist is investigating a secret underneath the final layer of paint on Alessandro Allori's Portrait of Grand Duchess Bianca Capello de Medici with Her Son. The portrait, which was painted more than 500 years ago, is one piece of a story about a controversial royal family. The painting currently is being treated and studied by Paintings Conservation Fellow Laura Hartman in the Dallas Museum of Art's visible conservation studio.
Marcus Young, assistant professor in...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Students in the University of North Texas' Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism received a total of 26 awards in the recent Texas Intercollegiate Press Association awards competition.
Faculty and students from the Mayborn School also received four first-place awards in this year's Society of Professional Journalists Region 8 Mark of Excellence Awards competition.
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