2016 College Report

Faculty Accolades Te School of Music faculty includes 50 internationally active performing, conducting, or composing artists; they have performed in more than 30 countries across 6 continents. Tey have won prestigious prizes such as Grammy Awards, Dallas Concerto Competition, National Finger Picking Championship, Bulgarian National Clarinet Competition, Atlanta Steinway Society Competition, Handok Piano Competition, and Southern Keyboard Competition. Tey can be heard on hundreds of commercial recordings as released by labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Sony, Naxos, Columbia, Capstone, Centaur, Rounder, ERM Media, and Nonesuch Records. Tey have published more than 25 books and have prestigious articles in journals such as Choral Journal , Computer Music Journal , Journal of Band Research , Journal of Research in Music Education , Music Educators Journal , Journal for Music Teacher Education , Teoria , In Teory Only , Journal of Musicological Research , Perspectives of New Music , and Handbook of Texas Music . Tey have earned distinction as Fulbright Scholars, Fulbright Specialists, MacDowell Colony Fellows, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellows and grant recipients. Award-winning Programs and Ensembles Te Latin Music program’s Mariachi Nueva Generación is a frequent winner of the prestigious Vargas Mariachi Extravaganza in San Antonio, and Salsa del Rio has won two Premios a la Musica awards as well as a Downbeat award for their various cd’s. Te Sound Recording Technology program is nationally recognized for preparing students for a career in the music recording and sound industry. Students work in a commercial recording studio and intern with such events as Austin’s SXSW music festival. Graduates of the program work for Universal Studios, touring bands, and in recording studios around the country. Te Music Teacher Training program is the premiere education and training program for state-certifed school music teachers in Texas. Its job placement rate is nearly 100% and Texas State produces many successful music educators throughout the state. Te Texas State Wind Symphony has established itself as one of the most outstanding collegiate wind ensembles in the nation, and has performed for many prestigious music associations such as the Music Educators National Conference, College Band Directors National Association, and Texas Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention. Texas State Choral Ensembles have given featured performances at the American Choral Directors Association, the Texas Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention, and have toured and performed in Europe, South Africa, and China. Te Texas State Jazz Ensembles have been invited to perform in Te Netherlands for the North Sea Jazz Festival, in Switzerland for the Montreaux Jazz Festival, and at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival. Te Piano Performance program hosts the Texas State International Piano Festival, International Piano Competition, and has been recorded by NPR’s From the Top . Community music outreach programs include Youth Mariachi, Hill Country Youth Chorale, and the Texas State String Project. Recent guest artists: Peter Bay (Conductor), Antonio Pompa- Baldi, Margot Garrett, and Marina Lomazov (Pianists), Manuel Barrueco (Classical Guitarist), Robert Levin (Composer-scholar), Jill Grove (Vocalist), Henry Mollicone (Composer), and Sheldon Harnick (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning librettist). Successful Alumni (See also Distinguished Alumni pp. 34-35) Ri chard Ha l l (M.M. composition ‘03) wrote the score for the short flm “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. Ma l co lm Harpe r owns Reelsound Recording, has engineered 14 Grammy-nominated recordings (winning 5); he and his company have won 4 Ampex Golden Reel Awards, 6 Gold and 2 Platinum Awards, a Prime Time Emmy and a Daytime Emmy. Wi l l i am Henr y (B.M. music studies ’92, M.M. composition ‘11) frequently tours in the band with the Dixie Chicks. Ky l e Johnson (B.M. jazz ’13) holds the 3rd trombone position with the United States Army Jazz Ambassadors, the premiere jazz ensemble of that service. George Ol dz i ey (M.M. Composition) is now doing film scoring for Robert Rodriquez among many others. Ma j or Leone l Peña is the Commander and Conductor of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Band. Adam Schroede r ’s (jazz graduate) performance highlights include contributions to many Grammy-winning and nominated albums, numerous television shows, and work with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Michael Buble, Diana Krall, Bill Cosby, Sting, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, and the Count Basie Orchestra. Esteban Borjas III Students of FAC Spotlight Music Studies Student | Freshman “I’ve been playing music for almost eight years. I’m so happy I ended up choosing the trumpet. As a music studies major, I want to be a teacher, because the teachers in my life played a big role in my love for music and appreciation and I would just love to share that with future students. I’m also a Mariachi minor because I’m Hispanic and Mariachi is such a big part of my life.” College Report 2016 | 29