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Jazz faculty Hank Hehmsoth was feature-interviewed for the Fredericksburg Jazz Festival that took place on April 13, 2019. The articled appeared in the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post, Kerrville Daily Times, and Heart Beat of Texas Magazine. In it, Hehmsoth discussed the different aspects of jazz and how it can mold students. Before the festival, jazz faculty…
Dr. Martin McCain performed two weeks as guest Principal Bass Trombonist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. While in southeast Asia, McCain led a masterclass for the trombone studio at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory on the campus of the National University of Singapore. Dr. McCain also performed as guest 2nd trombone with the Memphis Symphony…
Laura Brackney, a Texas State graduate composition student, was featured in the Austin-based arts magazine Sightlines about her upcoming premiere of a new score performed live to a historic silent film. The score will premiere on April 12 at the Bullock Museum in Austin, TX featuring Brackney on keyboard and Henna Chou on cello. For…
Lauren Gordon, a saxophone student at Texas State, received notification on April 4 that she won the tenor saxophone position to perform with the World Youth Wind Orchestra Project in Schladming, Austria this summer as part of the Mid Europe Music Festival. Associate Professor of Saxophone Todd Oxford is very proud of her for securing…
On Thursday afternoon, April 4, theory professor Dr. Cynthia I. Gonzales delivered an invited two-hour lecture via video stream to the graduate Music Theory Pedagogy class at Youngstown State University, Ohio. Dr. Gonzales discussed how to develop harmonic listening skills that lead to taking harmonic dictation successfully. The graduate students enjoyed singing along with her…
Michael Johnson (MM ’17) has recently been appointed as a professor at Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa, AL. He is currently in the 2nd year of his doctoral degree at the University of Alabama. Congratulations, Michael!
Six students recently received the most prestigious award granted by TMEA: The TMEA Collegiate Music Educator Award: Emily Edwards Dexx Moore Peyton Grover Shane Lemanski Anna Trevino Caitlyn Durkee These students are currently student teaching, and they will receive their certificate and regalia cord in May before graduation. Congratulations to the students and to the…
Texas State String Project student teachers Azariah Reese, Chelsea Piel, Daniel Cavazos, Giselle Izaguirre, Logan Thoeni, and Payton McIntyre presented as part of the “Best Practices in National String Project Consortium” session at the 2019 National American String Teachers Association Conference in Albuquerque, NM. The “Best Practices in National String Project Consortium” session brought together String Project student teachers from universities across…