This concert marks the Florida debut of Ji Young Lim, a 24-year-old violinist from Seoul, South Korea who won top prize in the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels in 2015. She has also won the Ishikawa Music Award in Japan, the Concerto Competition at the International Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea, and the Eurasia Music Competition in Japan among others. ... +

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Frost Opera and choral ensembles join to perform scenes from favorite classical and contemporary operas by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, Leonard Bernstein, Scott Joplin, and more. Jeffrey Buchman, Corin Overland, and Coreen Duffy, directors Alan Johnson, director Frost Chorale, Frost Symphonic Choir, and Frost Women’s Choir Friday, Oct 26, 2018, 7:30 – 9:30pm UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost Opera Theater Gusman Concert ... +

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Joshua Henry, 2018 Tony-nominated star of Broadway’s Carousel and lead of the first U.S. tour of Hamilton, returns to Frost to receive the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award. Marcus Lovett, who played Phantom on Broadway and London, joins Henry and Frost stars of tomorrow in an evening of iconic music from “The Great White Way.” Joshua Henry, baritenor Marcus Lovett, baritone ... +

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Join the Frost Choral Studies program as they present an early harvest of American choral music. This concert highlights works by modern American composers Stephen Chatman, Stephen Paulus, René Clausen, and more. Frost Chorale, Frost Women’s Choir, and Frost Symphonic Choir Corin Overland and Coreen Duffy, directors UM Gusman Concert Hall Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral ... +

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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/

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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 ... +

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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 ... +

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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 ... +

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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 ... +

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This concert features new arrangements of music inspired by children’s literature such as The Cat in the Hat and The Giving Tree, as well as iconic Disney films. The program closes with a new suite by Stephen Guerra, Jr., of music from the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Stephen Guerra, Jr., director UM Gusman Concert hall Frost School of Music ... +

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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 ... +

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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 ... +

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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 ... +

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