Category: Music

In 2019 Gorden Cheng BS’03 received a standing ovation after a solo piano recital at The University of Texas at Dallas. It was a high-water mark in Cheng’s lifelong musical journey and a particularly special accomplishment for the former music student who had become a successful cybersecurity expert as well as a competitor in the […]

By the age of 6, most children know the words to and can sing simple children’s songs. When Dr. Robert Xavier Rodríguez was 6, he composed and performed his first piece of music. “My father’s father played in the San Antonio Symphony, and my mother’s father was a poet in Mexico,” he said. “So, it […]

Nothing in Renny Hoang’s resume screams “pianist” or even “musician” or “piano prodigy.” He’s a computer science senior at The University of Texas at Dallas who is minoring in music. Admittedly, that’s the only hint. Yet Hoang, 21, who plans to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in 2026 and is fluent in coding languages such […]

The Faculty Mentoring Program usually allows two colleagues to build a relationship and share information over the course of an academic year. It is designed to be casual and carefree as it builds collegial comfortability. But for Dr. Kathryn Evans and Dr. James Wilder of the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and […]

Friends and family continue to honor the life and legacy of Enric Madriguera MS’84, PhD’93 nearly a year after the death of the longtime University of Texas at Dallas professor. Richard Kurjan MA’82, a 2024 UT Dallas distinguished alum, established the Enric F. Madriguera Guitar Fund to support the guitar studies program and its students. […]

Bass School Dean Dr. Nils Roemer introduced Zimbabwean music legendary Dr. Thomas Mapfumo at the African Vibration Music Festival.

In memory of Dr. Enric Madriguera, please join us for his memorial mass at at St. Joseph Catholic Church of Garland on May 17 and for a remembrance at the UT Dallas Jonsson Performance Hall on May 18.

Current and former David Marks’ Field Audio Recording Techniques (ANGM 3373) students volunteered to record and mix live music during Wednesday’s Strings Attached 90’s Night performance.

Kit Co, upcoming BA recipient, featured in lauded performance art project recognized by Dallas Morning News and Dallas Observer.

Twenty-seven members of the UT Dallas Chamber Singers set out on an eight-day concert tour – starting in the Polish city of Kraków on March 9 and culminating in Berlin, Germany – marking the second occasion that a UT Dallas choral ensemble has embarked on an international tour. Under the direction of Associate Dean of […]