Trombones around Texas

The Texas State University Trombone Choir recently performed at the Big 12 Trombone Conference held at Texas Tech University January 16-18. The Trombone Choir was the special featured ensemble of the convention and the only collegiate group to receive a standing ovation. The Trombone Choir also performed an outreach concert at Round Rock High School.…

Trombone prof wins Global Gold

Dr. Martin McCain was recently the recipient of two Global Music Awards. He received a Bronze medal for the CD Shades in the Album category and a Gold medal for Best Instrumentalist. He also received an $8000 Research Enhancement Program grant. On January 8, McCain was interviewed and performed on KUTX’s John Aillee Show. He…

Choral clinician in Michigan

During the 10th Annual Michigan Music Conference, January 22-24, Dr. Joey M. Martin served as the conference headline clinician for the Michigan State Vocal Music Association (MSVMA) track.  He provided five presentations during the conference, often to standing room only audiences.  The conference culminated with a roundtable presentation called “The View” where presenters and headliners…

Jazzers in San Diego

TxState School of Music jazz faculty members Russell Haight, Russell Scanlon, and Hank Hehmsoth gave lecture presentations, performed with the Grammy nominated Austin based group Times Ten, and recruited at the International Jazz Educator’s Convention JEN in San Diego, California.  

Sax professor featured, nominated

Todd Oxford was a featured soloist for the annual Hawaii University International Conference on the Arts. He also presented a master class as part of an educational series including saxophonists Pete Christlieb and Jon Gordon sponsored by Hawaii Saxophone Foundation at the University of Hawaii. Oxford was an adjudicator for Music Teacher’s National Association Young…

Students compose new choral works

In the fall semester, student composers Kristian Rodriguez, Charles Wolf, David Gonzalez, Thomas Franki, Adrian Coburn, Elizabeth Massad and Nathan Mays collaborated with the Texas State Chorale and University Singers to create new choral pieces. Visiting professor Matthew Oltman led several sessions with the composers to discuss idiomatic writing for choir and to give feedback…

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