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Stronger Together Rising above a pandemic of epic proportions, the Frost community forges a bright path forward. Spring 2021 Message from the Dean

Resilient and Brilliant. Those two words perfectly describe Frost School of Music students, alumni, faculty, administration, Frost School of Music and staff in a normal year as they fulfill their personal goals and professional challenges. We all know the music profession requires Dean, Frost School of Music Shelton G. Berg contents both of those traits, and Frost musicians are consummate examples of each. Associate Dean, Administration Serona Elton, M.M. ’95 This year, after witnessing first-hand our entire Frost music family push through the isolation that ensued after the global spread Associate Dean, Graduate Studies Shannon de l’Etoile FEATURES of the COVID-19 virus, as well as the pandemic’s devastating economic impact to musicians of all genres who suddenly found Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies themselves holding handfuls of cancelled contracts, I’m adding another descriptor: Inspiring. Steven Moore Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives and Innovation Reynaldo Sanchez, B.M. ’80, M.M. ’82 22 Positive Perseverance Associate Dean, Research Inspiring Frost Faculty: Instead of teaching or performing at summer festivals, or diving into their professional research, Carlos Abril, B.M. ’93 Talented students overcome obstacles during the sudden COVID-19 our 120 inspiring faculty readied themselves over the summer months to return in the fall to teach in person when the virus was Executive Director, Major Gifts global pandemic, and discover new ways of connecting with audiences, Dania Gorriz, M.B.A. ’01 and each other, with originality, technology, and tenacity. still rampant, and learn to teach in new online/hybrid situations. I was so proud to be among them Executive Director, Business Operations this year, to see their intense dedication while teaching through cumbersome face masks, when Barbara Ham 22 Director, Admissions

JENNY ABREAU other institutions simply closed their doors and went to an online setting only. Our students grew, Karen Kerr, M.A. ’16 and grew, and grew, thanks to you. Executive Director, Marketing and Communications Peak Performance Patricia San Pedro, B.F.A. ’78 28 Marketing and Communications Specialists Faculty at the Frost School of Music develop a new school-wide strategic Kimberly Engelhardt, M.A. ’12 plan with forward-thinking goals to prepare students with the breadth of Inspiring Frost Students: the ultimate heroes this year, who put their fellow Frost Adrianne Gonzalez musical and entrepreneurial skills needed for tomorrow’s music profession. musicians first-and-foremost by honoring the intensive health protocols on campus to keep each Creative Services Spark It Communications 28 other safe. Because our music students followed the ’s guidelines so well, the Editorial Services Frost School had no transmission of the COVID-19 virus in any of its classrooms or halls, and Julia D. Berg Production Coordinator had the lowest percentage of University of Miami students to contract the disease off campus. That Adrianne Gonzalez, M.S. ’21 Jazz Changes

32 LAURA FERREIRA is a stunning statement; I am so proud. Editorial Contributors A diverse new generation of master musicians joins the Department of Natalie Abatemarco, B.S.C. ’17, Julia D. Berg, Nastasia Boulos, Logan Busacca, Nick DaCosta, M.M. ’19, Kimberly Studio Music and Jazz, ushering in an exciting new era to strengthen Engelhardt, M.A. ’12, Sheryl Feuerstein, Adrianne Frost’s community and cultural connections. Inspiring Frost Alumni: Who, despite a tremendous reduction in their own earnings Gonzalez, M.S. ’21, Kathy L. Greenberg, Dennis Lejardi, B.M. ’17, Jordan Levin, Kelly Montoya, M.A. ’16, Amanda 32 after the abrupt cancellation of and other professional engagements, not only reinvented M. Perez, Patricia San Pedro, B.F.A. ’78, Lisa Sedelnik, themselves to learn how to more widely share their artistry online, but also performed--time and again--for virtual fund-raisers to M.A. ’00, Spark It Communications, Ana Veciana-Suarez DEPARTMENTS Front Cover help others in the global community that were in need. Student Nyla Smith performs at Frost Music Fest ’21, wearing a hygienic face mask per University of Miami COVID-19 pandemic health and safety protocols for all on campus. Photography by 2 FROST NEWS 38 FACULTY UPDATES Jenny Abreu; cover design by Spark It Communications. Inspiring Frost Administration and Staff: I can’t say enough about the Herculean efforts of our great Frost Strategic Plan Governance and Operations Progress During the Welcoming New Faculty Some photographs included in this issue of Score magazine Pandemic Frost Friday Nights@Frost Hire a Receives Teaching Award management team, from our compassionate associate deans to our incredible executive directors, to our talented video and audio were taken prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. * * * Frost Musician* New Podcast Rooting* Out Biases Protest* Gary Keller Retires Faculty Highlights* recording personnel and department assistants. You implemented every health and safety protocol with efficiency and grace, and Score magazine is published once a year by the Music Alicia Hall Moran Professor Don Coffman New MAT Frost School of Music and University of Miami. * * * * innovated new ways of utilizing our facilities that will shape our efforts going forward. Degree Media Writing Successes Grammy and Latin Grammy Score magazine is distributed free of charge * * * FACULTY SPOTLIGHT to alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the Frost School. Awards DownBeat Student Awards Student Song Goes Viral 41 Reproduction in whole or in part without written * * Raina Murnak, Teaching from the Inside Out When the 2020-21 academic year started, my sole focus was on creating experiences for our students that would help them permission is prohibited. Postmaster and others, Stamps* Brass Quintet Class 2024 *JAS Academy Expands please send change of address notification to Frost School at Festival Napa Valley Art Inspires remember this college year as one filled with learning new skills, meaningful music-making, camaraderie, and networking for the * * * Score magazine, Frost School of Music, P.O. Box 248165, Doctors and Musicians Tinker Grants Viola Researcher CLASS NOTES future. Through our production of Frost Music Fest ’21 and a regular season of concerts by the Frost Symphony Orchestra, Frost Coral Gables, 33124-7610; telephone 305-284-2241. * 42 Contributions of articles, photographs, and artwork are * * * Alumni updates and accomplishments Wind Ensemble, Frost Concert Jazz Band and hundreds of chamber music and contemporary ensemble performances, I can truly welcome; however, Score magazine accepts no responsibility Distinguished Alumnus Jorge Mejia for unsolicited items. GUEST ARTISTS 16 Kendall Grady Research in Easter Island say that we achieved greatness. The comments and opinions expressed in this magazine do not Frost Music Fest ’21 Renée Fleming Frost Symphony Orchestra * * necessarily reflect those of the University of Miami or the staff Karen Kennedy Tribute In Memoriam of Score magazine. John Splithoff Travis* Quinn Memorial* Fund Thalea String Warmly, Copyright ©2021, University of Miami. Quartet* Nurse Heroes* Live with * Institute Orchestra, * * An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Andrea Bocelli,* Celine Dion, , Emily Estefan, David 50 FROST SUPPORTERS Foster, , , Katharine McPhee, Leslie Odom Jr., Frost School of Music thanks its donors frost.miami.edu Tania Léon Mark Katz Mnozil Brass Quintet * * * ADVISORY COMMITTEE Shelton G. Berg 51 20 STUDENT STARS Meet the dean’s advisors Dean, Frost School of Music Flutist Wins NFA Competition Compassionate Commencement Speaker Tuba Artists Win High Honors Stamps Scholar Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music * MUSICAL MEMORIES * * 52

frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 1 } Frost News Governance and Operational Growth Innovation and Achievement IN TANDEM with its ambitious strategic planning with University President Julio Frenk, the University goals, the Frost School of Music is analyzing and of Miami Board of Trustees, an Advisory Board and Assessed through Strategic Plan optimizing administrative processes that are identified Academic Review Committee. He also serves on the for improvement. Curricular efficiency is also being Academic Deans Policy Council. improved by identifying and eliminating redundancies. Associate Dean for Administration Serona Elton, Governance of the Frost School begins with an Exec- M.M. ’95, supervises faculty loads, utive Council (EC) that leads the school on a day-to-day course scheduling, facilities manage- basis. It is comprised of the dean of music, five associate ment, and this year the COVID-19 deans, and four executive directors for Admissions, safety guidelines; Associate Dean Business Affairs, Marketing, and Development. for Graduate Studies Shannon de New this year: the chair of a faculty-elected School l’Etoile administers master’s and Council is also a member of the EC, along with a doctoral programs; Associate Dean for rotating faculty member each semester. Undergraduate Studies Steven Moore The EC collaborates and meets with the School oversees Admissions and the Under- Council, Department Chairs and the full Faculty, plus a graduate Review Committee; Associate Performance Committee, ad hoc curricular committees, Dean for Strategic Initiatives Reynaldo and the professional staff. They also receive input from Sanchez, B.M. ’80, M.M. ’82, develops Faculty Senate members, the Student Council, and academic-business partnerships; and THE FROST SCHOOL is renowned for its innovative 1. Building on our well-established artistic and advisory committees for Faculty Affairs, Student Affairs, Associate Dean for Research Carlos Abril, B.M. ’93, academic programs, stellar faculty, alumni, and students. academic excellence, we will enhance our quality and School Culture, Equity, and Diversity. advances scholarship. With over 800 music majors, 90 full-time faculty, and innovation in teaching and learning while The dean’s responsibilities are to inspire excellence, There are three Faculty Senators: , 34 part-time faculty, 33 professional staff, and multiple strengthening our position in preparing musicians lead the organization, hire and strategize with faculty, B.M. ’88, D.M.A. ’94; Brian Lynch; Richard Todd; and concert venues presenting hundreds of events in an for today’s world and beyond. oversee the budget, liaison with University officials and one alternate Jennifer Grim. Members of the Faculty average year, it is an exciting community with complex 2. Strengthen our financial position other institutions of higher , inter- School Council are: Stephen Zdzinski, speaker; programmatic, logistics, and facilities challenges. 3. Achieve administrative excellence face with the and alumni, and engage Craig Morris, vice-speaker; Martin Bejerano, M.M. ’98; Through the efforts of seven special faculty task 4. Optimize physical infrastructure with the community and donors. Shelly Berg, dean of Juan Chattah; Will Pirkle, B.M. ’89; M.S.E.E. ’91; forces, Frost has unveiled a new five-year Strategic Plan 5. Engender a culture of belonging the Frost School of Music, reports to Jeffrey Duerk, Marysol Quevedo; Robynne Redmon; and Tian Ying. that aligns with the University of Miami’s Roadmap for 6. Cultivate interdisciplinary potential of music provost and executive vice president for academic affairs Department chairs are appointed by the dean and are a New Century. It was unanimously approved by the 7. Promote music innovation in the hemisphere at the University of Miami. The dean also interfaces listed in the back of this issue of Score magazine. Faculty School Council and administration in the fall. This issue ofScore illustrates progress on the dynamic The plan has seven clearly defined strategic goals: student-centric plan and assessment implementation. Goal to Raise $100 million by 100th Anniversary Generous Gift Boosts Strategic Plan UNDRAISING is an essential endeavor at the program, and alumna Sally K. Albrecht, M.A. ’77, A $1.4 MILLION gift from an anonymous donor was quickly purchase new digital recording, lighting, video, and F Frost School as it launches its strategic plan, M.M. ’79 made a $250,000 planned gift. received during the fall to embolden a rapid-speed imple- audio technology for classrooms and concert halls; hire updates facilities with new technology capabilities, In memoriam gifts were also received: a Travis mentation of the Frost School of Music’s Strategic Plan. production staff that in turn trained faculty and students funds new music scholarships, and provides faculty Quinn Scholarship Endowment honors a Frost Band The timing of the gift was particularly to use the new technology; ramp up innovative pedagog- and programmatic support. of the Hour member, and a Gregory Cardi Memorial welcome, as operational budgets were ical practices; envision and test new teaching protocols; With a bold capital campaign goal to raise $100 Scholarship Endowment honors a graduate conduct-

cut deeply and a hiring freeze was and implement faculty assessment procedures as new million by the school’s 100th anniversary in 2025, ing studentGONZALO MEJIA who passed away in July. implemented across the University for resources were brought on board. The upgrades also fundraising is on an upward trajectory: 40% of that Many other generous donors are gratefully the 2020-21 academic year, due to the helped Admissions and Marketing teams film and edit target has been raised in the past four years. acknowledged at the end of this issue of Score. COVID-19 pandemic. new YouTube and website videos for prospective students. Recent estate gifts include over $750,000 from H. David Garrity Those interested in making a major gift or pledge to support the Frost The major cash donation enabled The Frost School gratefully acknowledges its anony- and $250,000 from Richard E. Henning. The Stamps Family Charitable School are invited to contact Dean Shelly Berg at [email protected] or the Frost School to move forward and mous donor for this highly impactful gift. Foundation renewed its substantial support for the Stamps Music Scholars Executive Director for Development Dania Gorriz at [email protected].

{ 2 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 3 } Frost News Frost Band of the Hour Marches to a New Cadence SCHOOL SPIRIT was alive and well amid the and use bell covers while playing COVID-19 pandemic as the Frost Band of the Hour instruments. Positive Progress Despite Pandemic discovered new ways to support the ’ “It was impossible to feel unsafe football season. The band recorded new content for during practice,” says Darien Mozingo, a music therapy The Frost Band of COVID-19, a highly contagious virus that has claimed everyone had to play their part in making this a success,” jumbo screen replay at , and played major. “It was really a treat to be able to be with my the Hour practices over 3 million lives worldwide to date, made its Miami says Associate Dean for Administration Serona Elton, live at socially distanced campus pep rallies. friends, doing what we love, and making an impact on at the start of the debut last March. Based on safety guidelines from the M.M. ’95, who praised how students excelled given the “Bringing the band back mattered...it was important the people around us.” fall semester, one of Center for Disease Control and public health experts difficulties. “From changing their performance styles, to to the morale of our campus community,” says Director Carly Battipaglia, a junior, says, “My biggest takeaway very few collegiate including University of Miami’s President Julio Frenk, even changing the way they practice, there really isn’t a of Athletic Bands Jay Rees who along with health is to never take what you love for granted, because you marching bands to the University closed its campuses and transitioned single thing that they do that hasn’t been impacted,” says experts spent the summer months prior examining the never know when it could be suddenly taken away.” perform during the to online-only instruction for the remainder of the Elton. “I applaud how everyone has been able to adapt effects of respiratory droplets, aerosol transmissions, “I was knocked out with how happy and joyful every- COVID-19 pandemic. spring 2020 semester. Extensive public health safety and do the things they love in really meaningful ways. It mask wearing, and social distancing. Rees then imple- body was to be making music again,” Rees says. “All the protocols were implemented over the summer months truly shows the spirit of Frost.” mented a plan for band members to stand 8 feet apart, band members have been amazingly respectful, profes- enabling in-person and hybrid classes to resume in the Kyle Elgarten, a graduate teaching assistant and mark specific locations on the field, wear special masks, sional, and accountable. No one made bad choices.” fall following procedures outlined by the University of orchestra master’s student said it was Miami’s COVID-19 Task Force. amazing just to get back to rehearsing together for the Friday Nights @ Frost first time—outside in a tent, socially distanced. “We all CONCERT PATRONS were also able to stay Band, Frost Studio Jazz Band, song- live and breathe music, and a connected virtually through FridayNights@Frost, a writers, contemporary groups, and part of you is gone when you curated YouTube concert series featuring some of the more. The playlist can be accessed lose that. So, being able to faculty’s favorite concerts from the prior year presented on the frost.miami.edu/events web be together in a safe way and by Frost choirs, Frost Opera Theater, Frost Symphony page, or on the YouTube channel: sharing it with a small audi- Orchestra, Frost Wind Ensemble, Frost Concert Jazz Frost School of Music UM ence was surreal,” Elgarten says. Hire a Frost Musician Pandemic protocols Above: Frost Wind for Frost concerts limit the GIGGING is the lifeblood of Frost and other special occasions. Frost musicians Ensemble with number of performers and students and alumni. The interruption also offer online education clinics, private guest artist Lindsay audience members. All are of live in-person performances due to lessons, or coaching sessions in production, Kesselman, center, at least six feet apart and COVID-19 caused financial hardship, arranging, composition, and songwriting. and conductor Left: Complying with From socially distanced classroom and practice required to wear a mask. Performers bring their own so the Frost School launched a successful In addition, students across all genres Robert Carnohan on pandemic safety spaces to customized masks for instruments, the Frost stands, folders, and music. There are specific times when virtual gig-booking service called Hire a Frost presented pop-up small group concerts under a Friday Nights@ protocols, brass School of Music implemented additional safety and people are permitted to enter and exit a venue in order to Musician (frost.miami.edu/hire) to provide a way for the Sarin Family Gateway at the Patricia L. Frost Music Frost rebroadcast students rehearse health precautions based on music-specific research avoid any kind of congregating. music lovers to hire Frost talent for socially distanced live Studios North Building and were also hired by the Left: Student harpist with special face studies. “The pandemic devastated the music and perfor- Fortunately, livestreaming was scheduled for performances, or via Zoom for birthdays, anniversaries, City of Coral Gables to perform at outdoor locations. Marti Moreland masks, bell covers, mance industry unlike any other sector of the economy, enhancement this year with multiple new robotic at an outdoor event and disposable spit and we felt that this was a critical time for these future cameras in both Gusman Concert Hall and Clarke New Podcast Series Spotlights Experts valve pads on floor musicians to continue to develop and flourish, so we Recital Hall and made possible by a major gift to the Right: Singers with made it our mission to create a campus atmosphere they Frost School’s Strategic Plan. “This caliber of technology FROST SESSIONS, a new bi-weekly audio/visual and Discipline in the Music Industry; Behind Professor Alan trusted and felt comfortable returning to,” says the Frost will definitely be beneficial and will stay with us after the podcast series hosted by Frost faculty, alumni artists, TV and Film ; Leap into the Johnson at piano School’s Dean Shelly Berg. pandemic,” says Gerard Schwarz, distinguished professor and innovative students, features conversations with top Future of Music; Data Lords and more. And return they did: 75% of music majors elected to of music, conducting, and orchestral studies and music music professionals who share their experiences and Sign up for alerts for new podcasts, return to campus in fall 2020, and 90% in spring 2021. director of the Frost Symphony Orchestra. “It’s been an discuss what’s new and happening in the world of music. access past episodes, and make sugges- There was no transmission of the virus in Frost facilities. enhancement that aides us in showcasing what we do to Recent topics include The Power of Connections; tions by filling out our suggestion box at “We are such an interconnected community; the world,” Schwarz says. Discovering What You’re Born to Do; Talent, Opportunity, frost.miami.edu/podcast.

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evolve and create a new institution,” says Berg. “We have been doing that work for many years, and with the dedi- cated efforts of the SCED committee and everyone in the Frost School, we are finally starting to see the results.” Rooting Out Biases to Strengthen When Berg arrived in Miami, he was particularly concerned that Frost School of Music Culture the Frost School had no full-time Black professors, and almost no Black THE PROMOTION of diversity, equity, and inclusion As a first action step, he asked the School Culture, Melvin Butler Jennifer Grim adjuncts. “Now we have eight full-time at the Frost School of Music is paramount to its success. Equity, and Diversity Advisory Committee (SCED)— Black faculty (10 percent of the total), a After the Black Lives Matter protests last spring, and established in 2019 and currently co-chaired by school culture, equity, and diversity for administration, growing number of Black adjunct faculty, as well as more again in summer, Dean Shelly Berg communicated a Associate Professor of Musicology Melvin Butler and faculty, and staff; e) a positive working environment, faculty of other ethnicities and backgrounds,” he says. strong message of support reprinted in part below: Associate Professor of Flute Jennifer Grim—to take an including examination of salary gender equity, and musi- “And, we have worked very hard to attract Black student The Frost School of Music acknowledges and condemns active role in hosting private and public town halls with cians’ health initiatives, and; f ) opportunities for interdis- applicants and increase financial aid. When I arrived at the legacy of racism, values the dignity of all life, and stands alumni, students, faculty, and staff to help identify and ciplinary cooperation among programs. Frost, only 2- to 4-percent of students were Black. This in solidarity with the Black community. We are committed begin to root out systemic biases. A Frost Unity and Diversity Committee comprised of fall, both the incoming freshman and graduate student to co-creating a caring, equitable, and compassionate world “One of the aims of the SCED committee is to help professional staff members was also created. classes were 8-percent Black, and international student through sustainable long-term structures of curriculum, foster a feeling of belonging among the faculty, staff, and Both committees interface with the University of enrollment was also up. This is a positive result, and it is programming, and a culture that continues to raise aware- students,” says Grim. “We also serve as a safe place where Miami’s Office of Institutional Culture. a point along an upward trajectory,” says Berg. “We have ness and learning of Black lives because they matter. they can come to express any concerns or issues of “True culture change is not a magic-wand, quick-fix a long way to go, but I am pleased we are moving in the We support digging deep, listening deep, and under- inequity. Having an open line of communication is endeavor, but rather a long-term intentional effort to right direction.” standing, followed by action. important if we want to enact positive change.” Butler says that the “social, psychological, and institutional barriers upheld by systemic racism often seem insurmountable” but is grateful that the SCED Musicology Student Examines Protest Music committee has facilitated events “where members of our community, especially students of color, can voice raduate musicology student Marcus Grant, M.M. ’17 is bringing or memes [captioned pictures or videos], things get a bit complicated. concerns that need to be amplified and addressed.” Gracial justice to the forefront of his latest research in the wake of Making someone into a meme to spread awareness may do just that, but The SCED examines guidelines and procedures the Black Lives Matter movement. the nature of an internet trend tends to distract from the actual message concerning school culture, equity, and diversity of the While earning a previous master’s degree in jazz drum performance of the piece. It’s within the gray area that I raise Frost School. It makes recommendations to the Frost at Frost, Grant composed and performed a suite entitled #InsertNameHere these questions.” School Council and Administration and posts to its for a recital in 2016; it addressed his feelings about black social trauma Grant will begin a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology webpage frost.miami.edu/diversity about the following: after hearing the news that Philando Castile and Alton Sterling were killed next year and says a career in higher education a) culture of shared governance with the School on back-to-back days. “I was feeling a deep sense of anger and sadness. is a future goal. “The field of academia needs more Council and Administration; The hashtags flying around the internet became a blur. I felt like I could be Black voices. Representation is important and if b) open, safe, and transparent next,” he says. “It was not easy to write, nor easy to perform…the nature I can encourage someone else to strive for communication among students, of the piece is very emotionally taxing,” he says. bigger goals, I’m all for it. I hope my work faculty, administration, and Now, in tandem with his musicological research, Grant is exploring how will contribute to the other strong voices of professional staff; c) priorities music plays a role in the ongoing struggle for change, especially in today’s scholars talking about these relevant topics. and goals concerning gender social climate. He asks the question: “In what ways does protest music I’d also be happy teaching courses in jazz and gender identity, sexual honor or detract from Black suffering and mortality?” history, jazz cultures, hip-hop, or Protest orientation, religious affilia- His thesis focuses on protest music from the Black Lives Matter music and having a drum studio and tion, race, and disability among protests of 2020, following the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, teaching ensembles. I’d like to use all of students, faculty, administration, and Breonna Taylor. “Protest music in and of itself is an expression of grief my talents,” he says. and staff; d) training programs in and trauma,” Grant says. “However, when paired with social media trends Marcus Grant

{ 6 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 7 } Frost News Chamber Music Artist-In-Residence Alicia Hall Moran Media Writing and Production Faculty MEZZO-SOPRANO Alicia Hall Moran—a multi- A Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, she is currently devel- and Alumni Successes in the TV Biz dimensional artist renowned for her technical virtuosity oping a new production Breaking Ice with a wide range JAMAL MURRAY and brilliant interpretation of song in the genres of of collaborators including Ice Theatre of New York, WITH , HBO, and other major composing Other recent music supervision projects opera, art, theater, and jazz—was selected as the Frost shinobue and taiko player Kaoru Watanabe, and the and credits, faculty and alumni of the include Black Lightning (CW), Truth Be Told School’s inaugural Chamber Music Artist-in-Residence. Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Frost Media Writing and Production (MWP) program (Apple), Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse, Lego “Ms. Moran is an exemplar of how artists invent and “Alicia has a very special way of connecting with are well-entrenched in the television and film business. 2, Queen & Slim, and the upcoming sequels to reimagine ideas, connect, and design ingenious perfor- audiences and understanding the underpinnings of that Here are a few highlights from the past year: the Space Jam and Sesame Street movies. mance experiences,” says Valerie Coleman, assistant connection,” says pianist Dean Shelly Berg, who has He credits the Media Writing and MICHAEL TULLBERG/ GETTY IMAGES professor of performance, chamber music, and entrepre- performed with her on numerous occasions. Frost Prof Composes The Queen’s Gambit Production program for giving him “key early neurship at Frost. “She brings to our students a wealth of Working with Frost students this year via Zoom, CARLOS RAFAEL RIVERA, assistant professor and experience in the fusion of music and picture,” information critical to artistry, comportment, and career Hall Moran says, “I am completely humbled by this director of the Media Writing and Production program and thanks former choral professor Jo-Michael Kier Lehman Alicia Hall Moran sustainability while guiding our chamber ensembles historic moment in higher education, globally, and I at the Frost School, teamed with director Scott Frank Scheibe and retired associate dean and MWP towards the vision of building an outstanding career.” could not be prouder to bear firsthand witness to the to score The Queen’s Gambit, program director Raul Murciano, B.S.C.E. ’91, M.M. ’93, Moran portrayed Bess in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess ingenuity and courage the Frost School of Music is a Netflix limited series that D.M.A. ’97, for their impact on his education. on Broadway and on a 20-city national tour. Her modeling. The students I’ve already encountered are premiered October 23. Rivera Lehman got his professional start working for the Heavy Blue and He re To d ay , as well as new shows like quite frankly effervescent in their approach to our received the 2021 Hollywood music supervision firm Hit the Ground Running where Alicia Hall Moran+ the project and Black Wall sessions together. They are open and engaged, and that Music in Media Award for he worked on hundreds of television episodes including Street, highlight her originality and joy in working with points to their mutual respect for the moment. I am so Outstanding Score for a TV the CSI franchise and HBO’s Entourage. diverse musicians. thrilled to be a part of this spectacular machine!” Show/Limited Series for his He then landed a highly-coveted position as in-house music writing on the show, music supervisor and creative executive in the music and a Society of Composers department at where he worked for five Carlos Rafael Rivera & Lyricists Award for years. He now runs Bad Sneakers, Inc., a full-service Prominent Professor Receives Prestigious Award Outstanding Score for a Television Production. He music supervision and clearance company for HBO, Fox, DON COFFMAN, an admired professor and chair of research committee coordinator. worked previously with Frank on the Netflix series ABC, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, and Warner Brothers. the Department of Music Education and Music Therapy Coffman thanked his current and Godless for which he earned a 2018 Emmy Award for his at the Frost School of Music, was honored by the former colleagues and students for main title theme, and was Netflix Movie Reaches Number One Florida Music Education Association with its College sharing their lives with him, saying nominated for Outstanding JAMIE CHRISTOPHERSON, M.M. ’00, who earned Music Educator of the Year Award. It was presented at “The rewards of teaching come from Music Composition. a master’s degree in Media Writing and Production at the association’s 2021 virtual professional development experiences with others because we “I have always loved Frost, composed a Country-tinged score for the conference in January where he was also serving as the teach people, not music. Teaching is underdog tales like Rocky, Netflix Original movieA California Christmas an invitation to learning, so how we or Rudy,” says Rivera. “The that reached the pinnacle #1 trending spot treat others has to come first.” Don Coffman moment I read Scott Frank’s during the winter holidays. He also co-wrote New Master of Teaching Degree Coffman earned a Ph.D. from teleplay for The Queen’s Gambit; I knew getting to work several original songs and a folksy the University of Kansas. An internationally known with him in telling Beth Harmon’s story would be one of of “O Holy Night” for the film. in Music Education scholar with over 100 publications and 100 presentations the great thrills of my life. It was something special, and He says his time at the Frost School was N ACCELERATED one-year Master of Teaching (M.A.T.) in Music Education in 13 countries, he has conducted over 300 wind band to say the least, challenging, as we were going to have to “one of the best decisions I’ve made in life,” and Adegree program is now offered by the Frost School. It provides an excellent performances and clinics, and chaired countless profes- make the game of chess exciting on screen for those who adds the MWP program “was perfectly geared Jamie Christopherson path for candidates who already hold a prior music degree to quickly pursue K-12 sional commissions and committees. Among his many play it—and even for those who don’t.” towards preparing me for how the real world of music teaching certification in the State of Florida. activities this year he presented “They Are Us: Conversa- entertainment works. I am very grateful for the lessons of Students complete all course content as required to pursue music teaching cer- tions about connection, disruption and inclusion” at the Alumnus Earns Emmy Nomination hard work, flexibility, and perseverance that I learned.” tification in the state of Florida. Following graduation, alumni then secure a teaching ISME Community Music Activities Pre-Conference. CONGRATULATIONS to Frost Media Writing Christopherson’s music can be heard in the feature position in a Florida School through the State of Florida Professional Development At the Frost School of Music he teaches and Production alumnus Kier Lehman, B.M. ’03, for filmsThe Ride and American Wrestler; video games Metal Certification Program. After completing one year of supervised teaching, individuals conducting, methods of teaching instrumental school his 2020 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Gear Rising: Revengeance; Dead Rising, and Lineage II; then complete certification examinations and apply to the Florida Department of music, and community music programs. He founded the Music Supervision for the HBO series Insecure, episode and Showtime television shows Homeland, Ray , Education for certification. Further details at musiced.frost.miami.edu. Frost School’s New Horizons Band for adult learners. “Lowkey Movin’Lorem On.” Ipsum and The Affair; CBS’s Extant; and NBC’s Revolution.

{ 8 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 9 } Frost News ® Grammy Congratulations Go to Frost School Alumni Garner Major Latin Grammys® Great Frost Musicians SEVEN gifted music alumni received 16 Latin Grammy in composition at Frost; he is now pursuing an artist Award nominations and landed six wins at the 21st diploma in orchestral conducting. ESTEEMED Frost faculty and alumni were honored nominee, received his first Grammy Award for Best Annual Latin Grammy® Awards ceremony held Singer- Raquel Sofía, BM ’09, and again with Grammy wins and nominations at the 63rd Choral Performance for Danielpour: The Passion of November 19, 2020, the preeminent international honor flutist-bandleader Ernesto Fernandez, M.M. ’13, Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony on March 14. Ye s h u a , a dramatic oratorio of the braiding of two faiths, that celebrates excellence in and the only D.M.A. ’16, received nominations for Best Pop Song and Maria Schneider, ’83, a multi-Grammy Award Judaism and Christianity. peer-presented Latin music accolade. Best Traditional Tropical respectively. winner and nominee who serves as Artistic Director of Neal J. Avron, B.M. ’87, a Grammy-winning mixer Alumni who took home the coveted award are: “The Frost School congratulates our 2020 Latin the Frost School’s Henry Mancini Institute received two and producer who has worked with artists ranging from Julio Reyes Copello, M.M. ’00, with two wins and Grammy winners! This brilliant group of individuals Grammy wins in association with her latest release , , and was George Noriega, B.M. ’96, Natalia Ramírez, M.A. ’17, are representative of the astounding number of talented, Data Lords. She now has 7 wins and 16 nominations. nominated in the Best Musical Theater Album category. Carlos Fernando López, B.M. ’12, M.M. ’20, and Jose high-achieving faculty, students, and alumni that were This Grammy season marks the 11th nomination for Rounding out the Grammy nominee list are Valentino, M.M. ’10, each receiving one for a total of six. drawn to the Frost School because of our unique Studio Music and Jazz lecturer, pianist, and Jeremy Adam Levy, B.M. ’04, and , ’73, each Julio Reyes Copello as producer and engineer and geographical endowment at the crossroads of the producer Gonzalo Rubalcaba, a double Grammy winner, in separate arranger categories. Natalia Ramirez as engineer won Record of the Year for Americas,” says Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives who was nominated this year for Best Latin Jazz Album “The consistent high achievements of Frost faculty their work together on “Contigo” by . Rey Sanchez. “These awards are a testimony to their for Viento Y Tiempo – Live at Blue Note Tokyo. and alumni each year is truly extraordinary and Carlos Fernando López, along with Jose Valentino, creativity and hard work, and also to the impact of their Frost alumni nominees also exhibit incredible range. inspiring,” says Dean Shelly Berg,. “Being acknowledged won in the Best Classical Contemporary Composition time at the Frost School. We are enormously proud that Carmen Lundy, B.M. ’80, was nominated for Best by your peers for excellence in recording is the ultimate category for their composition “Sacre,” which was part our teaching and culture have contributed to the success Jazz Vocal Album, her first Grammy nomination. reward in music. I applaud and congratulate our 2021 of López’s final project to matriculate with his master’s of these exceptional alumni. ¡Felicidades a todos!” Chorus Master James K. Bass, D.M.A. ’05, a six-time class of Grammy winners and nominees.” Julio Reyes Copello, M.M. ’00 Carlos Fernandez López, George Noriega, B.M. ’96 Maria Schneider, ’83 Neal J. Avron, B.M. ’87 Jeremy Adam Levy, M.M. ’04 Record of the Year: “Contigo” by B.M. ’12, M.M. ’20 Best Engineered Album: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Best Musical Theater Album: Best Arrangement, Instrumental or Alejandro Sanz from Tributo a Sabina: Jose Valentino, M.M. ’10 3:33 by Debi Nova Data Lords Jagged Little Pill A Cappella: “Uranus: The Magician” Ni Tan Joven Ni Tan Viejo Best Classical Contemporary Producer of the Year: multiple artists from The Planets: Reimagined Album of the Year: Composition: “Sacre” from Lignarius Best Instrumental Composition: James K. Bass, D.M.A. ’05 Record of the Year: “Tutu” by Camilo “Sputnik” from Data Lords Pausa by and Pedro Capó from Por Primera Vez Best Choral Performance: Pat Metheny, ’73 Carlos Fernandez López, B.M. ’12 Best Arrangement Instrumental & Album of the Year: Album of the Year: Gonzalo Rubalcaba Best Engineered Album, Classical: Natalia Ramiréz, M.A. ’17 Vocals: “From This Place” Pat Metheny Mesa Para Dos by Kani Garcia Mesa Para Dos by Kani Garcia Best Latin Jazz Album: Viento Y Record of the Year: “Contigo” by Best Contemporary Classical featuring Meshell Ndegeocello, Alan Tiempo—Live at Blue Note Tokyo Record of the Year: “Lo Que en Ti Veo” Record of the Year: “Lo Que en Ti Veo” Alejandro Sanz from Tributo a Sabina: Composition: Broadbent and Pat Metheny, arrangers Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Aymée Nuviola by Kani Garcia and Nahuel Pennisi by Kani Garcia and Nahuel Pennisi Ni Tan Joven Ni Tan Viejo Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua from Mesa Para Dos from Mesa Para Dos Record of the Year: “Lo Que en Ti Veo” Carmen Lundy, B.M. ’80 JoAnn Falletta, James K. Bass, Adam Ernesto Fernandez, M.M. ’13, Luebke, UCLA Chamber Singers, Raquel Sofía, B.M. ’09 by Kani Garcia and Nahuel Pennisi Best Jazz Vocal Album: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & D.M.A. ’16 Album of the Year: Modern Ancestors Best Pop Song: “Amor En Cuarentena” Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, Best Traditional Tropical Album: Pa’lante Mesa Para Dos by Kani Garcia Bernd Gottinger, engineer BRIENE LERMITTE

Maria Schneider Gonzalo Rubalcaba Carmen Lundy Neal Avron James Bass Jeremy Adam Levy Pat Metheny Julio Reyes Copello Ernesto Fernandez Carlos F. López Jose Valentino Raquel Sofia George Noriega Natalia Ramirez AMANDA JULCA

{ 10 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 11 } Frost News Student’s Song Goes Viral on YouTube Frost and Jazz Aspen Snowmass Expand Their Imprint in Aspen BY DAY, Jasmine Ortiz studies musicianship, artistry development, and THE JAS ACADEMY in collaboration with the Frost and innovation at the Frost School, says, “As faculty at entrepreneurship at the Frost School of Music. But by night, she records with School of Music and Jazz Aspen Snowmass (JAS) is Frost, I’m used to being around highly talented, ambi- producers like the multi-platinum Trackdilla. Now, she is taking the pop expanding to four weeks in Aspen this summer. Interna- tious young musicians…and the talent at the industry by storm. With her latest single “Cherry tional auditions this spring for highly talented, ambitious JAS Academy is off-the-charts! But talent and FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC CONGRATULATES on Top” reaching over 2 million views on YouTube, young musicians revealed a fantastic array of talent that ambition are not enough. Musicians aspiring ITS 2021 DOWNBEAT STUDENT AWARDEES the bilingual artist is nothing shy of a sensation. will attend either Combo/Small Ensemble Sessions July to a professional life STEVE MUNDINGER Ortiz found her roots in the hard rock genre 11–25, or Individual Sessions July 25–August 7. in music today need Undergraduate College Winners while studying jazz guitar and classical piano JAS Artistic Director Christian McBride, Frost Dean a strong foundation Amy Azzara, Vocal Jazz Soloist in high school. Evolving into an energetic, pop Shelly Berg, Program Director Chuck Bergeron, M.M. in business and tech- STEVE MUNDINGER Kate Reid, faculty mentor vocalist came naturally to her; she learned five ’93, and faculty artists Etienne Charles, Rey Sanchez, nology, along with Frost Ensemble instruments before becoming a songwriter. Ortiz B.M. ’80, M.M. ’82, Brian Lynch, and D.M.A. candidate the entrepreneurial Asynchronous /Pop/Rock Group now incorporates Spanish, English, and Mandarin Jasmine Ortiz Michael Dudley, M.M. ’18, will work with the academy spirit to forge their Above: JAS Academy Steve Rucker, faculty mentor into her music to appeal to the masses. Clearly, it’s students. Alumnus Emmet Cohen, B.M. ’12, and jazz own creative path. Frost students Ben Taylor, Blues/Pop/Rock Soloist (guitar) working. Her bilingual single, “Intentions,” has also reached over 1 million masters who perform at the JAS Café summer series will This is my role at the Janelle Finton, John Hart, faculty mentor views on YouTube. “It was interesting to see the song blow up in Mexico, or also serve as visiting adjunct faculty during both sessions. JAS Academy,” he trumpet, Emma Spain, or Colombia,” Ortiz says, reflecting on her worldwide reach. “I was Described as a “unique boot camp for the essen- says. To that end, in Hedrick, vocals, Graduate College Winners like ‘OK, wow, this is really cool. People all over the world are listening to my tial technology, marketing, and creative skills that addition to intensive Michael Ramos, Katie Oberholtzer, Vocal Jazz Soloist music.’ That was bizarre.” every musician needs to thrive,” the JAS Academy is a combo and big band bass, with NYU Chuck Bergeron, faculty mentor The pandemic lockdown left little room for inspiration. “For me person- full-scholarship program, with travel, lodging, tuition interactions, Frost School curricula will be introduced drummer Anton Kot Frost Extensions, Small Vocal Jazz Group ally, I always need a lot of social input to have creative output. You can’t cook and meals provided. The JAS Academy is supported including classes in recording, arranging, production, Left: Michael Dudley, Kate Reid, faculty mentor without ingredients, and my ingredients are seeing people and going out annually by a multi-year gift from Sasha and Ed Bass. touring, agent representation, artist management, trumpet, in JAS and doing things,” Ortiz says. Still, she used the situation to adapt. “I started Rey Sanchez, associate dean for strategic initiatives contracts, website development, and digital rights. Academy Big Band The V. Tet, Blues/Pop/Rock Group learning and growing and taking the time to not only focus on being an artist, Chuck Bergeron, faculty mentor but also on being a musician and what that meant to me,” says Ortiz. As her Frost Fusion Ensemble YouTube views and Spotify streams rise, “It’s starting to feel more real to me.” Asynchronous Blues/Pop/Rock Group Frost School at Festival Napa Valley Art Inspires Composers Steve Rucker, faculty mentor Stamps Brass Quintet Class of 2024 A NEW STYLE of summer music training academy is launching in OROTHY HINDMAN, B.M. ’88, D.M.A. ’94, associate pro- Seth Crail, “Moon River” Northern California this July for 50 advanced classical music students who Dfessor of composition, was instrumental in launching a Jazz Arrangement—Studio Orchestra FIVE TALENTED brass players were awarded full scholarships this fall were selected by audition: The Frost School @ Festival Napa Valley. new interdisciplinary project with the Frost School of Music and Stephen Guerra Jr., faculty mentor including tuition, room and board at the Frost School and will perform for Co-produced by the Frost School of Music and the University of Miami entitled “Composing Undergraduate Outstanding Performance during their undergraduate years as the Stamps Brass Quintet class of 2024. Festival Napa Valley from July 8–25, The Frost the Collection: Sonifying the Lowe Art Museum’s Musical Instru- Pictured below, left to right: Ethan Revere, trumpet; Xinrae Cardozo, horn; School @ Festival Napa Valley will provide chamber ments and Art Works in Written Music and Live Performance.”

Emma Hedrick, Vocal Jazz Soloist BOB MCCLENAHAN Antony Hook, tuba; Terri Rauschenbach, trumpet; Ian Wolff, trombone. music and large ensemble coaching, master classes, Student composers Melissa D’Albora, Logan Larson, Ryne Kate Reid, faculty mentor The Stamps Ensemble Scholarships began at Frost in 2009 through the career training, and idyllic concert opportunities Siesky, Wesley Thompson, Greg Watson, and Rachel Weiss Maggie Kinney, Vocal Jazz Soloist generosity of the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation, with 58 Stamps hosted by festival sponsors throughout Napa Valley premiered new music based on objects from the Lowe’s Musical Kate Reid, faculty mentor ensemble scholars to date, including 19 currently enrolled. The recruiting of including five orchestra concerts, and much more. Instruments and Art Works Collections and University of Miami Valentina Shelton, Blues/Pop/Rock Soloist (piano/vocals) each ensemble rotates every four years. In addition to the new Stamps Brass Frost Associate Professor Jennifer Grim is the artistic administrator for Libraries Special Collections. Students selected two objects: an Chuck Bergeron, faculty mentor Quintet, there is a Stamps Woodwind Quintet class of 2023, Stamps String this uniquely Frost program and will work in tandem with Festival Napa instrument and an artwork. Through research, digital recording, Kenton Luck, “Jinrikisha” Quartet class of 2022, and Stamps Jazz Quintet class of 2021. Valley to oversee the student experience, including curricular highlights from and spectral analysis, students obtained modern representations Undergraduate Jazz Arrangement The Frost Method.® Grim and ten other Frost professors will serve on the of their chosen instrument’s sounds. Funded in part by The Chuck Bergeron, faculty mentor summer faculty, along with a dozen other faculty from prestigious orchestras. Andrew W. Mellon CREATE Grants Program, the original audio All academy students will receive free airfare, housing, meals, and a per diem. samples, recordings of the new works, and other sonic doc- Graduate College Outstanding Performance The Frost School @ Festival Napa Valley is funded this summer by umentation of the source objects will form the basis Frost Jazz Vocal I, Large Vocal Jazz Ensemble generous donations by Frost Advisory Board members Jeffery Miller, Adam of an audio companion to augment the Lowe’s Kate Reid, director Carlin, and other steadfast supporters. Guide by Cell self-guided tour program.

{ 12 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 13 } Frost News Doctors and Musicians Team Up to Grad Students Awarded Early Career Field Research Grants EACH YEAR the University of Miami Institute for the Víctor Manuel Study Ideal Vocal Warm-up Time Americas invites graduate students to apply for Tinker Rubio Carrillo, a Foundation Field Research Grants to help them “develop Ph.D. candidate in IT TAKES ONLY MINUTES of vocal warm-up for gogy acted as our blind raters, which again reduced the cutting-edge research projects and gain firsthand knowl- music education classical singers to perceive vocal ease prior to practice, risk of bias and made the results more reliable.” edge of Latin America and the Caribbean.” was also awarded according to a recent study by the University of Miami They found that vocally warming up has a self-per- Two students from the Frost School of Music were a Tinker Grant Miller School of Medicine and Frost School of Music ceived benefit for singers compared with not warming awarded Tinker Grants this year, which may help them for his proposal researchers published in the Journal of Voice. up at all. And 5 or 10 minutes of warm-up seems to be secure external funding for subsequent research. “Understanding “There is little research sufficient to begin a practice session. Participants did not Hannah Junco, a master’s student in musicology, was the Education of on singers’ perceptions of perceive long warm-up routines to be more beneficial. awarded a Tinker Grant for her proposal “Investigating Music in Ecuador” Hannah Junco Victor Manuel Rubio Carillo the benefits of warm-up and “It was no surprise that vocally warming up makes Latin American cultural politics and music following to examine multiple the ideal amount of time to singing feel more comfortable. As vocal teachers, we the Cuban Revolution of 1959.” More specifically, it schools of music after infrastructure and sustainable do so. Yet, the amount of always tell our students the importance of warming is an ethnomusicological look at how rikudim (Israeli state funding was recently compromised across Ecuador, warm-up can be important up before practicing to make singing easier circle dancing) in synagogues of Havana, Cuba is he reports. His research design involves methods of for vocal health and quality,” and avoid injury,” said the study’s first author, Frank W. playing a role in rebuilding the dissipating religious immersive observations in sampled schools in different says the study’s senior Ragsdale, D.M.A. ’04, associate professor of music and community of the Cuban Jews; the Jewish popula- provinces, interviews with students, musicians, adminis- author, Adam Lloyd, SLP-D, chair of the Department of Vocal Performance at the tion dwindled from 15,000 to 1,200 following the tration, and document analysis. CCC-SLP, M.M., assistant Frost School of Music. “I found it interesting, however, Cuban Revolution of 1959. “In a reparative effort, In Ecuador, a specialized track for professional professor of otolaryngology that the 15-minute warm-up time did not make a the Jubano [pronounced Jew-bahn-o] community is musicians is available for students starting at age seven. and speech pathology at the difference in the self-perceived ease of singing over the using strongly nationalist symbols like dance to It is a school diploma that takes 11 years to complete. Miller School. “Too much 5- or 10-minute times. I think this finding will encourage negotiate this interaction of religion and nationality in Students who attend these vocational music schools can cause fatigue or sores students to warm up, knowing that as little as 5 to 10 the context of a socialist state,” Junco says. do so in the afternoons after their general classes, and to form on the vocal folds, minutes is sufficient.” Due to the pandemic, her travel to Cuba was not when they graduate secondary school, they receive two while not enough warm-up Future research should include a larger population approved. Nevertheless, she conducted virtual interviews diplomas—general sciences and musical arts. Institutions may lead to limited range of singers with different levels of education and singing with rikudim organizers and participants residing in accredited to grant these degrees are publicly funded by and loudness capabilities or genres, the authors wrote. both Havana and Miami. “I am more than thrilled that the Ecuadorian state, so the capacity of the schools to Dr. David Rosow, injury, similar to what would happen to an athlete who “One of the benefits of collaborative research is the Tinker Foundation selected my project about this generate their own income is limited. Carrillo could not associate professor does not warm up before an event. through the Frost School of Music, as well as the fascinating and tenacious community, especially during travel to Ecuador during the pandemic, but aims to “gather of otolaryngology “Our goal was to discover what amount of time Department of Theatre Arts from the College of Arts these times when community is sometimes all that is enough information to facilitate actionable plans to help at the Miller School of warm-up provided singers with the greatest ease of and Sciences, we have access to student vocalists from holding us together,” Junco says. remediate problems and develop sustainable solutions.” of Medicine, usage.” a broad range of backgrounds: classical, jazz, contem- with student The researchers reported on a prospective cohort of porary, and musical theatre, to name a few. We have Yashwanth nine Frost School of Music classical vocal performance already learned from some of our other ongoing research Doctoral Candidate Wins First Prize in Viola Research Ramanujam majors to determine if specific warm-up durations of 0, that different musical training can affect the likelihood 5, 10, or 15 minutes would change subjective and objec- of vocal injury over time,” said study author David E. VIOLA STUDIO teaching assistant and doctor of doctoral seminar in contemporary tive voice measures. The singers completed a modified Rosow, M.D., associate professor of otolaryngology and musical arts candidate Angela Kratchmer won first prize performance practice under the guidance Voice Range Profile and the Evaluation of the Ability to director of the Division of Laryngology and Voice at in the 2020 David Dalton Viola Research Competition. of Professor Scott Flavin last spring,”

Sing Easily scale and blindly rated 10-second recorded the Miller School. “We are constantly expanding this Kratchmer was selected for her paper “The Widmann Kratchmer says. “In this course, I had the VOS/VOSSTUDIOS EMILY audio clips. Four independent expert blinded listeners study and perhaps we will find that these groups respond Viola Concerto: Harold in Italy for the Postmodern opportunity to integrate my interest in also rated the audio clips. differently to vocal warm-ups.” Age.” The paper will be published in a future edition of postmodern subjectivity with previous “We included several levels of randomization and Coauthors on the study are Judy O. Marchman, the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Viola Society, research about Berlioz’s Harold in Italy blinding so that participants and raters would be less D.M.A.; Michelle M. Bretl, M.S., CCC-SLP; Jennylee which publishes research of lasting historical value. The to establish a conceptual framework that biased in their scoring. This strengthened the results of Diaz, M.S.; Mursalin Anis, M.D.; Hang Zhang, M.S.; competition is named in honor of the journal’s first situates Jörg Widmann’s Viola Concerto the study and improved reliability,” Lloyd said. “Profes- and Mario A. Landera, SLP-D, CCC-SLP. editor and offers attractive prizes. (2015) as a travel narrative for the Angela Kratchmer sionals in the fields of voice pathology and vocal peda- Courtesy of Special to UM News “The impetus for this project occurred during a twenty-first century.”

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY JENNY ABREU

of the school’s award-winning intramural field to Above left to right: faculty including Director of abide by COVID-19 Singer-songwriter Choral Activities Amanda Quist. protocols. Staging Nanseera Wolff; In addition, faculty artists was managed by John Splithoff and John Daversa, Brian Russell, and Frost events and the American Music Svet Stoyanov also performed. recording services Ensemble; John Splithoff, B.M. ’13, closed teams, professional Frost Percussion the celebratory festival with the vendors, Student Group in action American Music Ensemble. Affairs and others. Center left: PHOTOGRAPHY BY JENNY ABREU Frost Music Fest ’21 was held live outdoors on two News reports of the event on CBS Sunday Morning Latin pop group Above left: RENÉE FLEMING, the “As we approached a year large festival-style stages and was also simulcast for free and other major media outlets garnered over 45 million Café Con Leche Renée Fleming internationally renowned of living through the pandemic, on YouTube. A limited audience was permitted on the unique views and visitors (Source: newsexposure.com). sings with the soprano and one of the most our students missed the joy of Frost Symphony honored singers of our time, performing for live audiences,” Orchestra, made her first live outdoor says Dean Shelly Berg, who Strings Master Class Reveals Riveting Insights Gerard Schwarz, appearance since the pandemic also performed as a piano conductor began, singing with students at soloist with the orchestra. “We PRAISED for their “vibrant performance” and “sincere Quartet, encouraged the student ensembles to think Above right: Socially the Frost School of Music at have had great success with our expressivity” the Thalea String Quartet was honored this about the concept of ‘command’ during performance. distanced students the University of Miami (UM) COVID-19 safety measures year with the Fischoff Ann Divine Educator Award. “There is something so gripping when a quartet has enjoy the festival on March 20. The U.S. National Medal of the Arts and decided to bring music back live in a spectacular Coaching Frost School students on February 14 via command of their gestures and Center: student recipient and four-time Grammy winner performed with way —and it doesn’t get any bigger than performing with Zoom from their various home studios, the members of sound… their physicality, and pianist Eric Stern the Frost Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gerard Renée Fleming.” the Thalea Quartet conducted a master class with two choreography. Hold your audi-

with the Frost Schwarz. She performed beloved arias with the orchestra The festival line-up included a host of talented Frost student string groups livestreaming from Gusman Hall. ences’ hand about your version AYANGADE TITILAYO Concert Jazz Band such as Puccini’s “O Mio Babbino Caro,” and a sensa- School students performing in various music ensembles First up was the Stamps String Quartet Class of of the work.” tional rendition of “(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow.” of jazz, pop, classical, Latin, R&B, and more, led by many 2022 in a noteworthy performance of two movements Luis Bellorín, violist, shared of Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3, followed by a second the Thalea Quartet’s approach string ensemble in a striking rendering of the first move- to leadership. “Everyone has Travis Quinn Memorial Scholarship Fund ment of Dohnányi’s Piano Quintet in C minor, opus 1. a 24.5% role and the leader- “Playing on Zoom means you need to be very ship rotates around.” Violinist ip jar proceeds during the Frost Music Fest ’21 live stream fund. Born and raised in Miami, his love of music arresting in the drama of spaces,” cellist Titilayo Avangade Kumiko Sakamoto added, Tbenefited the Travis Quinn Opportunity Scholarship Fund began at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center in said in her opening remarks to the Stamps Quartet. “You “Think of yourself as a pilot. Don’t have one person Thalea String established at the Frost School of Music to provide scholarships to Liberty City where he became band director of their play so well together, but in this piece, I almost want more always lead and everyone else follow. This way, the energy Quartet, left to high-achieving and talented music students who have overcome Heritage Band, a music apprentice program for youth ‘weird’…by leaning into the dissonances… perhaps some- comes from each of you, and is unstoppable.” right: Luis Bellorín, substantial economic or educational hardship to apply to, attend, ages 9–17. A multi-instrumentalist who directed the thing more creepy-in-the-night.” She asked the under- The Thalea Quartet, who also presented a Zoom Titilayo Avangade, and remain at the music school. It was named in memory of Miami Heat Street Band, he was a freelance musician graduates to “bring more drama with your crescendos concert later the same evening, is known for premiering Kumiko Sakamoto, Travis Quinn, a gifted young musician and educator following his and educator while attending Florida A&M University and really explode in the fortissimo passages; make more new compositions and working to diversify chamber Christopher Whitely untimely tragic passing in May 2020. and ; he then auditioned for the Frost School. of silences, or shock me in the explosive sections.” The music audiences. Whitley says they often look outside Quinn, pictured center right as a member of the Frost Band The fund was established by generous separate donations students repeated sections of the Bartók employing her the classical music world for collaborators. “Our most of the Hour, was a beloved mentor for under privileged aspiring from Kent Savage and Carmine Parente. suggestions, and the impact was instantly spine-tingling. recent commission was a spoken music response piece. young musicians and personified the mission of this scholarship To give please visit: support.frost.miami.edu/giving-portals. Christopher Whitley, a violinist with the Thalea We’re on the lookout for people making great things.”

{ 16 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 17 } Guest Artists Tania León is 2021 Frost Composer-in-Residence Frost School Joins Star-Studded CELEBRATED composer Tania León is the 2021 Composers Orchestra’s Sonidos de las Américas Distinguished Composer-in-Residence for the Frost Festivals, and is the founder and artistic director of Salute to Benefit Nurses Heroes School of Music. Hailing from Havana, Cuba, León is the nonprofit Composers Now. also a conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organi- During her Frost residency, León will provide CELEBRITIES and musicians from the Frost School Frost advisory board member was one zations. Recent commissions are with the New York lessons to composition majors, as well as in-depth of Music joined forces in Nurse Heroes Live!—a virtual of the producers along with Bounce Event Marketing. Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic coaching to Ensemble Ibis and other student groups benefit concert on Thanksgiving Day that raised signifi- Dean Shelly Berg orchestrated and conducted Orchestra, League of American Orchestras, and the who will concertize some of her works this fall. cant funds to support the nonprofit organization Nurse four selections performed by Andrea Bocelli, Celine New Music USA Amplifying Voices Program. Honored by the appointment, León says, “I look Heroes Foundation (nurseheroes.org). Dion, Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan, , A founding member of the Dance Theatre of forward to working with the diverse representation of The online fundraiser, which was livestreamed on Josh Groban, Carole King, Leslie Odom Jr., Katharine Harlem, and a City of New York University Professor students and faculty. Miami has special meaning for Tania León November 26 and hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, paid McPhee Foster, and Emily Estefan. Emerita, León instituted the Brooklyn Philharmonic me as it was my first stop when I arrived in the United homage to nurses caring for COVID-19 patients, raised “I was very proud to be associated with everybody Community Concert Series, co-founded the American States. This is truly a dream come true!” awareness about a worldwide nursing shortage, and who was part of this good cause,” Berg says. “I always feel solicited donations for nurse education scholarships. fortunate to have these opportunities to work with icons. Music’s Role as Self-Therapy for Rapper on Death Row But in this case, the fact that it raised a lot of money for nurses at a time when it is much needed, supersedes RAP AND REDEMPTION on Death Row was the For Braxton, music is the key to self-therapy. Using the every other thing that makes me feel good.” subject of the 8th Annual Dr. Robert Kelley Memorial prison telephone as his microphone, he collaborates The Frost School’s Henry Mancini Institute Musicology Lecture at the Frost School of Music. It with producers on the outside who record his vocals and Orchestra also had an opportunity to collaborate on this was presented virtually on March 5 by provide beats for his rhymes. landmark project. “The Mancini Orchestra recorded a musicologist and author Mark Katz, the The purpose of this talk was twofold: variety of for the concert; and personally, John P. Barker Distinguished Professor of to introduce a musician who seeks both as a dean, there is nothing that makes you prouder,” Berg Music and Director of Graduate Studies redemption and justice through his music, shares. “One of the things we do at Frost is we cross-train at the University of North Carolina at and to offer reflections on the ethics of a musicians to give them real work experiences so that Chapel Hill. The prominent lecturer white, privileged scholar working with a they step off into the world and they know how to do a discussed his latest research exploring the Black man awaiting execution. variety of skills at a high level.” life and work of Alim Braxton, a.k.a. Rrome Alone, a Braxton, who accepted responsibility for his crime, He recounts how special it was to see Frost students rapper on North Carolina’s Death Row. participated remotely in the talk via prison telephone. so excited to be part of the recording session and concert. “The delight and the thrill were in the air. It was a price- Austrian Brass Septet Encourages Melodic Performance less moment to see them recording arrangements along with stars like Stevie Wonder,” says Berg. “We want our MNOZIL BRASS conducted a Zoom master class on audience, it is very clear. So listen to singers; when you students to know that this is the kind of career they can March 14 with Frost brass ensembles. Tubist Wilfried sing phrases, it becomes very clear how to play them.” pursue once they graduate.” Brandstötter focused on using a singing tone. “Playing First-year trumpeter and Stamps music scholar Terri Andrea Bocelli Celine Dion Stevie Wonder Gloria Estefan The event also highlighted a stirring on a brass instrument is maybe the greatest thing in the Rauschenbach says, “I learned about the importance of Top: Actor performance by a volunteer choir of 50 world, but one thing is much better…singing! When you musical lines in every voice, no matter the melodic prom- Leslie Odom Jr., nurses from Northwell Health. are listening to singers it is always touching you, imme- inence. Every member of a chamber group helps to shape center, and Berg says the virtual concert was diately. There is no instrument between you and the phrases, even if their role is only accompaniment.” nurses sing for an embodiment of the power of music. the Nurse Heroes “When you see all these stars singing virtual benefit along with these nurses and offering hope Right: The through music, it truly is so powerful,” Henry Mancini said Berg. “Music is so uplifting, and I’m Orchestra sure every audience member enjoyed this video recording unique concert while supporting a great for the show cause.”

{ 18 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 19 } Student Stars Undergraduate Flutist Wins NFA Orchestral Audition Competition Terrific Tuba Artists Earn High Honors in New Zealand AARON RIB, a fourth-year instrumental perfor- placed next to one another, rather than individually,” Rib TWO BRILLIANT undergraduate brass students mance major at Frost, was named the 2020 National says, whose livestreamed performance in the masterclass at the Frost School achieved extraordinary heights at Flute Association Orchestral Audition and Masterclass was the first time he had performed publicly over Zoom. the prestigious 2021 New Zealand International Brass Competition winner during the association’s annual “It was much harder to feel nervous standing in my Festival Solo Competition this January. conference held virtually in August 2020. mom’s home office!” After he was announced the winner, Jason Donnelly, a senior majoring in Instrumental Last spring, Rib and other accomplished he felt “an enormous boost of confidence to succeed on Performance was named first prize winner in the Profes- flutists submitted a recorded round of prese- the national level.” sional Artist category, and Kendra Luedke, a sophomore lected orchestral excerpts to the National Flute A student of Frost Associate Professor Jennifer Grim studying for a Bachelor of Arts in Music, placed second Association (NFA) for review by a panel of and Associate Professor Emeritus Trudy Kane, he was in the Young Artist Category. judges, and Rib advanced as one of three final- also an accepted fellow at the 2020 Round Top Festival “I am incredibly proud of how consistent Jason ists for the competition. The next stage would Institute, and a 2020 Big Arts 1st prize recipient. Donnelly and Kendra Luedke have become with every

normally have been a mock orchestral audition He says the most memorable part of the masterclass detailed aspect of their playing and with their prepa- Jason Donnelly Kendra Luedke held at an NFA convention space in August, was the Q&A with 2020 NFA clinician Elizabeth Rowe, rations for international competitions such as these,” followed by a masterclass with a guest clinician. principal flutist of the Symphony. “Ms. Rowe says Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium Donnelly agrees. “Frost has engrossed me in an envi- In lieu of that process, due to the pandemic, has an incredible reputation as a flutist, and in more Aaron Tindall. “It’s remarkable that they are both doing ronment of talented performers, educators, and students the three finalists submitted a new, continu- recent years as a gender equity advocate and social justice this during their undergraduate years. The results are who are dedicated to their craft,” he says. “I am motivated ously recorded take of a different set of excerpts spokesperson within the classical industry. Rather than showing for many in the tuba/euphonium studio, with and inspired by these people every day.” Donnelly has selected by the NFA, and then performed in a asking flute-related questions, the other two finalists so many big wins in competitions, and earning jobs in also earned artist soloist prizes from the International

Aaron Rib live Zoom masterclass open to NFA members. and I asked questions about increasing equity, access, the last few years. They are truly building themselves Tuba Euphonium Conference and the International “I found the particular selection of orchestral and opportunity in the orchestral field. It was a terrific here at the Frost School of Music!” Euphonium Tuba Festival, and was a winner of the 2020 excerpts chosen by the NFA to be unique in that they are example of the mindset shift in young artists toward “Being among so many talented and supportive peers Yamaha Young Performing Artist Competition that less commonly asked for, and were also more challenging assuming personal responsibility to make classical music and mentors continuously motivates me to practice recognizes outstanding young musicians who excel in jazz, as a set—challenging to make each one convincing when a more diverse and inclusive space,” Rib says. harder and work towards bigger goals as a musician,” classical and contemporary genres. “The fantastic special- Leudke says, who performed at the 2019 International ized instruction I receive at Frost has been absolutely Euphonium Tuba Festival and posts videos to YouTube. paramount to my artistic successes,” Donnelly says. Autistic Graduate Student Commencement Speaker is a Compassionate Advocate for Others KAYLAH TAYLOR , “a determination to make my Stamps tubist creates mobile app for musicians M.M. ’20, a multi-talented own way.” musician, businesswoman “I like to say that ‘I am tefan Hopman, a senior in the Frost School of Music and a instead of needing to use a Digital and educator, served as autistic and artistic,’ ” said SStamps Scholar, has created and released an app for musi- Audio Workstation. A full list the student speaker at Taylor during the ceremony. cians called Practica: Tuner and Metronome. It can be previewed of features may be found the University of Miami “I’m a music teacher for K-6 on YouTube or downloaded via the App Store. online. graduate ceremony hosted students, a musician, a singer, His mission was to provide “a digital toolbox for musicians “Creating Practica virtually in December; she a lupus butterfly—and I with a user-interface that makes sense,” says the enterprising required a rich and graduated with a Master of will do my part to stand and tuba player. “From beginners to pros, whether you are a vocalist diverse talent pool. Music Business and Enter- advocate for others.” or play a woodwind, brass, or string instrument the application Few if any schools provides numerous well-designed practice tools to improve other than Frost can tainment Industries. Kaylah Taylor Taylor urged her fellow Growing up with autism graduates to do the same and musicianship.” boast such an array of and recently diagnosed with lupus, she quoted from to share their knowledge with whomever they can. “Use For example, the tuner contains multiple displays like pitch skilled colleagues and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, reminding students that it, share it with others around you—to help a neighbor, graph and strobe tuner and can also read decibels to measure professors. I am fortunate “if there is no struggle, there is no success.” She related friend, colleague, or to instill in the next generation,” she your perceived loudness. A simple-to-use drum machine with 30 that I chose to attend the Frost her own challenges of living in the Liberty City neigh- said. “Find new ways to connect with your community well-sampled instruments allows you to create complex rhythms, School of Music as Practica would not Stefan Hopman borhood of Miami with her mother, older sister, and around—they deserve to know graduates like you.” change the beats-per-minute or groove of a backing track, exist without this decision,” says Hopman.

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hen Ashley Shalna stepped onto the stage for the first time after several months of a pandemic-imposed exile, her body tingled with excitement, delight but, mostW of all, gratitude. Like many of her fellow Frost School of Music students, the soprano had worried she would finish her studies before live performances would ever return to campus. Shalna, a second-year graduate student, pictured left in the role of Eurydice in Les Malheurs d’Orphée (“The Misfortunes of Orpheus”), performed in one of seven short operatic masterworks presented by Frost Opera Theater under the production bannerMasquerade 2021 at the Gusman Concert Hall March 5 and 6. “The first day of rehearsal was the first time that I had sung in person in front of my peers with live accompaniment since the pandemic started,” says Shalna, her voice nearly breaking at the memory. “It was so emotional. There’s nothing like singing for people, nothing like a story coming to life—and I think it was even more so then because of what POSITIVE we had all gone through.” PERSEVERANCE

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{ 22 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 23 } n March 2020, when COVID-19 Though Buchman acknowledged y the beginning of the forced the world to lock down, Frost the pandemic experiment forced a steep new year, when students IOpera Theater’s spring performance learning curve on the students, he was so B and faculty had had of L’amico Fritz by Pietro Mascagni was pleased with the outcome that he wants plenty of practice in mask-wearing cancelled. Shalna was devastated. She to incorporate short video recordings and social-distancing, the two had been rehearsing her role of Suzel into their educational experience moving staged a live spring production for months under the tutelage of faculty forward. “I think it’s an incredible called Masquerade 2021, with lecturer Sandra Lopez Neill, B.M. ’96. component,” he says. “We are in a world approval from the University “It was very, very disappointing because of content creation and this opportunity COVID-19 task force to do so. we had gone so deep into the learning gives students that kind of experience.” The seven short operas selected process,” she recalls. “And then we saw how Frank Ragsdale, chair of the Depart- for Masquerade 2021 required hard the arts were hit by the closings. We ment of Vocal Performance, agrees. “I between two and 12 singers, with all wondered: What’s going to happen do believe there will be alternate ways to the largest cast onstage at any one to our careers? What will become of live watch, and that technology will become time numbering only four. performances?” an integral part of every performance. A Theatrical masks that hid Frost Opera’s longtime music director Graduate student Nicholas Skotzko, singing the role of Orphée in Les Malheurs D’Orphée, wears a theatrical benefit of this is that we will attract a new singers’ protective face masks were Professor Alan Johnson and award- mask atop a special hygenic singer’s mask in Frost Opera Theater’s live spring production, Masquerade 2021. audience and revitalize the art form.” incorporated into the production by winning stage director Assistant Professor There is, however, no substitute for an making them part of the costumes. Ashley Shalna in specially designed theatrical masks for Jeffrey Marc Buchman were asking the American composers Gian Carlo MenottiFrost Opera Theater’sone of them. spring Itproduction, was his firstMasquerade experience 2021 in actual audience, and both Buchman and But robbed of the use of facial same questions. Both faculty members and Samuel Barber. It was the best way a professional sound studio. “Singing into Johnson recognize that. “The culmination expressions, students were forced Samantha Taylor as Hen, and Thomas Valenti as Fox, sporting knew that adapting to this unexpected to meet the stringent safety protocols a microphone was very different for us,” of a project is when you perform before a to learn a different way to project head-mounted masks by designer Jeff Semerling, in a live Frost situation was the key to moving forward. while providing the vocalists an opportu- he says. “But it was thrilling and some- live audience,” Johnson says. “This is when their voices and emotions. “It put Opera Theater pandemic-era production of Fox Fables Or as Johnson framed it: “We understood nity to continue practicing their art. thing we all learned from. I feel lucky to everything comes to fruition.” an emphasis on how important the that we had to roll with the punches.” Their decision was unusual. Unlike have had the opportunity.” He believes To that end, Buchman and Johnson body is to express emotion,” Buchman says. the importance of proper diction more Actually, they did more than roll, other Frost School vocalists, such as jazz the experience will come in handy once began planning for this possibility in Johnson also brought in a sound than ever. And while the all-important viewing the constraint of social distancing and contemporary singers, most opera he receives his graduate degree. “The art the fall of 2020, knowing that going designer to maximize the quality of his breathing techniques have remained the as “a wonderful opportunity to think in students had never put on headphones or form is changing. We’re trying to reach a live would require a detailed logistical students’ voices. As he ruefully notes, “Just same, “I had to trust myself, trust my broader terms,” Buchman says. While recorded in a recording studio. Nor had broader audience, and one way to do this roadmap to keep singers and musi- getting the sound out was challenging.” system. The last thing you want to do is music conservatories around the country they ever produced short videos. Under is through a digital format.” cians safe at all times, including during Skotzko, who played Orphée in Les force yourself to sing into the masks.” cancelled classes and productions, the Johnson’s supervision, however, students TheSouth Florida Classical Review rehearsal. Malheurs D’Orphée, says he understood Though it meant extra effort, he veteran directors chose to take a different recorded at Weeks Recording Studio using critic Lawrence Budmen, who watched is thankful for the opportunity. “I feel approach, thinking small, contained, and health safety protocols, and then created the students’ 90-minute YouTube video of extremely lucky,” he adds. “Frost has put a “a little outside the box.” their own videos around those excerpts, Menotti ReMixed, called it “brilliant and lot of resources to make this possible. Most As students returned to campus in mentored and edited by Buchman. imaginatively conceived.” He commended places aren’t doing any live performances.” the fall, Buchman and Johnson asked Nicholas Skotzko, a tenor who studies them for turning “a challenging situation In the end, the challenge was not the the opera students to sing, record, and voice with Professor Kim Josephson, was into a successful and innovative production.” repertoire but the loss of rehearsal time produce their own videos, to the music of and the choreography.

“The art form is changing. “The culmination is when We’re trying to reach a broader you perform before a live audience and one way of doing audience. This is when this is through a digital format.” everything comes to fruition.” — Nicholas Skotzko — Alan Johnson

Nicolas Skotzko and Olivia Rich in Amelia al ballo Mia Flora and Emily Finke in theatrical masks worn over (“Amelia Goes to the Ball”), a digital production they hygienic masks, as sisters Carol and Noelle in a live conceived and filmed for a livestream, Menotti Remixed performance of the micro operetta, Scrapbookers

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Because other large Frost ensembles to be chopped to 48. What’s more, because Masquerade 2021 needed to use the same stages, coopera- some students were not able to return in campus in the spring, Schwarz divided his Neoclassic Classics tion among the different faculty directors the fall, he had to find music pieces that student musicians into two groups, the Les Malheurs d’Orphée (“The Misfortunes was essential. Once a rehearsal calendar could be performed with the particular Frost Symphony Orchestra, and a smaller of Orpheus”) by Darius Milhaud, 1926 was finalized, all the ensembles agreed to number of available students on campus. Frost Chamber Orchestra. “The idea was to Hin und Zurück (“Back and Forth”) follow strict safety measures to keep the The orchestra’s first concert included allow everyone to participate,” he adds. by Paul Hindemith, 1927 halls clean. This entailed rehearsing for only string and percussion sections, with “The students have been remarkable. Stephen Pitters as The Sage in the Frost Opera Theater’s live production of the neoclassic short opera 30 minutes and then leaving the room for everyone spaced while wearing masks. They’ve understood the problems and the Hin und Zurück (“Back and Forth”) by Paul Hindemith A Menotti another 10 to 15 minutes to allow large- “Everyone knew what was at stake and did solutions and have gotten together to make ReMixed Encore scale purifiers to scrub the air. Appropri- everything they needed to do to comply,” sure everything works.” A Hand of Bridge by Samuel Barber ately-spaced performers always entered on he says. “It’s given me tremendous pride.” In spite of all of the hurdles, Schwarz o comply with spacing require- “We’re used to playing close to each and Gian Carlo Menotti, 1959 one side and exited on another. Eventually the orchestra performances calls the experience “unforgettable,” an ments—10 feet for singers— other, listening to each other, but this year Early Minimalism incorporated wind and brass players, all of opportunity to appreciate fellow musicians TQuist divided her singers into we haven’t been able to do that,” he says. Excerpts from Note Opera ike the opera theater program, them wearing special masks with mouth and the forward-looking outlook of faculty five small groups to work on student-led But like other directors, Carnochan by Tom Johnson other large ensembles faced slits. While the productions were both live and staff. madrigals. The experience of these smaller has found the dark pandemic cloud pandemic-related issues. Frost and streamed, only a limited number of For instance, the orchestra, as well as groups was so rewarding that she plans to to have its own silver lining. Students 21st Century Operas L Symphony Orchestra director Gerard University of Miami students and faculty other Frost programs, benefitted tremen- keep using them. “The student-led experi- showed “a tremendous growth in technical Opera 101 (An opera ‘spoofa’) Schwarz recalls “the utter shock” of cancel- could attend in person. dously by the addition of multiple robotic ences, turned out to be really useful,” she prowess” as they recorded concerts for by Dennis Kam, 2009 ling the last of his concerts in 2020 and When more students returned to cameras in Gusman Concert Hall and the says. “They got to know each other better, streaming and posting to social media. Fox Fables (Three Short Tales of Conscience) then having to plan a program for the fall Clarke Recital Hall. This has helped train and they took greater ownership of their “From the beginning I didn’t want by Peter Winkler and Rhoda Levine, 2011 while complying with COVID-19 restric- “Our video and audio are students about the demands and benefits process and performances.” to use this as an excuse to not have high Scrapbookers (A Micro Operetta) tions. Limiting the number of students of enhanced production technology. On a broader canvas, Quist believes standards,” he says. “I wanted us to come by Leanna Kirchoff, 2015 who could rehearse (and perform) at the better than ever, and “Our video and audio are better than her students have learned about the out stronger on the other end.” same time meant his usual cast of 85 had this is something we will ever, and this is something we will carry importance of resiliency. “The pandemic These months, says orchestra director forward after the pandemic,” Schwarz says. has affected the anxiety level for each of us, Schwarz, have also provided the time and carry forward after the “It has helped us showcase what we do to but I think there is encouragement in the space for invaluable introspection. pandemic.” It has helped a broader audience.” knowledge that this is temporary,” she says. “We’ve had to focus and think hard The new technology has also enabled “Everyone is learning to be adaptable and about who we are, what we’re doing and us showcase what the Frost Choral program to increase its flexible, and these are life skills that serve why, and more importantly how we can we do to a broader visibility. Director and Associate Professor our artistic community.” do better,” he says. “It’s quite possible that Amanda Quist says the Choral Studies This newfound flexibility was true for we will come out of this feeling a lot more audience.” program’s first livestream concert garnered the Frost Wind Ensemble as well. gratitude for what we have, and an appre- more than 5,000 views, a broader audience In past years, Professor Robert ciation for this great artistic world and — Gerard Schwarz than her ensembles normally expect with Carnochan, the wind ensemble’s director university community we’re all part of.” The Frost Symphony Orchestra’s concert with in-person concerts. Increased viewership and chair of the Department of Instru- Buchman echoes those sentiments: Professor Santiago Rodriguez as soloist on has helped offset some of the sting of mental Performance, had as many as 68 “In spite of the tremendous hardships, Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Piano Concerto No. 5 cancelled live concerts, and introduced students onstage. The pandemic restricted challenges and obstacles we’ve had to has received 97,000 YouTube views, a record innovative Frost choral programming to this to 42, and the necessary separation confront, there have also been new oppor-

for the school (Source: YouTube analytics) new audiences across the country. was compounded by masking. tunities and wonderful gifts.”

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s soon as the Frost Strategic Plan was finalized at the start of this academic year, the classical instrumental performance and piano faculty Awere especially eager to get started. Their programs prioritized the first of the plan’s seven objectives for some test piloting: Building on our well-established artistic and academic excellence, we will enhance our quality and innovation in teaching and learning while strengthening our position in preparing musicians for today’s world and beyond. With an increased emphasis on technology, branding, marketing, performance, and connecting with audiences, their work so far has done just that.

Gabriel Beavers, associate professor of bassoon in the Department of Instrumental Performance, is on a mission—along with his students such as Melanie Ferrabone, pictured left—to make the bassoon more well known to the public. Using technology to share their artistry is a prime way the bassoonists plan to expand awareness and appreciation for the instrument’s beauty and versatility. “As part of the strategic plan, I’m inte- grating more technology into my teaching, using things like multitrack recording and video editing,” Beavers says. Gabriel Beavers This fall Beavers, a recording artist, chamber and orchestral musician, tasked his Jeff Doucette, a junior bassoonist, made a multi- bassoon students to create multitrack recordings track for an online/hybrid chamber group. Mastering BY KATHY L. GREENBERG of Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto and incorporate the various techniques challenged him, but he found their own computer accompaniments into it worthwhile. “I had never recorded myself using a videos. He also coached them on how to DAW [digital audio workstation] before, and while I work on the mix, and improve technical am still not particularly comfortable with the tech- aspects such as reverb and panning. nology yet, it’s getting easier,” Doucette says. “This

{ 28 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 29 } “AS PART OF THE STRATEGIC that video, but I like to think I created an Melanie Ferrabone fulfill her mission to The piano students passed handily. by Stacy Garrop. “This student trio can “little recipe books”—individualized PLAN, I’M INTEGRATING MORE environment in my studio where people unify Latin American musical culture and Their video submissions revealed literally take this collaboration and launch student manuals that list ingredients to TECHNOLOGY INTO MY TEACHING, feel free to make that kind of art.” culture in general. Together they designed performers who were tech-savvy, aware of their careers tomorrow,” says Coleman. “It’s launch a successful artistic career. “This USING THINGS LIKE MULTITRACK a marketing, branding, and business plan appropriate attire, and mindful of what a powerful testament to what chamber goes back to the idea of teaching students RECORDING AND VIDEO EDITING.” THE WHOLE PACKAGE in preparation for new recitals. They built constituted a professional presentation. music can do.” To help more students find freedom in a website with metrics to track followers The results suggested that revising the This year, chamber experience will be highly beneficial in the making their art, Raina Murnak, associate and subscribers. And they sought commis- piano jury format was spot on. music students began future, since being able to record yourself professor of contemporary and popular sions to give Ferrabone opportunities to Piano major Jonathan Reichenberger presenting more well is a necessary skill in today’s music voice, was appointed this year to take perform in new venues. is enthusiastic about the change. “Students pop-up concerts on industry. Learning how to properly mic the on new responsibilities related to imple- “ “What I really like about working are provided with the opportunity to not campus, learning to bassoon has been essential,” Doucette says. menting the Frost strategic plan. with Dr. Murnak is that she’s a very only learn more about themselves, but to entice audiences to Beavers, who taught himself to use With classical students, she is focusing creative person,” says Ferrabone, a doctoral learn more about the music and to talk listen amid foot traffic. advanced music technology to explore on advancing the presentation skills of candidate who also performs in the Khaos about what they’re playing. Audiences For the first-year Ashley Shalna Deco Sax Quartet new performance realms, focuses on the chamber music groups and solo artists. Wind Quintet. “She’s not changing my want to hear that.” Stamps Woodwind various ways technology not only records, First, Murnak employs positive ideas. She’s shaping them.” Rodriguez says, “Our piano faculty Quintet, Coleman but transforms sound. In the process, he psychology techniques to really under- feel this new type of jury is important for tapped Murnak to SEBASTIAN DUDA helped birth a whole new viable instru- stand who her students are. Using a char- SPOT ON PIANISTS students, especially if they go out in the help the group design ment…the amplified bassoon. When acter strength assessment, she encourages As a first step toward helping piano world and become performers. We’re very a program to “surprise connected to an iPad and specialized soft- them to explore and identify their innate students hone their presentation skills for happy that we were given the impetus to and enchant concert- ware, the bassoon produces a surprisingly qualities. Then she shows them how to future career opportunities, the Depart- start this at the undergraduate level. By the goers.” Murnak paired bold rock-and-roll sound. use those attributes to build a brand that ment of Keyboard Performance revised its time they become graduate students, it’s the players with film Antek Olesik Beavers encourages his students to expresses who they are as artists, market end-of-semester jury exams for all under- going to be second nature to them.” students to create a give the amplified bassoon a try and his themselves, and present classical music as graduates. Where students once simply two-minute docu- Valerie Coleman JENNA BASCOM career-broadening exercises encourage a relatable product to diverse audiences. practiced and played their juries, they now WAVE OF THE FUTURE mentary. Instead of Frost students selected as Artist Launch experimentation, versatility, and creativity. “The moment they are aware of their are expected to write a research paper and “Chamber music is where the notion distributing printed winners include soprano Ashley Shalna, Now, his students’ amplified bassoon strengths, students feel empowered to use perform a correlating recital where they of modern music is headed today,” says program notes, each Deco Saxophone Quartet, percussionist videos are populating YouTube and other them,” says Murnak. “There’s a super-tal- speak and engage with the audience. Valerie Coleman, assistant professor of student narrated Antek Olesik, and pianist Priscila Navarro. online sites. ented horn player whose number-one They also video-record their presenta- chamber music and entrepreneurship and information over Also pictured, Assistant Professor For example, Jason Sluder, a sopho- strength is humor. Now he’s bringing forth tion and conduct a self-evaluation of the director of chamber music for the Frost visuals that were Priscila Navarro Valerie Coleman in a coaching session. more mechanical engineer and bassoonist, really funny ideas. He showed me a video video, scoring themselves on presentation, School who founded Imani Winds. projected on stage. produced a mashup of the Britney Spears of a flash mob, where the trombonist kept technique, memorization, and artistic The beauty of chamber groups is “Bringing people in, making them feel “STUDENTS ARE LEARNING TO BE hit “Toxic” featuring the amplified bassoon. playing on a smaller and smaller trombone profile. their versatility, Coleman says. Small and at home, and breaking down barriers VERSATILE, HAVE VISION, AND Sluder uploaded his video to YouTube, until it was a dollhouse-sized instrument. Santiago Rodriguez, professor of piano portable, they can perform anywhere, at are necessary and useful skills for our CONNECT WITH AUDIENCES.” where it’s received over 70,000 hits to date. It was cool and engaging.” and department chair, was intrigued to almost any time. Their size also allows for students. Because at the end of the day, “It wasn’t just Jason playing the melody “It’s fun,” she adds, “because I’m acti- first learn what piano students would do experimenting with multiple instrumenta- there needs to be a level of versatility. Our how to be versatile, have vision, and on the bassoon. It was him recording all vating the students to mine themselves for on their own, with few instructions and tions; their flexibility increases opportuni- students should be able to read a narra- connect with audiences,” says Coleman. of the parts,” Beavers says. “I learned from their own beliefs and artistic sensibilities.” virtually no coaching on how to create ties to make a living. tion, be storytellers, but at the same time It’s early yet, so quantifying the long- Jason. I had nothing to do with making Murnak has been helping bassoonist their videos—a Beta test, if you will. To help advance the strategic plan, be world-class performers. They should be term benefits of the strategic plan is just Coleman is also set on imple- able to introduce even the weirdest music getting underway. A project manager menting best practices to to an audience but connect them to that,” has been hired to help keep the plan improve career outlooks across says Murnak. moving forward, and a faculty assessment all classical areas of the school by And, a new Artist Launch Program committee has been formed to assess the designing initiatives to connect conceived by Coleman will also be integral plan’s full impact and viability. If success is students with Frost’s network of in realizing the strategic plan. Selected by measured in increments of progress, then influential professionals. audition, finalists are groomed for profes- Frost School students are positioned well to For instance, an undergrad- sional showcases and more. grow, improve, and secure a healthy career uate clarinet trio workshopped Artist Launch faculty are contributing in “today’s musical world and beyond.” a piece composed for them personal insights to what Coleman calls Lisa Sedelnik contributed to this article.

Jason Sluder Khaos Wind Quintet Raina Murnak

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BY JORDAN LEVIN

LAURA FERREIRA

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n Trinidad, trumpet player Etienne Charles grew up like Valerie Coleman, assistant professor Charles is an exemplar of the artistic Newport and Monterey; toured as a and recording project, delved into how of performance, chamber music, and and professional innovation Frost is seeking member of the SF Jazz Collective; and colonialism affected indigenous people and immersed in music. His father and uncles played steel entrepreneurship; Jennifer Grim, associate in their new faculty. “Etienne is emblematic played with the Orchestra, descendants of enslaved Africans in Costa professor of flute; and Melvin Butler, Rica, California, and Trinidad. pan. The sounds of calypso and soca, the consuming associate professor of musicology. He does extensive research not only on I However, the infrequency of full-time MARIA NUNES music, but culture and history. celebration of Carnival, the drumming at community faculty job openings and the demands “I go and meet with the people,” Charles of international academic searches mean says. “Spend time with them. Put energy events and religious ceremonies—were all integral to the change is only now reaching the Studio into their community. Learn from them, Music and Jazz program. take part in their rituals.” Caribbean island’s culture. “This has been something we’ve been Charles was certainly drawn to the working on for a long time,” says Berg, “talent that is through the roof ” at Frost. “Music is just a part of people’s life,” says Charles. whose hiring of Charles has been in the He’s performed in multiple works for over a year. As he went on to a stellar career as a Black artists who bring an important diver- Meanwhile, Frost added several Miami- “I go and meet with the people. jazz musician and educator, Trinidadian sity, and awareness of Black artists’ primacy based jazz artists in part-time positions, and Afro-Caribbean music remained inte- in jazz, to a department whose faculty has such as Trinidadian-born steel pan and Spend time with them. Put gral to Charles, earning him acclaim as an been almost entirely white in the past. jazz musician Leon Foster Thomas and artistic innovator, uniting jazz and energy into their community. the music of the African diaspora. “When people say “Being a jazz musician allows Learn from them, take part in LAURA FERREIRA me the freedom to bring everything this is American back together,” says Charles. “I see their rituals.” everything as Black expression. music, and this is When people say “this is American of what we strive for,” says Berg. “If you’re pianist Monty Alexander, and Frank times, including on The Jazz Cruise; and music” and “this is Caribbean Caribbean music going to be an artist, be as good as it gets. Foster’s Loud Minority Big Band, among has played with Leon Foster Thomas music”—to me there’s so much But also—what do you create for yourself? many others. As a ardent music educator, and Martin Bejerano, M.M. ’98, associate interplay and migration, it’s hard to – to me there’s so How are you entrepreneurial? Etienne has he has done residencies at countless music professor of jazz piano. He praises innova- divide the two.” been hired for all those qualities and also schools and community organizations. tive Frost educators such as John Daversa, Charles will bring his profound much interplay and for creating opportunities for himself. And But his passion for exploring the Brian Lynch, Dafnis Prieto, and Gonzalo understanding of the connections he’s a great teacher and loves to teach.” musical heritage of the Caribbean, and the Rubalcaba as “unbelievable artists.” That between jazz and Black cultural migration, it’s hard intricate web of cultural and musical links he has family in South Florida, including heritage to the Frost School of between jazz and the Black diaspora in the a favorite uncle and young nephews, was Music this fall, where he will to divide the two.” Etienne Charles DISTINCTIVE Americas, gives him a distinctive dimension another draw. become a tenured Associate that makes him perfectly suited for Frost But equally alluring were the artistic Professor of Studio Music and Jazz, after The Frost School’s Dean Shelly Berg, drummer David Chiverton, a Miami native. i e s and multi-cultural Miami. This winter, he possibilities he sees in this city filled with teaching for 12 years at Michigan State who has known Charles and supported his Saxophonist Troy Roberts, M.M. ’07, Dm n ions collaborated with pianist Jon Baptiste on a fellow Caribbean immigrants. He is eager University. career for 15 years, says he and the Frost an alumnus with a prominent performing Charles, 38, discovered jazz as an under- music and video project on the Carnivals to connect with Miami artists and cultural He is a key figure in a new group of executive council have been pushing to and recording career, joined as a lecturer. graduate at . He of Trinidad, and Brazil. His groups, to expand his artistic resources and jazz faculty who represent a generational diversify the faculty throughout the school Nicole Yarling, a Miami-based singer then earned a master’s at Juilliard while recent album Carnival: The Sound of a diversify Frost’s community connections. shift as longtime professors retire. All bring for some time, supported by University of and violinist who taught at Frost some balancing a busy performing schedule. People, Vol. 1, explored traditional music “One thing that got my attention extensive accomplishment as working Miami administration. That has resulted in years ago, returned as a lecturer in both He has been a featured bandleader at and rituals in Trinidad and Tobago, while was when Shelly talked about Frost being artists to the classroom. A number are some significant new hires in recent years, contemporary and jazz programs. numerous major jazz festivals, including his San Jose Suite, an extended composition a hemispheric school, in a hub for the

{ 34 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 35 } “We don’t only fight against the idea of being Black but being from hemisphere,” says Charles who travels regu- Guerra says that as the definitive jazz New Frost faculty will help create that the Caribbean.” peter , he has created his larly back to Trinidad. “It’s like the music I artists of the 20th century pass on, main- future for their students. own vibrant blend of Caribbean and jazz do, connecting the sounds of the diaspora.” taining jazz’s traditions while adapting to a “Our new faculty bring a vast amount —Leon Foster Thomas music. But Thomas says his accomplish- changing music world is more complex. of experience, they’re deep artists, and ments and culture have not always been “When I was coming up, I heard stories they bring a perspective that’s so needed respected in academia; which helped propel from people who played with Miles Davis,” in this music,” says Daversa, chair of the him to get a Master’s degree. e a JOAO DA FRAGA NEW G ner tions says Guerra. “We’re seeing that generation Department of Studio Music and Jazz and “We don’t only fight against the idea of Charles and the other new jazz faculty are passing on… the new hires are one step away a progressive multi-Grammy-winning jazz being Black but being from the Caribbean. indicative of a broader generational and from that tradition.” artist known for encouraging collaboration, A lot of people don’t think we’re up to par,” cultural shift, says Assistant Professor But they also integrate tradition with imagination, creativity, and free thinking. he says. Stephen Guerra Jr., D.M.A. ’16, a busy extensive contemporary experience. “Now it’s time to weave our new colleagues’ Yarling brings four decades of musical arranger who this year replaced 40-year “It’s not a complete break, and we rich diversity of thought and expression Leon Foster Thomas experience to her new position here. She veteran Professor Emeritus Gary Lindsay, wouldn’t want it to be,” says Berg. “But it’s into the fabric of everything we do at Frost.” also brings a particular passion for jazz M.M. ’78, as director of studio jazz writing; an important evolution. The school needs Like two-time Grammy nominee mentoring through youth school programs. he served previously at Frost for 14 years as to match the opportunities, and the oppor- Troy Roberts, who has been teaching jazz Yarling hopes that more Black faculty a jazz lecturer and big band director. tunities have definitely evolved.” saxophone and graduate composition, Alexandria DeWalt will help attract more Black students to the Berg notes that today there are and has played at major jazz festivals with Frost School, and raise awareness of the

fewer touring jazz bands and jazz artists like Joey DeFrancesco, Kurt Elling, GRADY SMITH strides with recruiting more faculty and importance of fostering Black jazz talent in clubs, but more festivals and gigs at and Pharoah Sanders—plus popular artists students who are Black, Indigenous, and public schools. In turn, she thinks students performing arts centers; more music Van Morrison and . Nicole Yarling People of Color, progress has been slower will gain perspective from African-Ameri- is being streamed, and fans are “I’ve had a great education on the band- than some current students would like. cans. “At top schools, a lot of the faculty and being cultivated online. Meanwhile, stand,” says Roberts. “Because I’ve spent situation, [and] performing with different Last year’s Black Lives Matter protests students playing jazz happen to be white. I the need for musicians to do it all: most of my time on the road, I think I’m artists who are not from your background,” helped inspire Frost students to speak up know there are equally talented [other] kids, play, compose, produce, promote, bringing a fresh perspective.” That includes are all important to him. about those frustrations, and to form a but they don’t have the resources,” she says. and more, continues to grow. intangible but essential skills like being Recruited by Daversa, Chiverton is support group for Black music students. Charles shares Yarling’s passion for “The future of music,” says Berg, able to immediately pick up an artist’s style. honored to teach at Frost. “Whatever the “Students have been thinking about musical and educational outreach. His “is the future musicians make.” “Learning how to be quickly creative and reasons we were brought in, we’re all going this for a long time,” says talented jazz vocal teaching portfolio at Frost is still being David Chiverton authentic,” says Roberts. “All those things to capitalize on the opportunity and make senior Alexandria DeWalt, who praises her decided. But he is overflowing with ideas that can get or lose you a gig in a second.” the best of it,” Chiverton says. “The faculty fellow students as supportive, and faculty as and ambitions. “I have so many mandates Drummer David Chiverton started here have done incredible things, and we sympathetic, but says that the low number in my head,” he says. “To excite people at Miami Northwestern High School, a want to be a part of that legacy.” of Black—and female—jazz teachers and about music, about culture, to help make public school with strong arts programs. peers needs to grow faster. musicians advocates for the arts and for His low-key demeanor belies a career “We play a Black music,” Dewalt says. their own enterprise. Teaching students to SHAWN/CLARK/VERSATILE LIGHT STUDIO SHAWN/CLARK/VERSATILE playing with everyone from trumpeter FOS E I G n Thomas understands the frustration use music to activate their communities.” and singer Nicole Henry T R N Tale t of aspiring young artists like DeWalt. He As he looks forward he says people to pop artist and reggaeton The newly hired faculty are also helping to didn’t always have electricity or running are hungry for experiences that enrich Stephen Guerra stars. In his jazz drumming classes, address the contradiction that Frost’s jazz water growing up in Trinidad; he received a their lives. At Frost, he’ll continue to be he aims to teach adaptability and faculty and students, as in most university scholarship to Florida Memorial University inspired by the combined power of music, “Because I’ve spent most of my time on the respect for all kinds of music. and high school jazz programs, have been where he discovered jazz, and it “literally” community and tradition he grew up with “Getting out of your comfort zone predominantly white over the years, even as changed his life. A steel pan virtuoso who in Trinidad. “Communities resist adversity road, I think I’m bringing a fresh perspective.” and being open-minded musically they practice a music underpinned by Black has performed with an astonishing range when they’re strong, and the arts make are keys to learning,” Chiverton says. artists and culture. of artists from the late South African icon communities strong,” he says. “And the only — Troy Roberts “Being a chameleon, adjusting to any While the Frost School is making Hugh Masekela to American jazz trum- way the arts survive is by teaching.”

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David Chiverton, lecturer for studio music and jazz, has stage with artists ranging from John Legend to Lil Wayne. David been called one of South Florida’s greatest musicians. While served as an intricate player in their Big Band and performed focusing on his college career, Chiverton ventured into other with such notable artists as Arturo Sandoval, Ingred Jensen and genres of music, from Hip-Hop to R&B, and was the featured Nicole Henry, and has toured internationally with various notable Welcoming New Faculty drummer at Miami L.I.V.E. at Santos Miami, where he shared the artists including Lauryn Hill, and Donnie McClurkin. NEW FACULTY AT THE FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC BRING A BROAD RANGE OF EXPERTISE RANGING FROM JAZZ TO COMPOSITION AND BEYOND. THEIR VIRTUOSITY AMPLIFIES THE SCHOOL’S MISSION TO INSPIRE AND EDUCATE THE BEST MUSICAL LEADERS OF TOMORROW. Petagy Letren, lecturer of dance, is a lover of the visual Literature from New York University, a Post Graduate Diploma in and performing art. Letren believes in the strength of vulnera- Arts and Cultural Enterprise Management from the University of bility, the human capacity for growth, and the power of dreams. the West Indies St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago, and a Master Etienne Charles will join the Frost faculty in fall 2021 as , Newport Jazz Festival, , Through her choreography, she tells stories that explore the depth of Fine Arts in Choreography/Dance from the University of North associate professor of studio music and jazz. He brings a careful Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival, and numerous inter- of the human experience. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Carolina at Greensboro.

LAURA FERREIRA study of myriad rhythms from the French, Spanish, English, and national festvals. As a sideman he has performed with Roberta Dutch speaking Caribbean to his compositions. He was written Flack, Marcus Roberts, , ’s into the U.S. Congressional Record for his musical contributions Loud Minority Big Band, to name a few. Named a Guggenheim to Trinidad and Tobago and the World. A dynamic trumpeter and Fellow in the Creative Arts in 2015, he has been commissioned by Benjamin Montgomery, D.M.A. ’20, lecturer of music such as Seraphic Fire, the Michigan State University Symphony bandleader, he has been featured at the , Chamber Music America, Charleston Jazz Orchestra, and others. theory and composition, focuses on developing students’ curiosity Orchestra, the Electronic , Duo Cor- and personal connection to the music. He aims to develop tona, The NED Ensemble, Kaleidoscope MusArt, and the Skylark more complex individual understandings and interpretations by Vocal Ensemble. He has been in residence at festivals such as Stephen Guerra Jr. D.M.A. ’16, was appointed to the Carmen Bradford, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the approaching music from a variety of different perspectives. His New Music on the Point, the Cortona Sessions for New Music, and position of assistant professor and director of the Studio Jazz Air Force Band of the West. As a saxophonist he has performed music has been programmed by ensembles and organizations the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium. Writing Program this year after an international search. Guerra alongside many jazz greats, including Phil Woods, Al Grey, Snooky was previously a full-time lecturer at Frost and director of the Young, Marshall Royal, Louis Bellson, and Jeff “Tain” Watts. In Frost Studio Jazz Band; he also served as general manager of the addition to earning a D.M.A. from Frost, Guerra holds a M.M. from Nicole Perry, lecturer of dance, is a certified laban/barte- Theatre Movement Educators. Professional highlights include the Henry Mancini Institute. An in-demand arranger and orchestrator, Eastman, a B.M. from the International Institute of nieff movement analyst through Integrated Movement Studies. US premiere of “The Glass Piano” at Theatre Lab, the 6th Annual he has been commissioned to write for , Ben Folds, Jazz Studies, and a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance, a degree in Music from Somatic Dance Concert Series, Center City Opera Theater’s World Eastern University, and a Master of Fine Arts in Spirituality and Premiere of “The Always Present Present”, and two full seasons the Arts from Ocean Seminary. She is a member of the Stage as the resident choreographer at Hedgerow Theatre, including Troy Roberts, M.M. ’07, lecturer of studio music and jazz, is clinics. Hailing from Australia, Roberts received three DownBeat Directors and Choreographers Society and the Association of their World Premiere of “An American Tragedy!” a two-time Grammy nominated saxophonist and composer, known Student Music Jazz Soloist Awards and was a semi-finalist in the internationally as one of the music industry’s most sought-after Thelonius Monk international Jazz Competition. He also performed performing and recording artists. He has toured the world with in an international septet comprised of jazz giants Wayne Shorter, Joseph Petrasek, lecturer of instrumental performance, and the Pacific Symphony. Originally from Southern California, a wide spectrum of artists including Joey DeFrancesco, Kurt Richard Bona, Vinnie Colaiuta and Zakir Hussein for Herbie joined the Kansas City Symphony as Associate Principal Percus- Petrasek earned his Bachelor’s degree at UCLA studying under Elling, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Christian McBride, and his Hancock’s launch of International Jazz Day at the United Nations, sionist in August 2009. Before his appointment, he served as a Mitchell Peters, former timpanist of the own band Nu-Jive, and has also presented master classes and and Hancock’s 2014 International Jazz Day held in Osaka, Japan. percussion fellow in the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Orchestra. He went on to get a master’s degree at Temple Univer- Florida. Joseph has also performed with the Chicago Symphony sity, studying with Philadelphia Orchestra percussionists Alan Abel Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Angela Zator-Nelson. Nicole Yarling, lecturer of contemporary music and musi- in studying jazz. She also serves as educational director and host cology at Frost, is a recipient of the Jazz Journalists Association’s of a monthly jazz jam for young musicians, First Friday Jam, Jazz Hero Award, and is an inductee into the South Florida Jazz sponsored by the Gold Coast Jazz Society, and served as curator Leon Foster Thomas, lecturer of studio music and jazz, Soloist and Duet Champion. His composition for steel pan soloist Hall of Fame. As a result of the WDNA radio concert series of the student stage for the Jazz Festival. Yarling’s has appeared worldwide, playing with such diverse artists as Shiron Cooper won him top prize at the 26th Biennial Trinidad and Jazz Encounters, she received a $10,000 Knight Arts Champion education is extensive, ranging from a Masters in Music Education Melton Mustafa, Nathan Davis, Richard Smallwood, Nicole Henry, Tobago Music Festival. As an arranger, for Miami Pan Symphony award, which she used to create the Jazz Education Community at Columbia University to a B.A. in music from Baruch College, as Dolly Parton, Cyril Neville, and Richard Bailey. In 2002 and again Steel Orchestra, he won the 2005 and 2006 Miami Carnival Bomb Coalition, where she mentors young musicians with an interest well as private training in composition, arranging, voice and violin. in 2004, he won the titles of World Steelband Music Festival Competitions, and Miami’s 2009 Panorama Competition.

{ 38 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 39 } Faculty Updates John Daversa Receives the Phillip Frost Award for Excellence Teaching Inside Out Faculty AWARD-WINNING Professor John Daversa, chair of students, for whom I have tremendous respect and admi- THERE’S NO QUESTION what drives Raina Murnak, assistant professor and the Department of Studio Music and Jazz at the Frost ration, is an honor I hold close to my heart.” director of contemporary voice and performance artistry at the Frost School of Highlights School of Music, received the Daversa is a three-time Grammy® Award winner for Music. She announces it upfront, loud, and clear, on her artist website: “I’m on an Melvin Butler, associate professor of musicol- prestigious Phillip Frost Award his 2019 recording American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, endless quest to speak truth in art and free the artist from his or her self-limitations. ogy, and Amanda Quist, associate professor for Excellence in Teaching and Music and Freedom. He also received three Grammy I do this as a teacher, and in my own creativity and self-expression.” and director of choral studies, were awarded tenure Scholarship this academic year. nominations in 2017 for his big band release Kaleido- In her 20-plus-year career as a performer, educator, choreographer, and vocal this year by the Frost School of Music. Daversa was recognized by a scope Eyes: Music of the Beatles. coach, Murnak has adopted proven methods for helping others realize their best selection committee of his peers He has appeared on The Today Show, Late Night artistic selves. Her vision, innovation, and intuition have led students and clients to as an exemplary faculty member with David Letterman, and Oprah Winfrey as well as place in competitions like The Voice, American Idol, America’s Got Talent, and La for his outstanding contributions major festivals including Live 8 in Berlin, Monterey Jazz Banda, as well as sign on with record labels and tour worldwide. These results are why as an educator, scholar, and an Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Montreux and Playboy she was recently appointed faculty leader in performance artistry and engagement at internationally respected artist Jazz. He has recorded with Herbie Hancock, Fiona Frost, helping to implement its Strategic Plan (see Peak Performance feature, page 28). in the music industry. ‘The Apple, Sheryl Crow, Andraé Crouch, , and In this role, she’s expanded her Melvin Butler Amanda Quist gratitude I feel for both the gifts The Yellowjackets. focus from contemporary perfor- and challenges of service through Daversa earned a D.M.A. from the USC Thornton mance to include the classical arts. the muse of music—my love and School of Music and taught previously at California While contemporary performers John Daversa and Serona Elton, M.M. ’95, passion—fills my soul beyond State University Northridge. Additional accolades presume to cultivate their market- were promoted from associate professor to professor capacity and guides my inner include winning the National Trumpet Competition and ability, the practice has long been in the departments of Studio Music and Jazz, and mission and purpose,” Daversa says. “To be recognized ITG Jazz Soloist Competition; he was also a finalist in anathema for classical musicians. Music Media & Industry, respectively. with this prestigious honor by Frost faculty, staff and the International Jazz Competition. Murnak aims to change this view Kimberly Sena Moore, was promoted using the methods she employs with from assistant professor of professional practice to contemporary performance students. associate professor of practice in music therapy. “There’s a fear of doing things differ- Raina Murnak ently because then you’re deviating Christopher Bennett, B.S. ’05, M.S. ’07, Inspiring Jazz Saxophone Professor Announces Retirement from the masters. There’s a fear of Ph.D. ’10, assistant professor of music engineering, GARY KELLER, M.M. ’80, professor of professional practice, studio recordings. Keller has also made multiple appearances with “I use a person’s strengths to help dabbling in things to make them published “Digital Audio Theory: A Practical Guide.” who joined the faculty of the Frost School of Music in 1982 as a the Frost Symphony Orchestra and Henry Mancini Orchestra, and more engaging, entertaining, and them do what they need to do. If it Valerie Coleman, associate professor of lecturer and professor of saxophone and has served on the faculty appeared at local, national, and international clubs and festivals. more widely accessible,” she says. chamber music and entrepreneurship, and a com- for almost four decades, will retire at the end of Saxophone lecturer Troy Roberts, M.M. ’07, a comes from them, that’s the push.” “The first barrier is being someone poser, was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, the spring semester 2021. two-time Grammy nominee who studied with Keller, coming from ‘pop’ music telling a Sphinx Foundation, and Philadelphia Orchestra. “It is hard to imagine the Frost School without says, “For the last 19 years, I have had the gift of classical musician what they should do to be more commercial. I let students know I Gary Keller,” says Dean Shelly Berg. “He has been studying under Professor Gary Keller as his student, have nine years of classical voice performance degrees and composition degrees. So, John S. Hart, assistant professor of practice, a guiding force and inspiration on our campus, a teaching assistant, adjunct faculty member, fellow full I’m approaching it from their perspective more than they know.” jazz guitar, released his 16th album, Checkmate. brilliant talent and educator that has launched the time faculty member, and as a professional musician. Her pedagogical approach is based on students developing their craft from the Brian Lynch, professor of jazz trumpet, was professional careers of hundreds of our students. I say ‘studying under’ for all of these roles, as I have inside out. Grounded in the methods of positive psychology—the scientific study of nominated for two 2020 Jazz Journalist Association On behalf of all of us at the Frost School, I want never ceased to learn from this man—the most giving the positive aspects of the human experience that make life worth living—Murnak Awards, Best Trumpeter and Best Arranger. to express our deep gratitude. I will be enthused and focused teacher I’ve ever had.” encourages students to recognize their innate strengths and incorporate them into to hear about the accomplishments in the next Keller has spawned the careers and shaped the their musical practice. Each student completes a character self-assessment to identify Brian Powell, associate professor of double Gary Keller chapter of Gary’s life and career.” lives of a long list of current and seasoned professional dominant traits, such as humor, social intelligence, leadership, kindness, and wisdom. bass and music education, published his double bass Immediately after Keller graduated from the musicians and educators. His name is listed on the “It’s so important for me as an educator to understand where the students are arrangement of Igor Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne. Frost School with his master’s degree in jazz performance, he took liner notes of prestigious chart-topping releases around the globe, coming from, and why something is important to one student and not another; and Aaron Tindall, associate professor, tuba, the third tenor chair with the Orchestra. acknowledging him as a most influential mentor. to use those strengths to bring them through,” says Murnak, who plans to write a released a new album Yellowbird. Faculty on the Since his arrival in South Florida, he has become a fixture in “A brilliant mind, still so freshly in love with his subject after 39 book on the intersection of music, specifically the character strength strand of posi- project were Shelly Berg, piano; Chuck Bergeron, the music scene, logging thousands of performances on saxophones years of teaching, Gary Keller leaves behind him a massive legacy, tive psychology. “I use a person’s strengths to help them do what they need to do. If it bass; Svet Stoyanov, drums, Brian Russell, guitar. and woodwinds and backing up major artists on stage and in and shoes seaming impossible to fill,” Roberts says. comes from them, that’s the push.”

{ 40 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 41 } Class Notes Alumni Spotlight Paul Colombo, B.M. ‘87, released his first contemporary jazz record Rio Crystal with the Paul Colombo 1970s 1980s Group. Colombo wrote seven of the Curtis McKonly, B.M. ’76, orches- Daniel Adams, M.M. ’81, presented eight original songs on the record. Industry Influencer Honored as trated four a paper entitled “Lift up your head Philip Coady, B.M. ’89, produced selections for to the rising sun” at the virtual the first-ever Frost Distinguished Alumnus singer/actress National Conference of the College live broadcast Megan Hilty, to Music Society. His composition from the famed JORGE MEJIA, B.M. ’96, award-winning composer and “Prelude in F Major for Piano and Orchestra,” recorded be performed “Reflecting Pool” for clarinet and Rudy Van at the Ken- bass clarinet was released on music executive, is the recipient of the prestigious Frost with the Frost School’s Henry Mancini Institute Gelder Studio, nedy Center. the Navona Records album Drift. School of Music Distinguished Alumnus Award for Orchestra, was nominated in 2018 for a Latin Grammy A Tribute to McKonly also Adams is professor of music at Hank Mobley, 2020. As president and CEO for Publishing Award for Best Contemporary Composition. composed, orchestrated, and Texas Southern University. which aired Latin America & US Latin, he is headquarterd in Miami “Jorge Mejia is not only an incredible musician, conducted strings for a Walmart Bruce Zimmerman, B.M. ’81, in November 2020. The concert commercial featuring the vocals of and oversees offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, composed the score for Astronaut, featured the legendary Ron Carter Aretha Franklin. an IMAX film. Zimmerman then on bass and on tenor. Colombia, and Mexico. He has been recognized , B.M. ’77, released conducted and recorded the score The performance used the same as one of Billboard’s Latin Power Players for a new album with the Prague Orchestra. piano and mics from the original every year Billboard has held the distinction, Non-Secure 1960s Blue Note recordings. Kristian Truelsen, M.M. ’81, starred including most recently, in 2020. Connection in the theatre JIMMY IENNER, JR. in August Under his leadership, Sony grew to become production The 2020, and also the No. 1 Latin , with a roster Birds and the performed in MATTHEW GOERTZ MATTHEW Bees by Mark that includes such artists as , , Virtual Roo- 1990s Crawford at Nicky Jam, Camilo, Chayanne, Fonseca, Jennifer ality, the virtual Ronald Dziubla, B.M. ’90, was named Magnus The- edition of Festival Bonnaroo. dean of the Lopez, Mark Anthony, Prince Royce, , atre in Thunder School of and Ricky Martin, to name a few. Albert Hospers, B.M. ’78, recorded Bay, Ontario. Performance and produced “Jorge is a giant of Latin music and has been Dawnn Jewel Lewis, B.M. ’82, Studies at four releases performed as Musicians at the forefront of its phenomenal growth across

BERT RAMSEY BERT for Zelma Bullock Institute in the world,” said Jon Platt, Ken Turley, in The Tina Hollywood, Kemp Chairman & CEO in a recent issue of Variety Turner Musical California. Harris, Scot magazine. on Broadway; Dziubla recently recorded for Montgomery, Lt. Dixon in albums by , Frost School of Music Dean Shelly Berg The Shoal Blood Relative John Mayall, and The Airborne says Mejia is an exemplary recipient of the Survivors, plus several original on FOX; Capt. Toxic Event. In January 2021, songs. Hospers also played bass on Frost Distinguished Alumnus Award. “His Carol Freeman in Star Trek Lower Ron completed the WASC several recordings for Carl Sturken, passion and drive has catapulted him to a career as one yet additionally an extraordinary leader in the music Decks on Netflix; and Patty in Apple Senior College and University and performed with harmonica & Onion on Cartoon Network. Commission’s Assessment of the top executives in the music business,” says producer and business leader Emilio player-singer James Montgomery. Leadership Academy as a member industry as well as a brilliant artist, Estefan. “Being the president of a publishing company Joel McNeely, B.M. ’82, composer, “JORGE MEJIA IS A GIANT of Cohort XI. continues his work on the popular OF LATIN MUSIC AND HAS musician, and composer. Jorge is a and a musician is a plus. I believe that is the motivation television series American Dad. Edward G. Robinson, M.M. ’90, prime example of the success we behind why he has been so successful in his position; he on Secada, B.M. ’83, M.M. ’86, released a Outside of this role, McNeely is in published a book titled From BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF hope our alumni will achieve with knows how a musician thinks and feels and understands pre-production for an upcoming Purpose to Fulfillment. He is also new album Playa o Montaña featuring Samo the foundation of a Frost School our language. Because of this, he is capable of leading in J movie Thunder Lord. the leader of a five-piece jazz ITS PHENOMENAL GROWTH and the group Cero Coincidencias, blending band called Instant Attraction. A education. We are so proud of his the right direction for the benefit of all. Jorge has helped Julianne Sharer, B.M. ’82, published retired school principal, he now musical elements from Venezuela, Colombia, “Street Circus,” ACROSS THE WORLD” achievements and congratulate him many people in the Latin Music Industry, and likewise devotes his time serving as CEO of Cuba, and Spain. He also published A New Day– a 25-minute on receiving this honor,” Berg says. helped people in so many different parts of the world in “Readman,” an initiative to increase work for solo A Memoir chronicling his life and career. Secada literacy in children. Robinson is also The Colombian-born executive is also a Latin so many great ways. I am very proud of him and all of his piano that was performed for several pandemic-relief efforts this a mentor for the 5000 Role Grammy-nominated composer, known for his rigorous accomplishments,” says Estefan. inspired by of Excellence program in Miami, year, including the virtual concert series JazzAid: encountering and eclectic work in classical music, with performances “I am honored to join the company of so many other Florida; chairman of the board for Live at the Banyon Bowl at Pinecrest Gardens. wonderful throughout Latin America and beyond. He recently distinguished Frost alumni, and to recognize the key the Greater Miami Urban League street A portion of the proceeds benefitted Chef Jose Andres’ World and recipient of numerous awards composed the music for the digital world premiere of the role that the Frost School of Music has played in my performers during a weekend stroll Central Kitchen, which has provided more than 25 million meals and recognitions from the City, through the city. ’s new work entitled Places by interna- development as a musician, composer, artist, and music in 400-plus cities since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. County and State of Florida. tionally renowned choreographer Claudia Schreier. His executive,” says Mejia.

{ 42 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 43 } Class Notes Alumni Spotlight Roberta Rust, D.M.A. ’91, performed Serona Elton, M.M. ’95, associate and held dean of master classes administration at the Shepherd at the Frost 2000s Making an impact—and finding School of School of Music Robert Phillips, D.M.A. ’02, released Music at Rice and director a recording purpose—in the most isolated University of the Music of an original and Stephen Business and composition, inhabited place on earth F. Austin State Entertainment which featured University. She also delivered Industries Program, was named a works by a virtual piano master class for Yamaha Master Educator, joining seven Florida KENDALL GRADY, M.M. ’19, has always looked for But Grady was able to offer much more than the Thornton School of Music at a group of 30 distinguished composers: a way to impact change through the arts. She found it kindness—she was able to use her skills, developed at University of Southern California. academics, clinicians, consultants classical guitar recently, in the most isolated inhabited place on earth. the Frost School of Music and through GLP, to make a and authors who comprise icon Jorge Morel, former Cirque du Corbin A talented violinist and graduate of the Frost School difference. She set to work every day, taking the small van the Yamaha Master Educator Soleil music director Benoit Glazer, Abernathy, B.M. Collective. She was also appointed as well as Troy Gifford. of Music, Grady was selected for the 2020 cohort of up the hill to where the school was located, collaborating ’93, served as to the Mechanical Licensing the Global Leaders Program (GLP), a highly selective with local business and school leaders to help them find director for Samuel Howard, B.M. ’03, finished Collective as Head of Education Philadelphia building a home recording studio program that empowers accomplished music profes- ways to improve various aspects of the Toki organization, Partnerships. regional in Nashville, sionals to combine music and business principles in ways which was struggling to sustain itself financially. productions Michael Babcock, B.M. ’96, won a Tennessee. Out that drive social change. In her own private classes of Boys In The Hollywood of the studio, Band, Disney’s Tarzan, and I Hear Professional Sam plays “I always wanted to make with the students there, as A Distant Song for Theatre Non- Association bass and sings music more impactful for pictured left, she incorporated BRIAN TARLECKI Conforming and the Philly Fringe award for his with guitarist my students,” she said. holistic teaching methods, Festival. Abernathy was rated work on the and singer- As part of GLP, Grady similar to the ones she used as among the top voice studios in HBOMax film songwriter, Philadelphia by Expertise.com. American Molly Tuttle. He has recently completed months of a teacher at the Frost Prepara- Pickle. In 2020, performed on The Grand Ole Opry, tory Program. She encouraged Christy Crowl, B.M. ’92, M.M. ’95, he worked as a mixer on Aaron eTown, The Today Show, and CBS is a full-time music producer students to express themselves Sorkin’s The Trial of The Chicago This Morning. for The Walt Disney Company’s 7. He was also the supervising through music rather than Entertainment Division in Orlando, Jennifer Jimenez, B.M. ’03, was one sound editor, sound designer, and focusing strictly on technique. Florida. She has also served as of the six teachers selected for the re-recording mixer on the films music director for Disney’s D23 Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim In return, she saw them open Babysitter: Killer Queen produced Expo musical presentations in Inspirational Teacher Awards, a up and feel more confident by McG, Bad Hair from Justin Anaheim, California. series of grants that recognize Simien, and Candyman from Jordan to make their own musical American teachers by spotlighting Peele. choices. Eventually, she helped their extraordinary impact on the lives of students. implement new teaching methods across the school. Jonathan Lazar, B.M. ’05, is president Abigail Young Named Managing Director of Urband and Lazar Music Her months-long research, Publishing; with over 80 releases training in busi- as well as countless informal interviews resulted in an of the Henry Mancini Institute in 2020, including new singles ness management, 80-page case study offering other creative solutions to from I Don’t Speak French, Timmy bigail Young, M.M. ’14, and Rita Moreno. She appeared on Trumpet, The Kooks, and more. entrepreneurship, keep the school sustainable, many of which have since AD.M.A. ’17, a violinist, is the two live PBS Specials: Jazz and the community develop- been implemented. Christopher David Ragsdale, D.M.A. newly appointed managing director Philharmonic, and Gloria Estefan: ’06, is chair and professor of music ment, and cultural And although Grady left the island in February 2020, of the Frost School’s Henry Mancini The Standards. As a member of the at the University of Alabama in agency, before setting off to her field assignment to work her work didn’t end then. As the COVID-19 pandemic Institute (HMI). She based her Nu Deco Ensemble, she collaborated Huntsville. In 2020, Ragsdale with the Toki Music School on Easter Island, known to intensified challenges for the school, she led a crowd- doctoral research on “Job Satisfaction with artists such as Wyclef Jean, conducted the Florida All-State its inhabitants as Rapa Nui. funding campaign that featured an orchestral arrange- Band held in Tampa, Florida, for of Orchestral Musicians: The Effects PJ Morton, Jacob Collier, and Macy the world premiere performance of What she found there was a local arts organization ment of Toki’s anthem and raised thousands of dollars. of Non-Performance Organizational Gray. She has also performed with Entrata by Steven Danyew, B.M. ’06. not just providing free music classes to children, but also Even today, she continues to raise awareness about their Roles.” Outside of HMI, Young has the Naples Philharmonic sharing the playing a vital role in the community. “When I stepped work and challenges. an active performance resume with stage with Itzhak Perlman, Immanuel onto the island,” she says, “it was the first time in my life “I learned so much,” she says. “Being a musician or notable performances with John Williams, Kristin Ax, and Joshua Bell. Other ensembles she performs I felt like I’m in the right place at the right time, and that an artist definitely allows us to open up our minds and Chenoweth, Gloria Estefan, Ben Folds, Bruce Hornsby, with regularly include the , Palm I had something, if only kindness and understanding, to find creative solutions. But even so, I never knew the arts , , Arturo Sandoval, Beach Symphony, and Atlantic Classical Orchestra. offer to the people there.” could have such impact outside of the concert hall.”

{ 44 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 45 } Class Notes David H. Davies, M.M. ’04, D.M.A. ’07, Jillian Nulton, B.M. ’08, is senior Jenna Rubaii, B.M. ’12, returns to Bryan Powell, M.M. ’14, completed Emma Marzen, B.M. ’16, was was appointed manager the national a performer’s certificate from appointed director of the of client tour stage of Carnegie Mellon University, and is Executive School of Music relationship Jesus Christ now pursuing a doctorate degree Director of 2010s SEAN JOHNSON at Nazareth at the Harry Bethany Tallman Adamson, B.M. ’10, Superstar, in trombone performance at the the Santa Fe College in Fox Agency. is working as a Speech-Language following the University of Colorado Boulder. Desert Chorale. Rochester, New Nulton held a Pathologist for Charleston County pandemic She served Javier Nero, M.M. ’14, D.M.A. ‘17, York. Davies networking School District in South Carolina. pause. Rubai previously released an was a guest event for She continues to play the flute in participated in as assistant album titled composer at the 2020 Front Wave current frost students and alumni the Charleston Concert Band and the Rise Together, Sweat Together director and box office manager. Freedom, and New Music Festival in Palm Beach, to discuss career interests and volunteers as a Province Officer for fundraiser for World Central accepted the Veronica Swift, B.M. ’16, released Florida. opportunities within music, Sigma Alpha Iota. Kitchen’s COVID-19 disaster fund. position of lead her latest album titled Bitter Earth, entertainment, and media Nicholas Perna, B.M. ’03, D.M.A. ’08, Andres Vera, B.M. ’10, established Esneider Valencia Hernandez, D.M.A. trombone with which reached number one on industries. is associate professor of voice at Least Common Productions, a ’10, D.M.A. ’13, was invited to the Pershing’s the Jazz Week’s Jazz Album Chart. Mississippi College and research Nicholas D’Angiolillo, B.M. ’08, was and production house. record with Paquito D’Rivera on the Own, U.S. Army Swift was nominated for a 2021 associate for voice pedagogy at the featured on Billboard’s 2020 Pride Vera also maintains a private album The Elephant and the Clown. Blues ensemble. Jazz Journalist Association award University of Mississippi Medical List as one of the top 40 executives music lesson studio and teaches Esneider played alongside notable for Female Vocalist of the Year, and Alexander Weitz, B.M. ’13, M.M. Center. Perna’s podcast VocalFri, shaping the music industry. high school students how to play musicians such as Juan F. Ruiz in the was featured at Emmet Cohen’s, ’15, was recognized as one of the sponsored by Plural Publishing, stringed instruments. production of the album. B.M. ’12, weekly web series “Live Cristian Grases, D.M.A. ’09, was ASCAP Foundation’s 2021 Herb was named an inaugural member from Emmet’s Place.” promoted to chair of the Choral Evelyn Laguardia Erwin, B.M. ’12, was Andrew Leonard, B.M. ’13, Alpert Young Jazz Composer of the NATSCast Podcast Network. and Sacred Music Department in featured as one of the healthcare participated in the Rise Together, Award Recipients. Kyle Guffey, B.M. ’17, is music and Troy Roberts, M.M. ’07, lecturer, the Thornton School of Music at the workers in the “Safety Sweat Together fundraiser for marketing coordinator at Flavorlab, Nerissa Manela, B.M. ’15, is a music studio music & jazz department, University of Southern California in Dance,” with Jimmy Fallon and the World Central Kitchen’s COVID-19 an award-winning audio production teacher and released his 12th album, titled Los Angeles. Grases founded the Roots. disaster fund. company. curriculum Stuff I Heard, on which he plays International Choral Academy and Emmet Cohen, B.M. ’12, released his Matthew G. Limones, M.M. ’14, was support Andrew Friedrichs, M.M. ’14, D.M.A. multiple soprano, alto, and tenor fills the role of artistic director. He latest album titled Future Strides, featured as one specialist for ’17, won two national auditions for saxophones, as well as acoustic and was also appointed as one of the featuring contemporary stars of Billboard’s Miami-Dade trombone positions with the U.S. electric basses. artistic directors of the 13th World Marquis Hill and Melissa Aldana. Latin Power County Public Army Band “Pershing’s Own” in Symposium on Choral Music to be August Hass, M.M. ’08, a New- During the pandemic lockdown, Players in the Schools. Washington, DC and the U.S. Air held in Qatar in 2023. York based jazz and Broadway Cohen developed “Live From music industry. Manela was Force Heritage Band of America trumpeter, released a holiday Kevin Rose, B.M. ’09, participated in Emmet’s Place,” a series of weekly His current recognized as a 2020 Emerging in Virginia. He is also active as a album titled A 2020 Christmas, and the Rise Together, Sweat Together performances by his trio and role is artist & Leader by the Florida Music freelance trombonist, performing self-published a children’s book fundraiser for World Central special guests livestreamed from label relations Educators Association and was with the Colorado Symphony, titled Little Augie and his Trumpet. Kitchen’s COVID-19 disaster fund. his NewYork apartment. manager for SoundExchange, Inc. awarded the MDCPS Central Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Region Rookie Teacher of the Year. and Boulder Philharmonic. Arianne Urban, B.M. ’14, violinist, released her first single, Eric J. McConnell, B.M. ’15, was a Alex Brown, M.M.’18, performed “Wandress.” It was co-written, Metropolitan with Paquito D’Rivera at the Jazz at produced, and mixed by Preston Opera National ’s new live concert Klik. Council experience, Live From Dizzy’s. Auditions Alyssa Wilkins Stone, B.M. ’14, is Luca G. Cubisino, D.M.A. ’18, is STAY IN TOUCH. Regional finalist owner and clinical director at piano teacher and won third Share your news with us! Dynamic Lynks. She was appointed at the Frost place in the to the Technology Committee Preparatory Denver Lyric

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{ 46 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 47 } Laura Mazon, M.M. ’18, a Cuban- Christine Jobson, D.M.A. ’19, In Memoriam born classical released her guitarist, was first children’s Alfred “Al” G. Wright, B.M. ’37, M.M. ’47, passed away on September Dean T. Barnhard, B.M. ’74, M.M. ’80, passed away on July 11, 2020 at selected and book Lily’s 2020s the age of 67. After working as a professional tuba teacher and teaching at 5, 2020 at the age of 104. A pioneer in the band profession, he was founder endorsed as First Trip to Jennifer Denk, B.M. ’10, M.M. ’20, the University of Miami, Barnhard embarked on a thirty-year law career. He an Augustine the Opera. She is assistant of the National Band Association, chairman of the board of the John Philip Strings Artist, a also founded professor and Sousa Foundation, director emeritus of bands at Purdue University, founder was honored professionally in the Best Lawyers in America 2011–2020. high honor for the Jobson coordinator of the Collegiate Wind Bands, and a member of the American Francis J. Manzella, B.M. ’82, died on August 16, 2020. He was 60. guitarists. Academy music therapy Bandmasters Association. Wright also served as president of the Florida of Music, a virtual music school, at Austin Peay A renowned acoustic engineer, he won many awards for the world-class Ryan Holder, DMA ’18, is associate and Black Girls Sing Opera, an State University Bandmasters Association, Florida Orchestra Association, and Florida Music director of Choral Activities at recording studios he and his team designed. In his spare time, he enjoyed organization dedicated to show in Clarksville, Educators Association. He was also inducted into the Florida Bandmasters Northern Arizona University. building up his synthesizer collection and creating his own music. the world that little black girls can Tennessee. Hall of Fame and the University of Miami Band Hall of Fame. Alexandra Colaizzi, B.M. ’18, is a do anything including sing opera. She is a member of the Tennessee Timothy B. Berlew, M.M. ’86, passed away at the age of 61 on April 30, professional Jobson recently sang in the chorus Association for Music Therapy, Constance Weldon, B.M. ’52, M.M. ’53, passed away on August 7, 2020. 2020. He began his musical career at the age of 13, and pursued three per- singer with at the Metropolitan Opera for their the Tennessee Music Therapy She was 88. Weldon was the first woman to play the Seraphic Fire production of Porgy and Bess. She Task Force for State Recognition, formance art degrees. In 2011 he was ordained as Reverend of the Methodist tuba in a major American orchestra when she joined and Roomful of is an adjunct professor at Western and the Continuing Education Church and served as a pastor in Wisconsin. Teeth. Colaizzi Connecticut State University. Committee for the Southeast Region the Boston Pops in 1955 after several summers per- returned to the of the American Music Therapy Joseph Wenda, D.M.A. ’19, is assistant forming at the Tanglewood Festival. She returned to Edward M Grotkowski, M.M. ’91, passed away on January 18, 2020. He Frost School of Association. professor of the University of Miami in 1960 as fulltime professor was 65. His career as a music educator spanned three decades. He held con- Music to pursue oboe, and Cameron Daly B.M. ’20, trombonist, her D.M.A for vocal pedagogy and of tuba and in 1971 was also tapped to be assistant ducting positions with the Erie Philharmonic Youth Orchestra in Pennsylvania, operations who was a choral conducting cognate. dean for undergraduate studies. She retired in 1991. as well with the Greater Miami Youth Symphony in South Florida. coordinator Stamps Music Michael R. Dudley Jr., M.M. ’18, a at the Bass Scholar while John Pellegrino, M.M. ‘58, died on January 24, 2021 at the age of 90. In James M. Stayton, B.M. ’07, passed away on March 21, 2020. He was 35. D.M.A. candidate at Frost, played School of Music enrolled lead trumpet on Brian Lynch’s in Oklahoma at Frost, is addition to being a music educator, Pellegrino served as principal trumpet While at the University of Miami, James pursued a double major in music album, The Omni-American Book City University. accounts in the Rhode Island Philharmonic for nearly two decades. He was also a engineering and computer science with a minor in mathematics. His career Club, which won a Grammy Wenda is also on the faculty of the and logistics featured soloist with numerous groups throughout New England. took him to work at and Microsoft as a computer programmer. award last year for Best Large Jazz Killington Music Festival in Vermont manager for Ensemble Album. He was also a and the Bocal Majority Summer the Heifetz Institute, pursuing an Taavo Virkhaus, B.M. ’55, passed away at the age of 86 on February Gregory Cardi, A.D. ’20, passed away at the age of 28 in July 2020. A teaching assistant for the 2020 JAS Bassoon and Oboe Camp in interest in the operations side of 10, 2021. He was music director and conductor of both the Duluth-Supe- violinist, he was a graduate of the Colburn Conservatory, Juilliard School Academy in Aspen, Colorado. Houston, Texas. orchestra and music performance. rior and the Huntsville Symphony Orchestras, with many guest conducting of Music, New World Symphony, and the Frost School of Music. An aspiring engagements around the world. Virkhaus wrote six symphonies and two violin conductor, Cardi most recently served as associate conductor of the Frost concertos, as well as many incidental pieces. Symphony Orchestra with Distinguished Professor of Music, Gerard Schwarz. Karen Kennedy: A Dazzling Presence Frank A. Biringer, B.M. ’59, M.M. ’71, Ph.D. ’74, passed away on Febru- Patti Herbert, B.M. ’57, a longtime benefactor to the Frost School of BELOVED and admired Karen Kennedy, associate professor of choral activities at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, and also ary 21, 2020 at the age of 83. He served as supervisor of music for Pinellas Music, as well as many other schools and divisions at the University of Miami, emeritus and former director of choral studies at the Frost School at Towson University in Maryland. She reluctantly retired in 2018. County Schools in Florida from 1979-1997, and played trumpet for many passed away July 27, 2020 at the age of 84. As a student, she was inducted of Music, passed away on August 30, 2020 at the age of 50. She is Kennedy was renowned for her innovative rehearsal techniques, notable acts during his career. into the Iron Arrow Society, the highest honor attainable at the University survived by her husband, Corin Overland, associate conducting sensitivity, and mastery of her art of of Miami. She enjoyed a long career in real estate in Los Angeles. She and Mark S. Colby, B.M. ’72, M.M. ’75, saxophonist, passed away on August 31, professor of professional practice. communicating love—through her hands. She her husband Allan Herbert, a business executive and University of Miami 2020. He was 71. He began playing music at the age of eight, and started his “The Frost School of Music—and the world— achieved artistic brilliance with her joyful sense Trustee, donated millions of dollars to the U, helping to transform academics professional career at the age of 14. Colby played with notable acts such as irreplaceably lost the bright, searing light of one of of humor and immediate read of the classroom, and student life. The Patti and Allan Herbert Frost School of Music Program , , Doc Severinsen, Sarah Vaughn, Sonny and Cher, its greatest stars,” says Assistant Professor Raina audience, and atmosphere; entrancing all deeply at Salzburg, the Herbert Wellness Center, and the Miami Herbert Business and more. He served as a jazz studies adjunct faculty member at Elmhurst Murnak, a close friend and colleague. into the meaning of each piece. Many students, School are all named in honor of their generosity. since 1997, and taught at Chicago’s DePaul University for 31 years. “Dr. Karen Kennedy, who bravely fought alumni, faculty, and supporters from the University cancer for three years, was not only our star, but of Miami and the community will remember her Cheryl J. Robinson, B.M. ’74, died on November 25, 2020 at the age of shone dazzlingly all over the world leading festival outstanding musicianship during the Frost School’s 68. After graduation she worked as a music therapist in the Georgia Mental performances from Carnegie Hall to the Vatican, annual gala Winter Wonderful. Health Institute in , a Broward County mental health facility, and later conducting symphony orchestras, professional “Heroine and mentor to so many, she was the with the American Cancer Society. choirs, garnering leadership positions and receiving light that walked into the room with power and numerous awards for her outstanding teaching.” delightful presence. One can only hope to carry her razor-sharp wit Prior to her arrival at Frost in 2011, Kennedy served as director and joie de vivre with them in tribute,” says Murnak.

{ 48 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 49 } Frost Supporters Advisory Committee We are so grateful to our major supporters who have made Chair of the Board Dean of Frost School of Music lifetime gifts of $100,000 or more: Jeffrey Miller Shelton G. Berg

Patricia and Phillip Frost Tom and Mayumi Adams Family Elizabeth and Robert J. Fisher Robert and Judi Newman Family Board Members Foundation The Friends of the University of Miami Foundation Estate of Roy Brian Aerts School of Music, Inc. Joan O’Steen James Andrews Patricia Frost Jeffrey Miller Marta********* and Austin* Weeks Sally K. Albrecht Carol and Gary D. Fry Ojala Studio Music and Instrumental Founder & Managing Partner Philanthropist Co-Founder of Krillion Ventures Jazz Endowed Fund John S. and James L. Knight AMR/ American Airlines Foundation Funding Arts Network of Authentic Ventures Laurie and Gregory A. Anderson Judith and Phillip T. George Osiason Educational Foundation, Inc. Foundation Becky and Edward H. Arnold Georgina Dieter Dennis Eileen and Carmine Parente Stamps Family Charitable Adrienne Arsht Foundation, Inc. Estate of Louis Parker Foundation, Inc. AT&T J. Arthur Goldberg Foundation, Inc. Estate of Ida Percal Julio Bague Phillip Frost Judi Prokop Newman The Ayco Charitable Foundation Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Estate of Albert Pick, Sr. Vice President Latin Division CEO & Chairman of OPKO Health President of Robert and Judi Miller Family Foundation East Coast and Puerto Rico Newman Family Foundation Estate of Arthur and Erica Babath Global Village Charitable Trust Pick Foundation, A P KIKIFLOREZ.COM at peermusic Estate of Jean Dreyfus Thomas J. Baker, M.D.* The Gordon Alliance, LLC. The Presser Foundation Sasha and Edward Bass Michael S. Gordon Charitable Renaissance Charitable Foundation Foundation, Inc. Julia Benavides and Diwaldo Morales Arthur Black Adam Glick John Richard Estate of Emil J. Gould The Ress Family Foundation, Inc. Paul********* J. DiMare Foundation Arthur E. Black Private Investor President of Jack Parker Former President & CEO of the Sylvia G. Blau and Rabbi Sam Kenner Estate of Nancy Greene Hazel M. and Lawrence* Rosen Corporation Adrienne Arsht Center for the

Estate of Robert and Jeanne BRETT HUFZIGER Estate of Robert John Byan The Robert Z. Greene Foundation Felicia Rosenfeld and David Linde Performing Arts of Miami-Dade Dukoff Anne and Alfred Camner Family Hale Piano, Inc. Jeanne and James D. Rowlee County Patricia* and Allan M. Herbert Gloria C. Cashin Joseph and Sally Handleman Estate of J.M. Russell Charles M. Castleman Charitable Foundation John K. Ryckman Adam Carlin Allan Herbert Hazel Rosen Stephen G. Herrold Catholic Charities of The Archdiocese Alan J. Harriet Arun and Rummi Sarin Managing Director and Senior Proprietor of The Richmond Hotel Philanthropist Thomas D. Hormel Foundation Estate of Clarence Chappel, Jr. Estate of Richard E. Henning Kent and Martha Savage Portfolio Management Director at The Children’s Trust Bonnie L. and Mario Hinck-Baldatti Charitable Fund Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Estate of Jay W. Jensen Management Carolyn and William M. Clark Mary and James W. Hipp Cynthia and Scott F. Schumacker Peggy M. Hollander Frank P. Scruggs II, Esq. Suzanne and Raymond Morgan Victor E. Clarke* Emilio Estefan Richard Krasno John Smyth Clear Channel Janet Annenberg Hooker Skanska USA Building, Inc. The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Charitable Trust Estate of Frank Smathers, Jr. Producer of Estefan Enterprises Lead Director of Ladenburg Managing Director and Wealth The Honorable Sue and Charles E. Thalmann Financial Services, Manager with First Republic Foundation, Inc. Kathy and Bruce R. Hornsby Arthur Sokoloff Cobb Incorporated Investment Management Estate of Stanley R. Sterbenz Gayle Susan Cubberley Trudy Kane and Edwin Freedman Sony Corporation of America James M. Collins Foundation Wilbur Coolidge Keeney David Spencer Rita A. Wallach* Floye K. Dreyer William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust Estate of Evelyn Elsa Spitalny Alan Ett Michael P. Lazarus Roe Stamps Anonymous Donor Embraer Aircraft Corporation Laura Kline and Michael Lazarus Laura and Frederick P. Sutliff CEO of AECG, LLC Partner of Main Post Partners Chairman of Stamps Family Estate of Henry Fillmore Louis Leibowitz Charitable Trust Estate of Jane Mary Trau, PH.D. Charitable Foundation Sondra R. Linden, Esq. L. Tweed & C. Tweed Charitable ********* Audrey Love Charitable Foundation Foundation, Inc. Lufthansa Communications, Inc. Estate of Frank Luparelli Estate of Hendrik W. Vietor Gregg Field Paul Lehr Ron Stone Virginia Mancini Herbert W. Vogelsang Producer / Musician / Educator CEO of GroundUP Music President of The Comprehensive The Moon River Society Devin S. Marsh, D.M.A. William H. Waid Gregg Field Music Companies The Moon River Society supports the Frost School of Music’s Henry Roger and Virginia Medel WDNA 88.9 FM Mancini Institute and its mission to nurture the future of music through Olga and David Melin Foundation, Inc. Dorothy* and David Weaver multi-genre professional training for its students, and to impact the The Meridian Foundation Constance J. Weldon* Harold Flegelman Austin Wing Mayer David Weaver lives of others through inspiring community engagement programs. The Messinger Foundation, Inc. WTMI Radio 93.1 FM Associate Dean for Adjunct Faculty Managing Partner of The MDMC Chairman & CEO of Intercap Miami Marriott Hotel Brian Joseph Yale Director of the Graduate Program Group Energy Systems, LLC Adrienne Arsht Gordon R. Miller* The Miami Herald Paul Yelin Intervivos DCL in Entertainment, Arts and Thomas J. Baker, M.D.* Christina Beltran-Miller and Jeffrey S. Miller Estate of Frances Miller Foundation America Sports Law Floye K. Dreyer Leslie Miller Saiontz Gordon R. Miller, M.D.* Amy J. Zeldin Patricia and Phillip Frost Stuart Miller Estate of Jay Morton-Levinthal Ziff Family Foundation Jorge Mejia Peggy M. Hollander Lee J. Osiason, Esq. Janie and Albert H. Nahmad Kate Freedman President & CEO of Latin America Marisa and Thomas* Hormel Hazel and Larry* Rosen NAMM Foundation The Frost School of Music also gratefully acknowledges Philanthropist and U.S. Latin at Sony/ATV Music its anonymous major donors, and apologizes if any Publishing Isa and Marvin* Leibowitz Kent Savage National Piano Institute contributions over $100,000 were inadvertently omitted. Virginia Mancini E. Roe Stamps, IV Estate of Kenneth Neumann Please send updates or inquiries about lifetime-giving- to-date to Executive Director for Major Gifts Dania Gorriz Olga and David Melin Marta S. Weeks Wulf and Karleton Wulf* ([email protected]). *In memoriam

{ 50 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2021 frost.miami.edu frost.miami.edu Spring 2021 SCORE MAGAZINE { 51 } 2020-2021 Frost School of Music Administration and Faculty Musical Memories ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT FACULTY Dance Jazz Guitar Musicianship, Artistry Musicology CHAIRS Christopher Cary John Hart Development, and David Ake Dean Arts Presenting Keiko Fernandez Tim Jago Entrepreneurship Melvin Butler Shelton G. Berg Instrumental Gary Wood Carol Kaminsky Craig Carothers Gabrielle Cornish Performance Jazz Piano Associate Dean of Bachelor of Arts in Music Petagy Letren Serona Elton Matteo Magarotto Robert Carnochan Shelton G. Berg Research Brent Swanson Ana Miranda Derek Fairholm Marysol Quevedo Martin Bejerano Carlos Abril Keyboard Performance Jorge Morejon Mitch Farber Brent Swanson Band of the Hour Gonzalo Rubalcaba Santiago Rodriguez Nicole Perry Raina Murnak Nicole Yarling Associate Dean of Doug McCullough Jazz Saxophone Carlos Rivera Graduate Studies Music Education and Jay Rees Double Bass Oboe Gary Keller Stephen Rucker Shannon de l’Etoile Therapy Brian Powell Robert Weiner Bassoon Troy Roberts Brian Russell Don D. Coffman Associate Dean of Gabriel Beavers Flute Justina Shandler Opera Theater Jazz Trombone Undergraduate Studies Music Media and Jennifer Grim Daniel Strange Jeffrey Buchman Bruce Hornsby Creative Dante Luciani Steven Moore Industry Alan O. Johnson American Music Frost Online Music Education Reynaldo Sanchez Jazz Trumpet Associate Dean of Joseph Abbati David Chiverton Carlos Abril Percussion John Daversa Administration Music Theory and Craig Carothers Serona Elton Don D. Coffman Joseph Petrasek Brian Lynch Serona Elton Composition Cassandra Claude Scott Flavin Steven Moore Svetoslav Stoyanov Charles Mason Raina Murnak Brian Lynch Jazz Vibraphone Corin Overland Executive Director, Saxophone Carlos Rivera Raina Murnak Errol Rackipov Jay Rees Development Musicology Dale Underwood Stephen Rucker John Redmond Stephen Zdzinski Dania Gorriz David Ake Jazz Voice Brian Russell Reynaldo Sanchez Trombone Kate Reid Music Engineering Executive Director, Studio Music and Jazz Reynaldo Sanchez Gary Wood Timothy Conner Joseph Abbati Business Operations John Daversa Justina Shandler Keyboard Performance Guitar Christopher Bennett Trumpet Barbara Ham Daniel Strange Inesa Gegprifti Vocal Performance Rafael Padron William Pirkle Craig Morris Oleksii Ivanchenko Director, Admissions Frank Ragsdale Chamber Music/ Federico Musgrove Kevin Kenner Music Therapy Tuba and Euphonium Karen Kerr Entrepreneurship Harp Santiago Rodriguez Shannon de l’Etoile Aaron Tindall Valerie Coleman Associate Dean for Laura Sherman Naoko Takao Teresa Lesiuk Viola Strategic Initiatives Choral Studies Tian Ying Kimberly Sena Moore Henry Mancini Institute Jodi Levitz and Innovation Anita Castiglione Scott Flavin Keyboard Pedagogy Music Theory and Reynaldo Sanchez Corin Overland Violin Stephen Guerra Jr. Naoko Takao Composition Amanda Quist Charles Castleman Executive Director, Maria Schneider Dwight Banks Media Writing and Scott Flavin Marketing & Clarinet Juan Chattah Horn Production Karen Lord-Powell Communications Margaret Donaghue Shawn Crouch Richard Todd Randall Barlow Bettina Mussumeli Patricia San Pedro Dorothy Hindman Conducting Carlos Rivera Jazz Bass Juraj Kojs Violiocello Robert Carnochan Camilo Rodriguez Charles Bergeron Peter Learn Ross Harbaugh Doug McCullough Music Business and Karen Lord-Powell Steven Moore Jazz Composition and Voice Entertainment Industries Charles Mason Corin Overland Jazz Arranging Jeffrey Buchman Serona Elton Lansing McLoskey Amanda Quist John Daversa Alan Johnson Guillermo Page David Mendoza Jay Rees Stephen Guerra Jr. Kim Josephson John Redmond Benjamin Montgomery Gerard Schwarz Sandra Lopez Neill Jazz Drums Reynaldo Sanchez Federico Musgrove Frank Ragsdale Dafnis Prieto David Pegel Robynne Redmon Stephen Rucker Mirjana Petrovic Jeanette Thompson Leon Thomas Donald Stinson John Yarling

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