Category: Music

UT Dallas choir director Dr. Jonathan Palant is on a mission to help people through music, but his work doesn’t stop at the UT Dallas campus. The musician also leads a choir made up of the homeless who live on the streets of Dallas. Palant said music is an ideal way to provide respite to […]

To read the full article, as it appears in the Fall 2017 Edition of UT Dallas Magazine, please visit blurred lines.The excerpt appearing below has been sampled to feature only School of Arts & Humanities staff and faculty who appeared in the original article. Blurred Lines: Artists and Scientists Are More Alike Than Different While […]

Kevin Yu MS’03 — a professional violinist with the Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra — was appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott to serve on the Texas Commission on the Arts through August 2021. The mission of the commission, which was created by the Texas Legislature in 1965, is to advance economic and cultural development in the […]

On Friday, Sept. 9, in the University Theatre, the Duo Cuenca will present a chamber program for guitar and piano. The performance begins at 8 p.m. Alongside flamenco dancer Raquel Parilla, brothers José Manuel Cuenca and Francisco Cuenca Morales will play a tribute to their home of Andalusia, Spain with colorful pieces celebrating the people […]

Dr. H. Bryce Jordan, the first president of The University of Texas at Dallas, died April 12 in Austin. He was 91. Jordan served as UT Dallas president from 1971 to 1981. Jordan took the helm of the University just two years after the campus became part of the University of Texas System. The rapidly […]

UT Dallas’ Advanced Orchestra and Chamber Music ensemble will perform April 22 for the biannual Musica Nova concert under the direction of music professor and composer Dr. Robert Xavier Rodriguez. Selections for the concert include Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F and Concerto in C Minor for Oboe and Violin by Bach. The second half […]

The annual Texas Guitar Competition and Festivalcelebrates its 15th year at The University of Texas at Dallas on Friday and Saturday with classical guitarists from around the world vying for cash prizes and a capstone performance by the acclaimed Romero Guitar Quartet.

UT Dallas students will perform two one-act plays by James McLure in a production that starts Thursday. Two one-act plays about life in small-town Texas will kick off an arts weekend that will also include a concert tribute to a legendary pop and jazz vocal group. UT Dallas students will present “Laundry and Bourbon” and […]

Juan Carlos Laguna will perform a free concert at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Clark Center. With several concerts and  a competition that feature contenders from across the globe, the 13th annual Texas Guitar Competition and Festival brings the best in classical guitar to campus this weekend. “This year’s edition of the competition is the most international […]

UT Dallas will present the Texas recital debut of Duo Sonidos on Saturday, Jan. 26, at 8 p.m. in the Alexander Clark Center. The event is free for students and open to the public. The Duo consists of guitarist Adam Levin and violinist William Knuth. The two aim to bring new interpretations of chamber music to audiences […]