Advisors

Dr. Jackie deMontmollin is Vice President of the Denton Noon Kiwanis Club and serves on the Board of Directors and Kiwanis Clinic Committee.

She is a retired fine arts administrator, serves on the Board of Directors for The Greater Denton Arts Council, and is Secretary for the Denton ISD Council for PTA's. She is the immediate past president of the Texas Theatre Administrator's Committee. Dr. deMontmollin is also an active member of the Denton Benefit League and the Denton Area Wellness Coalition. When she isn't participating in K Family events, she enjoys spending time with her family, working out, eating healthy and traveling.

Dr. Benjamin Graf is an active scholar in music theory, pedagogy and performance. He has completed three different music degrees— Music Education (BS, Towson University), Music Performance (MM, University of North Texas), and Music Theory (PhD, University of North Texas). He was awarded the Presidential Scholarship at the College of Fine Arts (Towson University). Dr. Graf came to UNT on a trumpet performance scholarship and performed trumpet full-time for WJS Productions and Hershey Entertainment.  

Dr. Graf not only received the Outstanding Graduate Student in Music Theory award and the Outstanding Doctoral Student in Music Theory award, but he also played intercollegiate tennis and won the UNT Recreational Sports Outstanding Male Athlete award.  Dr. Graf was on the faculty at three other DFW institutions (UT-Arlington, Dallas Baptist University and Texas Woman’s University) before returning to UNT in Fall 2017. 

In May 2022, he became coordinator of the UNT College of Music Czech Music Initiative and visited Olomouc, Brno, and Prague with the UNT Baroque Orchestra and UNT Opera students in July 2022. 

His wife Ms. Emily Graf is the faculty advisor for the Denton Noon Kiwanis Sponsored Builder's Club at Crownover Middle School in Corinth, Texas.