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school of mus ic A long-standing, fully accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music, the School of Music has dedicated faculty who teach nearly 600 majors and 100+ minors and non-majors who perform in more than 30 ensembles; cumulatively, the school offers more than 250 events – concerts, recitals, and presentations – on campus each year. In addition to undergraduate degrees in Music (BA), Music Studies (BM), Performance (BM), and Sound Recording Technology (BS) and minors in general music, jazz, mariachi, music composition, and opera, the school offers two graduate degrees in a variety of concentrations: the Master of Music (MM) – Music (conducting, composition, performance, music history/literature, music theory, performance and pedagogy) and the MM – Music Education (choral, general, instrumental). RECENT ACCOLADES • # 4 SCHOOL OF MUSIC IN THE NATION • THE TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY ( gradreports.com ) ORCHESTRA ENGAGED SEVERAL GUESTS TO VIRTUALLY ENHANCE THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE OF OUR STUDENTS throughout • 2021 Texas State International Piano Festival, 2020-2021, including Isaac Thompson (New featuring 16 ARTIST FACULTY FROM 4 York Philharmonic, VP of Artistic Planning), COUNTRIES including Juilliard, Eastman, Noa Kageyama (The Juilliard School, Peabody, Yale, Sookmyung, University of Toronto, Performance Psychology), and Mick Wezel and Texas State and a CD release recital (Centaur (Los Angeles Philharmonic, violist) Records) by alumnus Martin Kesuma featuring the music of alumnus Wayne Oquin • In 2021, 15 STUDENTS RECEIVED THE TEXAS MUSIC EDUCATORS • Texas State Chorale performed through ASSOCIATION (TMEA) OUTSTANDING invitation with the London Handel Festival COLLEGE MUSIC EDUCATOR AWARD • The Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble both • 10 recent graduates received participated in the 63rd annual Notre Dame teaching awards including Marty Collegiate Jazz Festival where 12 STUDENTS Lenard (Hill Countr y 40 Under 40!) and were recognized as OUTSTANDING SOLOISTS Chris Martinez (TMEA Outstanding Music Educator) • Community outreach programs including Mariachi Infantil, the Hill Country Youth Chorus, Texas State String Project, and FunKey Piano • Mariachi Nueva Generación has won 10 TEAM Project were featured in Texas State Hillviews TITLES and 5 SOLO VOCALIST TITLES at the (Vol. 51 No. 2, Fall 2020 article) Vargas Mariachi Extravaganza RECENT GUEST ART I STS Attacca String Quartet , U.S. Army Men’s Chorus , Millennium Brass , Hub New Music , The Fourth Wall Ensemble , Indrajit Banerjee and Gourishankar , Awadagin Pratt (piano), John Hines (bass), and Shawn Kirchner (choral/composition) FOR MORE I NFO, V I S I T: music.txstate.edu 46 ■ C O L L E G E R E P O R T 2 0 2 1 ALUMN I *See also Distinguished Alumni • JOHN MARCUS BINDEL Opera Star, two Grammy nominations • JEREMY BRANSON Associate Principal Percussionist, Pittsburgh Symphony • VALERIE COWAN Flutist, the U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps in Washington D.C. • GILBERT ELORREAGE, KINO ESPARZA, JOSH LEVY, AND MATTHEW HOLMES Won a Grammy as members of Grupo Fantasma • MALCOLM HARPER 15 Grammy-nominated recordings (winning 5); winner of a Primetime Emmy and a Daytime Emmy • WILLIAM HENRY Touring member of The Chicks • WILLIAM HENSLEY Grammy-winning Sound Engineer • ZACK KIBODEAUX AND CATHERINE CLARKE Members of Blue Water Highway Band • GEORGE OLDZIEY Film scores for Spy Kids 2 , Sin City , Kill Bill Vol. II and others • MAJOR LEONEL PEÑA Conductor/Director of The United States Army Band and The United States Army Men’s Chorus • SARAH TUCKER San Francisco Opera, Opera Philadelphia ■ 47