University of Miami • Spring 2015 Inside: Pitch Perfect Onward and Upward Art of Comprimario scoreFrost School of Music

Building Greatness on Frost enters a Help Us Reach the new pace of progress with sound-savvy buildings and skyrocketing Next Crescendo rankings. Message from the Dean

What a year it has been! As you will read in this issue, Musical America and The Hollywood Reporter have affirmed the Frost School’s place in the very highest tier among university music schools worldwide. Our long-held goal remains to be the most excellent and relevant music school anywhere, and we are accomplishing that ambition on a daily basis. Here’s how:

Our curricula are the most relevant and innovative. It started with the groundbreaking undergraduate Experiential Music Curriculum, which results in broader skills and more ability to compose, arrange, improvise, and hear music. Now we are revising our master’s degrees in performance, with career and skill-focused course options to foster better stage presence and skills in marketing, communication, media and repertoire creation, and pedagogy. Frost Online is growing and extending the excellence and uniqueness of a Frost education to students everywhere. The Henry Mancini Institute continues to provide Frost students with real-world experiences rarely found in academia. These include network television specials, major label recordings, film scores, and concerts and workshops with renowned artists across a spectrum of style and genre. Now we are welcoming James Newton Howard as artistic director of the Henry Mancini Institute, and a new world of opportunity awaits.

Frost graduates are working. Many of our programs have virtually 100% employment, including Music Engineering, Music Education, Music Therapy, and the various forms of conducting. The vast network of Frost alumni in the music industry is a supportive pool of employers for Music Business graduates. Frost performance graduates are working, too! In the last few years there have been dozens of placements in symphonies and other performing groups. The relevance and excellence of our faculty and curricula translate to career opportunities for our students.

We keep getting better! It is no denigration of the past to strive to continually improve. In fact our strength has served as a platform for our remarkable growth. Approximately 40% of the students we accept choose to enroll, either coming from or turning down other top music schools in the world to attend the Frost School. The faculty continues to be more renowned and have a larger imprint on music, and they are the reason so many brilliant students want to study in the Frost School. Our facilities are improving, as well. The new Patricia Louise Frost Music Studios are among the great music learning spaces in higher education. We have finished fundraising for a new Knight Recital Hall, and we are renovating recording and “hack” spaces for Music Engineering.

We need you! Show the world you are an alum or friend of the Frost School. Go to UMFrostStore.com and find a cap, shirt, or other Frost logo item, so everyone will know you are part of the next greatest music school!

Warmly,

Shelton G. Berg Dean, Frost School of Music Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music Spring 2015

Frost School of Music Frost School of Music Dean Shelton G. Berg contents Associate Dean, Administration Raul Murciano, B.S.C.E. ’91, M.M. ’93, D.M.A. ’97 Associate Dean, Graduate Studies Shannon de l’Etoile Features 20 Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies J. Steven Moore Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives and Innovation Pitch Perfect Reynaldo Sanchez, B.M. ’80, M.M. ’82 20 Associate Dean, Advancement Faculty and students of the Phillip and Patricia Frost Holly Freyre, M.B.A. ’11 School of Music inaugurate the brand new state-of- Director, Admissions and Recruitment the-art Patricia Louise Frost Music Studios. Karen Kerr Director, Business Affairs Denise Eutsey, B.B.A. ’90 Onward and Upward Director, Marketing and Communications 24 Julia D. Berg Violin superstar Charles Castleman moves from Eastman to Frost

University Communications with positive energy, unbridled joy, and a proven track record for Vice President for Communications attracting top string players. Jacqueline R. Menendez, A.B. ’83 Assistant Vice President for Communications and Marketing Todd Ellenberg 28 The Art of Comprimario Editorial Director Top opera singer’s quiet determination wins him career longevity as a char- Meredith Camel, M.F.A. ’12 acter tenor, premiering new roles and breathing new life into the classics. Editorial Contributors 28 Maya Bell, Julia D. Berg, Meredith Camel, M.F.A. ’12, Robert C. Jones, Heather Kurzbauer, 34 Match Inspires Music Scholarship Wendy C. Rees, Kristyne Smith Sydnee Waggoner A college romance inspires musical couple to give back to their alma mater through a major music scholarship that will aid talented students in years to come. Creative Services Susan H. Hartman, Suett Communications

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Frost Featured and Named Top 20 in Musical America Special Report

September 2014

A Guide to Music schools Community Engagement 5 Cool Case Studies

The Frost School of Music enjoyed prime Blue Note, Capitol, Verve, and more. In her Editor’s placement on the cover of the “2014 Special Report: A Note, Susan Elliott of Musical America wrote, “While Guide to Music Schools,” published in September by courses in business, marketing, even public speaking are Musical America, a highly respected digital and print offered at many music schools, this program is the first publication for artists, presenters, and managers. The Frost that actually brings an ongoing business (well actually, its School made the top 20 on a list of Top 50 Music Schools artists) into the classroom.” around the World, culled from a database of 1,278 institu- The Universal Music U @ Frost partnership aims to tions listed in the Musical America directory. grow the future of “classic” music by re-imagining per- The cover showcased a rendering of the Frost former training, the recording, and the concert through School’s new Patricia Louise Frost Music Studios, and new approaches to format, production, and audience the story inside focused on Frost’s new partnership with development, and by creating a social network of young Universal Music Classics, a top-three worldwide record classic music enthusiasts assembled by a collaborative label with brands Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, student committee.

The Hollywood Reporter Also Ranks UM Frost in Top Tier

The Hollywood Reporter unveiled its annual company’s website, “editors and dozens of industry and ranking of the world’s top 25 music schools in November, academic insiders assessed each school’s reputation, and and the Frost School of Music was listed in the top 15 the honored schools then ranked one another’s programs along with peer institutions Juilliard, Berklee, USC, anonymously.” The publisher applauded the Frost School’s UCLA, Oberlin, New England, Curtis, innovative Bruce Hornsby Creative American Music Eastman, NYU, Royal College of Music, Program, the “genre-busting” Henry Mancini Institute, Manhattan, Indiana, CalArts, and and the robust music business program, citing the boom Conservatoire de Paris. According to the in job placement among graduates.

{ 2 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Frost Fundraising Exceeds $40 Million Campaign Goal

said Dean Berg. “As a result, we will continue to attract the very best stu- dents and faculty for decades to come.” Alumni, faculty, concert patrons, and friends who wish to further support the Frost School of Music through a major charitable gift or multiyear pledge are invited to contact tudio Holly Freyre at [email protected] or Lynne Gibson at lgibson@miami. edu. Contributions at all levels are appreciated and will be gratefully

Photos by Versatile L ight S Versatile by Photos acknowledged. The fundraising team of UM trustee and Frost campaign chair David R. Weaver, Dean Shelly Berg, Associate Dean for Development Holly Freyre, and Director of Development Lynne Gibson (pictured above Patricia Louise Frost with Sebastian the Ibis) has secured $48 million in do- Music Studios Opens nations and pledges to date, exceeding the Frost School’s $40 million fundraising goal set for Momentum2: The tudents and faculty of the Phillip and Patricia Breakthrough Campaign for the University of Miami. The SFrost School of Music rejoiced in creative eupho- gifts include $37 million for new buildings and renova- ria on February 20 as they celebrated the dedication tions and $11 million in new music scholarship endow- of the new Patricia Louise Frost Music Studios build- ments to recruit and retain top talent from around the ing complex, made possible by the generosity of the world in music performance, business, and research. school’s naming benefactors, Dr. Phillip and Patricia “This major support from longtime benefactors and Frost. See full story on page 20. new donors to the Frost School is extremely gratifying,”

$7.5 Million Knight Foundation Grant Helps Fund New Recital Hall

The University of Miami “Knight’s goal is to help A new 200-seat was awarded a $7.5 million grant build the community we all Knight Recital by the Knight Foundation to name want to live in, a community Hall at Frost will and support construction of a new where art is general and be designed for John S. and James L. Knight Recital available to everyone, in all live acoustic and Hall at the Frost School of Music. of our neighborhoods.” recorded music Alberto Ibargüen, president and This generous gift— presentations, CEO of the Knight Foundation, when combined with other live streaming, announced the gift at a community donor pledges, including multi-camera video

meeting on March 8. C TS NN W EY M OUTH / HO K AR C HITE YA $2 million from the Paul J. projection, and “Great art defines and lifts the soul of a community. DiMare Foundation and $1.2 million from Dorothy and other high tech The arts create a sense of place and help bind us to each David Weaver—will enable the Frost School of Music to capabilities. other with common experience. They help us explain the move forward with the final design and construction of way we feel and represent who we are,” Ibargüen said. the estimated $15 million project.

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Three Music Alumni Earn Grammy Nominations

Three music alumni were among the distin- Reid, M.M. ’96, D.M.A. ’03, Wendy Pedersen, B.M. ’89, guished nominees at the 57th Grammy Awards ceremony, and others. Over 40 of the Frost School’s Henry held in Los Angeles and televised on February 8, 2015. Mancini Institute fellows and Stamps Distinguished Pete McGuinness, B.M. ’86, Ensemble Scholars performed in the studio orchestra. earned two Grammy nomina- Stefanie “Teff” Martinez, B.S. ’13, was assistant record- tions for arrangements on his ing engineer; co-producers were Jeremy Fox and Kelly Strength in Numbers album, Garner, D.M.A. ’14. featuring the Pete McGuin- Multi-Grammy-winning music engineer and ness Jazz Orchestra (Summit producer Andrew Scheps, B.M. ’89, (Adele, Black Records): Best Arrangement Sabbath, Red Hot Chili Peppers) was music engineer Accompanying a Vocalist for and mixer on the self-titled Beyoncé album nominated “What Are You Doing the Rest for Album of the Year. Scheps also mixed the hit single of Your Life” (McGuinness was “Take Me to Church” that garnered a Song of the Year also the vocalist) and Best Ar- nomination. rangement for Instrumental or A In other Grammy honors, J.D./M.M. student Brian Cappella for “Beautiful Dreamer.” Oliver won a 2015 Entertainment Law Initiative writing Kip Sullivan, B.M. ’81, M.M. ’84, competition sponsored by The Grammy Foundation. M.B.A. ’86, owns Summit Oliver’s winning entry, “One Album Warrants One Records. Award: Harmonizing the Statutory Damages Schema Jeremy Fox, M.M. ’01, with the Unbundled Recorded Music Industry,” en- D.M.A. ’13, left, also earned a courages courts to reconsider the way they have been Grammy nomination in the Best awarding statutory damages in connection with digital Arrangement Accompanying musical albums. Oliver received a $5,000 scholarship, a Vocalist category for “All My all-expenses paid trip to the Grammy Awards ceremony Tomorrows” on his album, With in Los Angeles, and the opportunity to present the paper Jeremy Fox

G etty Im ages Love: Arrangements for Some at a high-profile entertainment law luncheon during of My Favorite Singers (Jazzbill Records). The project Grammy Week. A major law review or journal will features vocalists Kate McGarry, Kevin Mahogany, Kate publish his essay.

New Freshman Stamps String Quartet Makes Its Debut

ommy Johnson (violin), Sarah Huesman (cello), Stephen Ensemble Scholars in the Frost School of Music and will per- THuber Weber (viola), and Jacques Gadway (violin) pose form together as an ensemble for the next four years. Stamps with donors Roe and Penny Scholars receive full-tuition Stamps after their debut as scholarships, plus room and the Stamps String Quartet, board from the Stamps Family Class of 2018 at an All Charitable Foundation and the Stamps Ensemble concert University of Miami. They are on February 3 in Gusman also eligible to receive fund- Concert Hall. The four are ing for special enrichment performance majors enjoying activities together, such as

their first year as Stamps p hy R F Photogra summer study abroad.

{ 4 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Frost Introduces Master’s Degree in Sound Recording Arts

Sound waves reverberated throughout the industry when Frost School of Music announced a new mas- ter’s degree program in Sound Record- ing Arts will begin this fall. Immediate postings on Mix Online and other notable websites and blogs were tagged widely. Accredited by the National Associa- tion of Schools of Music (NASM), the two-year graduate degree program will be offered through the Frost School’s highly respected Music Engineering Technology program, administered by Associate Pro- fessor and Program Director Colby Leider, whose team Computer Science; and Joel Zysman, director of high- currently conducts more than $5 million in sponsored performance computing at the Center for Computational research at UM Frost. Science. “The new Master of Music in Sound Recording Arts The Music Engineering Technology program is a (M.M.-SRA) curriculum is ideal for students who al- division of the Music Media and Industry Department, ready hold an undergraduate degree and wish to pursue chaired by Associate Professor Serona Elton, M.M. ’95, or further enhance careers in sound recording, sound a music copyright expert. It will continue to offer the design, media composition, game audio, sound reinforce- highly popular Master of Science in Music Engineering ment, education, and related fields,” explains Dean Shelly (M.S.-MuE) program, the first graduate degree in music Berg. “The program is interdisciplinary technology in the United States, founded by in nature and includes courses in music, Ken Pohlmann in 1986. Graduates of the music engineering, computer program- program are routinely placed in top audio ming, music history, and education. It is companies and are currently working in the distinguished from other such programs fields of digital signal processing, transducer in its simultaneous focus on creativity, engineering, audio education, and audio experimentation, and tradition.” programming. The M.S.-MuE program re- The M.M.-SRA curriculum is both quires applicants to posses an undergraduate challenging and relevant to today’s music degree in a technical field (typically electrical recording profession. It addresses practical engineering or computer science). Colby Leider and aesthetic issues surrounding music Commenting on the reasons the new and technology, including sound recording, mastering, M.M.-SRA degree is being offered at this time in the mixing, human-computer interaction, computer music, school’s history, Leider reflected, “We have fielded an acoustic ecology, sound reinforcement, and a variety of increasing number of inquiries from recording engineers electives related to the growing field. seeking a master’s degree to enhance both their profes- Classes and research projects will be offered by out- sional skills and research techniques. After years of standing faculty, including Leider, Will Pirkle, B.M. ’89, careful planning, we are pleased to broaden our scope M.S.E.E. ’91, Christopher Bennett, B.S. ’05, M.S. ’07, and offer this new Master of Music in Sound Recording Ph.D. ’10, Joseph Abbati, B.M. ’92, M.F.A. ’11, and Dana Arts. This new degree will expand our growing com- Salminen, B.M. ’08, from Music Engineering Technol- munity of scholars and practitioners who are passionate ogy; Charles Norman Mason, B.M. ’77, and Juraj Kojs about the nexus of music and technology. And Miami is from Music Composition; Mitsunori Ogihara from the perfect place for this to happen.”

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 5 } Frost News Weeks Center for Recording and Performance and Weeks Music Library Celebrate Milestone Anniversaries

Two learning centers known New York autograph dealer and opera connois- on the Frost School of Music cam- seur who, over the course of his lifetime, accumulated pus that proudly bear the names thousands of books and other historical materials from of UM trustee Marta Weeks-Wulf the 18th century onward. and late husband Austin Weeks After the student performances, music librarian celebrated milestone anniversaries Nancy Zavac, M.M. ’79, said, “The Roger Gross Collec- this academic year. tion is a major acquisition for the University to have as TheL . Austin Weeks Center for a resource, and to see it explored, and hear it brought to Recording and Performance, dedicated life with such talent, is deeply inspiring and rewarding.”

A N DRE W I NN ERARITY in 1994, will commemorate its 20th She concluded the program with a special thank you Jennifer Voigt, anniversary with a major renovation and upgrade of its to Marta Weeks-Wulf and husband Karleton Wulf in right, discusses her recording studio and console this summer in anticipation attendance. “We have so many marvelous collections and musical selection of expanded use by students in the new Master of Music materials on hand for our users; this facility would not with trustee in Sound Recording Arts program. exist without Marta and her family’s thoughtfulness and Marta Weeks-Wulf. TheMarta and Austin Weeks Music Library and generosity.” Technology Center celebrated its 10th anniversary on January 23, 2015, with a reception for 100 guests hosted by Dean of Libraries Chuck Eckman and Dean of the Tuition Discount for UM Frost School of Music Shelly Berg. Alumni at Frost Online During the reception for the Weeks Music Library, vocal students Max Moreno, Ana Collado, and Jennifer Frost Online Voigt performed works they studied in a musicology (frostonline.miami.edu) class taught by Associate Professor Karen Henson using debuted in August 2014 a newly acquired Roger Gross Opera Collection for ref- (see feature story in Score erence. The Weeks Music Library acquired the collection 2014), and students from after the passing of Roger Gross (1938–2013), a well- across the United States and China are enrolled in both the Master of Music and the Master of Arts in Arts Presenting and Entertainment Management online Dean Shelly Berg to Host National degree programs offered through the Music Business and Sirius XM Radio Show: Entertainment Industries department. Live from Frost University of Miami alumni can receive up to a 50 percent discount on tuition. Depending on qualifications, irius XM Radio has signed Shelly Berg as non-alumni may also be eligible for up to a 35 percent Scurator and host for a new national jazz radio discount. Contact Assistant Director of Admission show tentatively called Live from Frost, which and Recruitment Rachel Hanusa, B.M. ’10, M.M. ’14, will focus on the artistic output of younger jazz at [email protected] for more details. In addition, recording artists from the past two decades who individual courses for non-degree-seeking students are are recognized as moving the genre forward, plus now available.

select showcases of Frost jazz students and faculty. N IEL A Z OULAY DA “Just wanted to say how intuitive this program is and The show will include interviews and a wide spectrum of music, how much I’m learning already,” Frost Online student to be recorded and mastered in the Weeks Recording Studio at Jareld Washington wrote in an email, stating he learned the Frost School of Music as well as Sirius XM Radio studios in new information “that’s going to help me tremendously in New York City. The show is slated to begin airing this summer. the field in just three weeks.”

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Accolades for Music Ed Ph.D. Alumni

The Music Education program at Frost, Issues in Music Education, and Community Music administered by Professor and Department Chair Don Programs for adults and children. There are doctoral Coffman, Professor Stephen Zdzinski, and Associate Pro- seminars on Presentation and Publication, Writing Prac- fessor Carlos Abril, B.M. ’93, is one of the most progres- titioner Articles, and Higher Ed Job Search in Music. sive in the nation, offering the only Ph.D. degree Professor Coffman also attributes the in the Frost School of Music. The program strength of the program to “our outstanding ranks in the top ten of its kind, boasting a faculty and their openness and desire to be 100% graduation rate and placement of its relevant. We embrace the Frost motto that students at major institutions as researchers, the future of music is here.” educators, and leaders in the profession. Since its inception in 1972, the majority “The Music Education faculty at the Uni- of all Frost Music Education doctoral place- versity of Miami engage students with real-world ments have been at Division 1 research institu- problems, trends, and issues,” says Brian Wesolowski, tions. Manny Brand, Ph.D. ’76 (Hong Kong Baptist Ph.D. ’12, assistant professor of music education at the University) was one of the first students to graduate from University of Georgia, who also holds degrees in jazz the program. Recent graduates include Charles Ciorba, performance. “Students are prepared for the competitive Ph.D. ’06 (Oklahoma University), Kelly Parkes, Ph.D. ’06 job market that exists today, and graduates succeed in all (Virginia Tech), Sandra Schwartz, Ph.D. ’06 (West Vir- areas of the music industry.” ginia University), Brian Russell, Ph.D. ’10 (Frost School The focus of the Frost Music Education Ph.D. pro- of Music), Brian Wuttke, Ph.D. ’11 (George Mason Uni- gram is to expand conventional boundaries and provide versity), Jennifer Doyle, Ph.D. ’13 (University of Hawaii), opportunities for experiential learning. Students obtain Andrew Dahan, Ph.D. ’14 (Illinois Wesleyan University), a diverse set of skills and experience with unique course and Ahmad Rithaudin Md Noor, Ph.D. ’14 (Universiti offerings such as International Music Education, Social Teknologi Mara-Malaysia).

Study Reveals Music Teachers’ Advocacy Disconnect

A new study co-authored by Associate Professor have an impact on their programs or positions. A large Carlos Abril, B.M. ’93, and Julie K. Bannerman at Crane number of music teachers (48%) responded that national School of Music at SUNY Potsdam is the policies had no impact at all. first to examine, on a national level, the When asked who or what is critical to maintaining major problems music teachers are facing or improving their programs and positions, the school and what can be done about them. principal was cited as the most prevalent factor. Most of Published in the Journal of Research in the teachers (90%) therefore primarily showcase their Music Education, “Perceived Factors Impact- music programs through performances, or by collaborat- ing School Music Programs: The Teacher’s ing with teachers in their school. tudio Perspective” conducted a random survey of “The findings imply that music teachers are not fully 375 elementary school teachers. Although informed of the ways policy from the state and national Carlos Abril

Versatile L ight S Versatile prior research found that state and national level impacts their work,” said Abril, lead investigator policies have a negative effect on art programs in schools, of the study. “This knowledge is imperative in order only about half of the teachers surveyed in the current for them to be proactive in advocating for music in the study reported feeling that national education policies school curriculum.”

{ 8 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Music to Medical Ears

The last place one might expect to teach future doctors and nurses is on the concert stage, but a string quartet from the Frost School of Music conducted by Dean Shelly Berg playing Mozart’s Eine kleine Nacht- musik did just that for 210 medical and nursing students during the second Interprofessional Patient Safety Course run by the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Health Studies last summer. The concert was not intended to be a respite from the intense, fast-paced simulations of maladies that teach situational awareness, tear down hierarchies, and nurture the team-building skills future physicians and nurses or interest. Under none of these scenarios did Mozart’s Dean Berg and need to prevent errors and improve patient outcomes masterpiece sound unified, conveying Berg’s point better Frost musicians in the real world. Rather, it was a profoundly insightful than any lecture or textbook. demonstrate component of their clinical education. “You have to be aware of your job, but you have to be teamwork at a Thus, the medical and nursing students saw a bit of aware of other people’s jobs around you, because their patient safety themselves when, spurred by Berg, violinist Michelle jobs interrelate to yours,” Berg reiterated. “You have to seminar. Godbee, A.D. ’12, M.M. ’13, morphed into an over- react to what they’re doing in real time.” achiever, playing faster than her fellow musicians, or For medical student Nikesh Shah, B.S. ’13, the when violinist Arianne Urban, B.M. ’14, nervously presentation was as instructive as it was unexpected. “I melted into the background after Berg ridiculed her for thought it was awesome…It was much more eye opening asking a question, or when all of them played their parts than a lecture. Seeing and hearing is better than someone with technical precision but without a trace of passion telling you that being in sync is important.”

Salzburg Program Celebrates Its 30th Year and a New Director

Participants enjoy access to concerts and special events in Salzburg’s famous festival theaters, cathedrals, palaces, and the Mozarteum, as well as historical sites in Salzburg and Vienna. Robynne Redmon, mezzo-soprano, assistant professor of vocal performance, took the lead in 2014 as the program director. She has performed leading roles with many major opera houses of the world, including The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Berlin State Opera, and Opera de Marseilles. Esther Jane he hills are alive as vocal students from across the globe Hardenbergh, professor of voice and chair of the Department of Tgather each summer in Austria for the University of Miami Vocal Performance, served as the Salzburg program director Frost School of Music at Salzburg, an elite month-long training for the previous 14 years. The program was found- program celebrating its 30th anniversary this July 13 through ed by Lorine Buffington (see In Memoriam August 13, 2015. page 59), whose students included Young singers and pianists study abroad with world- Elizabeth Caballero, B.M. ’99, renowned artists in the birthplace of Mozart for a comprehen- and Sandra Lopez sive program focusing on German Lied and operatic repertoire. B.M. ’96.

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Frost Students Side by Side with The Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra and the Frost School of Music are in the ninth year of a rewarding collabora- tive partnership. In March of this year, Frost School of Music students attended a full day of music with The Cleveland Orchestra at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, beginning with a two-hour side-by- side rehearsal under the direction of Franz Welser-MÖst with members of The Cleveland Orchestra and the Frost Symphony Orchestra. The day culminated after the orchestra’s two-hour evening rehearsal of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, which was open to all Frost students and faculty.

Afternoon activities included a G etty Im ages series of master classes, coaching sessions, and a reading cians from The Cleveland Orchestra on March 27 and session of new chamber music for oboe, horn, violin, viola, 28 at a Prelude Concert preceding the orchestra’s regular and cello composed by six Frost student finalists. Two of subscription concerts on the same dates. the compositions, Phrygia by doctoral candidate David As part of the residency partnership, Frost musicians Mendoza, and Barnyard Glass by doctoral candidate were also offered free Cleveland Orchestra concert tickets Shawn Crouch, were selected and premiered by musi- at the Arsht Center throughout the 2014–2015 season.

Berg Music Directs National Tree Lighting at White House

Dean Shelly Berg started in 1923 and brings was co-music director for citizens together to share the 92nd annual National in a message of hope and Christmas Tree Lighting peace. This year Google concert and ceremony and The National Parks in Washington, D.C., Foundation sponsored the on December 4, 2014, event, produced by Bounce along with Frost visiting AEG. It was streamed committee member Gregg live online, then broadcast Field. Over 100,000 nationally on PBS stations attended the outdoor throughout the month of holiday event. President December. The evening Barack Obama and the first family participated in the was co-hosted by actors and producers Tom Hanks and ceremony, flipping the switch on thousands of LED Rita Wilson, joined onstage by vocalists Patti LaBelle, lights that lit up a giant Christmas tree in President’s Fifth Harmony, Ne-Yo, Steve Miller, Nico & Vinz, The Park in front of the White House. The annual event was Tenors, and the President’s Own Marine Band.

{ 10 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Jenny Abreu Donna E. Shalala. outgoing honorin of University Miami president, of to rename the burgeoning Frost MusicR school’s Winter Wonderful dinner gala on December 7 a surprise announcement gift $1million during the music mobile application, social CrowdStream. H Cyber P businessas development director for PledgeMusic and M.M. ’82. for Strategic Initiatives R position work and will tandem in with Associate Dean and entrepreneur Brian Wilkins hired just was for the MusicReach GetsNew Name Kind Wilkins the is 137Entertainment, founder of served supp R , and helped create, launch, and build the and New Director or ters income. self-sustaining through generated positionThe is expected becometo crease the school’s revenue streams. deals, and other initiatives to- in production and licensing music partnerships,academic-business the quickly goal of forging new position at Frost for two years with business development director thought-leaders funding is anew trustees UM andof business Business DevelopmentMovesForward An Phillip and Patricia Frost made eynaldo Sanchez, B.M. ’80, Music industry executive executive Music industry advisor y

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Frost Students Garner Top Awards and Honors

Frost School of Music Undergraduate percussionist students were handsomely represented Maria Chlebus won third prize in the in prominent national and international 2014 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg competitions, garnering top awards Competition on the marimba, where throughout programs. she was among four finalists. Piano doctoral candidate Anastasiya Senior vocal major Ana Collado Naplekova was awarded second prize received a 2015 Encouragement of virtuosity in Morocco’s 2014 Inter- Award in the Florida District Met- national Piano Competition-Her Royal ropolitan Opera National Council Highness Princess Lalla Meryem and Auditions. special prizes for best performance of In jazz, master’s student Tal Co- Russian music, Rachmaninov’s Piano hen was named winner of the 2014 tudio Sonata No. 2, sponsored by the Russian Barry Harris Jazz Piano Competi- Embassy, and for best performance of tion. Cohen’s winnings earned him a Anastasiya Naplekova

Polish music, Chopin’s Polonaise in F# L ight S Versatile generous cash prize and took him to minor, op. 44, sponsored by the Polish Embassy. Naple- Detroit to play in the city’s International Jazz Festival. kova was awarded a cash prize and will perform winner’s Doctoral candidate and HMI fellow William Longo, recitals at the Festival de Sintra in Portugal and at the M.M. ’14, won the 2014 Sammy Nestico Award for a Théâtre National Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. New Jazz Composition of The United States Air Force Doctoral candidate Hyun-Jung Lee received the 2014 Band. It will be recorded and performed in their upcom- Music Therapy Perspectives Graduate Student Research ing Jazz Heritage Series. Award for her work involving children with autism and Semifinal- their ability to attend to music. Lee was recognized at the ists of the 2014 2014 American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) Thelonious conference, and her research was published in the clinical Monk Institute journal Music Therapy Perspectives. of Jazz Inter- Rodrigo Bussad, a master’s candidate in composition, national Jazz took two top awards in the American Prize competition, Competition Student Division: first prize in the Chamber Music cat- included doctoral Chris Burbank egory for his piece Loin, and second prize in the Orches- candidate Chris tra category for Depois da Chuva. Burbank and undergraduate Stamps Scholar Aidan Lombard. The competi- tion featured 13 young jazz trumpeters who Aidan Lombard performed before a panel of jazz greats including Randy Brecker, Quincy Jones, and Arturo Sandoval. Rodrigo Bussad with Frost Symphony Orchestra In addition, doctoral candidate Rafael Piccolotto

{ 12 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 de Lima, M.M. ’13, master’s student Lorenzo Carrano, and Sherrine Mostin, plus three ensembles Frost Jazz and senior Gene Knific were each awarded a 2015 Herb Vocal 1, Extensions, and Jazz Vocal 2 earned five of the Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award. Established by The awards. In Blues-Pop-Rock categories, piano soloist ASCAP Foundation, Gene Knific, Funk Ensemble and American Music En- recipients are selected semble were recipients. In large and small jazz instru- through a juried mental ensemble categories, Frost Studio Jazz Band, national competi- Frost Salsa Orchestra, and two combos Sound Under- tion and receive cash ground and a group led by undergrad David Leon each awards. earned kudos. Finally, composers Dan Montgomery and At the 2015 Rafael Piccolotto de Lima earned awards in the Original National Trumpet Small Ensemble category, while multiple engineering Competition held awards went to Lorenzo Carrano, Rafael Piccolotto de in March, graduate Lima, and Emanuel Silverstein. Gene Knific jazz trumpet student Samuel Neufeld and undergraduate Alexander Aldred placed 1st and 2nd respectively in the Jazz Division. In addition, the Frost Trumpet Ensemble consisting of National Public Radio Cameron Ghahremani, Derek Ganong, David “Buddy” Records at UM Frost Deshler, B.M. ’11, A.D. ’14, Jackson Arthur, Paul Piazza, B.M. ’13, Joseph Burleson, and Sam Exline, placed 2nd mazing performances and inspiring stories from some of in the Large Trumpet Ensemble Division. A America’s rising young classical musicians were recorded Frost jazz students received 18 DownBeat Student live at UM’s Maurice Gusman Concert Hall for NPR’s From the Top Music Awards this spring: vocal soloists Danielle Wertz with Host Christoper O’Riley on April 29. The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust and other notable foundations provided additional grant support to record the program at UM. Over 300 school­ children from local schools were in attendance, hosted by the Donna E. Shalala MusicReach Program at the Frost School of Music. The final edit of the show will be released June 1, 2015 to NPR stations, as well as on the program’s website www.fromth- etop.org. Check your local NPR station listing for actual airtime.

Composer James Newton Howard Named Artistic Director of Henry Mancini Institute

Just announced! artistic director since 2008. Howard’s term will begin in James Newton Howard, one January 2016. of the most versatile and re- Howard, who has been honored with ASCAP’s spected composers currently prestigious Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime Achieve- working in film, was named ment, now has more than 120 films to his credit. He has the new artistic director of received eight Oscar® and four Golden Globe nomina- the Frost School’s Henry tions, a 2009 Grammy Award along with Hans Zimmer Mancini Institute. How- for the score for The Dark Knight, multiple Grammy ard succeeds film composer, trumpeter and bandleader nominations, and two Emmy nominations. Read the full Terence Blanchard, who served with distinction as press release at www.music.miami.edu.

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Frost Opera Theater’s Jackie O Hailed for Imaginative Multimedia

South Florida Classical Review (SFCR) tery of the title heroine… a ranked Frost Opera Theater’s spring 2014 production of milestone for the University Jackie O as “Number 2” in its Top Ten Performances of of Miami’s opera program 2014 year-end wrap up. under Alan Johnson.” The classical blog called the production “a wild, sat- The opera was a col- isfying ride” in its spring review, in large part due to the laboration of composer creative multimedia production by guest stage director Michael Daugherty (2011 Ben Krywosz and music director Associate Professor Grammy winner for Best Alan Johnson. It praised the staging as “marvelously Classical Composition— vibrant and effective” for its projections of color patterns, Metropolis Symphony) and photos, and news headlines. librettist Wayne Koes- Jackie O is a pop operatic collage in two acts that tenbaum (author of The combines opera and American musical theater, captur- Queen’s Throat and Jackie ing the mystery, tragedy, and glamour of American icon Under My Skin). Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as she encounters Maria Frost Opera Theater Callas, Liz Taylor, Ari Onassis, Grace Kelly, and Andy obtained a synchroniza-

olotto de L i m a ael Pi cc olotto Vindhya Khare

Warhol. Events are based on history but are largely tion license from Boosey R a f imaginary or metaphorical. & Hawkes Publishing and the composer for its video SFCR also said, “[Frost student] Vindhya Khare’s recording of this groundbreaking production, proudly agile and radiant soprano evoked the glamour and mys- available for viewing on YouTube.

Festival Miami Receives High Praise

The 31st annual Festival Mancini Institute Orchestra and singers from the Frost Miami also received accolades in Opera Theater (see page 15). South Florida Classical Review’s Top Other highlights at Festival Miami 2014, which Ten Performances of 2014. Open- ran October 10 through November 8, include appear- ing night was given a thumbs-up ances by jazz vocalist Patti Austin, rising country star for Most Interesting Revival, for its Craig Campbell, and singer-songwriter Nick Deysher, “enterprising all-American program” M.M. ’07. Programming also included Van Cliburn Gold in which Thomas Sleeper led the Medalist Vadym Kholodenko; award-winning piano Frost Symphony Orchestra “in a rare duo Genova & Dimitrov; acoustic rock legend Jorma tudio performance of the craggy, bristling Kaukonen; Latin Grammy 2013 Best New Artist Gaby Sun-Treader by iconoclast Carl Moreno; Fantine presented by Emilio Estefan; two in- Kevin Short and Alicia Hall Moran

Versatile L ight S Versatile Ruggle.” The blog also praised Paul ventive chamber music trios, Time For Three and Pulse; Creston’s “jazzy and distinctively American” Saxophone and the Frost Wind Ensemble in an all-Gershwin pro- Concerto, as “an arresting bonus with a brilliant solo turn gram featuring Broadway touring sensation Alicia Hall by saxophone lecturer Dale Underwood.” Moran, operatic favorite Kevin Short, pianist Shelly Berg The festival earned an Honorable Mention for “Dawn and violinist Mark O’Connor. Festival Miami closed with Upshaw’s exquisite vocalism in Maria Schneider’s fine a rare Florida appearance of beloved blues artist Keb’ Mo’ song-cycle Winter Morning Walks” with the Henry performing hits from his illustrious 20-year career.

{ 14 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Dawn Upshaw and Maria Schneider Deliver Banner Performance with Frost Students

The Florida debut of Winter Morning Walks, a A master of emotional artistry and musicianship, live performance of a three-time Grammy winning col- Upshaw reiterated the importance of rhythmic exacti- laboration between esteemed Metropolitan Opera star tude and producing what is specified by the composer, demonstrating that there is a “simplicity of rhythm to Maria’s writing that is quite natural to speech,” encouraging each of the student singers to delve deeper into the text behind each songs. Maria Schneider echoed the sentiment of the symbiotic marriage between text and mu- sic in her own master class given to students tudio before their first rehearsal. She shared it was her first attempt at writing music for words, and her goal was that the song cycle be “not y Versatile L ight S Versatile y music with words, but music for words.”

hotos B p hotos When asked what drew the two women soprano Dawn Upshaw and UM alumna compos- Left: Maria er-conductor Maria Schneider, ’83, with the Henry Schneider conducts Mancini Institute Orchestra and singers from soprano Mia Rojas Frost Opera Theater occurred at Festival Miami on with the Henry October 25. Mancini Institute Described by NPR as “lyrical, flowing, in- Orchestra. timately expressive… music to fall in love with the first time,”W inter Morning Walks includes a Above left: Dawn poignant nine-part song cycle in which Schneider Upshaw, right, melds her compositional mastery to selected poetry coaches Zaray by Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States Rodriguez in a vocal 2004-2006. The project also includes Schneider’s master class. beautiful orchestrations of the Carlos Drummond de Andrade Stories. Auditioned Frost Opera Theater graduate singers to collaborate, Schneider praised Upshaw for her au- each performed pieces from the Carlos de Andrade set thenticity of preparation and performance in expressing and had the opportunity to workshop the songs with poetry and words as “so human.” Upshaw in a master class the day before the concert. Frost students were encouraged to ask questions of Soprano Mia Rojas, mezzo-soprano Zaray Rodriguez, the accomplished artists at the end of each working ses- and soprano Vindhya Khare each received insights from sion; when asked about her favorite project or proudest Upshaw in tackling Schneider’s song settings. work, Upshaw remarked, “We must always believe our Working with Rodriguez on “Souvenir of the An- best is yet to come.” cient World,” Upshaw insisted, “you have to participate Student performances of Winter Morning Walks were in the scena,” comparing the song to Mozart’s seemingly praised by the Miami Herald as “Superbly prepared and simplistic lied “Das Veilchen.” Upshaw impressed upon vocally secure, [Rojas, Rodriguz and Khare] impressively the singers that for every piece “you can’t tell the story negotiated Schneider’s demanding vocal writing” while without participating in it.” Upshaw encouraged students “the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra contributed to to approach Schneider’s writing style as instrumental, to banner performances, led with supple restraint by the look at their parts from an instrumentalist’s stance. multitalented Schneider.”

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Stephen Hartke, Frost Distinguished Composer in Residence, Provides Insight

Grammy Award-winning ally excited to hear what Hartke had to composer Stephen Hartke has been chosen say during previous composer forums. as the Frost School of Music’s inaugural Now they’ll be able to get a private 2015 Distinguished Composer in Residence lesson with him as well.” hosted by the Department of Music Theory Hartke’s musical output is extremely and Composition. varied, with major commissions from Hartke’s work has been hailed for both its such ensembles as the Chamber Music “singularity of voice” and “inclusive breadth” Society of Lincoln Center, Carnegie of inspiration. The Los Angeles Times called Hall and the Harvard Musical Associa- him, “one of the most distinctive composi- tion, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, tional voices in classical music today.” His The New York Philharmonic, and the residence at the Frost School includes six visits to the National Symphony Orchestra. Some of his awards campus that began this spring, providing private lessons include the Rome Prize from the American Academy in and conducting master classes with undergraduate and Rome, two Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commission graduate composition students. In addition, he will Grants, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Hartke’s critically participate in public rehearsals of his music and serve on acclaimed full-length opera, The Greater Good, won the a contemporary music advisory committee. first Charles Ives Opera prize from the American “When a well-established composer comes from Academy of Arts and Letters. The master composer also outside the school and reaffirms the teachings of our taught in Brazil as Fulbright Professor at the Universidade faculty, it has an impact on our students,” said composi- de São Paulo, before joining the University of Southern tion department chair Charles Mason. “Students were re- California Thornton School of Music faculty in 1987.

Musicologist Richard Taruskin Lecture, “Resisting the Rite”

The Department of (1913). Associate Professor Karen Henson introduced Musicology hosted guest Taruskin, widely considered the leading contemporary speaker Richard Taruskin on March commentator on Western classical music as “a guiding 20, 2015, as part of the school’s sec- light, a leading voice, and a defining figure.” ond annual Robert Kelley Memorial Taruskin’s lecture illustrated how resistance to The Rite Musicology Lecture Series, made of Spring and its original import has been constant over the possible through an endowment from course of the past century, affecting its interpretation, and the late Dr. Robert Kelley, M.S. ’60, its performance practice. He presented new information former associate professor in the UM supporting the transformation of the work and its cultural Department of Mathematics. impact. “Change can be celebrated or exposed, but you Richard Taruskin is Class of 1955 can’t stop it,” he said. “The Rite of Spring has changed both Professor of Music, University of California at Berkeley, in sound and significance, no longer the dark, mythological and author of The Oxford History of Western Music (5 piece it once was, but the kind of performance that follows vols.), The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays, the line of least resistance. The first thing you learn when and On Russian Music. His thought-provoking lecture studying the history of the piece and its first performance, topic, “Resisting the Rite,” assessed the significance of Igor is that the audience responded with hostility to what they Stravinsky’s once controversial work, The Rite of Spring saw, not what they heard.”

{ 16 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Inventive Pamela Z Shares Thoughts on the Art of Electronic Music Performance

Pamela Z, a San Francisco-based composer, performer, and media artist who works primar- ily with voice, live electronic processing, sample sound, and video, gave a composition class lec- ture at the Frost School of Music in November on excerpts of her solo work, followed by a live performance at the Center for Visual Com- munication in downtown Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. Inspired by her innovation, every student in the composition program turned out for her performance. “Pamela Z is the perfect example of what it means to be an entrepreneurial performer and to create new ways of presenting and perform- ing music,” said composition professor and department chair Charles Mason, B.M. ’77. “She showed how it is done at another level, which feeds into Dean Berg’s philosophy for students to perform in new ways, using new concepts. It’s not that the technology was A more sophisticated, but how well Pamela put it together, which is integral to the performance.”

A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, N I C ELE C TRO / ARS RUBRA Pamela Z’s solo works combine experimental extended channel sound and video installations. vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, Juraj Kojs, assistant professor of professional practice, and sampled concrete sounds. She uses MAX MSP and theory and composition, sponsored Z’s appearance Isadora software on a MacBook Pro, along with custom as part of his independently produced “12 Nights of MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound Electronic Music and Art” concert series. He said, “She and image with physical gestures. She also has a growing is a true contemporary artist, synthesizing music, sound body of inter-media gallery works, including multi- design, technology, performance, and live video.”

Frost Welcomes NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron

Jazz heavyweight Kenny Barron is recognized WDNA 88.9 radio the world over as a master of performance and composi- host and jazz tion. He was on campus the first week of March 2015 to faculty member work with students in the Frost School’s Department of Chuck Bergeron, Studio Music and Jazz. Barron consistently wins the jazz left, interviews critics and readers polls, including DownBeat, Jazz Times pianist Kenny Barron and Jazziz magazines. He has been awarded copious life- before a live on-air time achievement awards as well as honorary doctorates performance. from SUNY Empire State in 2013 and from Berklee College of Music in 2011. He is a six-time recipient of Best Pianist by the Jazz Journalists Association.

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 17 } Student Stars

Music Therapy Student Explores Pain and Healing in PTSD Essay

Krystine Smith, a Marine Corps veteran, calls attention to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in an essay titled “Songs of Freedom: Music Therapy with Veterans Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,” winner of UM’s 20th Annual Audley Webster Memorial Essay Award. The following is an excerpt.

“Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a and destruction. Wooden instruments, like maracas, disorder caused by a traumatic, usually life-threatening xylophones, or flutes, tend to represent gentleness and event. This causes symptoms such as flashbacks, hyper- relaxation. Using music that evokes traumatic memories vigilance, dejection, panic attacks, depression, unpredict- forces the veteran to acknowledge and tolerate its effect, able rage, anxiety, and guilt. Most people do not think limiting avoidance. twice about everyday sounds like a car backfiring or a Military members warn each other not to tell their blender running. A seasoned veteran with deployments superiors about symptoms because they fear that seeing a under his belt will hear gunfire or an explosion. He will doctor or shrink could have negative ramifications on their Krystine Smith, hit the deck, dropping to the ground and waiting for careers. After serving four years in the Marine Corps, I now enrolled as an incoming fire that will never occur. Such automated re- have firsthand experience of the negative impact that the undergraduate at sponses, learned through training and experience, make military’s “macho” mentality can have on one’s health. I Frost, played flute assimilating into civilian life difficult. developed a heart condition during my first year enlisted and piccolo in the Brandon* and I met through U.M.’s Veteran Student that caused me to faint over 10 times in six months. The U.S. Marine Band. Organization (VSO), a group designed to help veterans first time I passed out, two staff sergeants had to drag me transition into college life. Several days after meeting, we off the field. But my command never considered that I both attended a barbeque at the VSO house. Brandon may have a serious medical condition. They assumed I was tried to explain the impact that PTSD has had on his locking my knees or faking it to get out of work. They did life. I had not seen any overt symptoms, but Brandon not send me to a doctor until I passed out mid-conversa- said that he was so angry all the time. At first, he had tion with my commanding officer. very little control over his impulses. He tried to get Fortunately, my condition is not serious and can be therapy, but it often left him more frustrated. controlled with medication. There are many veterans who One evening after therapy, Brandon went out drink- are not so fortunate. While Brandon was in the Marine ing with some friends. A car cut him off, and it sent him Corps, he suffered from multiple injuries to his knees and over the edge. He stopped his car, grabbed his pistol, and back, eventually getting knee surgery. He also fractured started patrolling around the car. Brandon was suffer- portions of his face during an IED explosion on a convoy. ing from a flashback. Fortunately for him and everyone Those are only the beginning of a long list of medical around, Brandon came to and realized what was hap- problems that he deals with daily. pening. He separated memory from reality, got back in The Miami Veterans Affairs Hospital has a residential his car, and drove away. But that could have had a very rehabilitation program for trauma that utilizes many kinds different outcome. of therapy. I was fortunate enough to observe one of the Music therapy can treat re-experiencing and avoid- music therapy sessions working with eight veterans rang- ance by using the associative recall technique, where ing from 29 to 64 years old. During this particular session, the therapist uses music that the client associates with music therapist Shawn Buller used listening and lyric anal- traumatic memories, allowing the patient to confront his ysis to promote self-esteem. The first song she utilized was * Name changed to protect individual or her memories in a safe environment. PTSD patients “Message to Myself ” by Melissa Etheridge that focuses on privacy tend to associate metal instruments with trauma, injury, making positive choices.

{ 18 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 I made every choice along the way, think you are. Thoughts affect actions, so you can choose Each day I spent in hell I chose to stay… to have a positive or negative life. I’m sending out a message to myself Watching the veterans’ faces, I could easily see the So that when I hear it on the radio, I will know positive effect of music therapy. They walked into the that I am fine, I will know that I am loved. session loud and rambunctious as a way to cope with The veterans responded that, before coming to the negative feelings. During the listening portions, they therapy, they lived every day with this constant feeling of looked somber and calm. They were not sad, just accept- guilt and self-loathing. They chose to isolate themselves ing. Life has thrown some terrible things their way, but from the world as a form of defense. The second song through the combined therapy of the VA hospital they they analyzed was “I’m Amazing” by Keb’ Mo,’ which are slowly learning to live with it. focuses on having a positive self-image. When I first started researching music therapy I’m amazing; I’m incredible; I’m a miracle, a and PTSD, my relationship with Brandon helped me dream come true; I’m marvelous; I’m beautiful; connect the dots and better understand the impact of Guess what? So are you. flashbacks and re-experiencing. Music obviously is not The veterans said that Keb’ Mo’s song gives them the cure-all solution for PTSD or for the rising suicide hope for a brighter tomorrow. One of the Vietnam rates around the country, but it can be used to improve veterans said that these lyrics reminded him of looking the daily lives of the brave men and women sacrificing for through the window at his newborn son right after the this country. Maybe Brandon isn’t ready for help yet, but war. His son reminded him that life can be beautiful. The he is coping as best as he can. I hope that one day he will parallel between the two songs is that you are what you be comfortable with some form of therapy.”

Military Mettle Is a Good Base for Music Success

pril Ripley is not one to something away,” she says, “it’s very clear Ashy away from a good what you want to do…I always felt like I had challenge. At the encouragement this music thing, and if I didn’t nurture it then of her father, a former U.S. Navy I was selling myself short.” serviceman, she enlisted in the Today, Ripley enjoys collaborating with most demanding branch of the peers across programs, taking full advantage military, the Marines. She then of the coursework offered at Frost in film

enrolled at Frost under the GI scoring and composition. She is confident that T heatre bill and is now a senior vocal a career in music will suit her perfectly, given performance major. the parallels in her experience as a Marine

During tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, Ripley learned Arabic and as a Frost student. H er m a n R i g Jerry and worked in encryption as a female liaison between Iraqi and “You just have to learn it,” she says. “You get trained...training, April Ripley as Afghani women and children, gathering intelligence for five years training, training...and then you get thrust out into war. Whether Aunt Eller in musical overseas in heavy combat missions. Prior to her military service, you survive or not is up to you and your training. As graduation is theater production Ripley’s background was in musical theater, singing, and playing approaching, I’m realizing that all of those things are similar.” of Oklahoma! several instruments with a passion for songwriting. True to her affinity for a challenge, Ripley will close out her Ripley is one of three Marines enrolled at Frost, along with senior year by playing one of the female leads, Aunt Eller, in the junior Krystine Smith (see page 18) and freshman Zackery Ring Theatre’s production of Oklahoma! and by performing two Gorman. The rapport among them as fellow Marines in a sea of of her original compositions at her senior recital. She will be the students is palpable. “We’re like blood brothers,” Ripley says. first in her family to graduate from college. “I could sense one from across the room.” “They’ve never seen this side of me, as a musician,” she Ripley affirms that the choice to study music became says of the family and friends who will attend her performances. clear after being so immersed in war. “When someone takes “It will be cool for them to see that this is what I do.”

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 19 } Pitch Perfect

Patricia Louise Frost Music Studios Lifts Frost School to Noteworthy Heights

UM trustee Dr. Phillip Frost and wife Patricia Frost welcome guests from the podium at the official dedication ceremony for the new Patricia Louise Frost Music Studios. Jenny Abreu

{ 20 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 The 41,089- square-foot complex, which includes 77 chamber music and teaching studios, will unite the Frost School’s 770 students and 125 faculty tudio “like never

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Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 21 } UM Dedicates The complex is part of UM’s Momentum2 campaign and is made Patricia Louise Frost possible by the benefactors, Phillip Music Studios By Robert C. Jones and Patricia Frost, whose landmark gift back in 2003 renamed UM’s soprano whose voice daz- Patricia Louise Frost Music Studios, music school in their honor. The stu- zled Metropolitan Opera a 41,089-square-foot twin-building dios honor Patricia Frost’s lifelong A judges at a recent major complex that will unite the school’s commitment to music education as competition, Ana Collado has had 770 students and 125 faculty “like an elementary school principal and her share of memorable rehearsals at never before,” said Berg. higher education advocate. the Frost School of Music, but none “There’s no question this is going “The Frosts care deeply about quite like the session she recently to have a huge impact,” Berg said of producing and driving excellence experienced. the new facility. “A lot of our faculty wherever they go,” said UM Board of “I felt free,” said the UM vocal were teaching in practice rooms in- Trustees Chairman Stuart A. Miller. performance major. “I could sing stead of real teaching studios. Now, without feeling like I had to push to they have the best teaching studios hear my sound come back.” in the country.” Credit the acoustics and sound- Among the features: 77 chamber proofing of the Frost School’s new music and teaching studios, two state-of-the-art teaching studios extra large studios, a reception and for her freedom. With indepen- information center, and a furnished dent walls, floors, and ceilings, each breezeway. Designed by award- studio is, according to Dean Shelly winning architects Yann Weymouth Berg, a “floating box within a box,” and HOK and built by Skanska allowing students to practice and USA, the facility is touted as the learn without having to hear the first building project in Coral Gables “Today is indeed pitch perfect percussionist, brass, or string artist designed to achieve LEED Plati- and beautifully orchestrated,” UM practicing next door. num certification, with sustainable President Donna E. Shalala said, Recently, on a cool South Florida features such as energy-efficient shown seated above right, with day, hundreds of music lovers got windows, rooftop solar panels, and Patricia Frost, left. “Our students a firsthand look at those high-tech cisterns that reduce water and elec- now have the state-of-the-art stu- rooms when UM dedicated its new tricity usage. dios they need to truly blossom as musicians.” Also supporting the construction are lead donors, Lynda and Michael Gordon; the late Estelle F. and Emil J. Gould; the late Jay W. Jensen; Laura and Michael Lazarus; The Sarin Family; and Skanska USA. The University also recognizes the generosity of UM patrons, faculty, retired faculty, parents, and alumni who also donated and named spaces

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{ 22 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Bassoonist Julia Paine, a Stamps the new buildings, making it the “The sounds that are produced Distinguished Ensemble Scholar first time they have all been under are more realistic,” she said. “I no and member of the Stamps Wood- one roof. In past years, they were longer hear all the music, however wind Quintet, was impressed with scattered as far away as the Pentland wonderful it may have been, being the improved quality of sound and House on Dickinson Drive and in produced in the neighboring studios. the larger space after her first lesson. another building on Brescia Avenue. Now, I can give my full attention to “The previous studio I worked in They are now admittedly ecstatic my students.” was carpeted, and the sound was about being together in one place Carlos Rivera, who teaches in the absorbed by the floor,” she explained. and forming new partnerships as a Creative American Music Program, “These new studios are all wood result of their newfound closeness. did not even have an office before floored and provide enough space “I enjoyed my office in Pentland, the Frost Music Studios opened. He so if you are running through a but it was isolated,” said Dorothy used one of the on-campus Starbucks piece with a pianist, you can make Hindman, B.M. ’88, D.M.A ’94, to meet with students. Now, he is in eye contact or simply see the other assistant professor of theory and the Skanska Multipurpose Room person’s body movement. This is huge because it makes rehearsal much more efficient, as you can rely on your eyes and ears.” Stamps Scholar Sarah Huesman, who started playing the cello when she was 6, is thrilled about its open- ing “because I have the next four years ahead of me to improve my musical skills in this beautiful new building,” she said. Huesman and other students composition. “I am now surrounded which doubles as an office who have years of Frost School by my colleagues, and seeing them and teaching studio with instruction ahead of them are casually is a huge boost to my sense rehearsal space and record- among the first to be immersed in of collegiality. I have an energizing ing and mixing capabilities. the school’s new Experiential Music space where I can teach my students He admits that he welled Curriculum built around chamber and see them similarly energized. The up the first time he walked music. “Rather than sitting in large space is large enough that I can teach into his new digs. lectures talking about the various small seminars of up to six students, “I really did get emo- things they’ll need to be able to do as which is hugely beneficial to the tional,” he said. “It hit me a musicians—composing, arrang- graduate student courses I teach.” that this was going to be ing, improvising—they’re placed in Rafael M. Padron, M.M. ’06, my space to work in, and small groups that are essentially little who teaches classical guitar, a deli- it’s a big one, and we’ll be laboratories for doing all of those cate instrument, said his students able to have real classes… things,” said Berg, adding that the will benefit immensely from the and not have to worry Frost School’s new curriculum will studios’ acoustics and ability to mini- about sound from another be “fully realized” now that the Frost mize external noise. room bleeding into our Music Studios have opened. Associate Professor Trudy Kane studio.” “I’m going to walk though this teaches another delicate instru- Steven Moore, the building for the rest of my time as ment—flute—that requires her stu- Frost School’s associate dean for dean and see students in the space dents not be affected by surrounding undergraduate studies, concluded: they deserve,” said Berg. noise during practice sessions. She “Now, the music school of the future The music faculty have all moved called the new studios’ acoustics and will have a building of the future that into their teaching studios inside soundproofing “fabulous.” is in harmony with its mission.”

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After decades at the Eastman School of Music, Charles Castleman brings his youthful spirit, scholarly acumen, and distinct creativity to the Frost School’s violin program.

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“I have very composition assignments into piano Catholic interests, lessons. To this day, I think like a but am I an Irish pianist in terms of sound, harmonic fiddler?” Castleman progression and even fingering. And, poses. “No, but if you thanks to her training, I composed ask, ‘Have you played and performed my first opuses at with the Chieftains?’ I age 5.” can say yes. If you ask, Moving on to study violin with ‘Are you a country Gladys’ husband, Emanuel Ondricek, fiddler?’ I’d have to disappoint you, was equally eye opening. “Emanuel’s alking to Charles Castleman—​ however on a recital tour in Japan, I brother, Franticek, had been Sevcik’s >>>> a multifaceted musician, went to a Japanese country bar and teaching assistant and performed the Tconsummate violinist, joined in. Frost presents me with premieres of not only Dvořák’s Trios renowned pedagogue, and Renais- the enviable opportunity to de- but the Dvořák Violin Concerto. sance man—is like looking through a velop my non-classical music skills. Emanuel was the man who pointed kaleidoscope: Layers of conversation Shelly Berg could teach me impro- me in the direction of creating unfold at breakneck speed in symme- visation, and we could help one my atonal palette based firmly on try. A conversation that begins with another through ongoing knowledge principles emanating directly from the nuts and bolts of music pedagogy exchanges.” 19th century sources. Ondricek did slides into countermelodies in Bach, not have the name but was much the theory of relativity, and the simple Prodigious Pedigree more important to me than the pleasures of bicycling to work. Castleman attributes his good for- world-famous [Ivan] Galamian, my At 73 years young, Castleman tune to being born into a family in subsequent teacher at Curtis.” has reached the pinnacle of inter­ which “music was pervasive but not At the age of 10, Castleman per- national music competitions, professional; neither of my parents formed on national television with performed in virtually every impor- played an instrument, an absolutely Jack Benny on the Frank Sinatra tant concert hall worldwide, and wonderful situation because there Show. He quickly became a stage mentored generations of musicians was no pressure to perform.” But personality of note, appearing with during 40 remarkable years at the indeed he did perform, starting the likes of Jackie Gleason, Lillian Eastman School of Music. Blessed at the age of 4 at the MacDowell Gish, and Eli Wallach and even per- with boundless energy, he punctu- Artist Colony in New Hampshire. formed as a last-minute substitute ates articulate prose with witty At age 2 his musical acumen was for Fritz Kreisler. aphorisms. More apt to espouse his identified when he sang some of students’ successes than dwell on his his favorite melodies for conduc- own achievements, he demonstrates tor Arthur Fiedler, whom he met that greatness and humility can walk backstage after a Boston Pops hand in hand. concert. Fiedler advised him to While most people with his list study piano, to learn harmony as of accomplishments would begin well as violin. trading in the workplace for the “Gladys Ondricek was a stu- fireplace, Castleman can hardly wait dent of a student of Franz Liszt,” to embark on his next life adven- Castleman says, describing his first ture: professor of violin at the Frost piano instructor with particular School of Music. Its Experiential reverence. “Can you imagine a Music Curriculum and commitment woman who was astute enough to innovation appeal to the man who to open up the world of harmony has always marched to a different to a preschooler? She lived and outube drummer. breathed harmony and integrated Y

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 25 } “The great Kreisler was turning musical tradition that has been with So I did. The couple turned out to be 80, a milestone to be celebrated us since time immemorial.” Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, and they with interviews and music. By that Graduating high school at the started talking to me right after I time, however, Kreisler was quite age of 15, Castleman spent several played. Music always opens doors.” deaf and could not play,” Castleman years at top-flight institutions recalls. “I was called in to take Harvard and the Curtis Institute Profound Sixth Sense over, a young man of 14 stepping of Music. Harvard helped hone Opening doors for others has been a into very large shoes! Reportedly, his penchant for literary analysis reoccurring theme in the Castleman he liked my performance and was and broadened his intellectual story. Whether helping thousands exceedingly complimentary. Yet horizons, while Curtis opened the of students to find their inner voice, considering the fact that he was doors to more high-level chamber develop it, and take it to every con- deaf, I am not sure how those com- music. ceivable world destination, or men- pliments should be taken!” “I was a teenager placed into a toring the masses in chamber music Beyond the many extraordinary string quartet with Michael Tree, a programs, the name Castleman solo opportunities that continue to violinist at the time (later the famed is synonymous with learning and fill Castleman’s agenda, it is cham- violist in the Guarneri Quartet), renewal. The Castleman Quartet ber music and collaborative music and violist Karen Tuttle, who were Program, known far and wide as making that has been his both approaching 30. It was a The Quartet Program, has been the lifeblood, initially sparked fantastic experience that extended leading collaborative music program by violist Eugene Lehner. far beyond the music: Karen and I in the United States for decades. A chamber musician of were often trading observations on A list of the program’s participants impeccable pedigree, Lehner Virginia Woolf.” over the past 46 years would fill the was a protégé of Hungary’s Humorous musical interactions pages of a mini-encyclopedia. Mod- leading pedagogues in occurred in those formative years eled on sound nonprofit principals, violin and composition, Jenő too, like the time the teenage Castle- Castleman is proud of the fact that Hubay and Zoltan Kodály. man was headed on a slow moving the program has reaped success not “Frost presents me with the enviable opportunity to develop my non-classical music skills.” >>>>>>>

He had played in three Amtrak train to a violin lesson with only in terms of music but has been renowned quartets (Kolisch, Ivan Galamian. able to self-finance for decades, an Stradivarius, and Boston “My violin was by my side, and I enviable track record in the classical Fine Arts), and opened his noticed that the hippie couple sitting music field. doors in his adopted home, directly across from me had instru- According to its ever-enthusiastic Boston, to chamber music ments with them. They clearly did founder, “I make all my decisions as aficionados. Castleman was treated not want to interact and avoided any to who plays with whom in quartets to regular sessions there in his attempt at pleasantries. Back in those on pure intuition. More often than youth, reveling in the combination of days, Amtrak was more apt than not not, I have never actually seen the music and camaraderie. to stop inadvertently. The inevitable players before they are accepted. I “Age has never been a factor in happened, and the train came to a listen carefully to their recorded ma- music making,” Castleman says. “A halt. After a few minutes, another terials and gain awareness, intuit the boy is always welcome to commune passenger bellowed, ‘Why don’t you groups. It always seems to work!” with septuagenarians, carrying on a play your violin to pass the time?’ Intuition is the hallmark of

{ 26 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Charles Castleman coaches undergraduate violinist Gabriela Spampinato in the new Patricia Louis Frost Music Studios.

Castleman’s esteem in the four pin- of all ages leads to a consensus of nacles of performing, teaching, re- informed opinion and outpourings cording, and collaborating—coupled of admiration. Descriptions such with his penchant for multi-level as “free thinking based on limitless analysis. Turning to one of his be- information,” “loyalty to the highest loved scores, the Bach Chaconne, an principles of beauty, justice, and extraordinarily complex piece of solo truth,” and “a world of inspiration in music where 34 variations are spun one man” abound. Former student from a four-bar phrase, Castleman Scott Flavin, who has been on the illustrates just how he incorporates Frost faculty for decades and is those all-important early learning concertmaster of the Florida Grand experiences into his own teaching. Opera Orchestra and resident con- “One of my many crusades is to ductor of the Frost School’s Henry encourage students to play the first Mancini Institute Orchestra, is one variation in the Chaconne of Castleman’s most ardent fans. without the anachronistic “I’m so very excited to have Charlie the theory of relativity: “Physics was up-and-down, heavy- at Frost!” he exclaimed. “Having the provenance of my father, thus I handed, accented ap- studied with him, I know of his stayed clear of it for many years, but proach. Violinists attempt dedication, his encyclopedic knowl- now I cannot believe how wonderful >>>>>>> to bring out the counter- edge of the violin, and his caring as it is to be able not only to under- melody by opting for that a teacher. Now that I’m getting to stand the theory of relativity but to up-down approach, but know him as a colleague, I’m even know I will be able to explain it to if they studied the harmony Bach more impressed with the excellence my students.” wrote rather than focusing on the he’s bringing to our school. Charles The explanation will have to wait melody, they would discover that the Castleman represents the highest for now, as Charles Castleman is countermelody appears only twice in level of musicianship and pedagogy about to take to the road to play a the entire piece: the musical import found anywhere.” series of solo recitals across America. rests elsewhere. Furthermore, Bach Castleman, the man of unstop- His choice of music speaks volumes: was an accomplished enough violin- pable joy in learning, cites salient Bach, Ysaÿe, Piazzolla, compositions ist to know how to write for the in- quotes from one of many go-to and styles that reach across the cen- strument, and the Baroque bow [the books, Space, Time and the Beauty turies, the cultures, the vernaculars. German/Italian violin bow used in That Causes Havoc, a comparative Without missing a step, without the 17th-early 19th centuries], the biography of Einstein and Picasso losing speed, he continues to gain tool of trade at the time, could not by Arthur I. Miller. Castleman insight and experiences—an incred- have played chords in this manner.” is gleeful as he reports that the ible journey that will now include Querying Castleman’s students physicist’s son finally understands the Frost School of Music.

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 27 } The Comprimarioof a n Op er p olit T he Metro wlings, wlings, Ke v in Ra Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s multi-Grammy-and-Emmy-winning, Guinness World Record holder John Easterlin transforming his way into another supersized role as a captivating musical theater and international opera performer.

By Julia D. Berg Bebreda of El Mundo in a review of Easterlin’s performance as The Shabby Peasant in Shostakovich’s hile meeting with char- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Teatro acter tenor John Easterlin, B.M. ’84, Real in Madrid. at a café near Lincoln Center in New When Easterlin was cast as The York on a rare day off, the mild- Magician in a Glimmerglass produc- mannered Miami native seems a far tion of Menotti’s The Consul, he cry from his larger-than-life roles took character preparation to a new as the arrogant Adolfo Pirelli in level. He learned and incorporated Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, the lustful 54 David Copperfield-level magic Monostatos in Mozart’s The Magic tricks, garnered a Guinness World Flute, and the colorful Andy Warhol Record for the most magic in an in Philip Glass’s The Perfect American, opera production, and was inducted John Easterlin made a role he premiered to critical acclaim into the professional magicians’ his Houston Grand at English National Opera. Circle of Magic. Opera debut this Hailed for his work in “com- Anthony Tommasini of The New year as Goro in primario,” or supporting roles, the York Times said, “John Easterlin as Madame Butterfly amiable Easterlin traces much of his The Magician delivered a show- and returns to singing success to the early 1980s stopping performance. A gleaming San Francisco with the UM Chamber Singers tenor voice, which never varied as in fall 2015 for under the direction of late music he performed an unending array an appearance professor Lee “Doc” Kjelson. of world class tricks and illusions, in Sweeney Todd. “Vocal versatility was manda- Easterlin should be the go-to person Last season he tory,” Easterlin recalls. “Doc insisted for this role.” performed as his students adopt the motto ‘We Larry King in the do it all, we do it well.’ We had to Under the U.S. premiere of learn how to produce completely Fingernails of Anna Nicole for different sounds with our voices. a Character New York City We performed every style from John Easterlin’s interest in the Opera, and as madrigal to pop, rock to jazz. We theatrical world started at age 5, Andres in Wozzeck not only performed, but we did all when Met opera star Joy Clements, at Covent Garden of the marketing, publicity, set de- ’56, took the young boy to a Greater in London. sign, scenery, load in and load out. Miami Opera dress We produced the show.” rehearsal of Hansel and In the process, Easterlin dis- Gretel. (Clements had covered he had a knack for selling studied voice at UM, advertising to local businesses, which where she was a best helped pay for the group’s choral friend of Easterlin’s tours. He adds, “Doc always said, mother, Virginia.) ‘We’re in the business of music, and “In the second act, our focus is to entertain. It’s called she took me backstage show business, not show play.’ ” to see the stagecraft, Today Easterlin traverses the and how the witch world performing in major venues flew,” says Easterlin, and productions. “It’s like watch- who now regularly ing a great film actor who is also a plays the witch as a world class opera singer,” said Marco character tenor role.

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 29 } The Easterlin fam- Fox-TV, then at A&E. He enjoyed ily, which also included it but sometimes wondered, “What a younger sibling Janet, would happen if I moved to New moved to Richmond, York and tried a career in theater?” Mississippi when father Six years later he was asked one Merrill Easterlin, a Sunday to sub as a soloist at church. commercial realtor, “Out came a voice way beyond “had a mid-life calling college!” He subsequently sang for to the ministry” and friends at a dinner party where became a preacher in Robert Wright and George Forrest, a nearby church. John composers of “Stranger in Paradise” Easterlin took elocu- were in attendance. They strongly tion lessons with a local encouraged him to consider turning teacher, Lola Barrett, pro. Easterlin called a Chamber who discovered he had Singers chum, Steve Mitchell, B.M. the ability to pick up ’85, now a church music director in

ny n a di Op er C o mpa Mich a el C oo p er, Ca dialects easily. Hartford, Connecticut, for advice. By age seven, puppetry had “She introduced me to a book, “What’s holding you back?” asked become his passion. “It was my very Life Studies by Tom Powers, which his friend. “What’s the worst thing first creative outlet. My parents contained published radio mono- that could happen? Once you know bought me an FAO Schwartz pup- logues depicting various regional the answer, you’ll be ready to go.” pet stage with eight hand puppets: a dialects of the United States,” recalls Easterlin realized his worst fear hillbilly, old maid, princess, alligator, Easterlin, who entered and won a was that nothing would happen, and dog, clown, and so on. After two local, regional, then national talent decided he had nothing to lose. “I months of doing shows in my garage, show as one of the Tom Powers bought a one-way airline ticket on I started charging admission.” characters. “It was Mrs. Barrett’s love Delta that departed at 10:10 a.m. on When he was 10, he presented of language, her love of a character, Saturday, September 15, 1990.” a series of puppet shows for the that helped me ‘get under the fin- While he was making the audi- children’s ward at Baptist Hospital. gernails’ of a character.” Because for tion rounds in New York, he discov- His kindness came to the attention radio monologues, the vocal has to ered he had a countertenor exten- of Miami Herald writer and senior evoke an entire character, you can’t sion, meaning he could sing higher editor Jean Wardlow, who featured see the character.” than most tenors. He landed a part him in a front-page story titled “The The family returned to Miami as radio gossip columnist Mary Spirit of Christmas” on Christmas during Easterlin’s high school years. Sunshine in the musical Chicago. It Day. He eventually amassed 400 When he completed his studies at earned Easterlin rave reviews and a puppets and a large stage, which he UM Frost, Easterlin recalls several quick succession of bookings. now keeps in cold storage and visits joyful months singing and touring His debut at The Metropoli- from time to time. “They’re doing with the professional choral ensem- tan Opera came 14 years later, in fine,” he reassures. ble Fred Waring and The Pennsyl- a production of Richard Strauss’s “My parents supported my cre- vanians, who were “huge, huge, huge Salome. He’s also appeared on PBS’s ativity. I tried many different things. in their day.” Unexpectedly Waring Great Performances and Live from If something didn’t work out, they passed away that late July. Needing Lincoln Center, as well as a telecast, would never make me feel like a fail- a way to support himself quickly, CD and DVD of Los Angeles Op- ure or stupid, they’d just ask, ‘What Easterlin moved back to Miami and era’s acclaimed production of Kurt else do you want to try?’ ” landed a job as an advertising exec at Weill’s The Rise and Fall of the City

{ 30 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 “We’re in the business of music, and our focus is to entertain. It’s called show business, not show play.”

John Easterlin, center, as Andy Warhol in the opera The Perfect American by Philip Glass. tion a l Op er ith, E nglish Na R ich a rd Sm ith,

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 31 } of Mahagonny, for which he received viewed Warhol’s brother and friends, television special…I have the original 2008 Emmy and Peabody Awards, and studied hundreds of still photos orchestration, and every single time I and two 2009 Grammy Awards for and video of the enigmatic man. sing it, audiences are on their feet and Opera Recording of the Year and “I painstakingly stood in front of in tears when I’m done. It taps into Classical Album of the Year. a mirror to figure out his gestures, something core, the song transports from his pinky to his neck,” Easterlin me, lifts me out of myself.” People Person says. “The wan look. I dialed it all Easterlin ends the interview Adapts to the Road down to the bare essence.” saying, “The School of Music is a big As much as Easterlin is drawn to the During the show’s run Easter- part of who I am. I want to pass it smell of the greasepaint and the roar lin went to the gym every day, “to forward. I’d like to come back and of the crowd, he quietly shares that exercise, sit in the steam room and talk practically to singers, and to the hardest part of life on the road sauna to sweat and drain every drop perform on the Gusman stage again.” is “the loneliness factor.” Staging and of water weight from my body” in He’s getting his wish at Festival blocking a new opera production can order to fit into a body suit that was Miami 2015, accompanied by take three or four weeks, and singers part of the costuming. pianist Michael Cirker, along with often end up rehearsing the music To bring some balance into his Frost School of Music students and for only a few hours a day. He re- touring schedule, Easterlin recently faculty. flects, “I’m a family person, a people developed a solo show entitled, What person. I find it hard to be by myself; a Character: John Easterlin, which Alumni interested in performing I’m always eager to meet people.” he enjoys tremendously. “I love to at Festival Miami in future years Easterlin busies himself on the sing in the ‘pops’ format in concert may submit an online proposal at: road with focused study about his work. I love John Williams, especially www.festivalmiami.com. Alumni characters. When preparing for the the piece he wrote with Alan and interested in attending Festival Miami role of Andy Warhol, for example, Marilyn Bergman, “If We Were in can receive a discount promo code for he read seven books, watched five Love,” which I first heard Pavarotti select concerts by emailing fmtickets@ documentaries, personally inter- perform on a Barbara Walters miami.edu.

John Easterlin as talk show host Larry King in New York City Opera’s American premiere of the opera Anna Nicole, by Mark-Anthony Turnage. ap hy te p h a nie B erger Photogr S

{ 32 } “You Have hile John Easterlin, B.M. ’84, to be able to make a career and a living with our voices. In my to Wshared his insight on the art of experience, most every singer starts out wanting to be a ‘star’ character roles, Score asked other Frost or leading singer. There are many jobs in opera, but not so Jump School alumni and faculty members to many stars. If a singer has the ability to make it on the inter- Right chime in. Here’s what they said. national opera circuit, the singer usually will start out singing In” “It takes a good actor to play the supporting roles, though not necessarily what is considered to comprimario roles,” states Tony Boutté, be ‘character’ parts. Some go on to bigger parts, some drop out, assistant professor of voice at the Frost and some find the path of being a character singer.” School of Music, a renowned tenor who also premieres new Sarita Rachelle Lilly, M.M. ’01, performed as Sister Rose in roles frequently. “When you step on stage, you have to imme- the New England premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking diately connect. When you play the lead, you can pace yourself. and for an extended run as The Strawberry Woman in both the You have a certain energy, and journey, onstage. But for charac- Tony Award-winning Broadway production and the First National ter roles, you have to jump right in.” Tour of The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess. She enjoys the musical Recent grad, tenor Justin John Moniz, M.M. ’13, performed theater environment because it “promotes collaborative artistry in numerous Frost Opera Theater productions while a student at immediately, even from the learning stage.” She adds, “The Frost. He landed his first professional gig right after graduation, tour life gave me a chance to focus on one thing consistently for nine months. That included creating friendships that are life lasting. We cre- Justin Nam on Justin ated history together.” Like Easterlin, Lilly and Boutté also reflect upon the loneliness factor of being on the road, as well as other discomforts. Lilly suggests, “I think loneliness can become a factor on the road because you aren’t always plugged into a home Justin John Moniz Sarita Rachelle Lilly routine. Things are constantly changing so you have to adjust to something new, cast in dual roles as Cinderella’s Prince, as well as The Wolf, different, or strange almost weekly. Some travel days meant in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods at the Adrienne Arsht that you were on a bus for 8+ hours with no WI-FI or electrical Center in Miami. outlets, while others included nail-biting moments praying your “These roles are traditionally played by the same actor, luggage wasn’t over the 50-pound limit.” which is quite clever,” Moniz shares. “Both characters parallel Boutté shares that for some singers, the longing for a more one another, continually encouraging those they encounter to regular home life leads them to choose to do more concert or stray from the path, later leading each to question their own oratorio work, which tend to be three- or four-day run-outs, morality and ideals.” He says his training at Frost “assisted my rather than longer operas. “It’s less glamorous,” says Boutté, facility and flexibility, allowing me to tackle each of these roles “but suits some singers better.” with confidence and ease.” Despite its challenges, Lilly advises aspiring singers to “Character parts are most often associated with tenors, but “Never stop learning or dreaming beyond where you are pres- sometimes with mezzo-sopranos,” explains Assistant Professor ently. Limitations are always present but you don’t have to take Robynne Redmon, who performed recently as Madame Larina notice of every one of them. Once you have finished your degree, in Eugene Onegin with Arizona Opera and has performed at The take time to fall in love with your artistry again. It’s surprising Met and other major opera companies for decades. “I guide how critical and comparative we become in academia. Musicol- and advise my students to go in a direction that I think will ogy proves that you have to embrace your own contribution to most likely lead to their ability to get a J - O - B. The goal is art even while paying homage to those who came before you.”

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 33 } County audito- riums. Patrons enjoyed a steady Match stream of guest Made at artists, includ- ing Sir Thomas Beecham, Eileen Farrell, Gregor UM Piatagorsky, Leonard Rose, Artur Rubin- Inspires stein, Beverly Music Scholarship Sills, Isaac Stern, and more. Herrold’s cello professor was Hermann Busch, whose lauded trio with violinist brother Adolf Busch and pianist Rudolf Serkin recorded By Julia D. Berg for Columbia Artists and co-founded the summer Freshman cellist Stephen G. Herrold, B.M. ’58, was Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. flat broke when he arrived at the University of Miami Enter freshman pianist and music education major campus from Huntington, West Virginia, but he had a Rebecca L. Munn, B.M. ’60, a striking brunette whose four-year scholarship in hand and a pocketful of dreams beauty and musical prowess were admired across campus. to hone his skills as a musician. It was 1954, the year the Herrold was standing by the drinking fountain outside Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public of the Volpe building, talking to violinist Goldye Naflulin schools was unconstitutional, Swanson introduced its Kopmar, B.M. ’60, who asked if he knew Becky Munn. first TV dinner, Elvis Presley recorded his first single, “Of course! Everybody knows Becky,” Steve replied. and the Fontainebleau Hotel opened on Miami Beach. “She’s the most beautiful girl on campus!” Back in those days, Herrold explains, “Everyone in Born in Warren, Pennsylvania, Munn started piano the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra was on lessons at age 5, later moving to Miami, where she lived a scholarship. The principals of the orchestra were all with her mother, a secretary for an insurance company. faculty, and the students and professionals filled in the The University of Miami awarded a full scholarship to other chairs.” one student from each local high school that year, and The orchestra was a cultural beacon with a nine- Munn was the recipient from Miami Jackson High weekend subscription series in Miami Beach and Dade School. She also received a music scholarship from WVCG, a classical music radio station. A few days later Herrold bumped into his friend again at the drinking fountain. This time Becky Munn was there, too, and introductions were made. The match sparked a romance. In 1957 Steve was awarded a seven-week summer scholarship to attend Marlboro. By the time he returned for his senior year at UM, political unrest was percolat- ing in nearby Cuba, trouble was brewing in faraway Vietnam, and the draft was ramping up again. “A friend had already received a draft number and told me that he joined the army reserve because he could put in six months and then get deferred for five and a half years,” says Herrold, who followed suit. Upon gradu-

{ 34 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Pictured opposite: Cellist Stephen Herrold, left, performs in the ating in 1958, he was stationed in Fort Benning, Georgia, University of Miami Symphony Orchestra, c. 1957. Pianist Rebecca and worked part-time in the USO office, where he heard Munn, at top, shines in an Ibis Yearbook portrait. about a symphony orchestra in nearby Columbus. Pictured below: Steve and Becky perform in a chamber music “I called the concertmaster, and auditioned that day… concert, and pose while on summer vacation. we played trios together,” Herrold says. “He offered me a job performing in the orchestra and teaching in the local schools. I wasn’t sure about teaching. He said, ‘If you like it, you’ll learn how to do it.’ So I learned, and I loved it!” Back in Miami, Munn began her student teaching and was named a finalist for the 1958 UM Homecom- ing Queen court, to be announced at the Homecoming Dance in November. Herrold’s superior officer wouldn’t grant him leave to attend the dance, so Becky went with a friend. When Herrold’s reserve duty wrapped up, the couple married. Munn joined him teaching music in Columbus, Georgia public schools and served as a church organist and choir director. She returned to UM in the summers have children. We spent the summers traveling. We to finish her remaining classes and graduated in 1960. played chamber music with friends. Our house value In 1961 the couple headed west, where music-teach- increased, we invested well, and we ended up with a nice ing jobs were plentiful thanks to the baby boom. Along nest egg. I owe everything to the University of Miami, the way he earned an M.M. from University of Colorado, so I am giving it all back. At some point, someone else at and she earned an M.A. from San Jose State University UM will benefit from us creating this scholarship fund.” and taught for five years at Oregon State University. Herrold plans to also donate his Testore cello to the She subsequently earned a D.M.A. from Stanford then school down the road. But for now, its strings are vibrat- joined the faculty at San Jose State University, where she ing with deep resonance as he plays chamber music with served as the head of Music Education for 25 years. She friends and keeps his wife’s memory alive through music. authored two textbooks, Mastering the Fundamentals As for the matchmaker, Goldye married a cantor and of Music and New Approaches to Elementary Classroom now lives in Ohio, still teaching privately in the Dayton Music. Herrold performed in the San Jose Symphony area. Bright and cheerful on the phone, she recounted Orchestra and top chamber music ensembles and her admiration for Steve and Becky. “We kept in touch continued teaching. He upgraded his cello to an antique over the years,” she says. “They truly loved each other. Testore, made in Italy circa 1750. They shared the same values, they cared about people, Through it all, the couple never forgot how their and they loved music. Music was the center of their life.” undergraduate music scholarships from the University of Miami helped prepare them for their careers. They returned to the UM campus two years ago and visited the drinking fountain where they met. They also shared with Dean Shelly Berg their plans to bequest their entire estate to endow a new Rebecca and Stephen Herrold Scholarship Fund for talented students at the Frost School of Music. The Herrolds played chamber music together virtu- ally every week of their 54-year marriage, until Becky’s passing last May at age 75. Steve returned to campus alone this spring and shared quietly, “Becky and I didn’t

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 35 } Faculty Updates Welcoming New Frost School Faculty

The Frost School of Music enthusiastically welcomes new award-winning faculty who are international exemplars in performance, music therapy, industry, and musicology. These outstanding experts amplify the school’s mission to inspire and educate highly talented and academically bright music scholars to become the next leaders of the professional world of music.

Charles Castleman, professor of violin in the Depart- has conducted master classes in all major cities of Europe, ment of Instrumental Performance, will begin teaching North America, Australia, China, and more. As one of full time at Frost beginning fall 2015; he was a visiting 16 Ford Foundation Concert Artists, he commissioned professor in 2014-2015. Castleman was professor of violin David Amram’s Violin Concerto, premiered with Leonard for four decades at the Eastman School of Music, where Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony. His discography he also served as a department chair for eight years. He includes the six solo sonatas by Ysaÿe, eight csardases is the founder and director of the prestigious Castleman for violin and orchestra by Jenő Hubay, and ten virtuoso Quartet Program, an intensive summer workshop in solo cameos by Pablo de Sarasate. Castleman earned degrees and chamber performance, now in its 46th year. A medal- from Harvard University, Curtis Institute of Music, and ist at both the International Tchaikovsky and Brussels the University of Pennsylvania. He plays the “Marquis de competitions, he has appeared as a featured soloist with Champeaux” Stradivarius and “Sammons” Goffriller from the orchestras of Philadelphia, Boston, Brisbane, Chi- 1708 and chooses from over 80 bows. cago, Hong Kong, Moscow, Mexico City, New York, San Last year he traveled to Australia, China and exten- Francisco, Seoul, and Shanghai. A beloved artist-teacher sively throughout North America to perform solo recit- with thousands of former students around the world, he als and conduct master classes at notable institutions.

Evelyne Brancart, visiting professor in the Depart- (Reflections on J.S. Bach),” plusChez Chopin, a live ment of Keyboard Performance is an acclaimed concert recording of Chopin’s 24 Études accompanied by original pianist, recording artist, and pedagogue. Brancart was cooking recipes, have earned respect worldwide. Brancart professor of piano at Indiana University in Bloomington was born in Belgium where she studied ten years with for 23 years and served as department chair for a decade. Eduardo del Pueyo and later with Maria Curcio, Leon Prior teaching positions include Rice University, Uni- Fleisher, and Menahem Pressler. She was a prizewinner versity of New Mexico, San Francisco Conservatory of in many competitions, including the Queen Elisabeth- Music, and Aspen Summer Music School, and summer Belgium, Montreal, Viotti (Italy), Munich, and the Gina teaching invitations at Chautauqua, the Dublin Interna- Bachauer International Piano Competition (USA). tional Piano Festival, and Music Fest Perugia. Brancart’s Brancart made her debut in Alice Tully Hall in 1982 conference presentations, “The Hand as a Source of and is an active chamber musician, having appeared with Inspiration” and “Deconstruction for Reconstruction Joshua Bell, Atar Arad, Jeremy Denk, and many others.

{ 36 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Jay C. Rees, professor of music and director of athletic in the book Marching Bands and Drumlines: Secrets of bands, leads the Frost Band of the Hour at UM events Success from the Best of the Best. Rees is an accomplished such as Miami Hurricanes football and basketball games jazz bassist with international touring credits and still and is expanding the band’s reach and reputation. He also actively performs. He has a large catalog of published conducts the Frost Symphonic Winds. Rees, B.M. ’84, original music for jazz, wind ensemble, concert bands, and Welcoming New was previously professor of music and director of athletic athletic bands, commissioned and performed by major bands at The University of Arizona in Tucson, where his universities and high schools nationwide. He also travels bands appeared on NBC’s Today Show and Fox Sports, as a clinician, guest speaker, adjudicator, and conductor for and were named top in the country by the prestigious band programs across the country. Rees is listed in Who’s Frost School Faculty College Band Directors National Association. Rees’s con- Who in America for the 21st Century as well as Who’s Who temporary arrangements and inventive drill design have Among America’s Teachers. He is a member of ASCAP, gained national presence, and he is referenced extensively The Recording Academy, and CBDNA.

Gary Wood, assistant professor of professional practice, for The Philadelphia Orchestra, which received national is director of the Arts Presenting and Live Entertain- recognition while under his direction for innovative ment Management program. He is also executive director programs designed to bring classical music throughout of the Pentangle Arts Council (PAC) in Woodstock, the community. A Minnesota native, Wood holds a B.S. Vermont. A 30-year veteran of arts education and admin- in music education and an M.M. in woodwind perfor- istration, he served previously as director of the Quick mance (clarinet) from the University of Minnesota; he Center of the Arts at Fairchild University in Virginia, also attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music. His executive director of Da Camera of Houston, and presi- published works include articles for Scholastic’s 2004 dent and CEO of the New Orleans Center for Creative New Book of Knowledge and several music activity book- Arts, Riverfront, overseeing the immediate recovery of lets, including The Planets: An Out-of-this-World View the campus after Hurricane Katrina, leading the school of Classical Music, and Imagination: Music & Art. Gary back to full operation. Earlier in his career, Wood served Wood is a frequent guest speaker and lecturer in schools, as director of education and community partnerships educational symposiums, and arts conferences.

Colby Leider Receives Phillip Frost Teaching Award Colby Leider, associate synthesis and spatialization, professor and director of the tuning systems, and alternate Music Engineering Technology controllers for music making. program at Frost, was awarded He has received grants from the 2014 Phillip Frost Award the National Science Founda- for Excellence in Teaching tion and many other notable and Scholarship. He and his organizations. He composes faculty team presently work music, builds musical instru- on more than $5 million in ments, and has received sponsored research. Leider is prizes and honors from the associate editor of Computer American Composers Forum Music Journal and works as a consultant in patent-infringement and the International Computer Music Association, to name a cases involving audio and new media technologies. His research few. He is the author of Digital Audio Workstation, published by interests include digital audio signal processing, sound McGraw-Hill.

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Kay Kemper, lecturer (harp) in the Department of music. An active freelance musician in South Florida, Instrumental Performance, has over 40 years of profes- she performs regularly with the Florida Grand Opera sional playing and teaching experience. Kemper has Orchestra, Palm Beach Opera Orchestra, Palm Beach appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony, Palm Beach Pops, and the Southwest Boston Pops, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Atlanta Florida Symphony in Ft. Myers, as well as private func- Symphony, and Orquesta Filarmonica de Caracas in tions throughout the region. She maintains a private Venezuela. She has participated in summer music teaching studio and has recently completed a four-year festivals at Interlochen, Tanglewood, Eastern Music term as president of the South Florida Chapter of the Festival, and the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival. American Harp Society. A graduate of the Cleveland A versatile performer, Kemper enjoys giving lecture Institute of Music, her teachers included Joan Harrison recitals, playing chamber music, and providing ambient Ceo, Lucile Lawrence, and Alice Chalifoux.

Kimberly Sena Moore, is an instructor in the Music Board for Music Therapists, where she is involved in Therapy program. Her clinical background includes state-level advocacy, legislative, and policy issues that working with children who have a history of complex impact music therapy practice. She co-hosts the online trauma, as well as children and adults with medical Music Therapy Round Table podcast and blogs at or neurorehabilitation needs. Her current clinical and “Your Musical Self ” for Psychology Today and Music research work centers on music therapy and emotion Therapy Maven. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, regulation development in neurodevelopmentally at- she founded and directed Neurosong Music Therapy risk children. Sena Moore has presented extensively Services, Inc., a private practice that provided music at regional, national, and international conferences. therapy and music instruction services in northern Her research has been published in the Journal of Colorado. Sena Moore has a B.M. in music therapy Music Therapy, Music Therapy Perspective, and Imagine, from the University of Iowa, an M.M. in music therapy and her work has been featured in Psychology Today, from Colorado State University, and is a candidate in Redbook, and CURE. Sena Moore currently serves the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at the University as regulatory affairs associate for the Certification of Missouri-Kansas City.

Gonzalo Rubalcaba, lecturer in the Department of teaching. His illustrious career has included recording Studio Music and Jazz, is a multi- Grammy- and Latin with his own groups for several major labels, including Grammy-winning Cuban jazz pianist and composer 11 albums for Blue Note, and also with jazz luminaries who began studying classical piano, and drums at age Ignacio Berroa, Ron Carter, Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, 8. He earned a degree in music composition from Ha- Charlie Haden, David Sanchez, and many more. He vana’s Institute of Fine Arts in l983 and played in clubs has been nominated twice for Billboard’s Latin Jazz and music halls in Havana. One of the most important Album of the Year. Rubalcaba continues to record and and virtuosic Afro-Cuban jazz pianists on the scene to- tour extensively in both jazz and classical settings, day, he first garnered international jazz attention when drawing inspiration from both his Afro-Cuban heritage Dizzy Gillespie discovered him in 1985. Soon after he and the world at large. He now produces and records began appearing regularly at major jazz festivals like for his own record label and production company, 5Pas- Montreux and Montreal. He emigrated to the United sion LLC. A solo piano album titled Fé (“Faith”) and States in 1993 and settled in South Florida in 1996. Latin fusion project XXI Century received outstanding Today he enjoys a balance of touring, recording, and reviews. Additional projects are in the works.

{ 38 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Carlos Abril, B.M. ’93, associate Metheney, and Savion Glover. Velvet Brown was visiting professor professor and Bejerano also played on the latest of tuba this year in the Department director of album release of bassist Armando of Instrumental Performance. She is Undergraduate Gola, also featuring Gonzalo professor of tuba and euphonium Music Education, Rubalcaba, Ludwig Afonso and at Pennsylvania State University and was a featured Jonathan Joseph, ’85. Duo Stephanie enjoys an active career as interna- presenter and and Saar premiered his piece for two tional soloist, chamber ensemble keynote speaker pianos Fantasia de Tres Mundos, performer, recording artist, conductor at conferences commissioned by Bacardi and the and orchestral player. and symposia in Dranoff International 2 Piano Juan Chattah, assistant professor of Suzhou, China and São Luís, Brazil. Foundation. music theory He also gave presentations at Chris Boardman, program director, and composi- conferences and workshops in Natal, Media Writing and Production; and tion, received a and Porto Alegre, Brazil; Ohio, assistant professor of professional Provost Research Missouri and Illinois. In the summer practice, hosted an online seminar Award for his he was also a visiting faculty called “The Vital Collaboration Be- research member at Northwestern Univer- tween Filmmakers, Film Composers contribution to sity’s Bienen School of Music and and Music Supervisors” as part of David Shire’s The traveled to Cuba as part of his work VizualNOW – a TV, film, web, music, Conversation: A on the College Music Society gaming, and mobile video creator Film Score Guide (Rowman & Cultural Attaché Committee; he and audience builder gathering in Littlefield). An additional collaboration gave a presentation on the state of July 2014. resulted in publication of “Transform- music education in Cuba upon his Tony Boutté, assistant professor of Vocal ing Musical Studies from Its Founda- return. Recently, Abril published a Performance, tions: A Manifesto for Progressive chapter in the book Promising was awarded a Change in the Undergraduate Practices in 21st Century Music second Preparation of Music Majors.” His Education (Oxford) and published consecutive chapter “Film Music as Embodiment,” his research study examining factors Provost Research in Embodied Cognition and Cinema impacting music programs around Award, for which (Leuven University Press), is a the country in the Journal of he recorded a pioneering study on the intersection of Research in Music Education (see solo CD of the film music and cognitive studies. Frost News, page 8). He sits on the songs of Chattah also presented at Music and editorial boards of numerous Gabriel Fauré at the Royal Academy the Moving Image at NYU, Music scholarly journals in North America, of Music in London with renowned Theory South East at the University of South America, and Europe. ​ pianists and Fauré scholars Roy South Florida, Society for Music Martin Bejerano, M.M. ’98, assistant Howat and Emily Kilpatrick; he also Theory, and the College Music Society professor, jazz performed a solo recital while in the where he serves as National Board piano, appeared U.K. featuring the early songs of Member for Music Theory. He is also a at Dizzy’s Club Benjamin Britten which included member of the Editorial Board of in New York City several world premieres. Boutté has Enseñar Música: Revista Panamericana with Roy Haynes had a busy year of recording, De Investigación, (Universidad Quartet, including roles for Thomas Sleeper’s Nacional de las Artes, Argentina). Dominican new opera, Einstein’s Inconsistency Tomas Cotik, D.M.A. ’13, lecturer, is a Republic Jazz (Albany Records), and sessions for a member of the Festival with new disc of the solo cantatas of Delray String Ignacio Berroa Quartet, and Festival Bousset with the Brandywine Quartet and Miami with steel-pan virtuoso Leon Baroque Ensemble. In early 2015, principal second Foster Thomas. This spring he Boutté appeared in the off-Broadway violinist at conducted a master class at Georgia production of More Between Heaven Florida Grand State University, and served as guest and Earth in New York, performed Opera and the artist/clinician at the Osceola All the lead role of Evangelist in Bach’s Palm Beach County Jazz Festival. Upcoming St. Matthew’s Passion for the Bach Symphony. In performances include Jacksonville Society Houston, and sang the title May 2015, the Delray String Quartet University and South Miami Dade role in Frost Opera Theater’s joins soprano Hila Plitmann to record Cultural Arts Center with his trio, and presentation and recording of The Danielpour’s Quartet no. 7 for soprano again with the Roy Haynes Quartet at Death of Webern by Michael and string quartet, a work specially Boston’s Scullers Jazz Club, and at Dellaira, conducted by Alan Johnson. commissioned for them. Cotik’s New York City’s Blue Note featuring Boutté has also launched New 2014-15 performing highlights Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, Pat American Voices (see page 11). include recitals in New York, Texas,

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North Carolina, California and Florida, invited book chapters in press, addition, he performed as principal and a series of concerts with pianist including “Music therapy: Processes cello with the Miami City Ballet, Tao Lin, M.M. ’98. Centaur Records will of music therapy – clinical and Florida Grand Opera, Mozarteum soon release Cotik/Lin Duo’s second scientific rationales and models” for Orchestra, and Miami Bach Society. installment of Schubert’s complete the new edition of The Oxford He appeared on numerous concerts works for violin and piano, as well as Handbook of Music Psychology; as with the Deering Estate Chamber four albums of Mozart’s complete well as “Pre-experimental designs – Players and Bergonzi String Quartet. sonatas for violin and piano, and Static group comparison” in the third Last summer, he taught and per- Cotik’s debut solo violin CD. edition of Music Therapy Research. formed at the Orfeo Music Festival in Dorothy Hindman, B.M. ’88, D.M.A. ’94, She also has one research article in Vipiteno, Italy. assistant press, “Self-regulation and infant- Carol Kaminsky, lecturer in the dance professor of directed singing in infants with down program and board-certified dance/ composition; syndrome” with the peer-reviewed movement therapist, attended the Svet Stoyanov, Journal of Music Therapy. The project 2014 Summer Session hosted by the assistant was funded by a Max Orovitz Summer Association for Contemplative Mind professor and Award in the Arts and Humanities and in Higher Education. Collaborating program a General Research Support Award, with professors from universities director of as granted by the University of Miami across the United States, she cho- Percussion; and Research Council. reographed a contemplative dance Naoko Takao, assistant professor of Scott Flavin, lecturer, violin, and and music piece called Interiority. In keyboard pedagogy, were also UM resident June, Kaminsky was awarded a grant Provost Research Award recipients. conductor of from the National Parkinson Founda- Don D. Coffman, professor and chair of The Henry tion to lead “Dance and Theater the Department Mancini Institute Class for People with Parkinson’s,” a of Music Orchestra, had a local weekly class designed to help Education and year of exciting people with Parkinson’s disease Music Therapy, activities, maintain voice and movement gave presenta- including functioning. tions in July 2014 performances Karen Kennedy, associate professor and for the biannual with Itzhak Perlman, Andrea Bocelli, program meeting of the and Joseph Silverstein, among others. director of International As music director of the Miami Choral Studies, Society for Music Education (ISME) Mozarteum, he received accolades took choral and for the ISME Community Music for his “clarity and definition” from the students on a Activities Commission seminar in Miami Herald. Flavin also maintains very successful Brazil. He was a keynote speaker at busy performance schedules with the tour to England the Suncoast Music Education Bergonzi String Quartet and PULSE and Scotland last Research Symposium in Tampa in Trio. In addition, he and wife Margaret summer, singing February 2015, speaking on lifelong Donaghue Flavin, associate professor in venues such as the Canterbury learning in music. of clarinet and program director of Cathedral, and was interviewed on Shannon de l’Etoile, professor of music Woodwinds, inaugurated a new music the BBC. In addition to conducting therapy and festival in Georgia, the Blue Ridge multiple choral concerts with the Frost associate dean Chamber Music Festival, which Chorale and other ensembles for graduate featured performances by the throughout the year, this spring she studies, Bergonzi String Quartet and soprano lead students from the choral program presented the Jana Young. to Carnegie Hall for a performance of research project Ross Harbaugh is the newly appointed Duruflé’s Requiem. “Infant Response chair of the Rachel Lebon, Ph.D. ’86, professor of jazz to Auditory Department of vocal performance, was a contribu- Rhythm” at the Instrumental tor for two TC Helicon publications annual meeting of the American Performance, as The Ultimate Guide To Singing: Gigs, Music Therapy Association; the well as director Sound, Money, and Health, and Con- project is funded by the Grammy of the String tributions from over 100 Singing Stars, Foundation Grant Program (see Score Program at the Producers, Engineers, Coaches, Doc- 2014). De l’Etoile published a chapter Frost School. He tors, Agents, Managers, and Social Me- on “Associative Mood and Memory performed dia Gurus. In October, Lebon served Training” in the Handbook of Neuro- Dvoˇrák’s Cello Concerto in B minor as vocal pedagogue in residence for logic Music Therapy (Oxford Univer- with the Frost Symphony Orchestra, Voice Council Magazine, writing arti- sity Press) and also has two other under the direction of Gary Green. In cles and evaluating submissions from

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Exploring an Unfolding Universe Throughout his 22 years on the Frost School “Professor Green wanted not just any of Music faculty as director of bands, Professor Gary crystal glasses, but high quality ones that Green became known for championing, commissioning could be tuned to just the correct pitches and premiering new music for wind band, now widely in the correct octave,” Crochett says. “It was considered the most prominent literature in the field. He the beginning of my understanding that has also mentored scores of talented graduate students. there is no detail too small when it comes “I was driven by a need to do something I believed in to realizing the composer’s intent in the to inspire my students,” Green reflects as he nears retire- repertoire performed by our ensembles.” ment in May. Green grew up in a small Oklahoma Inspire them, he did. More than 1,100 UM students town. His early musical interests were performed in his ensembles, and many are now fac- stirred by Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and ulty members at other distinguished music programs. reinforced by the “unbridled love that the Numerous grateful alumni traveled to Miami for Green’s musicians in my rural community had for retirement concert on April 26 where he conducted the performing gospel and country songs in world premieres of new works by Mason Bates, Michael their homes, the campgrounds, and revival meetings. It Beloved conductor Colgrass, David Maslanka, and Thomas Sleeper. was really blazing!” and professor “Gary Green’s commitment to great music, art, joy, In high school Green studied under the All-State Gary Green retires and life is what inspires me still,” effuses Dan Belongia, baton of Melvin Lee, who also played French horn in the from UM Frost after B.M. ’96, M.M. ’04, associate professor of music at Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Green served as director making an indelible Illinois State University. “He is an icon in our field, rec- of bands at University High School in Spokane, Wash- imprint on countless ognized for not only his musical excellence but his world ington, and at the University of Connecticut before com- students, alumni, class humanity.” ing to UM, where he brought the wind bands program composers and “I will never forget sitting in Gary Green’s wind to prominence and solidified his iconic reputation. colleagues. ensemble and feeling a musical phrase for the first time,” “I’ve known Gary for over 30 years. Everywhere Gary says Brian Balmages, M.M. ’00, composer and director has been, he has left that place better than it was when of instru­mental publications at The he arrived,” says Michael Mann, FJH Music Company. “This is prob- “He is an icon in our field, M.M. ’82, director of the Frost Band ably the single greatest gift he gave of the Hour from 1990 to 2000. me. I thought I knew what it meant recognized for not only his Green is approaching his retire- to be musical, but once Green un- musical excellence but his ment as if he were inaugurating a locked that door, I realized that most world class humanity.” new musical score—with focus on of my previous musical experiences transformation, reinvention, and were more choreographed than from the soul.” maintaining an open heart and mind. He waxes philo- Helping students tap into the soul of music is Green’s sophical about a line from the poem “Desiderata,” re- specialty, as is his commitment to the virtues of each com- minding him that in time of reinvention, “whether or not position. Lorie S. Crochett, M.M. ’97, Ph.D. ’06, director it’s clear to you, the universe is unfolding as it should.” of bands at Winthrop University, recalls her first assign- His future goals include time with his wife, Peggy, ment as Green’s doctoral assistant: Find the crystal glasses and extended family. He plans to continue working with to be used in Joseph Schwantner’s “…and the mountains educators and students and is booked well into 2018 as rising nowhere.” Off she went with a container of water an All-State guest conductor. His lesser-known ambition to local department stores to ask if she could test their is photography, an artistic pursuit that goes back to his crystal. When she reported back to Green, he leapt from time in the U.S. Air Force collecting photographic intel- his desk and drove to the stores to hear her selections. ligence during the Vietnam War era.

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singers around the world, providing Educator’s Conference. His published Dean at the Naples Winter Wine analytics and recommendations. research will appear in the Bulletin for Festival and appeared with Ben She collaborated with Kelly Garner, the Council of Research in Music Vereen at Jazziz Nightlife in Boca D.M.A. ’14, on an article, “Find Your Education, College Music Symposium, Raton, whom he has performed Ideal Recording Gear – Top Tips.” She and The Music Educators Journal. His with for nearly 25 years. also served as an outside reviewer research will also appear as a chapter Thomas Sleeper, professor, director of for an international study submitted to in the upcoming book Contemporary orchestral The Journal of Voice. Research in Music Education: A studies, Charles Mason, B.M. ’77, professor of Lifespan Perspective. conducted Composition Elaine Rinaldi, B.M. ’89, lecturer and another and chair of the vocal coach, is acclaimed Music Theory founder and season of and Composi- artistic director concerts with tion Department, of Orchestra the Frost was one of five Miami. For their Symphony finalists chosen past season, she Orchestra. A celebrated composer, to compete in produced and Sleeper will have his Symphony No. 4 the Iron conducted “Viva premiered by Meadows Symphony Composer competition in Cleveland, Verdi,” celebrat- Orchestra in 2015-2016; his Sympho- fall 2014. Mason enjoyed a number ing the 200th Anniversary of Verdi’s ny No. 5 was premiered by the Frost of performances of his music this birth; The Mice War, a children’s Wind Ensemble in April 2015. Faculty year including Metaman for violin, opera by David Chesky; and a free artists Santiago Rodriguez and Dale video and digital sound, performed “Beethoven on the Beach” outdoor Underwood premiered Sleeper’s by Karen Pollick at Stanford Univer- concert featuring violinist Mei Mei Sonata for Piano and Alto Saxophone sity and by Ben Sung at the Harold Luo, M.M. ’07, as soloist. She pro- (Seven Deadly Sins), and the Florida Golen Gallery in Miami’s Wynwood duced a new “Discover Miami Youth Orchestra performed the U.S. District; Jason’s ArcoKnots for cello Through Music” series that debuted Premiere of Comhrá for solo cello and interactive computer media and with Masonic Mozart at the Miami and orchestra. The orchestra version winner of the Cellotronics competi- Scottish Rite Temple. Rinaldi made of his Concerto for Trumpet tion, performed by Jason Calloway at her debut at Tri-Cities Opera in 2014 premiered in Beijing in December. The Bakehouse in Miami and as guest conductor for Mozart’s Don He was named artist of the week in Firehouse in New York; Spring Step Giovanni, performed as a guest February 2015 by Radio Arts for saxophone, violin, and piano, pianist with the Palm Beach Chamber Indonesia, with 12 of his works performed by The Other Ensemble, Music Festival, and accompanied broadcast over one weekend. Stagger for clarinet, violin, and piano, soprano Yunah Lee on a recital tour of Aaron Tindall, was visiting professor of performed at Festival Miami by Japan. tuba this year in Pulse; and Filibuster for guitar Steve Rucker, B.M. ’79, M.M. ’83, the Department quartet, performed in concert drum-set lecturer and instructor, of Instrumental venues throughout Europe and Studio Music and Jazz, and Frost alum Performance. An released in January 2015 by the Jonathan Joseph, ’85, have collabo- assistant Corona Guitar Kvartet on their disc rated on a book titled Exercises in Af- professor at Taut with Albany Records. rican American Funk, scheduled for Ithaca College Corin Overland, assistant professor of publication by Modern Drummer this since 2011, he professional year, along with a promotional video. records and practice in Music Drumhead Magazine tapped him to performs extensively. Upcoming solo Education and author a regular column, “Rucker’s performances this summer include Choral Conduct- Ruckus,” with his first article “The tours to Asia, France, Australia, and ing, has been Cobham Rudiment” scheduled for the more. appointed to a May-June 2015 edition. Rucker is also Aleysia Whitmore, visiting assistant four-year term working on an album with faculty gui- professor in the on the Editorial tarist Brian Russell, B.M. ’97, M.M. ’07, Department of Board of the keyboardist Dan Strange, M.M. ’09, Musicology, Music Educators Journal. Overland and alumni bassist Jeff Carswell, ’79. holds a B.M. presented research at meetings of the Rucker organized his annual NYC from the Suncoast Music Education Sympo- UM Frost alumni Drum Hang and a University of sium, the American Education second L.A. UM Frost alumni Drum Toronto and A.M. Research Association, the Mt. Lake Hang during the NAMM confer- and Ph.D. Colloquium for General Music ence (see page 56). He performed degrees in Methods, and the Florida Music this year with Nashville legend Billy ethnomusicology from Brown

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Carlos Rafael Rivera, a lecturer in the Frost behaves unexpectedly, School’s Bruce Hornsby Creative American Music pro- creating mid-to-high gram, is a commissioned and award-winning composer range drones,” after the whose first film score appears on the soundtrack for Uni- director kept refer- versal Pictures’ A Walk among the Tombstones, starring ring to the music of Liam Neeson and directed by Scott Frank. The major the opening scene in motion picture premiered worldwide in September 2014 Dirty Harry. “That with a soundtrack released through Varèse-Sarabande opening instrument Records. In his Film Music Magazine review, Daniel is a waterphone,” Schweiger calls Rivera’s score “the year’s most unsung, Riviera explains. “This and electrifying composing debut” and lists it among his otherworldly sound Best Scores of 2014. ended up helping to set Rivera’s background as a professional guitarist led to the tone for impending his serendipitous encounter with director Scott Frank trouble throughout the years earlier. “One day Frank walked into Old Town film, and to specifically Music in Pasadena, California looking for a guitar underscore the killers’ teacher. He opened a binder and picked my name. It inner workings.” never crossed my mind that nearly a decade after that To orchestrate his score, Rivera turned to Grammy- Frost faculty first meeting, I would be composing the score to a movie nominated Tim Davies, who split the work with Jeremy member Carlos he wrote and directed.” Levy, M.M. ’04, a Hollywood composer, arranger, and Rivera received The moody and atmospheric soundtrack forA Walk orchestrator who relocated to Los Angeles after earning outstanding reviews Among the Tombstones characterizes this thriller about his degree at the Frost School. for his first major Matthew Scudder, an ex-NYPD cop working as an unli- A protégé of Randy Newman, Rivera graduated with film score for A censed private investigator operating just outside the law. a D.M.A. in composition from USC’s Thornton School. Walk Among the When Scudder reluctantly agrees to help a heroin traf- He recently signed with Amos Newman at William Tombstones starring ficker hunt down the men who kidnapped and brutally Morris Endeavor Entertainment, whose clients include Liam Neeson. murdered his wife, the PI learns this is not the first time film composers Hans Zimmer, Trent Reznor, and Ennio these men have committed this sort of twisted crime. Morricone. Examiner.com noted, “Rivera used guitar solos to give Rivera’s works have been performed and recorded his score warmth and humanity and a nice, rich orches- by prominent ensembles and soloists, including Arturo tral setting along with a choir to make it a little more Sandoval, Colin Currie, Chanticleer, Cavatina Duo, the diverse than expected.” Variety’s Andrew Barker said, New England Philharmonic, and the Los Angeles Guitar “Carlos Rafael Rivera offers a score that is unexpectedly Quartet (LAGQ); commissioned by the Simon Bolivar melodic, yet entirely effective.” Youth Symphony, the Miami Symphony Orchestra, and In an interview with CineMedia Promotions for Film the American Wind Symphony; recorded by Warner, Score Monthly, Rivera talked about his inspiration for Sony, Naxos, and Cedille labels; and awarded by the the music. “I looked for something malleable, haunting, American Composers Orchestra, the Herb Alpert Foun- dreadful, and a motif of thirds shifting by half steps dation, the Guitar Foundation of America, BMI, and became central in establishing the two dark characters twice by ASCAP. He has opened for The Who at the that inhabit the story. This really was the engine behind Hollywood Bowl, and his guitar work includes perfor- the score.” mances on feature film soundtracks, studio sessions for Riviera explained that he chose to use the water- Island/Def Jam, and Universal Records, as well as on phone, which he calls “a fantastic instrument in that it ABC, MTV, and VH-1.

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University. Her dissertation, Perform- education examining the underlying the UM Miller School of Medicine, ing Pleasure: Africa and Its Diaspora on structure of parental involvement, addressing the need for professional the World Music Stage, is an ethno- and the different outcomes in music training and care for the vocal health graphic study of two world music and education. He continues to serve of hybrid singers. In 2014, Zuim bands that creatively combine West on the editorial board for scholarly worked as musical director and African and Cuban music and the journals Contributions to Music re-orchestrator of Billy Elliot at the industry and audiences that surround Education and Research Perspectives Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine, where them. In Music Education. This fall his she also performed for President Stephen Zdzinski, professor of music online International Music Education George H.W. Bush and family, and education, was a course had 30 international guest received positive reviews from presenter at the speakers. He is currently developing BroadwayWorld.com as well as Tampa FMEA an online version of his “Music for Portland Daily News. Zuim helped conference in Special Learners” course for Frost launch the tour of Joseph and The January, at the Online, and hopes to offer it next Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with ISME research summer. Tony-award winning director/ commission Ana Flavia Zuim, lecturer in the Depart- choreographer Andy Blankenbeuhler conferences in ment of Vocal and American Idol winners Ace João Pessoa and Performance, is Young and Diana DeGarmo, and Porto Alegre, Brazil, as well as working on a toured with the show through conducted a webinar in Spanish for research project summer 2014. Zuim also collabo- The Universidad Autonoma de with speech rated with a new National tour of Chihuahua, Mexico. He had articles pathologist Dr. Annie, and recently music directed/ published in Research Perspectives in Julia Gerhard conducted Area Stage Company’s Music Education and the Council for and otolaryn- production of Little Women: The Research in Music Education Bulletin gologist/head Musical, accompanied by a student on parental involvement in music and neck surgeon Dr. David Rosow at orchestra from UM Frost.

Musicologist Earns Two National Endowment for the Humanities Grants Deborah Schwartz-Kates, associate professor and chair of tera’s film score, Malambo, at the 2015 national meeting of the the Department of Musicology, was awarded two prestigious Society for American Music. grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities last Schwartz-Kates authored the article on Ginastera for year in support of her upcoming book the New Grove Dictionary of Music on the film music of Alberto Ginas- and Musicians and contributed tera. Her publisher, Oxford University the chapter on Argentina for a Press, cites the book as promising textbook on Latin American music to set a new standard for film music published by W. W. Norton. She as a marker of cultural identity and was appointed a member of the ideological discourse. Schwartz-Kates advisory board of the premier received the NEH Research Fellow- German-language music ency- ship, the top award in this category, clopedia, Die Musik in Geschichte to work on her project during the first und Gegenwart, and authored a six months of this year. critical essay on the state of music “The honor is one of the outstand- research in Argentina, Uruguay, ing highlights of my professional life,” Paraguay, and Chile for the Hand- she says. Previously, Schwartz-Kates book of Latin American Music—a received the NEH Summer Stipend. She reference source edited at the will present her research on Ginas- Library of Congress.

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Tree, California, as well as Ohio. and with Stephanie Nakasian and the Reverend Dr. Leeomia W. (Minnis) Kelly, B.M. Hod O’Brien Trio at jazz festivals, and 1950 ’66, continues her work as a piano more. Arthur C. Joy, Jr., B.A. ’56, is retired and instructor in Hallandale, Florida. Her Cathy Ellis, B.M. ’73, M.M. ’84, has living in the Tampa Bay area, where he composition “Zeta Lady” is scheduled completed work on a 34-year project still enjoys organizing classical music to be a part of the 2020 Centennial Abraham & Sarah, the Film Musical, appreciation gatherings. Song celebration in Washington, D.C. which she wrote, co-produced and David F. Light, B.M. ’56, retired, resides for Zeta Phi Beta. Kelly can be seen on directed in Miami for EFM Produc- along the Atlantic coast in Central Flor- YouTube playing the piano. tions. The film stars Broadway’s ida, where he occasionally organizes Sam Daley-Harris, B.M. ’69, M.M. ’75, Michael Lackey of Phantom of the musical groups for ballroom dancing. delivered the Opera, and Nancy Haywood of 2015 Distin- George M. guished Alumni Stephen Parsons, B.M. ’73, recently Lecture at the retired as chief executive officer University of (CEO) of the Baptist Health Founda- 1960 Miami sharing tion in Miami after serving 16 years Joseph Leniado-Chira, B.M. ’61, has been his journey from and raising $200 million for the an active conductor and composer philosophical organization. He served previously for over four decades, conducting 11 musician to as director of development for New professional symphony and chamber global activist during his talk entitled, World Symphony, chief development orchestras, operas, ballets and brass “Making the Difference You’ve Always officer for the Sylvester Compre- ensembles. He was honored by the Dreamed of Making” in January. hensive Cancer Center at the UM State of Connecticut Legislator with a Daley-Harris is CEO for the Center for Miller School of Medicine, and the Certificate of Commendation for his Citizen Empowerment and Transfor- American Red Cross Greater Miami work in music and with young people. mation, appearing on C-SPAN2’s and the Keys chapter. His musical Ronald Case, B.M. ’62, is a retired band BookTV in November 2014. Daley- career has included performing as a director from Clarence, New York. Harris was a high school music percussionist with the Miami Philhar- Case is presently working for Gulf teacher when he founded the monic, Fort Lauderdale Symphony, Coast University as an adjunct profes- anti-poverty lobbying group RESULTS Greater Miami Opera, and Miami sor and performing with the Gulf and its sister organization RESULTS City Ballet. Coast Symphony Orchestra. Educational Fund in 1980. Willie Waters, B.M. ’73, is visiting John Branzer, B.M. ’63, M.M. ’86, was an Robert Jason, B.M. ’69, continues to associate award winning produce albums professor of band/orchestra for independent music at director for the artists and Binghamton Miami-Dade conduct University, New County Public songwriting York; a guest School System workshops lecturer of for 32 years. He through his opera at the continues to company Robert President’s perform with his Jason Produc- College, University of Hartford; and big band. tions in over 25 cities. guest conductor, coach, and lecturer Linda Nardini, B.M. ’64, pianist, compos- at Austin Peay State University. Waters er, recently also serves as music director for the retired from a Martina Arroyo Foundation’s Prelude busy performing to Performance Summer Opera and recording 1970 Training Institute, and was a featured career. A music Jimmy Morris, M.M. ’70, is a retired guest expert during the intermission video to her trombonist, having played with the quiz and discussion of the Metropoli- original song Miami Philharmonic, the Fort Lauder- tan Opera’s live radio broadcast of “Girl’s Talk” dale Symphony, and the Lehigh Valley Puccini’s La bohème in January 2015. features Rudy Chamber Orchestra. He was a teacher Laurence Kaptain, M.M. ’75, has been Vallée in his last film appearance. She in Bucks County, Pennsylvania from named dean of the College of Arts performed in the Fort Lauderdale 1974-2002 and now plays the Irish and Media at the University of Colo- Symphony and Miami Philharmonic fiddle. rado, Denver. A highly accomplished and taught piano both privately and at David Drubin, B.M. ’73, percussionist, percussionist and symphonic cimba- Miami Dade College, Bloomsburg recently appeared in concert with lom artist, he most recently served University (Pennsylvania), and Snow Broadway veteran Jordan Bennett, the as the founding director of creative College (Utah.) She now lives in Joshua Canadian vocal quartet The Diamonds, initiatives in the Office of Research and

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 45 } Class Notes Economic Development at Louisiana Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Daniel Adams, M.M. ’81, is professor of State University, and prior to that was Angeles. He released a new piano and music at Texas dean of the College of Music and guitar duo CD with Larry Koonse titled Southern Dramatic Arts. Conversations (Jazz Compass). University. He Gary Fry, B.M. ’76, composer, arranger, Brenda Graham-Moyé, B.M. ’78, is a pro- celebrated three conductor, and fessional saxophonist and arranger of world premieres producer, has a saxophone music (Dorn Publications). in fall 2014 19-year affiliation Moyé is professor of saxophone at Lee including his with the Chicago University School of Music in Cleve- composition Of a Symphony with land, Tennessee. Just Content more than 100 Al Hospers, B.M. ’79, is a bassist, vocalist, released on percussionist Lee Hinkle’s commissions bandleader and 2015 album Theatrical Music for Solo during that span. recording studio Percussion (Albany Records). The He is also an owner of recently piece is based on excerpts of artistic consultant and arranger for renovated Clever “Thoreau’s Flute,” a poem written in the Dallas Symphony and Chorus. A Sounds Media memory of Henry David Thoreau by recent music video for Ronald recording studio Louisa May Alcott. McDonald House Charities featuring in New Hamp- Barbara Jeffery, B.M. ’81, an active sing- violinist Joshua Bell and rapper shire. Hospers er, composer/songwriter, performed Diggy, which Fry arranged and performs with as a soloist with the New Hampshire- conducted, received more than the blues/rock band Bruce Marshall based choral group The Voices of the 700,000 views on YouTube. Fry also and the Nor’Easters, the pop/funk Holy Spirit, and is currently completing composes for live theatre; his ensemble Sounds Clever and the work on a set of Christmas-themed incidental music for Spoon River Valley Horns, and blues singer and choral and solo works, to be recorded Anthology was nominated for a Jeff harmonica virtuoso James this year. Award, recognizing excellence in Montgomery. Kristian Truelsen, M.M. ’81, is an actor Chicago-based theatre. Steven Rivera, B.M. ’79, has been whose recent Andrea Green, B.M. ’76, produced financial advisor credits include a film documentary On the Other with Janney Floyd Collins the Side of the Fence that received a Montgomery musical, and first place award for Social Issues Scott, LLC since Laughter on the in a Documentary from the New 1991 and is the 23rd Floor, by York Festivals and a bronze award Satellite Branch Neil Simon at the from United Nations for Teaching Manager of their American Stage Tolerance. Hauppauge, New Theatre Sally K. Albrecht, M.A. ’77, M.M. ’79, York office. Company in St. Petersburg, Florida. He recently retired Rivera continues to play percussion in has been cast as Peter John Friar in the as director of two bands on Long Island: the North summer 2015 world premiere of the school choral, Shore Community Band and the No Alan Menken-David Spencer musical classroom, and Doubt World Famous Monday Night The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz in vocal publica- Band. Montreal, Quebec. tions for Alfred Bruce Zimmerman, B.M. ’81, recently com- Music Publishing. pleted a 5.1 surround sound orches- An in-demand tral score for the first ever live-action conductor, planetarium dome film that premiered composer, and clinician, she recently 1980 in Broward County, Florida this January conducted premieres with all-state Wayne Schuster, B.M. ’80, is band and is now playing around the country. choirs in South Dakota, Georgia North director at Jericho Public Schools in Zimmerman celebrates his 25th year Carolina, and Pennsylvania. She also Jericho, New York. Schuster also works composing for media under the published Accent on Composers Vol. 2 as a freelance musician, playing both banner Sound Productions and Zim- with husband Jay Althouse, Our Annual saxophone and clarinet for jazz, pop Music with national spots, corporate, Christmas Pageant, Rhythm Band Sing and studio gigs in the New York City educational and commercial scoring Along, Composer Songs, and I Sing, You metro area. projects. His son Joshua will be gradu- Sing: Learning Songs. She received the Bill Stevens, M.M. ’80, is assistant princi- ating from the Media Writing program 2014 Pillar of Leadership Award in the pal and supervisor of performing arts at Frost this spring. Creative and Performing Arts from studios, fine art and film and media, Dawnn J. Lewis, B.M. ’82, actor/singer, O∆K (Omicron Delta Kappa) Leader- as well as the director of jazz studies starred in the 2014 Hallmark channel ship Honor Society. at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts movie A Lesson In Romance. David Roitstein, B.M. ’77, M.M. ’80, studio in Astoria, Queens and continues to Chuck Webb, B.M. ’82, a music mer- music and jazz, is a pianist, composer, perform actively in the New York City chandising major, continues his work and jazz program director at California region. as ensemble program coordinator,

{ 46 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 coordinator of bass studies and R&B ensemble director at Columbia Col- Bailey Blazes on Fretless Bass lege, Chicago. He recently performed in the orchestra pit for the touring Steve Bailey, B.M. ’85, was named the 2014 Frost Distinguished Alumnus for company of Motown: The Musical, and accomplishments in his professional music career as an exceptional bassist and released a debut solo CD entitled No educator. He was honored at Festival Miami, Smoke No Mirrors. Webb was recently in conjunction with a Bass Extremes concert named one of the Chicago Defender’s 2015 Men of Excellence. with fellow bassist Victor Wooten, and drummer Mark Drews, B.M. ’83, is director of Derico Watson. music production and recording Renowned for his pioneering work with the studies at the University Of Stavanger, Norway. This past year, he was elected six string fretless bass, Bailey has recorded and a governor of the Audio Engineering toured with such luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Society (AES), where he was also a Dave Liebman, Paquito D’Rivera, Claudio Roditi, judge of the Recording Competition. the Rippingtons, David Benoit, Jethro Tull, Lynyrd He performs as bassist in the Stavan- ger Big Band. Skynyrd, Willie Nelson, Larry Carlton, Kitaro, Tab Steven E. Grove, B.M. ’84, a.k.a. “Euge Benoit, Johnny Witherspoon, Mel Tormé, and more. Groove,” is a chart-topping saxophon- Bailey teaches as a clinician worldwide, and is ist, composer, producer and radio currently chair of the Bass Department at Berklee host in the Los Angeles area. His most recent recording is Got 2 Be Groovin’ College of Music. He serves on the advisory board and as a columnist for Bass and current touring includes Berk’s Player. His books include The Steve Bailey Bass Guitar Series and Bass Extremes, Jazz Fest, Seabreeze Jazz Fest, and and videos Advanced Bassix and Bass Extremes: Live. Las Vegas City of Lights Jazz and R&B Festival. Julie Lushetsky, B.M. ’84, works as an audio/video/lighting tech in television, WDNA, serving the jazz youth trauma psychology response following radio, at conventions, and for Disney. community. critical events. She will present a She is an active organist, keyboard Nancy (Pettersen) Strelau, M.M. ’85, workshop at the Florida Psychological and trumpet player with Bugles Across begins her post Association’s summer convention and America and with community and jazz as festival is a frequent guest on television news bands. director of the 1st programs. She performs as a freelance Mark D. Lewis, B.M. ’85, recently ac- annual Park flutist, volunteers as a provider of cepted the position of director of Circle Music Fest therapeutic flute music with the Bay instructional technology at Hillsbor- in Angelica, New Pines Veterans’ Hospital, and is the ough Community College in Tampa, York to be held founder of Livibrance, an integrative Florida, having held similar positions summer 2015, lifestyle model. at colleges in Texas and West Virginia. offering venues Jon Liebman, M.M. ’86, recently He also holds graduate degrees, an for eclectic music making and a completed his M.S. in Educational Technology and an platform for musician networking. She seventh bass Ed.D. from other institutions. continues as assistant professor in instructional Martha Marchena, M.M. ’85, D.M.A. professional studies, string coordina- book for Hal ’85, pianist, is professor in the Music tor, auditions coordinator, and director Leonard Department at Kean University, New of orchestras at Nazareth College in Corporation, Jersey. Last year she presented a con- Rochester, New York. She is also past titled Play Like cert in celebration of the piano music president of the American String Jaco Pastorius, for of Heitor Villa-Lobos at the Koubek Teachers Association New York release in 2015. Center of Miami Dade College. Chapter. Liebman’s six other bass books have Rita Quintero, B.M. ’85, studio music and Lori Kleinman, B.M. ’86, Ph.D. ’00, sold over 100,000 copies worldwide jazz, is an licensed and have been translated into German, accomplished psychologist and French and Japanese. He founded session singer, music therapist in Liebman Media, LLC in 2009 which vocal coach, and St. Petersburg, currently operates two very popular producer. Rita is Florida, provides websites: ForBassPlayersOnly.com, and a founder of the individual and his own JonLiebman.com, an online Jazz Encounters couples bass instruction site. Boot Camp psychotherapy, Peter O. McGuinness, B.M. ’86, earned hosted Saturday and provides two 2015 Grammy nominations for afternoons on South Florida’s 88.9 corporate wellness presentations, and Best Arrangement, Instrumental and

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 47 } Class Notes Vocals “What Are You Doing The at University of Missouri–Kansas City composer, performer, and producer Rest Of Your Life?” and Best Arrange- teaching jazz piano and jazz theory with his own music publishing and ment, Instrumental or A Cappella for with fellow UM Frost alumni Bobby production business, Primal Gavotte. “Beautiful Dreamer” both off Strength Watson, B.M. ’75, and Rod Fleeman, Gregory Reish, B.M. ’88, has been ap- In Numbers by the Pete McGuinness ’76. Wilder appeared on bassist Bob pointed director of the Center for Jazz Orchestra. (See page 4.) Bowman’s 2014 album Songs for San- Popular Music and professor of Music Karen Nagy, M.M. ’86, is on the theater dra alongside Eliot Zigmund, Danny History at Middle Tennessee State faculty at Miami Dade College. An Embrey, Karrin Allyson, and Todd University in Murfreesboro. actor, and songwriter, she recently Strait. Wilder also released a CD of his Barbara Keating Lewis, B.M. ’89, studio published the book Girlfriend of own quintet titled Stretch. music and jazz vocalist, is an early Bill: 12 Things You Need to Know Brett g Porter, B.M. ’87, M.M. ’90, is chief childhood music educator in Bloom- about Dating Someone in Recovery engineer at Art & field, Connecticut. Lewis released her (Hazelden). Logic Software first holiday recording Jazzy Christmas David Ruttenberg, B.M. ’86, continues his Development, last season. She was a competitor work at Polar working on in the 2014 Sarah Vaughan Interna- Boehme Music projects in the tional Jazz Vocal Competition (Sassy as a Grammy- Pro Audio/MI Awards), and continues to work regu- nominated industries. In larly as a voiceover talent and studio producer, 2014, he was a vocalist. She is married to Bill Lewis, engineer, mixer, speaker on B.M. ’87; they have two children, Nick and BMI panels at SXSW Interactive, discussing and Audrey. composer. His software project estimation, and at the Carlos Vega, B.M ’89, assistant profes- recent projects inaugural Advanced Audio + Applica- sor of applied saxophone at Florida include work on bassist Jeff Berlin’s tions Exchange conference in Boston, A&M University, continues to perform album Low Standards, singer-songwrit- speaking on “Technology Innovation + with the Chicago Afro-Latin Jazz er Navaka Fernando’s debut album Integration in Traditional Instruments.” Ensemble (CALJE) and tour with New Beginnings, and more. William Blum, B.M. ’88, is an audio and the Doc Severinsen Big Band. This Roger Wilder, B.M. ’86, works as a broadcast engineer based in San Fran- summer, he plans to produce a jazz freelance jazz pianist based in Kansas cisco, presently contracted by KDFC quintet album comprised of original City, and is an adjunct faculty member Classical Music Radio. Blum is also a material.

On the Road with Cirque du Soleil For musicians, running away with currently the musical director for their touring show TOTEM, the circus can have its perks, where he was previously the show’s bandleader. From 2002 to especially if it offers steady 2007, Dennard was the assistant bandleader and keyboardist employment, benefits and travel for Cirque du Soleil’s Grammy-nominated show Alegria, and around the world in a top troupe successfully performed with that show in over 1,700 shows in like Cirque du Soleil, a Canadian 12 different countries. entertainment company known for In an interview with Nola.com, Dennard explains that being its dramatic mix of circus arts and a Cirque musician is different from other theatrical gigs in that street entertainment. you have to fit the music to what the stage performers are Several alumni from the Frost doing. “Broadway is a little different — it’s a little more song and School of Music have worked with dance, and the actors follow the music. With this gig, the music Cirque du Soleil over the years, really follows what’s happening onstage. As soon as they finish widely considered the largest the- their trick, bam, we transition into the next section.” atrical producer in the world. The Yvette Soler, B.M. ’96, was a backstage manager for Cirque company produces over 19 shows du Soleil’s Varekai production in 2008, and Jim Badrak, B.M. in over 271 cities, and employs approximately 4,000 people from ’85, now vice president of production and operations at the over 40 countries. new Dr. Phillips Center in Orlando, and director of production at Charlie Dennard, B.M. ’93, has worked on Cirque du Carnegie Hall from 2006 to 2012, also did a stint with Cirque du Soleil productions for more than a dozen years now, and is Soleil productions.

{ 48 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 and Poland. Constantinidis is an active Brian Neil [Itzkowitz], B.M. ’94, music promoter and composer of new music; media and industry, is executive vice 1990 last summer excerpts from her new president of Sports USA Media, a Chris DeRosa, B.M. ’90, is music directing opera Afrodita premiered in England. national radio syndicator of NFL and the worship band at Shekinah Glory Her work The Macondo Poems re- NCAA football broadcasts. He also Worship Center in Harlem, New York, ceived its Venezuelan premiere at the recently co-founded RT Media, a with musicians from Late Night at the XVIII Latin American Festival of Con- podcast company featuring daily NFL Apollo and Alicia Keys’ band. He also temporary Music by the Simon Bolivar themed content. Neil lives in Baton performs regularly with the band Luxe, Woodwind Quintet. Constantinidis Rouge, Louisiana with his wife and two and enjoys frequent studio record- serves on many professional boards, sons. ing sessions and various freelance and is senior editor of the ComposerU- Vernon Sumwalt, B.A. ’94, is a trial lawyer engagements. He and his wife have a SA bulletin of the National Association and the current legislative vice presi- 1 year-old daughter, and are expecting of Composers USA (NACUSA). dent of the North Carolina Advocates a son this summer. Jorge M. Saade, B.M. ’93, professor of for Justice. He is a board certified Shari Hoffman, B.M. ’91, vocalist, is violin, viola, specialist by the North Carolina State director of chamber music Bar in the areas of appellate practice Domestic and and music and workers’ compensation, and was International history at the nominated and accepted as a member Operations for Universidad de of the National Academy of Social American Especialidades Insurance. Federation of Espiritu Santo in Dana Bearror, B.M. ’95, is a freelance Musicians (AFM) Ecuador, contemporary Christian and jazz and the Screen performed a performer, also recording with her Actors Guild- series of recitals this season in duo, Evan & Dana. Bearror maintains American Federation of Television and Ecuador, Beijing, Qatar, Mexico, a private studio teaching both upright Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) Intellectual Malaysia, Turkey, and Australia. He was and electric bass, guitar, and piano in Property Rights Distribution Fund. She also a soloist with the Symphony Winston-Salem, North Carolina. is a member of the Recording Orchestra of Northern Virginia and the Nick Ramliak, D.M.A. ’95, composer, Academy, SAG-AFTRA, and Society of Cairo Symphony Orchestra; and a jury teaches privately at the Live Modern Composers and Lyricists (SCL). New member of the National Music School of Music (LMSOM) in North performance projects include singing Competition organized by the Miami, partnering with the National the main title theme for the 2016 film Malaysian Youth Symphony Orchestra YoungArts Foundation to provide Confessions composed by Dennis in Kuala Lumpur. In 2015, he has scholarships for aspiring young musi- Dreith. invitations to perform with national cians. Ramliak’s upcoming projects Paula Savastano, M.M. ’91, is president symphonies in Belarus, Hungary and include a dream pop/shoegaze EP and founder of Ecuador. titled InushegO, as well as a jazz trio SSA Music, Inc., a Piotr Komorowski, M.M. ’94, is a conduc- album of original compositions and boutique music tor, composer and pianist. In 2014 standards. publisher he conducted the Gorzow Philhar- Ellen Tift, M.M. ’95, media writing and representing a monic Orchestra and the Polish Radio production, is an catalog of nearly Symphony Orchestra during numer- adjunct professor 500 songs, ous recording sessions of music. He at Belmont independent conducts operas, and symphonies; University songwriter/ performs as a pianist both at chamber teaching artists, and the publishing administra- concerts as well as accompanied by commercial tion of Lanark Records’ catalog. Her orchestra; and prepares and leads music composi- company has placed music in shows, musical shows. Recently his passion tion. Along with films and commercials, including a has turned to creating film and illustra- business partner recent McDonald House Charities tive music. and husband Kurt Goebel, M.M. ’94, commercial. She was an invited Jonathan Kreisberg, B.M. ’94, is a New their company Worldwide Groove speaker at this year’s South by York based jazz Corporation recently released “The Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas. recording artist/ Legend of the Fall,” used for Oregon She continues to teach flute, clarinet, performer whose and Colorado’s Right to Know cam- and saxophone; as well as perform as recent record- paigns promoting awareness of ballot a freelance artist. ings include initiatives for the labeling of genetically Sylvia Constantinidis, M.M. ’93, M.M. ’08, Wave Upon Wave modified foods. Their release “Super- attended the 2014 World Music Days with the Jonathan model Astronaut” was at the heart of the Festival organized by the Interna- Kreisberg Supermodel Astronaut Challenge, a tional Society of Contemporary Music Quartet; One, a viral internet video empowering (ISCM) as the guest Venezuelan com- solo guitar recording; and The Healer women, covered by the Huffington Post poser delegate in Austria, Slovenia with the Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio. and other European publications.

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 49 } Class Notes Daniel A. Belongia, B.M. ’96, M.M. ’04, is Catholic Church in Miami and Church Ronnie (Xiaojun) Zong, M.M. ’97, continues associate of the Little Flower in Coral Gables. his post as professor of Ana Rodriguez, B.M. ’96, is the executive associate music and producer of the Miami-based short professor, Interim Director film El Mago, featuring her original founder and of Bands at classical piano compositions. The film program director Illinois State won international awards this season of the Arts University. A including best art film and best origi- Management recording of him nal score at the Monaco International Program at the leading the Film Festival and best original score Central Conser- Illinois State University Wind Sympho- at the Delhi International Shorts Film vatory of Music in Beijing, and assistant ny titled Point Blank was released on Festival. It received its U.S. premiere at director of the Shanghai Philharmonic the Naxos label at the end of 2014; the Miami International Film Festival Orchestra. In 2014, he received a third under his direction, the ensemble was in March. Rodriguez is professor of prize award at the 9th China Interna- awarded first runner-up in 2014 by The Arts and Philosophy at Miami Dade tional Cultural and Creative Industry American Prize for Wind Ensemble/ College. Expo. Concert Band Performance. David W. Brubeck, D.M.A. ’97, trombone, Carla Davis Cash, B.M. ’98, M.M. ’00, is as- Roddy J. Betancourt, B.M. ’96, worked for presented on the emerging genre sociate professor of piano pedagogy Miami-Dade of the brass duo at the 2015 Inter- at Texas Tech University where she County Public national Trumpet Guild Conference. was recently awarded the Chancel- Schools until He accompanied an all-star panel of lor’s Council Distinguished Research 2007; he now trumpeters including associate profes- Award, one of the highest honors teaches sor Craig Morris and alumnus Jason bestowed by the university. Cash’s saxophone, Carder, B.M. ’96, M.M. ’04. Brubeck’s work in music learning and procedural singing, and duo with Tom Lippincott, M.M. ’90, is memory consolidation has been pre- piano for Sam pioneering the jazz bass trombone sented at numerous national and inter- Ash Music, and and guitar duo genre; they per- national conferences and is published privately. He is director of the big band formed at the International Tuba and in leading journals of music education. Roddy J. Betancourt & The Awesome Euphonium Conference. Brubeck is She holds leadership roles in several God Orchestra, and owns and chief educational officer for Tromba state and national organizations of operates Sunrise Sunset Studios. Plastic Instruments, and serves as music teaching and remains active as Betancourt has recorded with major chamber music coordinator at Miami a solo and collaborative pianist. Christian music distributors Word Dade College, Kendall. Craig Christman, B.M. ’98, is owner of Music and Integrity Music. Richard Bull, B.M. ’97, is president of Christman Music, a Naples, Florida Brendan Buckley, B.M. ’96, Los Angeles The Sixth House, based music store that caters to wind based drummer and producer, has an interactive instrument players with a focus on toured and recorded with Shakira, entertainment professional quality repairs. Minnie Driver, Spam All-Stars, Damien agency working Anne Cecere, ’99, has been elected Rice, Alejandro Sanz, Leehom Wang, with major president of the California Copyright Leighton Meester, to name a few. corporate brands Conference (CCC) for 2014-2015. Sandra Lopez, B.M. ’96, A.D. ’98, soprano, and representing Cecere is BMI’s Director of Film and TV will sing the role of Patricia in the Latin artists Relations. Cecere is the youngest presi- world premiere of Paquito D’Rivera’s including Gloria dent in the CCC’s 61 year existence. zarzuela Cecilio Valdés, Rey de la Trevi, Chiquis Rivera, Anahi, Christian Colin Eaton, ’99, tenor, is a featured Habana in May 2015. This fall, she will Chavez, and Julio Reyes. The agency soloist in the U.S. Army Voices, an elite sing the title role in Arizona Opera’s also began a joint venture with music vocal ensemble that is part of the U.S. Florencia en el Amazonas, and sing the publisher peermusic. Bull serves as Army Chorus in Washington, D.C., role of Vierte Mägde with the Boston executive producer of the reality singing at major national events in the Symphony Orchestra in concert per- television series Chiquis Confidential White House and around the nation. formances of Strauss’s opera Elektra at and travel show El Vistazo Brasil. Eaton was the soloist at the funerals of Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall. Shawn Coleman, B.M. ’97, is an engi- Presidents Gerald Ford and President Angel Marchese, B.M. ’96, is chorus neer and sound designer at Doppler Ronald Reagan. This spring, Eaton director for both Studios in Atlanta, where he produced, returned to Gusman Concert Hall for Miami Arts arranged and co-composed viral a concert with the U.S. Army Voices Charter School internet sensation Too Many Cooks for presented by Frost School of Music. and Aventura the cable show [adult swim], which Michael Johnson, B.M. ’99, tenor saxo- Turnberry Jewish currently has more than 6 million views phonist, continues to tour and perform Center. Mar- on YouTube. He recently completed his with jazz guitarist Jack Wilkins. He is chese is also eighth season of sound design and 5.1 working toward the release of a new cantor at mixing on the [adult swim] animated recording featuring Wilkins and bassist Epiphany series Squidbillies. Bob Moses.

{ 50 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 recordist and post-production sound Jazz Orchestra’s concert featuring mixer. Schirmer works on a wide pipa virtuoso Min Xiao-Fen. The group 2000 variety of film and television projects, released their debut album Shrimp Francesca Arnone, D.M.A. ’00, is assistant as well as audio consulting. He also Tale in July to rave reviews in AllAbout- professor of flute gigs on the electric and double bass Jazz.com, DownBeat, and Jazz Weekly. at Baylor around New York City. His commissioned work Lotus Land University School Steve Aho, M.M. ’01, is a freelance was premiered at the Laguna Dance of Music. She musician, Festival in September. Chan is director served previ- producer, and of Jazz Band One and applied music ously as assistant arranger living in instructor at El Camino College. professor of flute Los Angeles. He Peter Fielding, M.M. ’02, music theory, is at West Virginia is music director/ associate dean of University, and drummer for the School of principal flute of the Boise Philhar- Universal Creative Arts and monic. She has had two CDs released recording artist the School of on MSR Classics to critical acclaim, Cody Karey and Education at Red Games of Light in December 2013, and Warner recording artist William Deer College in Dedications in August 2014. A third CD Joseph. He was orchestrator and Alberta, Canada. anticipated for 2015 release features conductor for producer Emile Haynie’s In 2014, he collaboration with Big XII electro- debut solo album We Fall featuring completed his acoustic performers and composers. Nate Ruess (Fun.), Andrew Wyatt Ph.D. in music theory from the Zélia Chueke, D.M.A. ’00, works as (Miike Snow), Brian Wilson, and Randy University of Massachusetts Amherst. scholar and Newman. He performed with Adele at Susana Lalama, B.M. ’02, M.M. ’12, Ph.D. researcher with the 2013 Academy Awards; albums ’14, has been appointed director of the Observatoire with Paramore, Young The Giant, and the Wind Ensemble and assistant Musical Français, Jason Mraz; and a featured appearance professor of music education at Con- Université in United Airlines “Orchestra” verse College in Spartanburg, South Paris-Sorbonne commercial. Aho also worked for the Carolina. as head of the pre-production team and performed Robert Phillips, D.M.A. ’02, is a guitar Groupe de for Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s instructor at Lois Recherche musical Bright Star. He recently played Cowles Harrison Musiques Brésiliennes, the first on the 40th anniversary re-release of Center for the research group dedicated to Brazilian Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Visual and music in the history of the Sorbonne. Road, and on the soundtrack for the Performing Arts She is also professor of music at the upcoming film Rock The Kasbah with and adjunct Federal University of Parana in Brazil, Bill Murray and Zooey Deschanel. professor at dividing work between the two Carlomagno Araya, B.M. ’01, M.M. ’08, is Southeastern institutions, and is an elected associate a D.M.A candidate at Frost. This year University in member of the European research he produced, engineered, and played Lakeland, Florida. He is signed to group, Institut de recherche en drums on Federico Britos Presents Price Rubin & Partners artist manage- musicology. She published Rythmes Hot Club Of The Americas, and was a ment and released his latest recording brésiliens: Musique, philosophie, session drummer for the 2015 release of classical guitar, Lo Mestre, The Music histoire, société in 2014. As a pianist, Necesito un Bolero by Latin salsa giant of Miguel Llobet on Centaur Records in she has recorded albums of piano Gilberto Santa Rosa. Araya recorded fall 2013. music by Brahms, Debussy, and live last summer with the National Javier Sanchez, B.M. ’02, M.M. ’04, is an Brazilian composers. Symphony of Costa Rica and Editus entertainment Peter Hamlin, B.M. ’00, Ph.D. ’14, was Ensamble. He previously worked as and sports appointed assistant professor of music an engineer on Negroni’s Trio On The industry education at Gonzaga University in Way album, nominated for a 2013 Latin professional Spokane, Washington. Grammy Award in the Best Latin Jazz serving as Dave Rowe, B.M. ’00, is lead sound de- category. general manager signer at Infinity Ward; he was part of Alesya Burgio [Olesia Borisenko], B.M. ’01, is of the Life Time their winning team for a 2015 NAMM business owner and director of Miami Athletic Events TEC Award for Call of Duty: Ghosts for Fine Arts Academy striving for higher Office in Miami Outstanding Creative Achievement in educational standards in South Florida and race director for award-winning Interactive Entertainment Sound Pro- music, art, and dance. events including the Miami Marathon duction along with fellow Frost alum, Alan Chan, B.M. ’01, was composer in and Half Marathon, South Beach Jeremy Rogers, B.M. ’04. residence at the Visby International Triathlon and the Escape to Miami Brad Schirmer, B.A. ’00, founded White Centre for Composers on the Swedish Triathlon. Horse Recording, Inc. in Brooklyn, New island of Gotland in April 2014. He Andrew Synowiec, B.M. ’02, M.M. ’04, York, where he is a production sound created new music for the Alan Chan is a session guitarist in Los Angeles.

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 51 } Class Notes He can be heard on recordings by Newman (Tarzan, Ice Age), sponsored orchestrated the film A Walk Among Michael Bublé, the electronic band by the Academy of Scoring Arts. the Tombstones, composed by Frost M83, Giorgio Moroder, and Bette Jed Scott, M.M. ’03, is director of the faculty member Carlos Rafael Rivera. Midler as well as TV/film soundtracks men’s a cappella Levy was also involved in adapting and including Frozen, Inside/Out, Get Hard, group Rockford orchestrating the music of The and Hart Of Dixie, among many others. Aces at Rockford Simpsons for the 25th anniversary In 2015, Synowiec was associated with High School in concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Recent six Grammy nominated projects with Michigan where orchestration projects include Nathan East, Gordon Goodwin’s Big his wife, Mandy Revenge, Empire, Muppets Most Phat Band, and the hit song “Let It Go” Mikita Scott, M.M. Wanted, Knack, Batman: Arkham Knight, from Frozen. ’03, is director of The Smurfs 2, The Watch, and Kinect Cristian M˘acelaru, B.M. ’03, was winner of choirs. Under Star Wars. In 2012, Jeremy released his the 2014 Solti their direction, the choral program first record with his big band, the Conducting earned gold and silver medals at the Budman/Levy Orchestra titled From Award, and World Choir Games in Riga, Latvia, and There to Here (OA2 Records). conductor-in- were Michigan Young Artists Festival Luis Piccinelli, B.M. ’04, is director of residence with finalists last year. Mikita Scott also instrumental music at Coral Springs the Philadelphia conducted the Michigan High School Middle School in Coral Springs, Orchestra. The SSAA Honors Choir, and took her group Florida; this past year, his jazz band 2014-15 season on a five-country international tour. She was selected to perform at the Mid- included his is the executive board director of Sight west Clinic in Chicago. Piccinelli was official Carnegie Hall debut with the Reading and Repertoire for the selected as the 2013 Teacher of the Danish National Symphony. Replacing Michigan School Vocal Music Associa- Year at CSMS, and in the same year the orchestra’s chief conductor, Rafael tion (MSVMA), and he is on the board the membership of the Florida Band- Frühbeck de Burgos, Ma˘celaru of both the MSVMA and ACDA master’s Association voted him the conducted the Danish National Michigan chapter. Jed Scott is also a winner of the prestigious Tom Bishop Symphony in Denmark and on a freelance composer/arranger. Award honoring him for building one German and U.S. tour in January and Daniel Song, B.M. ’03, joined the Aspen of the finest programs in the state after February 2015. Music Festival and School in 2012 as taking over a program on the verge of Nancy Marencin, B.M. ’03, is a speech- vice president and general man- being cancelled. language pathologist who recently ager, coming from the Los Angeles David Birrow, B.M. ’05, teaches at completed a clinical externship Philharmonic, where he was concert MacPhail Center for Music and Breck placement at the Emory Voice Center manager. School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at Emory University Hospital followed Brenton F. Alston, D.M.A. ’04, A.D. ’13, is where he is a general music teacher to by a pediatric clinical voice specialty assistant professor of conducting and grades 4 to 8, and teaches percussion training at Children’s Healthcare of wind studies and director of Wind and digital music. As a freelance musi- Atlanta, a leading pediatric hospital. Ensemble and Chamber Winds at cian his ensemble, Struck Percussion, Nicolas Repetto, B.M. ’03, is a composer Florida International University where received an artistic development grant for film, he also teaches graduate conducting from MacPhail Center to perform a television, video and history of wind repertoire. Prior to concert of music by James Holdman games, and his appointment at FIU, Alston served and a commissioned electro-acoustic multimedia. His as director of instrumental music and piece by Josh Clausen. Last October, music can be conductor of the Wind Ensemble at the he presented a workshop to music heard on the New World School of the Arts in Miami education students at the University TLC network as well as visiting director of bands at of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Birrow including the hit Radford University, Virginia. also published The Bucket Book: A shows Here Omar Lopez-Cepero, B.M. ’04, has been Junkyard Percussion Manual (Alfred Comes Honey Boo Boo, and Amas de cast in the ensemble of On Your Feet! Music Publishing) which shows K-12 Casas Deseperadas (“Desperate Gloria and Emilio Estefan’s new musi- music teachers how to effectively teach Housewives” on Spanish television), as cal set to hit Broadway in fall 2015. bucket drumming. well as television advertisements. His Jeremy Levy, M.M. ’04, is a Los Britt Daley, B.M. ’05, M.M ’07, continues original film score credits include Angeles-based her work as lead Can’t, For Family’s Sake, and Ode In composer/ creative for Blood, for which he won a 2014 Global arranger/ Promo Only, Inc. Music Award-Bronze Medal, and was orchestrator. Last creating nominated for a Hollywood Music in year he was lead promotional Media Award. Repetto was accepted orchestrator for music for into the Mentorship Program by the the film The Book industry Society of Composers & Lyricists of Life composed professionals. (SCL), and recently participated in a by Academy- Daley is an conducting workshop with David award winner Gustavo Santaolalla; and independent artist and singer/

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Emmy Winner Combines Music, Sports, and Chutzpah into Broadcast Success

Growing up in Philadelphia, Myra Cole, ironically the first show she was assigned to B.M. ’86, was a gifted mathematician, “ob- when she joined CBS-TV as a studio tech- sessed with The Beatles,” and an avid sports nical manager. She was only 25. Waiting for fan. She fondly recalls watching Eagles her interview, she remembers the excite- TV Exec and Dolphins games with her father. ment of spotting Dan Rather and Andy Myra Cole “We sparred over team statistics, Rooney in the cafeteria. Delivers but I was good with numbers, so Cole’s first two Emmy Awards were for I always won,” she laughs. She her technical leadership inside the network Award-Winning learned to play flute and piano and sang in the studio of live televised sports. She won for Technical Excellence synagogue where her father was the rabbi. Team Studio: NFL Today (1991) and Technical Team through Myra describes her mother, who worked Remote: the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer (1994). as a biochemist in the 1940s and was a special Twelve years ago, Cole transitioned from studio work to Teamwork. education specialist while raising three children as managing a team of nearly 50 employees in the digital “my biggest inspiration, a very independent woman delivery of CBS Television-owned programming for for her time.” syndicated distribution internationally. The work earned One of only two females enrolled in the University of her a third Emmy for Large Scale Digital Promotion Miami’s Music Engineering Technology (MuE) program Distribution (2003). Cole’s advice to aspiring engineers at the time, Cole sang in the jazz vocal ensemble and pro- is “start small, hone your skills, take time, learn your craft, duced a show for campus TV called Jazz UM Style. She and pay your dues.” also played piccolo in the marching band, boosting the With her technical spirit that accompanied the Hurricanes to four national career fully estab- bowl games. lished, Cole returned Like many of her MuE classmates, Cole’s goal was to her musical roots. to work in a recording studio. After graduation she Today she avidly followed her fiancé to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where she performs in a community cold-called WANE-TV, a small CBS affiliate. “They were band, directs a flute ensemble, so impressed with my unique degree combining arts and sings karaoke, and is active at Con- technology that they hired me on the spot,” she says. gregation Beth Hatikvah. Music di- When the Society of Broadcast Engineers put out a rector Andy Kaplan praises her com- call shortly after for a local crew to assist the CBS net- mitment to the synagogue: “She’s our work in its coverage of a USC versus Notre Dame foot- lead musician and also takes care of all ball game in South Bend, they asked Cole if she could our audio and visual. Myra is so creative, run a camera. “On a whim, I said yes,” she recalls, “then I so giving and sharing, an inspiration. I ran back to the newsroom to learn how.” She filmed the don’t know what we’d do without her.” game that weekend. Cole lives in Chatham, New Jersey, Today, Cole is a 25-year veteran of CBS Television and has one daughter whom she raised as a in New York, director of technical operations at CBS single mom. Three years ago she married Steve Worldwide Distribution, and a three-time Emmy Award Toneatti, an alternative energy salesman. “I was winner. attracted as soon as I heard him play harmonica Her dream job was to work with NFL Today, and sing,” she says.

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 53 } Class Notes songwriter; she released a solo EP/ Urband and Lazar Music Publishing, Overture’s Rising Stars. He continues album in 2015. She is currently Inc. to perform, last season playing the role working as a co-writer and featured Nathan P. Adams, B.M. ’06, is a pastor at of the Fiddler in Children’s Theater of vocalist on electro-house producer Fulford United Madison’s production of Fiddler on the Morgan Page’s track “Running Wild” Methodist Roof and was a real fiddler in the pit debuting 2015. Church in North orchestra for Music Theatre of Peter Elliott, B.M. ’05, M.M. ’10, is Miami Beach, Madison’s production of Bonnie & director of choirs Florida. He was Clyde. at St. Dominic ordained as an Andrew Maguire, B.M. ’07, currently plays Catholic School elder in the drums on tour with the Broadway in New Orleans. Florida Confer- musical Anything Goes. Based in Oak- His recent stage ence of the land, California, he records and tours credits include United Methodist Church in June 2014. regularly with artists throughout the roles with Tulane Amada Anderson, B.A. ’06, continues her Bay Area. Recent credits include Mirah, Summer Lyric work as CEO and founder/tour guide John Vanderslice, and Thao & the Get Theatre in A of New York Broadway Tours, a musical Down Stay Down. He also performs Chorus Line, Kiss Me Kate, Anything theatre walking tour, while also work- and helps with outreach programs in Goes, and Fiddler on the Roof, and with ing part-time at Juilliard. She performs the Magik*Magik Orchestra. the Jefferson Performing Arts Society in as an actress, singer, philanthropist, Ahmad Rithaudin Md Noor, M.M. ’07, Ph.D. Blueberry Hill, Buddy: The Buddy Holly and entrepreneur with many on-going ’14, was appointed chair of the Music Story, and Hairspray, where he has also projects. She was featured on TLC’s Education Department at Universiti performed in the pit orchestra and Angels Among Us and Univision’s De- Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, directed and/or music directed four spierta America. Her non-profit work Malaysia. shows in their children’s program. Elliott has been featured in Zombie Maga- Katherine Palmer, B.M. ’07, is a museum appeared in a cabaret at The Roosevelt zine, Examiner.com, Crowdfunding- educator at the and The Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans, Guide.com, and Humans of New York. Musical and at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Chad Bernstein, B.M. ’06, M.M. ’09, was Instrument in “Under the Boardwalk.” He is part of profiled as a CNN Hero in 2015 for his Museum in the vocal quartet The Big Easy Buddies, nonprofit Guitars Over Guns which Phoenix, Arizona and has performed as a narrator/actor provides music instruction and men- where she is in with Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, torship to at-risk students in Miami. charge of and danced with Jefferson Ballet Kevin Curtain, M.M. ’06, is vice president developing and Theatre and Ballet Louisiane. of business affairs at Demo Entertain- teaching Marie-Elaine Gagnon, D.M.A. ’05, is ment Group, LLC. educational programs. Palmer is also associate Steve Danyew, B.M. ’06, is an active the assistant director of Clarinets for professor of cello composer, teaching a new course Conservation (C4C), a non-profit that and chamber developed for the Arts Leadership Pro- utilizes the transformative power of music at the gram at the Eastman School of Music, music to encourage creativity and the University of where Claire Courchene, B.M. ’07, protection of natural resources. South Dakota. was among guest speakers this fall. Traveling to Tanzania each summer, She continues to Danyew celebrated recordings of the C4C promotes awareness of defores- play with the percussion duo Escape Ten commis- tation and sustainability issues by Rawlins Piano sion of his work “Chorale Variations” actively engaging the youth and Trio, having recently released the for two marimbas, released on their community through music. Palmer has album Attracting Opposites: New Music album Colours of a Groove, and the given national and international for Piano Trio on Azica Records. In Naxos release Point Blank that featured performances and presentations to 2014, they completed a Korean tour his work “Lauda” for wind ensemble, discuss the importance of interdisci- with a performance at the Sejong recorded by the Illinois State University plinary music education and Concert Hall in Seoul. Wind Symphony. ethnomusicology. Jonathan Lazar, B.M. ’05, is vice Jason Hurwitz, B.M. ’06, is programming Mark Poiesz, B.M. ’07, drummer, is cur- president of and community rently performing with country music strategic engagement artist Tyler Farr on his Burn It Down partnerships at manager for the Tour. Since moving to Nashville, he has muzik. The Overture Center appeared with country music’s Chuck startup recently for the Arts in Wicks and breakout country star Lind- launched Smart Madison, say Ell, touring with The Band Perry. Headphones and Wisconsin. He Megan Walsh, D.M.A. ’07, pianist, is won a 2015 produces the director of the Frost Preparatory Consumer local concert Program at University of Miami, which Electronics Show (CES) Innovation series MadCity Sessions, and oversees was recently featured in an extensive Award. Lazar is also co-founder of a large regional talent search called segment on CNN En Español.

{ 54 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Nichole Yannetty, B.A. ’07, is an actor/ Marie-Curie Fellowship program in healthcare companies recently accept- comedian in New autism and intellectual disabilities. ed into the very high-profile Techstars York City, where Matthew Marshall, M.M. ’08, a French seed accelerator, which awards $120k she is a house horn player in the Miami Symphony to the ten most promising startups en- performer at the Orchestra, performed in the 2014 tering its program; Techstars accepts Peoples Improv Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with less than 1% of applicants for this Theatre, and an the Madison Scouts, a Boy Scout drum prestigious opportunity. Triomi was actor in the and bugle corps he performed with in founded after the three volunteered monthly live his youth. at UM’s Project Medishare Hospital in sketch comedy Jessica Muñiz-Collado, B.M. ’08, is a Haiti, an experience which led directly show BoogieManja with comedy visiting assistant to the founding of their company. troupe Alice & Janney. She is an actor/ music professor Vicente Chavarria, B.A. ’09, M.M. ’11, producer/writer for an all-female at Nova South- harpsichord, sketch comedy group called Most eastern guitar, baritone, Likely, creating online content. University where is finishing his Commercial credits include 7Up Ten, she teaches D.M.A. degree in Honda and Walmart. music theory, Early Music Augie Haas, M.M. ’08, D.M.A. ’11, is a music produc- Performance at professional trumpeter, composer, tion, and more. USC Thornton and teacher, frequently playing with She runs her own company, NizCo School of Music Maria Schneider, Village Vanguard Music, Inc. In 2014, Muñiz-Collado where he Orchestra, Gil Evans Project, Birdland produced, performed, and released recently conducted a production of Big Band, various Broadway shows, her first album of all original composi- Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie. As a and the Radio City Orchestra. He is tions called New Tricks. She has composer and arranger, he has also a member of Harry Connick composed for Odyssey Earth Films, multiple titles published by Augsburg Jr.’s band. Augie has released four INC24 iMagination Productions, and Fortress, Santa Barbara Music albums under his co-founded label MundoFOX’s television series Los Publishing, and Alliance Music. He was Playtime Music: The Llama, Doing Golden Boys. Muñiz-Collado was awarded a postdoctoral research it Augie Style, Baby Jazz and most commissioned by the Spokane New fellowship from the Belgian-American recently his debut solo album End- Music Ensemble to compose a piece Educational Foundation and will spend less, featuring all original composi- for marimba, voice, and electronics the 2015-16 academic year at the tions. He also published his first book and is the composer for award-win- University of Leuven. entitled Build Your Range. ning director Luis Argueta’s newest Andrew Dahan, M.M. ’09, Ph.D. ’14, has Hayoung A. Lim, Ph. D. ’08, is director of film The U Turn. been appointed director of vocal jazz music therapy David Schroeder, M.M. ’08, D.M.A. ’11, ensembles and vocal music educa- and associate is on faculty at Carleton University in tion at Illinois Wesleyan University in professor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, teaching jazz Normal, Illinois. music at Oral history and performance. Schroeder Korre Foster, D.M.A. ’09, is director of Roberts is active as a freelance performer on choral activities University in bass, guitar and vocals, with shows at Austin Peay Tulsa, Oklahoma. at Ottawa Bluesfest, The Ottawa Jazz State University. In 2014, Lim was Festival and as house bassist for the In 2014, he a keynote Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival. presented “The speaker and workshop presenter at Danyel Arianna [Danielle Remer], B.M. ’09, is Rhetorical the International Conference on a director at Start Implications of Developmental Disability at the Some Drama Charpentier’s University of Calcutta, India; a Children’s Use of Silence” at presenter for the 2014 American Theater Program the 16th Biennial International Music Therapy Association Confer- in Las Vegas, Conference on Baroque Music at the ence; and invited online presenter for Nevada. She Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg. the World Congress of Music Therapy. played Ti Moune Phuttaraksa Kamnirdratana, M.M. ’09, Lim co-authored two publications, in the musical D.M.A. ’12, is a “Music Therapy Career Aptitude Test Once On This full-time lecturer & General Self-Efficacy,” Journal of Island at The Smith Center in Las in harp and Music Therapy, and “Effects of Music Vegas, and will soon embark on a assistant to Therapy and Piano Lesson on summer tour. associate dean at Academic Achievement, Classroom Mike Battaglia, B.S. ’09, Sean Murphy, Mahidol Behaviors, and Self-esteem of At-Risk B.S.B.E. ’09, M.D. ’13 and Amanda University, Students: A pilot study,” GSTF Journal of Zelman, B.M. ’11 have started a por- College of Music Music. She also accepted a research table 12-lead EKG startup company in Thailand. She reviewer position for a European called Triomi. Triomi is one of ten also performs as a harpist with the

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 55 } Class Notes Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra. Bradley Olesen, Ph.D. ’10, has been Diana Le, B.M. ’09, is a music thera- appointed visiting professor of music pist for the toddler rock program at 2010 education at The Schwob School of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Jennifer Denk, B.M. ’10, is a music Music of Columbus State University in Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. She also therapist for West Georgia. sings with the Cleveland Pops Chorus, Music in Stacie Lee Rossow, D.M.A. ’10, assistant performing with the Cleveland Pops Urbandale, Iowa. professor and associate director of Orchestra. This past summer choral and vocal studies at Florida At- Julia Mortyakova, D.M.A. ’09, piano she served as a lantic University, was nominated for the performance, is clinician for Dr. University Talon Award for Excellence assistant Elizabeth in Advising. She presented this year professor and Stegemoller’s at the College Music Society National chair of the research study Conference, Florida Music Educators Department of entitled “Effects of Singing on Speech Conference, American Choral Direc- Music at the and Swallow in Parkinson’s Disease.” tor’s Conference, and College Music Mississippi Denk is also currently the Empower- Society-Pacific Northwest Regional. University for ment Workshop Coordinator for the Rossow is founding director and Women. She Iowa Chapter of Music Therapy. soprano in the group Sirenia, releasing appeared as concerto soloist with the Evan Goldman, B.M. ’10, film and multime- an album in summer 2015. Assisi Performing Arts Festival dia composer in Los Angeles, scored Bethany Tallman, B.M. ’10, music therapy Orchestra, Tennessee State University several video shorts including Jane LA, and psychology, is a speech-language Orchestra, and the Starkville Sympho- Dinner Time, Wrestling Isn’t Wrestling, pathologist for Greenville County ny Orchestra; and performed recitals Wide Awake and Binge Inferno. He Schools in Greenville, South Carolina. in the U.S. and Italy. Mortyakova also was also orchestrator for Scooby-Doo Zoe Zeniodi, D.M.A. ’10, A.D. ’11, assistant presented papers and lecture recitals Wrestlemania Mystery. conductor at at regional conferences of the College Rachel Hanusa, B.M. ’10, M.M. ’14, music Florida Grand Music Society and MTNA. Last year business, music education, is assistant Opera, returned she was honored with a Special director of admission and recruit- to her native Judges’ Citation by The American ment at the Frost School of Music, and Greece for Prize in piano for “Championing the interim managing director for Frost several engage- music of Cecile Chaminade.” Online. ments this season. She conducted the Greek National Symphony Orchestra, ARTéfacts Ensemble, Kamerata-Armo- UM Frost Drum Alumni Gather nia Atenea Orchestra, and closed the year conducting a New Year’s concert with Thessaloniki City Symphony Around the Country Orchestra. She conducted the tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires by Ástor Steve Rucker, drumset/ Piazzolla; the premiere of the opera jazz percussion instructor Raven by Greek composer Kostis in the Department of Stu- Kritsotakis and the premiere of Heater dio Music and Jazz, has Esmeralda by Thomas Sleeper. Her leadership of the opera No Exit by been coordinating annual composer Andy Vores for Florida “drum hangs” for Univer- Grand Opera was chosen among sity of Miami Frost School South Florida Classical Review’s Top 10 of Music jazz percussion Performances of 2014. Daniel Andai, D.M.A. ’11, has been alumni for the past eight named the new dean of music at years in New York, and Miami’s New World School of the Arts. also at the NAMM Show in As a violinist, Andai has been a soloist, chamber musician, concertmas- Anaheim. If you are a jazz ter, conductor and recording artist, percussion alum looking to frequently with the Miami Symphony participate in an upcoming Orchestra. He is also artistic director drum hang, please email of Vermont’s Killington Music Festival. At New World School of the Arts, he’ll [email protected] for oversee both the high school and col- details! lege music programs.

{ 56 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Patricia Chaviano, B.M. ’11, is working as performance, is assistant box office Division of the 2014 National Trumpet a music therapist manager at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Competition. at Seasons Live, in Los Angeles, California. Jeremy Fox, D.M.A. ’13, jazz composi- Hospice and Anna Hersey, D.M.A. ’12, is newly tion, was Palliative Care of appointed nominated for a Miami with adults assistant 2015 Grammy in and families professor of the Best facing terminal voice at Eastern Arrangement, illness. Her New Mexico Instrumental and special interests University. In the Vocals category include songwriting, legacy work with summer she for “All My families, and bereavement work with teaches at Blue Tomorrows” from children and adolescents. She was Lake Fine Arts his album With Love – Arrangements Seasons Hospice’s 2012 Music Camp in Michigan. for Some of My Favorite Singers (see Therapist of the Year. Chaviano has Douglas Phillips, D.M.A. ’12, is acting page 4). In spring 2015, he served as earned multiple certificates including director of bands guest conductor for the All-Northwest a specialization in Hospice and and visiting All-State Honors Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Palliative Care Music Therapy, and assistant director for the Iowa All-State Vocal Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Music professor of Jazz Ensemble; and presented Therapy. She will receive her master’s music at Stetson “Circle-Singing: Incorporating Group this spring in Social Work from Florida University’s Improvisation Into Your Vocal Rehears- International University and plans to School of Music. als” at the national conference for continue advocacy work in the field of Under his American Choral Directors music therapy and social work. direction, the Association. Jorge Luis Padrón, Jr., B.M. ’11, is orches- Stetson University Symphonic Band Abi Loutoo [Abi.L.ity], B.M. ’13, is a tra director of Miami Palmetto Senior presented the world premiere of multi-genre High School of Miami-Dade County Sydney Hodkinson’s Symphony No. 10. cellist, composer, Public Schools. Phillips was awarded the Stetson dancer, produc- Colin Trusedell, B.M. ’11, released his University Top Hatter Award for er, session second album as a band leader called “Outstanding Organization Advisor” recording artist, Quartet of Jazz Death; a corresponding for his work as faculty advisor for the and educator. video has been featured on NoTreble. Stetson University chapters of CNAfME She was featured com, a worldwide bass media plat- and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Phillips also on Ghetto Youths form. Trusedell has also been featured served as the conductor and clinician International in Bass Musician Magazine. for the 2015 Volusia All-County High Presents Set Up Shop, Vol. 2., which Tori Tullier, B.M. ’11, singer-songwriter School Band. debuted at number one on the and part-time publicist for Nashville’s Alessandra Salvati, D.M.A. ’12, composer, Billboard Reggae Chart in early 2015; Richlyn Marketing, has been honored recently completed Canti eleatici, a in music videos War Island by Brittany with ASCAP’s 2014 Sammy Cahn work for chamber orchestra com- Mullen, B.M. ’13, and Love Me Tonight award. Tullier’s song “Your Nicotine” missioned by the Israel Camerata by Daniel Landers; Sherri Hick’s earned highest scores from this year’s Jerusalem for a tour of concerts in gospel album Promise Keeper; Justina group of judges. Israel in October 2014. In January Shandler’s Look Away; and co-pro- Emmet Cohen, B.M. ’12, was among 2015, she was invited to present at the duced/co-remixed Nightrun for five finalists competing for the 2015 National YoungArts Foundation. Future electronic artist Trifonic. Loutoo is Cole Porter Jazz Fellowship Award, plans include the performance of her musical director of the collaborative produced by the American Pianists symphonic work Entasis at the Sydney work TMI, which debuted with Fuzion Association. Opera House. Dance Artists this season. Pedro Fernandez, M.M. ’12, is acting James Peyden Shelton, M.M. ’12, currently Elvin Negron, B.M. ’13, is the new vocal section percus- teaches as and piano director at American Heri- sion with the lecturer of tage School of Boca Delray, Florida. Cincinnati trumpet at both Rafael Piccolotto de Lima, M.M. ’13, Symphony and the Eastman doctoral Pops Orchestra School of Music, candidate at through the where he is Frost, was a 2014-2015 pursuing a winner of a 2015 season, after doctorate, and and 2014 ASCAP which he will Cornell Herb Alpert resume his position as second University. Shelton also performs with Young Jazz percussionist of the Houston Ballet Syracuse’s Symphoria Orchestra and Composer Orchestra. the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Award. Other Levi Hammock, B.M. ’12, keyboard He won 1st Prize in the Graduate Solo awards include three 2015 DownBeat

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 57 } Class Notes collegiate awards and a 2014 JEN ceived orchestrator credits for ESPN’s Myself” and “Living In The Palace” on Student Composition Showcase 30 for 30: The U Part 2, and for the VH1 the Singing News Top 80 Chart. In Award. He celebrated the Brazilian series The Tanning of America. 2014, she was named winner of three premiere of his Latin Grammy-nomi- Jon Anderson, D.M.A. ’14, is professor of graduate level Downbeat awards for nated Abertura Jobiniana; the premiere music at Miami Outstanding Jazz Arrangement, of his symphonic work Cenas Dade College. Outstanding Blues Pop Rock Soloist, Quiméricas with the Orquestra An active and Outstanding Small Jazz Vocal Sinfônica Municipal de Campinas; and performer, Ensemble. She was part of the the commission of an arrangement of Anderson plays engineering team on a Grammy Pasage Abierto for the Costa Rica third horn for the nominated arrangement by Jeremy National Orchestra. Miami Symphony, Fox, D.M.A. ’13 (see page 4). Garner Asha Sing [Ashlee Madhukar], B.M. ’13, second horn for has been contracted to write a book released her sophomore single the Symphony of So You Want To Sing Country for the “Satellite,” and embarked on her Be the Americas, and performed as National Association of Teachers of Unique Tour during the 2014-2015 soloist in Strauss’ Concerto No. 1 with Singing (NATS) and Rowman & season where she travelled to South the Alhambra Symphony in March Littlefield Publishers. Florida schools sharing her story and 2015. Rebecca Henriques, D.M.A. ’14, soprano, inspiring young minds to go after Daniel Bennett, B.S. ’14, received a gold is a Florida Grand Opera Young Artist their dreams. Sing performed at the win in the Audio and Engineering So- and made her Florida Grand Opera Y100 Jingle Ball alongside Jake Miller, ciety (AES) 137th Convention student debut as Despina in their 2015 pro- Meghan Trainor, Rixton and more. Her competition in the Sound for Visual duction of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. first single, “Mercy,” released in 2013 Media category for his audio work on Andrés Jaime, D.M.A. ’14, conductor, peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot the short film El Mar Y El. is the music director for B Sharp Singles Chart, making Sing the first David Cruz, B.M. ’14, music education Youth Music Program in Fort Worth, Indian American singer to reach the and music therapy, is currently teach- Texas, as well as publishing manager Billboard Hot Singles Top 10. ing magnet orchestra, chorus, and for FILARMONIKA music publish- Daniel Susnjar, D.M.A. ’13, is on the theater at South Miami Senior High ing. Jaime will also serve as assistant jazz faculty at Western Australian School of the Arts, and was nominated conductor for the 2015 residency and Academy of Performing Arts. He for Rookie Teacher of the Year. national tour of the Filarmónica Joven was nominated as the 2014 Western Chantil Dukart, B.A. ’14, piano, songwrit- de Colombia (Youth Philharmonic of Australian Music Industry Jazz Musi- er, released her Colombia). cian of the Year and for a Freedman first album In the Gene Knific, B.M. ’14, was a 2015 Herb Jazz Fellowship. Recent work includes Beginning, Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award producing, performing and com- garnering winner from the ASCAP Foundation. posing for the upcoming Gabriel attention from He also earned a 2015 DownBeat Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet album several major Undergraduate College Outstanding featuring Ron Carter, Russell Ferrante record labels. In Performance award in the Blues/Pop/ and Badal Roy; he will play drums addition to Rock Soloist category. on their U.S. tour. Susnjar formed performing in William Longo, M.M. ’14, composer and the electro-jazz trio Trisk, featuring New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Miami, arranger and doctoral candidate at original music with Modern Jazz, and Black Rock City at Burning Man, Frost, won the 2014 Sammy Nestico Afro-Peruvian and R&B influences. He Dukart is songwriting and collaborat- Award for a New Jazz Composition was commissioned by the Western ing at several studios, and was booked of the US Air Force Band. The Airmen Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra to at Virginia Key GrassRoots Festival of of Note will produce a professional write a 60-minute suite of big band Music and Dance. Dukart started her recording of his winning composition music entitled Música Criolla, to be own jazz night with her band Chantil and perform Longo’s piece during the premiered in November. and the Dukes of Art at Prohibition upcoming Jazz Heritage Series. Dana Vouglitois, J.D. ’13, M.M. ’13, music Restaurant and Speakeasy in Midtown Alyssa Wilkins, B.M. ’14, is a board business and Miami. certified music entertainment Kelly Garner, D.M.A. ’14, is a lecturer of therapist and industries, commercial works as music currently serves voice at Belmont therapist and as in-house University in music educator counsel at Nashville, on staff at Lincoln Center Tennessee. She Metropolitan for the Perform- is producer/ Preparatory and ing Arts in New arranger at Kelly Laureate Day York City, and is licensed to practice Garner Produc- Schools in Chicago. Wilkins was a law in both Florida and New York. tions, LLC, and presenter at the 2014 Great Lakes Sami Ahmed, B.M. ’14, is a music produc- music publisher/owner at Yellow Tree Regional Conference for the American er at 10K Islands studio. He recently re- Music Group, with two singles “Forgive Music Therapy Association.

{ 58 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 In Memoriam

Lorine Buffington, a soprano who served on the Uni- of University Choirs until his retirement in 1988. He then held versity of Miami’s vocal performance faculty for 22 years and guest conductorships and visiting professorships at universities was founder and director of the UM Salzburg Program for 15 worldwide. years, died May 17, 2014 in Naples, Florida. She was 73. Buffington performed with The Metropolitan Opera, Florida Rebecca L. Munn Herrold, B.M. ’60, pianist and Grand Opera, Turnau Opera, Das Raimund Theater in Vienna, a music education professor for 25 years at San Jose State Austria, and more. She held M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from the University in California passed away on May 5, 2014 after a University of Michigan plus degrees from Oberlin Conservatory long illness. She was 75. (See page 34.) and the Academie Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She was most recently adjunct professor of music at George A. Ingraham, B.M. ’74, died June 17, 2014 at Florida Gulf Coast University. the age of 62. A longtime resident of Miami Gardens, Florida, Her husband, Franklin Summers, also a former Frost vocal he was a singer, choral conductor and a music teacher in faculty member for 25 years, survives her. Miami-Dade County Public Schools for 33 years.

Sarah K. Bergh Brooks, B.A. ’37, violinist, pianist, Joseph M. Occhionero, B.M. ’74, of Strongsville, singer and music educator, passed away October 24, 2014 in Ohio, passed away July 1, 2014. He was 62. Occhionero’s West Yarmouth, Massachusetts; she was 98. career began at Columbia Pictures Publications. He then The daughter of Frances Hovey Bergh, a pioneering music started his own sheet music distribution company, Mobile professor at University of Miami from 1934 to 1966, Bergh Brooks Sheet Music. He subsequently went into advertising, ultimately studied both violin and piano while at UM; she performed twice managing national sales for ESPN Coastal in Savannah, Georgia with the UM Symphony Orchestra, first as violin soloist on the and owned his own firm. Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, and later as piano soloist on the Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor. A new teaching studio in the Patricia Robert Heath, ’86, died October 16, 2014 in Miami, Louise Frost Music Studios honors the family’s musical legacy. Florida at the age of 55. Heath was the organist and director of music at Plymouth Congregational Church in Coconut Grove for Sidney Forrest, B.A. ’39, a clarinet teacher at the 23 years and a founder of the Miami Bach Society. Peabody Conservatory from 1946 to 1985, died August 9, 2013 in Bethesda, Maryland, just a few days shy of his 95th Robert T. (R.T.) Davis, Jr., M.M. ’89, of Fort Lauder- birthday. After graduating from the University of Miami he dale, Florida died October 3, 2014 at the age of 60. He taught earned a master’s degree from Columbia University. He music in Miami-Dade County Public Schools for 38 years where enjoyed a long career as clarinetist and soloist with the he was twice named Teacher of the Year, and also served as U.S. Marine Corps Band and as a chamber music artist. the district supervisor for Music Education from 1996 to 2012. During the summers from 1959 to 2005, he taught at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Robert (Bobby) K. Bellemans, B.M. ’90, of Lago Vista, Texas, died February 21, 2015 at the age of 50. He Thomas Hilbish, B.M. ’41, internationally respected performed with many notable artists and bands including Beto conductor of choral music, died February 22, 2015 in Bloom- y Los Fairlanes, B.B. King, Ian Moore, The Mavericks, Jack ington, Illinois, at the age of 96. Hilbish attended the University Ingram, Matt Wilson, Junior Brown, and more. of Miami on music and basketball scholarships. He was captain of the basketball team and president of the student body. He Earl P. (Harry) Wickerham, III, M.M. ’09, died on later earned an M.M. from Westminster Choir College. In 1965 June 20, 2014 in Presto, Pennsylvania. He was 48. Wickerham Hilbish joined the faculty at the University of Michigan where majored in electronic music while a student at the University of he served as chair of the Conducting Department and director Miami Frost School of Music.

Spring 2015 SCORE MAGAZINE { 59 } Musical Memories

Associate Professor Alan Johnson conducts the Frost Opera Theater in Puccini’s Gianni Schicci, a farcical tale of familial greed. Opening night was praised by South Florida Classical Review as “a triumph for the gifted young singers and a top-notch production team.”

Photo by Shawn Clark/Versatile Light Studio

{ 60 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2015 Make a difference.

Top 10 Ways to Stay Connected WITH THE FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC

1. EMAIL: Connect with us at [email protected]. 2. SIGN ON: Friend us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Join our LinkedIn group. 3. UPDATE: Send us your current address and contact information, or fill out your UM alumni profile at www.miamialumni.net. 4. NETWORK: Come back to campus for Alumni Weekend, concerts and special events. 5. SHOW PRIDE: Order apparel, ball caps and accessories from UMFrostStore.com. 6. SHARE YOUR STORY: Send updates to Class Notes in Score magazine. 7. PROVIDE EXPERIENCE: Mentor or create internships and opportunities for our students. 8. LAUNCH CAREERS: Hire our alumni and students. 9. STRENGTHEN FROST: Refer prospective students to our programs. 10. GIVE BACK: Make a difference with a financial gift.

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“The Frost School of Music is rapidly becoming the great music school of the modern era. Strengthened by incredible generosity from major benefactors and alumni, our award-winning faculty and high-achieving students are poised to reinvigorate the entire music profession.”  —Shelton G. Berg, Dean Help Us Reach the Next Crescendo

We thank all who believe in the Frost School and the transformative power of music for contributing to our crescendo of progress through Momentum2: The Breakthrough Campaign for the University of Miami. Your ongoing investment in our future enables us to continue pushing the boundaries of music education and innovation—ultimately increasing the way music enriches our lives.

To make a charitable gift to the Frost School of Music, please contact Associate Dean for Development Holly Freyre at [email protected] or 305-284-2819.