Guest artists Won-Young Kong,left, and Wha-Sook Kim, below, assistant professors at the University of Suwon in South Korea, will perform two concerts. The first concert, featuring Kong (piano), will begin at 8 p.m. June 24. The second, featuring both Kim (mezzo-soprano) and Kong (piano), will begin at 8 p.m. June 26. Both concerts are free and will be held in the Music Building, Concert Hall.

Kong will perform the solo piano works of Mozart, Chopin, Scriabin and Grieg. Accompanied by Kong on piano, Kim will perform the works of Schubert, Wolf and Füssl. She will also perform four Korean art songs: Snow by Hyo-Keun Kim, A Girl Picking Spring Leaves by Jae-Myung Hyun, Wish to Live in the Green Mountain by Yun-Joon Kim and Epitaph Tree by Il-Nam Chang.


Kong received her doctor of musical arts degree in piano performance at UNT, where she studied with Adam Wodnicki, Regents Professor of piano. She is head of the Piano Pedagogy Department at the University of Suwon and has performed in numerous solo recitals, and with piano duos and orchestras in South Korea and the United States.

Kim is head of the Vocal Department at the University of Suwon and has performed in numerous concerts, including oratorios such as Johanne's Passion, Gianni Schicchi, La Travita, Hwanginhee and in the opera Cavalleria Rusticana. She is director of La Pace Music Stage and was awarded as the best performer by the Berlin Bach Society.

For more information, contact Linda Strube at (940) 565-3709 or by e-mail at Linda.Strube@unt.edu.

The Frank W. Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism awarded $110,000 in scholarships to students for the 2008-09 academic year. Eleven students, earning master’s degrees, will each receive a $10,000 scholarship.

The school is named for longtime newspaper publisher and civic leader Frank W. Mayborn, who owned the Temple Daily Telegram, Killeen Daily Herald and KCEN-TV/Channel 6, Temple’s NBC affiliate, before his death in 1987. His wife, Sue Mayborn, continues to own and operate these media businesses.

The journalism graduate program was named in 1999 after it received a gift from the Frank & Sue Mayborn Foundation Advise and Consult Fund at Communities Foundation of Texas. Through this gift, the program is able to offer scholarships. The scholarships are for one academic year and may be renewed for an additional year. For the second year in a row, Candace Bagwell, Lowell Brown, Daniel Ryan Daugherty, Valerie Gordon and Nancy Prodnuk have received the award.

This year’s scholarship winners are:

• Candace Bagwell from San Antonio.
• Elise Brooking from Brownsboro.
• Lowell Brown from Fort Worth.
• Daniel Ryan Daugherty from Shelby, N.C.
• Lena Dirbashi from Richardson.
• Valerie Gordon from Fort Worth.
• Rebecca Hoeffner from Watauga.
• Sarah Perry from Olive Hill, Ky.
• Nancy Prodnuk from Granby, Colo.
• Daniel Rodrigue from the Colony.
• Dianna Wray from Houston.