Frost School of Music

The Frost Symphony Orchestra with guest conductor Carl St. Clair perform Hector Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9; Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No.2; and Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Pictures at an Exhibition—Carl St. Clair Conducts Frost Symphony Orchestra Carl St. Clair, guest conductor Alexander Magalong, associate conductor UM Gusman Concert Hall Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music … +

Known for their creative vision of classical music, the Frost Symphonic Winds will perform works by artists outside the Dead White Male European pantheon. They include Colombian composer Victoriano Valencia’s lively, folkloric-influenced Fandangueira, Japanese composer Yasuhide Ito’s emotionally stirring Gloriosa, and An Introduction to the Moon, by Grammy-winning American composer Libby Larsen. Steven Moore, Conductor UM Gusman Concert Hall Free Frost School … +

Enjoy a night of American themed anthems in large-scale arrangements by Stephen Guerra and John Daversa. Also Stephen Guerra and John Daversa as directors. Thursday, Sep 13, 2018, 7:30 – 8:30pm Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

Venture to the musical frontier in this night of electroacoustic music by leaders in the field and Frost composition students. Pieces incorporate new trends in electronic dance music and advanced technology, using laptops, real-time processing, interactive electronics, game controllers, smartphones, and more. Juraj Kojs, Director UM Gusman Concert Hall FREE Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, … +

Barry Harris Piano Competition Winner Tal Cohen and Grammy-nominated Kneebody pianist Adam Benjamin perform in a jazz piano duo recital featuring special guests. Weeks Center for Recording & Performance, Clarke Recital Hall Free Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

Music and movie buffs alike will be mesmerized as Jeff Beal, five-time Emmy-winning composer of music for film, media and concert halls, joins the Frost School’s Henry Mancini Orchestra on stage. The evening features a live music-to-screen performance of Battleground, Beal’s score from the acclaimed television series Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King. Other compositions by Beal will also … +

1st Prize winner of the Chopin International Competition in Warsaw opens the Frost Chopin Festival with a recital dedicated to the music of Paderewski, Liszt and Chopin, with a special introduction to the program by Miami’s own eminent scholar Dr. Frank Cooper. Dang Thai Son, piano Frank Cooper, moderator UM Gusman Concert Hall Jun 24, 2018, 7:30 – 9pm Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of … +

Presented in partnership with the Chopin Foundation of The United States, the Frost Chopin Academy is presenting the Frost Chopin Festival which allows concertgoers to enjoy a weeklong celebration of the music of Chopin and beyond featuring world-class artists from around the globe. This year’s festival features performances by pianists Dang Thai Son, Margarita Shevchenko, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron, Kevin Kenner, jazz pianist Shelly … +

English composers such as Gerald Finzi, Sir Edward William Elgar, and Benjamin Britten have written some of the most moving works for strings in the classical repertoire. Revel in their beauty as The Frost Symphony Orchestra and guest piano soloist Zoe Zeniodi perform Finzi’s Eclogue for Piano and String Orchestra and Romance for String Orchestra; Elgar’s Serenade for Strings; and Britten’s Simple … +

Ensemble Ibis performs a concert of contemporary American music by Christopher Theofanidis, the 2018 Frost Distinguished Visiting Composer-in-Residence, Frost faculty composers Charles Mason and Lansing McLoskey, and the seminal American composer John Adams. Featured guest performers include Frost faculty clarinet professor Margaret Donaghue, and Florida International University’s cello professor Jason Calloway. Shawn Crouch (director). Concert: Mason: Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre … +

Mounted in collaboration with the Frost Symphony Orchestra, this Frost Opera production offers a rare opportunity -two nights only- to enjoy a performance of Jules Massenet’s imaginative operatic setting of the Cinderella story, based on the 1697 French version of the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. Alan Johnson, program and music director Jeffrey Buchman, stage director *Performed in French with English supertitles UM … +

President John F. Kennedy and composer Leonard Bernstein would have celebrated their 100th birthdays during the 2017 – 2018 academic school year. This multimedia, cross-genre salute to these American icons features Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Oliver Nelson’s The Kennedy Dream, and Peter Lieberson’s Remembering JFK (An American Elegy). Scott Flavin, conductor UM Gusman Concert hall Frost School of … +

FROST Extensions and FROST Jazz Vocal I presents music from the Great American Songbook as well as original music by some of today’s leading jazz composers. The concert will feature arrangements by FROST Studio and Music and Jazz faculty, students, and alumni. Kate Reid, director UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 … +

An ambitious concert of music for winds including Mahler’s Um Mitternacht, the largest of the Ruckert-Lieder set, featuring FROST School’s vocal professor Robynne Redmon; and also Schoenberg’s Theme and Variations, Stravinsky’s Octet, Dahl’s Sinfonietta, and Schmitt’s Dionysiaques. Robynne Redmon, soprano Jeffrey Summers, guest conductor Robert Carnochan, director UM Gusman Concert hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 … +

Frost School professor Charles Castleman, one of the world’s most active performers and pedagogues of the violin, offers a program showcasing the Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op. 78, Op. 100, and Op. 108. He will be joined by Dean Shelly Berg and Chair of Keyboard performance Santiago Rodriguez, both on piano. Santiago Rodriguez, piano Charles Castleman, violin Shelly Berg, piano … +

The Frost Studio Jazz Band presents a concert featuring new music by Stephen Guerra, Jr. as conductor and graduate assistant William Longo, with members of the Frost Studio Jazz Band. UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

The Department of Instrumental Performance sponsors the prestigious Frost Honor Bands Festival each year, attracting 200 talented high school instrumentalists from across Florida to the University of Miami campus for two days of rehearsals, master classes and a final concert. The performing groups include a Festival Wind Ensemble and Festival Symphonic Band conducted by outstanding conductors Robert Carnochan, Steve Rivero and Jay … +