2024/2025 EVENTS AND NEWS

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FALL 2024 SCHEDULED EVENTS:

PERFORMANCES, CONFERENCES, & LECTURE-RECITALS​

(Updated throughout the Fall)

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Summer 2024 (May-Aug) Research Grant Awards to Italy

(Venice, Bologna, Ferrara, Padova)

Research travel grants and residential scholarships for

archival research in Northern Italian archives

for Ph.D. Musicology Dissertation project. Funded by:

      Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice;

      UNT Graduate Student Research Award, Denton;

      UNT GREAT Grant, Denton;

      CoM MHTE Travel Award, Denton;

      Southern Methodist University, Dallas

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August 14, "A Harpa que Canta: Sons para Meditar,"

Yoga House Melides, Projeto Raiz, Melides, Portugal, 18h30

Convite à instrospecção e meditação, com música interpretada por Júlia Coelho (canto, harpa gótica, saltério, e taças de meditação). Música de Hildegarda de Bingen, Júlia Coelho, Martin Codax, Kory Reeder, e de repertório tradicional.

Billhetes à venda aqui:

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​September 07, Ramo de Oliveira: Bossa Nova w/Jazz ensemble, Revelers Hall, Dallas, 5:30-8:30pm [cancelled]

Live performance of Brazilian Bossa Nova tunes (vocalist)

Abram Olivas, Bass; Wes Case, guitar; Andres, piano; Juan Galdamez, drums

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September 15, CUUPS Fall Equinox Service (with Cyn Talbot), Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 10am

Hymn Leader and Musician. Musical selections and performance for whole service - vocals accompanied with Gothic harp, tongue steel drum, keyboard, percussion

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September 23, Cantata "La solitudine delle Moltitudini" (2023) presented at Spectrum concert, MEIT UNT, 8pm

Display of cantata "La solitudine delle Moltitudini"

by Marco Nardelli; poetry and voices by Júlia Coelho

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September 28, "Iberian Songs and Sounds of the Sea",

Solo Concert, Steve's Wine Bar, Denton TX, 5pm

A journey of Portuguese and Spanish medieval, traditional, and modern songs about the sea. Performed by Júlia Coelho (vocals, gothic harp, loop pedal, and percussion).

Music by Júlia Coelho, Madredeus, Kory Reeder, Martin Codax, Alfonso X, Zeca Afonso, and Traditional Ladino Sephardic. Tickets available here

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September 29, Guest Musician at Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of North Texas - Music & Spirituality, Irving TX 11am

Invited guest musician - voice, Gothic harp, psaltery,

crystal meditation bowl (performance).

Invitation by Dr. Vivek Virani (lecture and performance)

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October 05, AMS SW Conference Presentation, UNT

"Musica Poetica in Burmeister, Schonsleder, and Kircher: From Logo-Centric to Affecto-centric"

Research presentation at American Musicological Society Southwest chapter on 17th-Century German Music & Rhetoric, focused on Burmeister, Schonsleder, and Kircher.

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October 25, GAMuT Invited Guest Speaker,

International Research Joint Panel, 4pm, UNT

Guest speaker in joint panel co-presented with Rachel Shuck

Student Development Discussion on how to fund international research for dissertation, thesis, and research projects abroad.

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October 27, Musician at CUUPS Service "A Pagan Look on Death" (with John Beckett and Cyn Talbot), DUUF, 10am

Hymn Leader and Musician (musical selections and performance for whole service - vocals accompanied with Gothic harp, keyboard, loop pedal, and/or percussion)​

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Nov. 02, Denton CUUPS Samhain, DUUF, 7pm

Musician (musical selections and performance for ritual - vocals accompanied with Gothic harp, percussion, psaltery)

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Nov. 07, Grants - Funding Research and Creative Projects: Invited Speaker at Grad Seminar Class, UNT

Seminar class guest speaker, joint panel with Peter Kohanski & Emma Wimberg. Invitation by Dr. Geoffroy-Schwinden  

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Nov. 10, DUUF Service (topic TBD, w/Rev. Lora Brandis), 10am

Hymn Leader and Musician (vocal and instrumental selections with Gothic harp). Piano: Dr. Cathy Sassen

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Nov. 12, GREAT Grant Luncheon, UNT, International Center  

Recognizing GREAT Grant recipients & learning on their experiences abroad during Summer 2024.

Hosted by Interim Vice Provost & Dean of International Affairs

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Nov. 16, Duo Bossa Nossa: Júlia Coelho & Wes Case

Bossa Nova Live, Steve's Wine Bar, Denton, 4-6pm 

Live performance of Brazilian Bossa Nova; vocals & guitar 

Tickets available here in November

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​Nov. 21, Ramo de Oliveira: Bossa Nova w/Jazz ensemble, Bossa Nova Live, Steve's Wine Bar, Denton, 7:30-9:30pm 

Live performance of Brazilian Bossa Nova and Samba tunes (vocalist). Abram Olivas, Bass; Joel White, guitar; Juan Galdamez, drums. Tickets available here in November

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Nov. 22, Album Recording O Tempo fora do Tempo (2025)

Music by Kory Reeder (2023); Poetry by Júlia Coelho (2022)

Song cycle / Monodrama about Time and Illness.  

For solo soprano (Júlia Coelho) and Pierrot ensemble.

(Duration: 49 minutes), funded by Presser Foundation​

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December 15, Winter Solstice Service, Denton CUUPS

with Cyn Talbot, DUUF 10am

Hymn Leader and Musician (musical selections and performance for whole service - vocals accompanied with Gothic harp, keyboard, loop pedal, and/or percussion)

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December 21, Denton CUUPS Winter Solstice Service,

Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 7pm

Musician (musical selections and performance for ritual - vocals accompanied with Gothic harp, percussion, loop pedal)

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December 24, DUUF Candlelight Service, 

Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 6pm

Hymn Leader and Musician (musical selections and performance for whole service - vocals accompanied with Gothic harp, keyboard, loop pedal, and/or percussion)

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RECENT NEWS: RESEARCH, AWARDS,

RECORDINGS, & TEACHING

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2025 Book Chapter "Musica Poetica in Burmeister, Schonsleder, and Kircher: From Logo-Centrism to Verba Affectuum," (forthcoming), edited by Dr. Emma Wilson

Book chapter on 17th-Century German Music & Rhetoric

Following the 2024  "Ramus International Symposium" in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Org. & ed. by Dr. Emma Wilson, SMU​

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2025 Album O Tempo fora do Tempo (forthcoming)

Music by Kory Reeder (2023); Poetry by Júlia Coelho (2022)

Song cycle / Monodrama about Time and Illness.  

For solo soprano (Júlia Coelho) and chamber ensemble.

(Duration: 49 minutes), funded by Presser Foundation

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2024 Graduate Presser Award 

This Presser Award supports a recording project of the song cycle-monodrama of Júlia Coelho, “O Tempo fora do Tempo: uma viagem cronológica sobre o Tempo e Doença" (“Time Outside of Time: A Chronological Journey on Time and Illness,” 2023), written for Pierrot Ensemble and Júlia Coelho, soprano. The work sets her poetry written in European Portuguese to the music of composer Kory Reeder.​​

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Summer 2024 Research Grant Awards to Italy

Research travel grants and residential scholarships for

archival research in Northern Italian archives

Ph.D. Musicology Dissertation project funded by:

      Giorgio Cini Fondazione, Venice;

      UNT Graduate Student Research Award, Denton;

      UNT GREAT Grant, Denton;

      CoM MHTE Travel Award, Denton;

      Southern Methodist University, Dallas​​

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 RECENT PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES,

& LECTURE-RECITALS​​

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Jan. 22 2023, DUUF, Denton TX, Invited Talk, Guest Speaker - “Beyond Visibility” (On Invisible Disability) 

DUUF service worship leading; reflection on socio-cultural implications and perceptions on invisible disabilities in modern Western society. Music offered by J. Coelho and Levi Walls

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Feb. 25 2023, National Conference NAGPS: Invited Panelist - Session "Mental Health as Community- and Self-Care” 

National Association of Graduate-Professional Students 36th-National Conference (online). Conf. theme: “Teaching to Transform - Empowering Students to Succeed through Ownership and Advocacy.”

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​May 04 2023, 03:30PM, UNT, Denton TX, Lecture-Recital

Zeca Afonso: Music & Poetry, Júlia Coelho:

Lecture-Recital on Zeca Afonso 's life and works On Portuguese Protest Music as an icon of anti-dictatorship resistance. Presentation + 1H-performance of Zeca Afonso pieces arranged for and performed with voice and gothic harp by Júlia Coelho​

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Nov. 2-3 2023, Texoma NATS Artist Series, UNT

Lecture-Recital on Thomas Campion, voice and lute

Lecture-recital "Music and Prosody in A Book of Ayres (1601)

of Thomas Campion (1567–1620)" accepted for presentation

at the upcoming Texoma NATS Artist Series.

Júlia Coelho, lecture preparation and soprano performance.

Hector Torres, renaissance alto lute.

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June 14 2024, Seventeenth-Century German Musica Poetica

presentation at 2024  "Ramus International Symposium"

in Wolfenbüttel, Germany

Research presentation on 17th-Century German Music & Rhetoric, focused on Burmeister, Schonsleder, Kircher, and Bernhard. Organization by Dr. Emma Wilson, SMU​

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