Backstage Access is a celebration of disabled and neurodivergent artists in the Dallas area. This event will showcase 10 performing artists and 10 visual artists, and will take place on July 19, 2025, at Owenwood Neighbor Space in East Dallas. The gallery will be open from 4:00 to 8:00 PM, with performances scheduled from 5:00 to 6:30 PM. This event is open to disabled and neurodivergent artists of all ages, experience levels, and art forms. Open to the public for anyone who enjoys arts!

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Sonic Ecosystem will be an hour long performance combining sound installations with live musical performances. Weather permitting, the performance will take place outdoors in the UNT College of Music Courtyard (The Spec's Charitable Courtyard).

Based on sounds from around Texas and beyond, you will move through different soundscapes over the course of the hour. This is a casual concert, you are invited to arrive late or leave early, and to move about, converse, and be a part of the soundscape throughout the performance.

Program Order:

Prelude: The Courtyard

I. Les Vents (for Open Instrumentation)

Interlude: A Green Study

II. Slivers Wavering into Horizons (for solo clarinet)

Interlude: Resonance Structure

III. Further Down the Old Park Road (for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello)

UNT senior composition recital (in-person or virtual)

location: UNT Voertman Concert Hall

The pieces of his recital feature a wide array of characters and emotions which he has personally spent many hours pondering.

Program Order:

Spry Grasshopper - Solo Clarinet

The Stagnance of Time - Piano Trio

Healing - Soprano and Pierrot Ensemble

Solemn Breeze - String Quartet

Live Stream:

Composition Recital Live Stream link

Violin Concerto No.2 in B Major, BB 117 — Béla Bartók

• I. Allegro non troppo

• II. Andante tranquillo

• III. Allegro molto

6 pieces for Violin and Piano, op.79 — Jean Sibelius

• I. Souvenir

• V. Tanz-Idylle

• VI. Berceuse

Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Sz. 111 — Béla Bartók

1. Verbunkos (Recruiting Dance)

2. Pihenö (Relaxation)

3. Sebes (Fast Dance)

Bartok - Contrasts Sz.111 (1938)

1. Verbunkos (Recruiting Dance)
2. Pihenö (Relaxation)
3. Sebes (Fast Dance)

Mozart - Oboe Quartet in F major, K.370/368b (1781)

1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Rondeau. Allegro

Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor (1948 )  
       --  Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
   I. Nocturne (Moderato)
   II. Scherzo (Allegro)
   III. Passacaglia (Andante - Cadenza)
   IV. Burlesque (Allegro con brio - Presto)

Sonata No.4 "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting" (1916) ---Charles Ives(1874-1954) 
   I. Allegro
   II. Largo
   III. Allegro

Location: UNT College of Music, Recital Hall
Date: February 17, 2018

Violin Sonata in G minor (1917)---Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

I. Allegro vivo

II. Intermède: fantasque et léger

III. Finale: très animé

Piano: Benjamin Hopkins

Place TBA

Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor

Beethoven Violin Sonata No.5, Op.24 "Spring" in F Major 

with pianist Marcin Parys

Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1 in A Minor