Category: Music

Therefore: Art, Sound, and Performance Group, led by associate professor Dean Terry, garnered acclaim from local media outlets for their June performances of Poems for Broken Screens. The acclaimed transmedia performance art project, hailed by The Dallas Morning News as one of the series’ finest, staged three performances at Hamon Hall in the Winspear Opera House as […]

“Music sort of has always been, obviously a creative outlet, but also you know my main social outlet.“ Up until my senior year of high school, up until it was time to decide, I had been planning to audition for conservatories. I was in the Utah Youth Symphony. I played in several different ones, but […]

Twenty-eight members of The University of Texas at Dallas’ Chamber Singers – UTD’s premier student choir – traveled recently to Spain, marking the first time that a University musical ensemble has performed overseas. The four-city goodwill trip included three performances. “I wanted the students to feel connected through our music with those who live in […]

By Office of Media Relations | Sept. 15, 2022 The University of Texas at Dallas welcomed one of its largest groups of new tenured and tenure-track faculty members with 43 of them joining the University this year, including many who started this fall. The professors bring an array of expertise in disciplines ranging from art history and game […]

The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies recently hosted the event “Echoes of Atrocity in Ukraine.” The event, meant to recognize the recent invasion of Ukraine as well as pay tribute to those lost in this region both in the past and present, featured presentations by the Ackerman faculty as well as musical performances by students […]

Five-time Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard is collaborating with visual artists from The University of Texas at Dallas to stage an on-campus multimedia performance that will honor two artistic legends. “Presence of Absence – Gordon Parks: An Empathic Lens,” which will be performed Saturday, April 9, at UT Dallas, features artwork from students from […]

esperanza spalding, the winner of The University of Texas at Dallas Richard Brettell Award in the Arts, recently shared her philosophies about music and life as she met with students, administrators and the public on the UT Dallas campus. During her three-day Dallas residency in early March, spalding, who is a four-time Grammy winning musician, officially […]

esperanza spalding, the recipient of The University of Texas at Dallas’ 2021 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts, recently shared her philosophies about music and life as she met with students, administrators and the public on campus. Established in 2016 with a gift from Margaret McDermott, the Brettell Award recognizes the work of individuals in visual arts, […]

Grammy award winning classical guitarist David Russell will headline the 20th Annual Texas Guitar Competition and Festival, to be held at UT Dallas March 2-5. The unique Texas competition, designed to showcase outstanding classical guitar students, will award more than $8,000 in cash prizes to the winners – including one that will be voted by the […]

You may have seen that the beginning of the spring semester has brought improved practice space for the music classes in the School of Arts and Humanities. After the Physics Department departed from the PHY building in Fall 2020, the facility was renovated and in January was re-opened for use primarily by A&H musicians. We […]