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Butler School of Music Sends Two Saxophone Quartets to Naumburg Competition Semifinals

ZED, saxaphone quartet featuring Marina Sakellakis, Jacob Feldman, Connor O’Toole, and David Bennette posing for a picture

Nov. 17, 2025

Kirsten Townander on Composing Bicycle Face

Kirsten Townander talking into a mic

Nov. 14, 2025 | BSOM BODY

In this week's episode, we sit down with master of composition student Kirsten Townander. We talk about Kirsten's newest piece Bicycle Face, which will have its world premiere with the New Music Ensemble on Monday, November 17th, at 7:30 p.m. She discusses how her inspiration for the piece came from society's pushback against women riding bicycles in the 1890s.

Butler School Alum Dillon MacIntyre Featured in World Premiere with Santa Barbara Symphony

Dillon MacIntyre playing the trombone with a dark background

Nov. 12, 2025

UT Conjunto gives visibility to century-old Mexican American musical tradition

Conjunto ensemble playing on stage

Nov. 12, 2025 | Daily Texan

Butler Student Nathaniel Payan Wins Second Place at TEXOMA NATS

Nathaniel Payan Singing on Stage

Nov. 12, 2025

Butler Student Wins Top Award at Pan-American Vocology Symposium

Sidney Becktold standing in front of a research poster

Oct. 16, 2025

The String Project's fall Conjunto program

Musicians performing on a concert stage

Oct. 15, 2025

Triple Cortado featured in the New York Times

Cover of a New York Times article about a musical trio

Oct. 10, 2025

Butler Opera International Announces Finalists Following Intense Semi-Finals Round

Opera Singer singing on stage at the Butler Opera International Competition

Oct. 1, 2025

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