Points of Pride

North Texas made history more than 50 years ago by offering America's first college degree in jazz. The program's flagship ensemble, the One O'clock Lab Band, has performed at the White House and around the world, and has earned four Grammy nominations. It is consistently rated the best college jazz band in the nation. The Wind Symphony pursues the highest professional standards, and is determined to bring its audiences the finest artistic repertoire from all musical periods, cultures, and styles. It is the only student ensemble of its kind with a commercial recording contract. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the critically acclaimed Klavier Wind Recording Project.

The Symphony Orchestra, established in 1938, has played concerts regularly for 62 years. The 100-member ensemble is recognized as one of America's top training grounds for professional orchestral players.
UNT Opera Theatre, winner of two first place national awards for opera production, offers high quality, unique operatic entertainment while providing vital training to aspiring singers who will be tomorrow's stars. The program maintains close ties with the Dallas Opera and has a unique exchange program that collaboratively produces operas with the Steffani Conservatory and La Fenice Opera in Italy.

The Choral Music program is one of the largest, most active and visible in the nation. The A Cappella choir has been featured at the American Choral Directors Association Convention and the Music Educators National Conference. Graduates of the UNT Choral Studies Program hold important positions in universities and choral music organizations across America.

Piano Performance students have performed as soloists with orchestras across the United States and in Eastern Europe, and include winners of the 1997 Naumburg International Piano Competition and an international competition which resulted in a Carnegie Recital Hall debut. Both the highly acclaimed faculty and their students perform on Steinway pianos.

CEMI, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia fosters the creation, production and dissemination of experimental computer music and intermedia, combining computer music with computer graphics, dance, theater, sculpture, creative writing, and cutting edge technologies.

UNT's Music Education program is the major supplier for highly trained music teachers throughout the state of Texas.

The Music Library holds the finest collection among universities in the South and Southwest. It is home to the Stan Kenton manuscript collection, and the library's archive is one of only three places in the world holding original papers by the influential theorist Heinrich Schenker.