Did you know the College of Music has among its most distinguished
graduates…
- the Associate Concertmaster, National Symphony
- the Assistant Concertmaster, Baltimore Symphony
- the Principal Cellist, Dallas Symphony
- the Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
- the Associate Principal Oboist, Cleveland Orchestra
- the former Principal Clarinetist, San Francisco Symphony
- the Principal Double Bassist, Honolulu Symphony
- the Principal Flutist, L'Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
- the Principal Timpanist, Fort Worth Symphony
- the Principal Timpanist, Detroit Symphony
- the Principal Tubist, The United States Navy Band
- Euphoniums, The United States Marine Band
- Trombonist and director of The United States Air Force Airmen of Note
- more than 70 members of premier military service bands
- a winner of the Walter Naumberg, the Los Angeles Liszt, the Bartók/Kabalevsky,
the Belarussian piano competitions among many others
- 1st winner, Dallas International Organ Competition
- six solo singers on the roster of The Metropolitan Opera
- more than 1,600 music educators teaching throughout the United States
- award-winning composers and recording artists
- Grammy award-winners
- more than 35 college and university department chairs and music deans
Quick Facts…
7 buildings
300 practice rooms
235 seat Recital Hall
300 seat Lyric Theater
635 seat Concert Hall
1,100 seat Winspear Hall
Stan Kenton Jazz Recital Hall
Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater
100 full-time faculty
50+ part-time faculty
50+ guest artists annually
900+ events per season
40+ performance ensembles
extensive media library
multiple study abroad opportunities
Did you know that the UNT College of Music…
- Wind Symphony has released over 30 recordings and toured Japan and
Scandinavia
- Symphony Orchestra and University Choir have performed in New York
City’s Lincoln Center
- is the home of the first Jazz Studies program in the nation
- One O’Clock Lab Band has released four Grammy nominated CD’s
and has traveled by invitation to the major jazz festivals in Europe,
Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, throughout the United States, Canada and
Mexico
- was given Stan Kenton’s complete library
- faculty includes winners of Chopin, Cliburn, and Haskil competitions,
prize winning composers, performers and scholars
- has a nationally recognized program in Early Music
- owns the only 18th-Century French prototype organ in the United States
- is the home of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia,
one of the premier centers for electroacoustic composition and intermedia
in the country
- has exchange programs in the Czech Republic, Ghana, Taiwan, Italy,
China and more
- has a Music Library that is a major national research center with
more than 270,000 volumes of books, periodicals, microforms, and electronic
resources in addition to more than 500,000 sound recordings ranging
from Edison cylinders to modern digital formats
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