University of Dallas Music Department

The UD Music Department is seeking an accompanist for the Fall 2024 semester. Experience with choral accompanying is preferred. Call 972-721-5079 or email [email protected] for more information.

Here are a couple more pictures of our ensembles at the Summer Music Academy and here's a link to a video of the cello quartet rehearsing Finlandia by Jean Sibelius: https://youtu.be/G47yZL0FaWU.

with Hsinyi Wang

Last week at the Summer Music Academy, our students got the opportunity to see and learn about the UD library's collection of chant manuscripts.

The UD 2024 Summer Music Academy is in the books! Thank you, students and faculty, for another great week of music-making. See you next summer! with Andrey Ponochevny, Tak Yan Yeung, Inga Kroll, Sharon Gross, Brian Bentley, Julia Durbin-Nyoka, Hsinyi Wang, and Kristin Van Cleve.

Here at the University of Dallas, this semester's classes, final exams, recitals, and concerts are all done. For our seniors, graduation is just a few days away. Thank you to all our students, faculty, and staff for another wonderful semester!

To our seniors, good luck on the next chapter of your lives. We will miss you. To the rest of our students, have a great summer and we look forward to seeing you next fall.

Join us on Tuesday, April 30 at 7pm in Cardinal Farrell 219 for our spring 2024 voice recital.

Ellen Tuffy's senior recital is today at 2pm Cardinal Farrell 219. We hope to see you there!

Join us on Monday, April 29 at 7pm in the Haggar Foyer for UDChorale's spring concert.

Just a quick reminder that Maria Klassen's senior voice recital is tonight at 7:00pm in Cardinal Farrell 219. We hope to see you there!

Congratulations to our piano students on their recital last night, and thank you to our wonderful teachers, Andrey Ponochevny and Tak Yan Yeung!

Join us this Friday, April 26 at 7pm for the spring strings, guitar, and ensembles recital in the Cardinal Farrell 219.

This coming Monday, April 22 at 7:00pm, our piano students will have their end-of-semester recital in the Catholic Foundation Boardroom in Cardinal Farrell Hall. We hope to see you there!

We have a number of senior recitals coming up in the next couple of weeks! All of them will take place in Cardinal Farrell Hall in the Catholic Foundation Boardroom (219).
- Angelina Viola's voice recital will be on Sunday, April 21 at 2:00pm
- Mary Hanson's voice recital will be on Sunday, April 21 at 4:00pm
- Maria Klassen's voice recital will be on Tuesday, April 23 at 7:00pm
- Ellen Tuffy's violin and voice recital will be on Saturday, April 27 at 2:00pm
- *Edit* Due to unforeseen circumstances, Julio Lima's cello recital is being rescheduled, and will take place on Thursday, May 2 at 7:00pm

Join us this Friday, April 19 at 7:00pm in the Catholic Foundation Boardroom (219) in Cardinal Farrell Hall for Lyric Theater's Tapestry, directed by Sharon Gross and featuring Jonathan Goodwin and Maria Klassen.

Next Monday, April 15 at 7pm in the Catholic Foundation Boardroom (219) in Cardinal Farrell Hall, Dane Waterman will be giving a piano recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of the Fugue.

Join us this Friday, April 12 at noon in the Catholic Foundation Boardroom (219) in Cardinal Farrell Hall for our last Brown Bag Recital of the semester.

Join us for Emma Wells' Junior Cello Recital this Thursday, April 11 at 3:00pm in the Catholic Foundation Boardroom (219) in Cardinal Farrell Hall.

Camille Directo gave a beautiful senior recital last week. From left to right in the photo are Cherie Hohertz, Irulan Palma, Camille Directo, and Kristin Van Cleve. Congratulations, Camille! We wish you the best in your upcoming journey beyond UD!

Join us on Tuesday, April 9 for a UD Music Faculty recital!

We are currently accepting applications for our middle school and high school summer music academy. For more information go to https://studyaway.udallas.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=10010.

Today at 3pm in Cardinal Farrell Hall 219, Camille Directo will have her senior violin recital! We hope to see you there!

Welcome back from spring break! This Friday at 7:00 pm in the Church of the Incarnation, the UDChorale will have a lenten concert in tandem with the Cantorum sine nomine. The choirs will be performing works by Charles Gounod.

Here are some photos from our Brown Bag recitals this week and last week. Congratulations to our students for a job well done!

Our Chamber Ensemble recently gave some pop-up recitals in Haggar. Thank you to Kristin Van Cleve and her students for the beautiful music!

Brian Bentley and the students in UDChorale have had a lot of wonderful music to keep them busy this semester. Here are photos of their recent Choral Valentine performance and their performance for a Board of Trustees event.

Thank you to all those who came to hear our wonderful students perform at yesterday's Brown Bag Recital! We have another recital coming up at noon on Wednesday, March 6 in the Catholic Foundation Boardroom (219) in Cardinal Farrell Hall.

Join us at noon a week from today, Friday, March 1, to hear what our students have been working on so far this semester at our upcoming Brown Bag Recital in the Catholic Foundation Boardroom (219) of Cardinal Farrell Hall.

Keep an ear out for our pop-up recitals when you're passing through Haggar. Here are photos from one of last semester's pop-up recitals featuring some of James Tarbutton's guitar students Emily Elfelt, Sam Cronenwett, and Margaret Jennings.

Our second guest artist recital of the semester is coming up next week. Join us in the Thompson Loggia in the Haggerty Art History Building on Monday, February 12 at 7pm to hear Camille King, soprano, and David Grogan, baritone, sing some beautiful Baroque arias and duets.

Join us next Monday, February 12 at 5pm in the Haggar Foyer for a choral valentine from the UD Chorale.