2009 Music Education in Austria n Fall 2008, the Division of Music Education launched “Phase II” of an international initiative to provide students an opportunity to experience musicI education from a global perspective. As part of a new course, Carl Orff in Context, twenty students and three faculty members traveled to Austria where they spent eight days in Salzburg and Vienna. Salzburg is the location of the Orff Institute, a music teacher training center connected to the Universität Mozarteum. While in Salzburg, the music education students attended two full days of workshops and observed school music classrooms that used Orff’s teaching approach. While in Salzburg, the students also toured the city (including a spectacular tram ride in the Alps!) and attended a “Mozart Dinner” at the famous Stiftskeller St. Peter (first documented in 803 A.D.) where they heard excerpts of various Mozart operas performed under complete candlelight. On the fourth day, the group traveled to Vienna where they stayed near St. Stephen’s Cathedral, the nucleus of this magnificent city. While in Vienna, students took a guided city tour, visited the Habsburg’s Schönbrunn Palace, viewed a Van Gogh exhibit at the Albertina Museum, and attended performances in the State Opera and the Konzerthaus. They ended the week at Karlskirche, where they heard a performance of Mozart’s Requiem. The Division’s international initiative has been highly successful and received enthusiastically by the students. In October 2009, a new group departed for Hungary to tour Budapest, visit Hungarian school music programs, and study at the Kodály Pedagogical Institute, which is part of the Liszt Academy. ▪ UNT College of Music Counterpoint 2009 Dean’s Message .................................................4 New Faculty ....................................................... 6 Faculty Retirements ...........................................8 Faculty News ..................................................... 9 Student News ..................................................14 Division Profile .................................................16 Faculty Spotlight: Cindy McTee .......................17 Guest Artists ....................................................18 Alumni Awards ................................................20 Alumni News ...................................................21 Concert Hall Renovation ..................................24 A Grammy Comes Home to North Texas .........25 Charlene N. Drake Harp Donation ...................25 In Memoriam ...................................................26 The F.A.M.E. Campaign ....................................27 The Gift of Scholarship ....................................28 Dean’s Camerata Lifetime Members ...............29 Dean’s Camerata Annual Members .................30 Donors ............................................................. 32 College of Music Staff ......................................34 Bancroft String Quartet in Japan .....................35 UNT College of Music ▪ College of Music Administration Dean’s Message Warren Henry As I am writing this column during the Associate Dean, Academic Affairs holiday season, I would like first to wish for all our alumni, friends, and supporters a Jon Christopher Nelson happy and fulfilling 2010. Associate Dean, Operations As so much of higher education in America has been severely damaged by the economic conditions of the last year, we John C. Scott have been particularly fortunate at UNT Associate Dean, Admissions and not only to remain financially intact but Scholarship Services to have the opportunity to move forward. As you will read in the following pages, Graham Phipps we have appointed some outstanding new Director, Graduate Studies faculty members, and are currently engaged in searches for four more. Our students and faculty have won prestigious accolades; our facilities have improved; we have taken UNT music to many Division Chairs distant parts of the world; and we have made a lot of wonderful music! Using the time honored tradition of looking both backward and forward at Composition Studies the turn of the year, I will let our writers’ words cover the recent past, and I Joseph Klein would like to share with you some of what we anticipate during the coming months. The neO O’Clock Lab Band’s most recent CD has been nominated Conducting & Ensembles for two Grammys, and it looks as if the band’s already planned trip to Henry Gibbons California in January will make it possible for us to have a UNT presence at the ceremonies. Plan to read about that in the next issue of Counterpoint! In February, we will have a “first” as we present Smetana’s opera, Instrumental Studies Prodaná nevěsta (The Bartered Bride) in Czech. Not only will our residency Terri Sundberg endowment from the Czech Educational Foundation of Texas make it possible to have special Czech coaches, but we will also present a reduced version of the opera in a tour through several parts of Texas where we can Jazz Studies engage Czech communities. John Murphy In March, we will send six students and four faculty members to Guangzhou, China, under a federal government grant to help start a Keyboard Studies chamber music program at South China University of Technology. While there is excellent instruction in many of China’s music schools, chamber Jesse Eschbach music study is less developed, and we are honored to share our strength in chamber music in the Far East. Music Education Finally, it occurred to me recently when I was asked about highlights Debbie Rohwer of the coming semester that the spring term is especially rich in the performance of some of the towering works of the repertoire. Our Bancroft String Quartet will be performing Beethoven’s last string quartet (opus Music History, Theory & 135) in Dallas; the Symphony will perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 1; the Ethnomusicology Baroque Orchestra and Collegium Singers will perform Bach’s Mass in B Eileen M. Hayes Minor; and the Symphony and Grand Chorus will perform the Verdi Messa da Requiem in Denton and at Fort Worth’s Bass Hall. Vocal Studies Although these highlights represent something extraordinary, we have Jeffrey Snider great music every week of the term, and can now invite all of our friends to share it, whether you are in town or not. We have begun live streaming many of our concerts over the internet. They are accessible from our College Development of Music web site, www.music.unt.edu, where you can also find listings of specific concerts scheduled for streaming. Elida Tamez Again, all best wishes for the New Year, including the wish that your Director of Development year will be constantly enriched through the pleasures of great music! James C. Scott Pamela King College of Music Director of Development ▪ UNT College of Music Faculty Composition John Scott Gustavo Romero Theory Full-time Faculty Terri Sundberg Vladimir Viardo Gene Cho David Bithell Charles Veazey* Adam Wodnicki Paul Dworak Joseph Klein Joán Groom* Andrew May Brass Piano Pedagogy/Group/ Frank Heidlberger Elizabeth McNutt Tony Baker Collaborative Timothy Jackson Cindy McTee Brian Bowman* Bradley Beckman Laila O’Sullivan Jon Christopher Nelson John Holt R. Fred Kern* Graham Phipps David Stout J. Keith Johnson Elvia Puccinelli David Schwarz Vern Kagarice Stephen Slottow Conducting & Ensembles Donald Little Organ/Harpsichord/Fortepiano Thomas Sovík Full-time Faculty William Scharnberg Christoph Hammer Choral Jesse Eschbach* Ethnomusicology Alan McClung Percussion Gideon Foli Alorwoyie Jerry McCoy* Gideon Foli Alorwoyie Adjunct Faculty Gene Cho Richard Sparks Christopher Deane Heejung Kang Steven Friedson* Mark Ford* Mark Scott Eileen M. Hayes Early Music Paul Rennick Bret Serrin John Murphy Christoph Hammer Edward Soph Thomas Sovík Lyle Nordstrom* Music Education Cynthia Roberts Adjunct Faculty Full-time Faculty Adjunct Faculty William Scharnberg José Aponte Donna Emmanuel Jaymee Haefner Helen Blackburn Warren Henry Forrest (Randy) Kinnett Opera Emanuel Borok Karrell Johnson William McGinney Stephen Dubberly William Clay Nathan Kruse Mark McKnight Paula Homer* Daryl Coad Alan McClung Justin Cooper Darhyl Ramsey Vocal Studies Orchestra Michael Drake Debbie Rohwer Full-time Faculty Clay Couturiaux Deborah Fabian Donald Taylor Stephen Austin David Itkin* Jan Kagarice Rose Marie Chisholm Paul LeBlanc Adjunct Faculty Richard Croft Wind Studies Ann MacMillan Daniel Cantú Linda Di Fiore Brian Bowman Henry Okstel Susan O’Rear Lynn Eustis Eugene Migliaro Corporon* Brian Perry Julie Scott Jennifer Lane Dennis W. Fisher Terence Reynolds Stephen Morscheck Nicholas E. Williams Robert Schietroma Music History, Theory, Jeffrey Snider Edward Smith Ethnomusicology Adjunct Faculty Poovalur Sriji Full-time Faculty Adjunct Faculty David Cloutier Music History Pamela King C. Keith Collins Jazz Studies Ana R. Alonso-Minutti David Sundquist Gyongy Erodi Full-time Faculty Paul Berry Adam Gordon Tony Baker Benjamin Brand Lee Lattimore Rodney Booth Deanna Bush * Area Coordinator Kathryn Montoya Timothy Brent Bernardo Illari Patricia A. Nordstrom Frederick Hamilton Lyle Nordstrom George Papich Stefan Karlsson Margaret Notley* Gonzalo X. Ruiz Brad Leali John Murphy Instrumental Studies Jay Saunders Full-time Faculty Lynn Seaton Strings Edward Soph Centers Jeffrey Bradetich Michael Steinel Center for Chamber Music Studies Julia Bushkova Steve Wiest George Papich, director Susan Dubois* Rossitza Goza Jaymee Haefner Adjunct Faculty Center for Contemporary Studies in Music Education