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Texas State graduate guitar student Onur Alakavuklar from Turkey was accepted into the DMA program at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, receiving a teaching assistantship. Onur was a member of the graduate guitar trio that placed first at the Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Festival competition last year.
During the first week of February, Dr. Vanguel Tangarov, Assistant Prof. of clarinet, performed a series of solo recitals. His tour started on Jan 31st in Austin with a charity concert at Heritage at Gaines Ranch. The next two performances were given on Feb 4th at the Consulate General of Bulgaria in New York during…
Lani Gil, senior Music Studies major at Texas State University and violin student of Dr. Lynn F. Ledbetter, has been awarded a one-semester Student Teacher Scholarship by Texas Music Educators Association. She is student teaching in San Antonio this semester and will graduate in May 2015. She hopes to find a full-time teaching position in…
Todd Oxford hosted international saxophonist, recording artist, and educator Hans de Jong from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Antwerp, Belgium. Mr. de Jong presented a solo recital and a master class in which three students performed.
Dr. Martin McCain was recently featured in the February 14th addition of Billboard magazine as the Global Music Award’s Emerging Artist. He performed a solo recital in the ECR Concert series on February 8. McCain also served as an exhibitor for Pickett Brass and Michael Rath Trombones at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention as…
On February 14, theory professor Cynthia I. Gonzales, Ph.D. presented a Texas Music Educators Association Convention session titled “Using SmartMusic in the Choral Rehearsal.” That evening, she performed a concert with The San Antonio Chamber Choir, a professional ensemble. To close the month of February, she presented an interest session titled “SmartMusic can do that? Maximizing…
Professor Raul Rodriguez was the featured guest artist of the Starlight Symphony Orchestra on February 21 at the Hays CISD Performing Arts Center in the Texas Premiere of the Victor Davies Concerto for Tubameister and Orchestra (2008). A subsequent performance took place at Texas State in Evans Auditorium on February 22.
Music Senior Lecturer Daris Hale was the invited guest February 9 for the Round Rock Campus Speaker Series. She told “vibrant tales of activities while living in Africa” as a Fulbright Scholar and cultural ambassador. She shared thousand-year-old traditions, songs and dances she had learned, “while examining their communal purpose as well as their possible…
The Texas State Wind Symphony, under the direction of Caroline Beatty, gave a spectacular performance February 12 in the Lila Cockrell Theater in San Antonio at this year’s Texas Music Educators Association convention. The program featured a composition, West of the Sun, by our new professor Michael Ippolito. Featured soloists included faculty Todd Oxford and Russell…
Texas State music faculty member Richard Hall‘s score for the short film “Viva La Riena De La Muerte” was recently the recipient of a Bronze medal from the prestigious Global Music Awards in the Soundtrack Film/Television category. Richard also composed music for a multidisciplinary work titled “the situation room.” It was featured in Austin at…