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University of Miami • Spring 2014 INSIDE: Playing from the Heart New Era in Jazz Igniting Interest in Classics scoreFROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Help Us Reach the Next Crescendo

Frost Online introduces a bold new way to reboot Education your music career. at Yo u r Fingertips Message from the Dean

I am very excited about the energy and vitality of the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music. This fall we welcome one of the largest and most talented undergraduate classes in the school’s history. The quality of performance at Frost is stunning, while students and faculty are leading the way in a variety of research areas.

The campus is undergoing dramatic change. The Patricia Louise Frost Music Studios will be complete by the end of the year, adding more than 80 new teaching and rehearsal spaces to our footprint. A new plaza in front of Gusman Concert Hall completes a beautiful performing arts complex, and next door to Gusman is the fantastic new Student Activities Center, the hub of student life on campus. We are planning two more state-of- the-art buildings—a recital hall and an innovative classroom/incubation space, the Center for Experiential Music.

Speaking of Experiential Music, our paradigm-altering curriculum is dramatically changing the perceptions and skill set of undergraduate students, who leave the Frost School better equipped for the demands of today’s dynamic music industry. To amplify these efforts, we have begun an exclusive partnership with Universal Classics, one of the world’s largest record companies. The goal of the partnership, called Universal Music U @ Frost, is to expand audiences and opportunities for artists. We are exploring new ideas for concert presentation, artist training, recording, and the marketing and networking necessary to build a larger base for great music. We will also launch an exciting new master’s degree in performance, rooted in the goals of Universal Music U @ Frost.

The Frost School of Music is changing the calculus in higher education. We are breaking away from outdated models with bold curricular and extracurricular activities, including Frost Online! Rey Sanchez, associate dean for strategic initiatives and innovation, is leading the Frost School’s launch of two online master’s degrees this fall. The Frost/ Universal Partnership also will produce online offerings to help performers everywhere open new career avenues.

All of these initiatives—and much more that you’ll read about in this issue of Score—are evidence of the Frost School’s commitment to preparing students for vibrant careers in a music world that is constantly changing, but also constantly growing.

Warmly,

Shelton G. Berg Dean, Frost School of Music Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music Spring 2014

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 24 Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies J. Steven Moore Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives and Innovation Reynaldo Sanchez, B.M. ’80, M.M. ’82 20 Playing from the Heart Associate Dean, Advancement Holly Freyre, M.B.A. ’11 With its emphasis on the lost art of classical improvisa- Director, Admissions and Recruitment Karen Kerr tion, the Frost Experiential Music Curriculum is revolu- Director, Business Affairs tionizing the way students hear, play, and create music. Denise Eutsey, B.B.A. ’90 Director, Marketing and Communications Julia D. Berg Right Move, Right Time University Communications 24 Vice President for Communications Jazz dynamos John Daversa and Kate Reid take a leap of faith to Jacqueline R. Menendez, A.B. ’83 lead the Department of Studio Music and Jazz into a new era. Assistant Vice President for Communications and Marketing Todd Ellenberg Editorial Director Meredith Camel, M.F.A. ’12 28 Entering the Online Frontier Director of Creative Services Scott Fricker Starting this fall, Frost Online brings the virtues of the virtual Art Director classroom to two renowned Frost School of Music master’s programs. Sau Ping Choi Production Manager Angie Villanueva, A.B. ’12 28 Editorial Contributors Julia Berg, Sydnee Waggoner, Dorothy Hindman, B.M. ’88, D.M.A. ’94, DEPARTMENTS David Menconi, Lisa Sedelnik, M.A. ’00

Score magazine is published once a year by the Frost School of Music and 2 FROST NEWS University of Miami Division of University Communications. Score magazine is Gift supports recital hall Frost Online debuts distributed free of charge to alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the Universal Music U Festival anniversaries Violin 32 FACULTY UPDATES Frost School. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission reunion Weeks Quadrangle dedication New New faculty Retiring faculty is prohibited. Postmaster and others, please send change of address notification to Frost merchandise HMI musicians on TV and Announcements and accomplishments Score magazine, Frost School of Music, P.O. Box 248165, Coral Gables, Florida beyond Ensembles at UMH Frost Chorale in 33124; telephone 305-284-2241. the UK Grammy winners Capturing live Contributions of articles, photographs, and artwork are welcome; however, performances ’Canes in the Community Stories 42 FACULTY PROFILE Score magazine accepts no responsibility for unsolicited items. and sounds of the Galapagos, and much more! The Harmony of Coming Home The comments and opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Miami or the staff of Score magazine. Copyright ©2014, University of Miami. 14 GUEST ARTISTS 43 CLASS NOTES An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The Cleveland Orchestra Bill Lee benefit Whit Alumni tell us why they’re proud to be a Sidener tribute Jeff “Tain” Watts James Judd Frost musician. Plus, Frost Distinguished www.music.miami.edu Richard Goode New musicology lecture series Alumni André Raphel and Elizabeth Caballero return to campus. 18 STUDENT STARS Latin Grammy-nominated graduate student leaves 51 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Brazil to pursue his dream at Frost Student Peermusic exec Julio Bague credits his musicians rack up awards arranging chops for success as a producer. Frost News

Gift from Swanee and Paul J. DiMare Supports New Recital Hall

Paul J. DiMare and support will contribute to the University’s great work in his wife Swanee a meaningful way,” Paul DiMare says. strengthen the Frost e DiMares have contributed more than $12.5 million School of Music’s through the Paul J. DiMare Foundation to Momentum2: building campaign e Breakthrough Campaign for the University of Miami. e with a special gift. DiMares are vice chairs of the campaign, and Paul DiMare is a member of the University’s Board of Trustees. “Swanee and Paul DiMare are pillars of our community with deep ties to the University of Miami,” says Donna E. Shalala, president of the University. “We are so thankful for their leadership and extraordinary commitment to the University’s mission. ey are genuine heroes.” Frost School of Music Dean Shelly Berg commended

VERSATILE LIGHT STUDIOS VERSATILE the DiMares for their “commitment to improving the GENEROUS AND LONGTIME University of facilities in which our students and faculty can make Miami supporters Swanee and Paul J. DiMare have music together. eir substantial gift brings us closer pledged a $2 million gift through the Paul J. DiMare to building a state-of-the-art recital hall in the heart of Foundation to support the Frost School of Music Build- the music complex that our students and patrons will ing Fund. e dramatic foyer to a new 200-seat recital enjoy for generations to come. Naming the lobby in their hall will be named the Swanee and Paul J. DiMare Lobby honor will symbolize their caring spirit for the students in their honor. of our great school.” e Paul J. DiMare Foundation also pledged $6 million Paul DiMare is the president of DiMare Brothers, to fund scholarships at the UM Miller School of Medicine Inc., and DiMare Homestead, Inc., an organization of and $500,000 to the Miller School’s UHealth Sports growers, packers, and shippers of whole fresh fruits and Medicine Division. vegetables. Swanee and Paul DiMare were recognized “Swanee and I are proud to be part of such a won- in 2007 for their community-wide and far-reaching phi- derful institution. e University of Miami touches so lanthropy with the Outstanding Philanthropists Award many lives in our community and beyond. We hope our given by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

New Online Portal Offers Master’s Degrees FROST ONLINE, the Frost School’s students for either advanced-level clinical new online portal at frostonline.miami.edu, practice or additional opportunities in launches this fall with two of its most research or college teaching, will be available popular master’s degrees: the Master of online in early 2015. Music in Music Business and Entertain- Alumni and others seeking to expand ment Industries and the Master their music business expertise have the option of Arts in Arts Presenting and Live Entertainment of entering these programs through a free first course, a Management. MOOC in Music Entrepreneurship, allowing students A third Frost degree, the Master of Music degree in to try online learning risk-free as the first step toward Music erapy, designed to prepare music therapy obtaining a degree. Read the full story on page 28.

{ 2 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 Universal Music U @ Frost Will Engage New Generations of Classics Listeners development, entrepreneurship, touring, stage presence, long-term career development, and business management. Some of these courses will eventually be available online, including an online certificate program. “For those of us who care deeply and passionately about classics, it is no longer possible to operate within the old paradigms,” Sobol says. “We must take respon- sibility as change agents in the

PHOTOS: VERSATILE LIGHT STUDIOS VERSATILE PHOTOS: field, re-imagining and transform- CAN 20SOMETHINGS WHOSE music prefer- ing our business to ensure a creative and vibrant future. “ ences are dominated by rock, hip-hop, and dubstep Under Sobol’s leadership, Universal Music Classics also find a place on their playlists for classics? e Frost has revitalized its commitment to the best that classics School of Music thinks so. Expanding the audience for stands for—music rooted in the classical tradition while classical music is the mission of a new business-academic also encompassing various genres like contemporary, partnership between the Frost School and Universal jazz, and world music. Universal Music Classics aims Music Classics (UMC). to “re-imagine classics,” with a new focus on U.S.-based Elizabeth Sobol, UMC’s newly appointed president A&R signings while remaining the American home of and CEO, and Frost School Dean Shelly Berg announced Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and Mercury Classics a plan to launch Universal Music U @ Frost, a focused and continuing its long-standing relationship with the research initiative to identify and innovate ways for esteemed ECM label. Universal Music Group owns the aspiring young professional musicians to take the lead in most extensive catalogue of music in the industry, includ- engaging the “new classics generation.” e initiative will ing the last 100 years of the world’s most popular artists center around four areas of innovation—the concert and their recordings. experience, training performers, the role of the record Prior to joining Universal in April 2013, Sobol was label, and building a worldwide network of young managing director of IMG Artists (N/S America) and practitioners and consumers of classics. counted artists such as Joshua Bell, Itzhak Perlman, James “ e future of great music hinges upon the futures Galway, Hilary Hahn, Evgeny Kissin, and the Emerson of the performing musicians and composers who create String Quartet among her personal management clients. it,” says Dean Berg. “Our partnership focuses on them, and on giving tomorrow’s artists the tools to expand opportunity.” Frost students and faculty will work on campus with executives and artists from UMC, who will provide hands- on “externships,” develop and test new live concert and recording models, create new marketing approaches, and innovate audience and social media strategies. Additional plans for Universal Music U @ Frost include co-developing a new type of master’s degree in performance, with courses relevant to today’s professional world, such as concert programming, new recording paradigms, audience

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Frost School Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Naming Gift and 30th Anniversary of Festival Miami Robynne Redmon, Tony Boutté, and Kevin Short; pianist Cecile Licad; Manhattan Piano Trio; and hundreds of outstanding Frost School faculty and student performers. Seven-time Grammy Award-winning international megastar Gloria Estefan, A.B. ’78, treated hometown fans to an intimate concert with the Frost School’s Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra featuring Dean Berg’s arrangements and orchestra- tions from her double-Grammy-nominated album, e Standards. An aptly named Fiddles on Fire Joshua Bell, violin, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI TRUSTEES, President concert highlighted the violin virtuosity of artist-in- and Edgar Meyer, Donna E. Shalala, Dean Shelly Berg, and friends, residence Mark O’Connor and faculty artist Glenn bass, perform with students, faculty, and staff of the Frost School of Music Basham; they lit up the stage in a roaring mash-up of the Frost Symphony gathered on Friday, October 4, 2013, to honor Dr. Phillip bluegrass, jazz, and American roots music. Ashley Orchestra, Thomas Frost and Patricia Frost at a reception celebrating their Liberty, M.M. ’08, along with student fiddlers and Sleeper, conductor, $33 million naming gift one decade ago. national champi- at a Festival Following the reception was a sold-out Festival Miami onship finalists Miami concert concert in Maurice Gusman Concert Hall featuring famed from the Frost commemorating the violinist Joshua Bell and virtuoso bassist Edgar Meyer School, also 10th anniversary of with the Frost Symphony Orchestra. e duo performed stoked the musical the school’s naming the Florida premiere of Meyer’s new Double Concerto for fire with their gift from Phillip Violin and Double Bass with Orchestra, conducted by prodigious talents. and Patricia Frost, omas Sleeper. e concert also included the world Other festival shown right with premiere of Celebration March by Emmy Award-winning headliners Dean Shelly Berg. TV and film composer Joel McNeely, B.M. ’82, dedicated included Dr. John to Phillip and Patricia Frost. & e Nite e concert ushered in the 30th anniversary Trippers, Bruce season of Festival Miami in magnificent style. Over 25 Hornsby, B.M. outstanding festival concerts were presented throughout ’77, Karrin Allyson, Vince Mendoza, Christian McBride, the month of October with record-breaking attendance. Joan Osborne, Ana Popovic, Luis Enrique, Paulinho Also in honor of its landmark season, Festival Miami Garcia, and Arturo Sandoval. invited eight-time Grammy Award-winning conductor, Festival Miami concluded at the Adrienne Arsht composer, and orchestrator José Serebrier to conduct two Center with the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra classical music programs with the touring Costa Rica performing a special motion picture tribute, Pink Panther National Symphony Orchestra. irty years ago, Serebrier at 50. Produced by music impresario Larry Rosen, it was the first artistic director of a new “International Music featured iconic film music composed by Henry Mancini Festival of the Americas,” now known as Festival Miami. and the lauded vocal talents of international superstar Other bountiful classical concerts featured vocal Jon Secada, B. M. ’83, M.M. ’86, Monica Mancini, Nicole luminaries Hila Plitmann, Elizabeth Caballero, B.M. ’99, Henry, B.S. ’97, and Cyrille Aimée.

{ 4 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 Frost Violinist Reunites with Childhood Idol

says. “I wanted to be an astronaut, I had a All smiles, then phase when I wanted to be a stockbroker, and now! Elijah and then I wanted to be a basketball player.” Kirkland-Andrews, After attending a music camp the sum- pictured far left mer before his sophomore year of high at age 5 and again school, Andrews began pursuing the string at age 18, grins instrument more intently. He placed the with his violin crinkled photo of himself and Bell in his hero, Joshua Bell. violin case for luck and inspiration. Andrews is now In high school, Andrews was selected a violinist in the to perform in Georgia’s all-state chorus and Frost Symphony orchestra. He played in Emory University’s Orchestra. WHEN VIOLINIST JOSHUA BELL was rehearsing youth orchestra with jazz and classical tunes as his focus. in Gusman Concert Hall for his Festival Miami appear- Last spring, he was accepted to the Frost School of Music. ance, musicians in the Frost Symphony Orchestra were And this year at Festival Miami, the 18-year-old Andrews excited to be performing on the same stage as the extraor- arranged to see Bell. dinary musician. For freshman violinist Elijah Kirkland- He showed the photo to his violin idol, who laughed Andrews, the evening was a heartwarming reunion. and recalled the evening. “We only talked for two When Andrews was 5 years old, he played the violin minutes about the picture,” Andrews said. “But he was for Bell at Montclair State University in New Jersey. “I shocked. It’s a small world.” played ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ because it was the at night, Bell and Andrews took another photo only thing I could play at that point,” recalls Andrews. that mimics the first, though Andrew is almost two feet He believes it was either his teacher or mother who taller now than in 2000. But like the original, both Bell took a photo of Bell hugging the 5-year-old Andrews. and Andrews are smiling. Both were grinning. is story was excerpted from an article by Jess Swanson Over the next 13 years, Andrews continued taking that ran in the October 24, 2013 edition of e Miami violin lessons. “I never wanted to be a violinist,” Andrews Hurricane.

Class of 2017 Stamps Jazz Quintet Debuts

he Stamps Family together as the Stamps Jazz The new Stamps TCharitable Foundation Quintet over the next four Jazz Quintet, Class renewed its commitment to years of study at Frost, as of 2017, on the fund full tuition, room, and well as tour together. They Maurice Gusman board for select top academic made their Frost debut at the Concert Hall stage and musical talent admitted Festival Miami opening for the to the Frost School of Music. Christian McBride Trio, which A new crop of five freshmen spent three days in residence now make up the Stamps with the young lions. McBride Jazz Quintet Class of 2017. invited the Stamps Jazz

Aidan Lombard (trumpet), LIGHT STUDIOS VERSATILE Quintet back on stage at the Sam Hart (saxophone), Quinn Sengupta (piano), Marcelo end of his concert for a combined jam that proved an extra Bourque Perez (drums), and Bob Bruya (bass) will perform special treat for the entire audience.

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Marta S. Weeks Honored for Her Spirited Impact

Architect’s rendering of the Marta S. Weeks Quadrangle by Yann Weymouth. Right: Marta Weeks-Wulf, far right, poses with Asiya Korepanova,

a Weeks Music JENNY ABREU Scholar and “Around this quadrangle will grow doctoral candidate the most remarkable music campus in keyboard in the country,” Dean Shelly Berg said performance who at the ceremony, held at the L. Austin performed at the Weeks Center for Recording and quad dedication. Performance with 150 guests in atten- AT A DEDICATION CEREMONY last May, plans dance. Key components of that “remarkable campus” are were unveiled for a new Marta S. Weeks Music Quadran- already in place, including the Marta and Austin Weeks gle at the Frost School to honor the iconic UM philan- Music Library and Technology Center and the Patricia thropist, patron of the arts, and trustee emeritus whose Louise Frost Music Studios, nearing completion. impact on the school has been called “immeasurable.” e In the center of it all, the Marta S. Weeks Music newly designated gathering area will include a granite Quadrangle will be a place for faculty, staff, students, and cobblestone centerpiece with a seal inscribed with the visitors to “gather, converse, study, or just relax,” said UM words, “ e Spirit of Marta Weeks Is the Spirit of Music.” President Donna E. Shalala. Like a symphony meticulously scored for an orches- Berg reflected, “Marta has been selfless and tra, the outdoor quadrangle is taking shape with the help generous to the Frost School all along the way, and of bulldozers and construction cranes. When completed, everywhere that we turn and look, whether it’s buildings buildings where students make, mix, and master melo- or our most brilliant students, we see the reflection of dies will surround the quad. her generosity.”

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{ 6 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 Mancini Fellows Featured at New Orleans Jazz Fest and on PBS Television FELLOWS FROM THE Henry Mancini Institute Blanchard, and is available for purchase as a CD/DVD (HMI) have enjoyed an incredible array of musical package or digital download through OKeh Records/Sony. adventures since the last issue of Score, including an In addition to Festival Miami appearances, the HMI invitation to perform at the 2013 New Orleans Jazz Fest; Orchestra performed on March 8, 2014, with Arturo a television taping with Gloria Estefan; and live perfor- Sandoval and Monica Mancini at the Festival of the Arts mances throughout South Florida. eir youthful energy Boca in the Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton, and superb ability to perform in multiple genres landed Florida. A small ensemble of Mancini Fellows performed them the opportunities, in which they exhibited a new one week later at the same festival with Forte, the acclaimed spectrum of artistic creation and exploration. tenor trio. Students who performed as the HMI Jazz Nonet at the New Orleans Jazz Fest in May 2013 were senior Nathan Skinner; current D.M.A. candidates Chris Burbank, Mark Small, Kendall Moore, M.M. ’10, Jeff Kipperman, M.M. ’10, and Tim Jago, M.M. ’12; and three who graduated in the same Above: HMI students month: Kathleen Hollingsworth, D.M.A. ’13, Angelo and artistic director Versace, M.M. ’10, D.M.A. ’13, and Daniel Susnjar, Terence Blanchard, M.M. ’10, D.M.A. ’13. ey performed their own backstage and compositions and arrangements. An enthusiastic crowd on stage, at New in Zatarain’s Jazz Tent, one of ten sponsored main stages, Orleans Jazz Fest. enjoyed the concert. HMI artistic director Terence Left: Gloria Estefan Blanchard also performed at Jazz Fest with his own band sings The Standards: to rave reviews. Live on national Back in Miami, the HMI Orchestra performed in a PBS television to television taping with Gloria Estefan, A.B. ’78, in front critical acclaim.

of a live audience at the New World Center in Miami TV OFFICIAL FAN GLORIA ESTEFAN The HMI Orchestra Beach, with Shelly Berg as music director. e taping e HMI Orchestra performed twice in Gusman was prominently highlighted orchestrations from her new album, e Concert Hall this spring, first under the baton of 2012 featured throughout, Standards, and the full special began broadcasting on na- Frost Distinguished Alumnus André Raphel, B.M. ’84, performing all new tional PBS television in August. ey reprised the same in an uplifting concert featuring artist-in-residence Mark arrangements show at Festival Miami in October. O’Connor performing his five-movement Improvised and orchestrations e Jazz and the Philharmonic collaborative project Violin Concerto. An April concert with Blanchard and by Frost Dean produced last year with the National YoungArts Founda- faculty artist Brian Lynch featured music by Miles Davis Shelly Berg. tion (see FrostNews, Score 2013) was edited into a two- and Gil Evans. hour television special and began airing on national PBS Mancini Fellows are graduate students at Frost who television on February 28, 2014. e television special are accepted after a rigorous audition process. ey re- features the HMI Orchestra performing with Bobby ceive annual stipends funded through private donations McFerrin, Chick Corea, Eric Owens, and Terence and grants.

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The Musicians Will See You Now

Frost students, Valencia, tenor saxophonist Frank from left, Esneider Capoferri, and baritone saxophon- Valencia, Frank ist Lewis Jones caught the ears Capoferri, Lewis of many passersby in the UMH Jones, and Joe lobby, who couldn’t help but pause D’Aleo perform to listen. in the lobby of Joe Natoli, interim chief oper- University of Miami ating officer at the Miller School, Hospital as part hopes to make the musical per- of “The Musicians formances a regular feature on the Will See You Now” medical campus, noting, “ is is a series. wonderfully unique program that

JOANNE LEAHY LEAHY JOANNE we think will add to the level of FROST CHAMBER ENSEMBLES filled a very personal care provided at each of the UHealth facilities. important prescription last summer on the UM Miller Other medical patient outreach occurred through School of Medicine campus—uplift the hearts and the Frost School’s ongoing Ress Family Hospital Project. brighten the days of patients and families, as well as Frost brought stress relief and anxiety reduction through faculty and staff who work there. music to patients at Baptist Children’s Hospital, Holtz e performance series, called “ e Musicians Will Children’s Hospital and Ryder Trauma Center in the See You Now,” kicked off at University of Miami Hospi- Jackson Health System, Miami Children’s Hospital, Mi- tal with a lunchtime performance by a talented quartet ami Jewish Health Systems, Season’s Hospice of Miami, of student saxophonists. e mellifluous notes from so- Saint Anne’s Nursing Center, South Miami Hospital, prano saxophonist Joe D’Aleo, alto saxophonist Esneider and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Frost Chorale Tours the United Kingdom he Frost Chorale embarked in May T2014 on a tour of the United Kingdom, where the students performed a program of featured works by English, Scottish, and Irish composers, along with works by great American composers. The chorale enjoyed performances at cathedrals throughout the UK, including stops in Cambridge, Edinburgh, and London, and appeared in a joint educational outreach concert with the award-winning a cappella octet Voces8. The

Frost chorale collaborated with choirs in LIGHT STUDIOS VERSATILE each city, featuring a performance of massed choir pieces at by the winners of the Third Annual Frost Choral Composition the conclusion of each concert. Though the musical focus of Competition: “Keep Watch, Dear Lord,” by doctoral candidate the tour revolved around exploring the rich history of British David Pegel, and “The Lamb,” by undergraduate composition choral music, Frost Chorale concerts also featured premieres student Ryan Reeson.

{ 8 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 And the Grammy Goes to… Members of the Frost Family

She was also producer of the Left to right, project, with co-producers Shelly engineers David Berg and Emilio Estefan, Hon. Frost, Brian Losch, ’01. Berg, a Steinway piano artist, and Tim Martyn arranger, and orchestrator, was celebrate their nominated for an additional win in the Best Grammy on the Estefan project Engineered Classical in the Best Arrangement Accom- Album category for panying Vocalist category for his Winter Morning arrangement of “What a Wonder- Walks at the 56th ful World.” He was nominated Grammy Awards on in the same category last year for January 26, 2014, his arrangement of “Out ere” in Los Angeles, on Lorraine Feather’s Tales of California. UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FROST SCHOOL of the Unusual album, and he performed, arranged, and Music was well represented at the 56th Annual Grammy orchestrated for Feather’s new CD, Attachments, which Awards show, with alums Brian Losch, B.S. ’08, Maria also earned a Grammy nom. Schneider, ’83, Andrew Scheps, B.M. ’89, and Kip Multi-Grammy-winning trumpeter Terence Sullivan, B.M. ’81, M.M. ’84, M.B.A. ’86, bringing home Blanchard, artistic director of the Frost School’s Henry several wins in categories ranging from engineering to Mancini Institute, was nominated in the Best Improvised classical, jazz, and rock. Multi-platinum, seven-time Jazz Solo category on “Don’t Run,” a track from his Grammy-winning international vocal superstar and UM album Magnetic on the Blue Note label. trustee Gloria Estefan, A.B. ’78, and Frost School Dean Shelly Berg also received Grammy nominations in two categories. Frost Band of the Losch, a graduate of the Music Engineering Technol- Hour Makes a Cameo ogy program, garnered a 2014 Grammy win in the Best Engineered Classical Album category for his work on WHEN YOU SEE THE MOVIE A Change of Heart, Frost Band of the singer Dawn Upshaw’s Winter Morning Walks (Artist- starring Jim Belushi, take note of the marching band that Hour performs Share). e album also earned Grammy statues for both appears at the end. Frost Band of the Hour musicians on the steps of Best Contemporary Classical Composition and Best recently filmed the final scene in Miami for the multi- Miami-Dade County Classical Vocal Solo for Schneider, who composed and cultural comedy, which is scheduled for release later this Courthouse for the orchestrated the record. Scheps was the engineer for year. Gloria Estefan, A.B. ’78, also has a role in the film, closing scene in Black Sabbath’s comeback album, 13 (Vertigo/Republic), produced by Emilio Estefan, Hon. ’01, and directed by the upcoming major which won a Grammy in the Best Metal Performance Kenny Ortega. motion picture A category and earned two other nominations in the Best Change of Heart, Rock Album and Best Rock Song categories. starring Jim Sullivan, a partner with Summit Records, also Belushi. celebrated a Grammy win for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for his work on Randy Brecker’s Night in Calisia (Randy Brecker, Włodek Pawlik Trio & Kalisz Philhar- monic, winners). Estefan’s critically acclaimed new album, e Standards (Sony Masterworks), was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Traditional Pop Album category.

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The Man behind the Microphones

Paul Griffith, as a lecturer in the Music director of Engineering Technology recording services department. His job is to at Frost, teaches take students who may be students the art the rawest of beginners and of capturing live turn them into savvy sound performances. technicians who can capture live performance. For their first two semes- ters, students start out as assistant engineers and learn the ropes while handling basic setups and teardowns, gradually assuming more responsibility as they become

PHOTOS: VERSATILE LIGHT STUDIOS VERSATILE PHOTOS: more experienced. After the SWING BY GUSMAN CONCERT HALL at the recordings are mixed down, they wind up in the Frost Frost School on Friday at 4:35 p.m. sharp, and you’ll find library’s online archive and burned to compact disc. It’s a several dozen people gathered on the front steps. One of labor-intensive process, both the work and the learn- them will be Paul Griffith, B.M. ’93, director of recording ing, but Griffith declares it “a privilege” to work with a services, who oversees live recordings of concerts and student body as accomplished as Frost’s. recitals at Frost. Students do the “I don’t expect them to know the first thing about hands-on recording, but Griffith engineering when they come in as freshmen,” Griffith is the one directing traffic and says. “But I do expect them to be able to learn quickly making sure the trains run on time. and work hard. I also expect them to be musicians and to Friday afternoon is when he sets the be able to hear the difference if we analyze a mix of the schedule for everyone. sound coming from a microphone. As they progress in “ e number is exploding,” their classes, I try to augment that knowledge with very Griffith says. “We already had our practical training and experiences that help it all come hands full in years past with doing together.” around 300 recordings per year, and By the time his charges graduate, Griffith admits it’s last year we did 370. e upcoming “sometimes melancholy” to let them go when they’re do- calendar is as full as it can be. It can ing so well. But there’s always a new crop coming in. be intense.” “ e natural turnover as students graduate and Griffith was a voice principal others come in keeps things very fresh,” he says. “I’m during his own time as a student at always trying to figure out how I can improve because Frost. But he has spent most of his it’s my nature. ere’s so much ‘new’ in the world of professional career on the other side of the microphone, technology, yet the principles behind good sound haven’t working in various engineering capacities as far away as changed. Anyone can be trained to push the right Gdansk, Poland. buttons, but the understanding and experience to know “I’ve always loved music,” he says, “and it amazes me what should be done will always be needed. If anything, that I can make a living doing something I love.” the explosion of technology makes the need for educated Griffith works with students in the classroom, too, engineers even greater.”

{ 10 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE JAZZ ARRANGEMENT OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES Congratulations Jeremy Fox, “All My JAZZ SOLOIST Tomorrows” Nick Hetko, piano Frost Winners of DownBeat’s 37th Annual Gary Lindsay, faculty mentor Martin Bejerano, faculty Student Music Awards ENGINEERED STUDIO mentor RECORDING Jeremy Fox BLUES POP ROCK UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATE SOLOIST COLLEGE WINNERS COLLEGE OUTSTANDING Gary Lindsay, faculty mentor Carolyn Furniss, vocalist BLUES POP ROCK PERFORMANCES ENGINEERED STUDIO Kate Reid, faculty mentor SOLOIST BLUES POP ROCK RECORDING William Longo SMALL VOCAL JAZZ Nick Hetko, piano SOLOIST GROUP Martin Bejerano, faculty Kelly Garner, vocalist Gary Lindsay, faculty mentor Extensions mentor Kate Reid, faculty mentor Kate Reid, faculty mentor GRADUATE ORIGINAL COMPOSITION— LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE COLLEGE WINNERS SMALL JAZZ COMBO LARGE ENSEMBLE Frost Concert Jazz Band Manny Echazabal Group Gene Knific, “A Change John Daversa, faculty mentor JAZZ ARRANGEMENT Gary Keller, faculty mentor of Heart” William Longo, “You Don’t ORIGINAL COMPOSITION— Know What Love Is” Chuck Bergeron, faculty LARGE ENSEMBLE BLUES POP ROCK GROUP mentor Gary Lindsay, faculty mentor Funk Ensemble Rafael Piccolotto de Lima, Steve Rucker, faculty mentor “Brookmeyer Motives” Gary Lindsay, faculty mentor ENGINEERED STUDIO ORIGINAL COMPOSITION— RECORDING SMALL ENSEMBLE JAZZ ARRANGEMENT Rafael Piccolotto de Lima Carolyn Furniss, “Where to Go” Kelly Garner, “East of the Sun” Gary Lindsay, faculty mentor Kate Reid, faculty mentor Gary Lindsay, faculty mentor

’Canes in the Community Bring Music to Multitudes

rost School of Music students took their talents into a Trombonists, from Fmyriad of community spaces throughout South Florida this left, Eric Bowman, spring, beginning with singers from the Frost Opera Theater, Andrew Friedrichs, who returned for a seventh year to the Bonnet House Museum Steven Eckert, and Gardens in Fort Lauderdale in January for a performance and Bryan Powell under the stars as part of its Young Artist Music Series. perform in an HMI On Sundays in February and March, instrumental students Outbound community and faculty performed various styles of chamber music and pro- engagement concert vided insight on the music at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. at Fairchild Tropical Coordinated through the Frost School’s Henry Mancini Institute, Botanic Garden.

this Sunday Sounds series was funded in part by a grant from CASSANDRA EISENREICH the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. performed a series of free Sunday afternoon concerts at local Frost ensembles celebrated Miami’s beautiful spring weather churches throughout the region. with monthly performances from January through April at the To round out the Frost School’s many community engage- UM Gifford Arboretum. Families from the community, students, ment activities, the Frost Symphony Orchestra performed Sergei and faculty brought chairs and blankets to enjoy the music and Prokofiev’s musical fairytale Peter and the Wolf on March 23 beautiful sunsets under a lush canopy of specimen trees. Frost with celebrity storyteller Martin Bookspan as part of the Sunday Chorale, Chamber Singers, Cantilena, and Maelstrom choirs also Afternoons of Music for Children series.

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Winter Wonderful Adds Pizzazz to the Holidays for a Good Cause FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC HOSTED its annual holiday gala, Winter Wonderful, on Sunday, December 8 at the JW Marriott Marquis in downtown Miami. With record attendance of 420, the event began with a glittery cocktail party accented by a student jazz quartet and strolling carolers. Herald trumpets ushered patrons to a beautiful candlelight dinner replete with holiday carols from around the globe, sung by a choir of hundreds mingled among elegant table settings. e gala netted over $180,000 for music scholar-

ships, the choral program, and Frost MusicReach com- LIGHT STUDIOS VERSATILE munity outreach programs. Highlights of the evening acknowledge their dedicated service to the school and included joyous musical performances by the Frost the University of Miami, as well as their support of the Chorale, Frost Choral Union, and Frost Holiday Orches- arts in the community. David Weaver is a senior trustee tra, under the direction of Karen Kennedy, choral studies of the University of Miami Board of Trustees and is the program director. Frost School of Music Momentum2 campaign chair. Miami residents David R. Weaver and Dorothy Collins e next Winter Wonderful gala is scheduled for Weaver were presented with the Frost Legacy Award to December 7, 2014; details at winter-wonderful.com.

William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust Pledges Support for Frost Outreach Programs he William R. Kenan, Jr. by investing in the positive development of children through T Charitable Trust has pledged music.” a $500,000 restricted grant to the Frost MusicReach provides highly effective mentoring University of Miami Frost School programs that uplift and encourage young people to succeed of Music: $450,000 to support in school and life through music instruction. The instructors operations of the Frost MusicReach are undergraduate and graduate students from Frost, with program from 2014 to 2017 and oversight from community outreach coordinator Cassandra $50,000 to help the Frost School of Eisenreich, M.M. ’09, D.M.A. ’12. Music develop a partner program The programs presently serve children in Overtown (in with the University of North Carolina cooperation with the Overtown Music Project), West Coconut School of the Arts. Grove/Virrick Park (in partnership with the Virrick Park The contribution will help the Community Center), and West Coconut Grove/Barnyard (with Frost School continue to bring free Coconut Grove Cares and the University of Miami School of music lessons to thousands of young Education and Human Development). Students in the programs

GREG CLARK PHOTOGRAPHY people in South Florida who have participate in musicianship classes, receive instrumental and limited or no access to music instruction in their schools or vocal training, and participate in youth orchestra and other homes, and also will expand its impact nationally. ensembles. “With this generous new gift from the William R. Kenan, An anonymous pledge of $1 million for Frost MusicReach Jr. Charitable Trust,” says Dean Shelly Berg, “the Frost School was also received this academic year from a long-time Frost of Music will be able to help build healthier communities School of Music donor and is gratefully acknowledged here.

{ 12 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 Storytellers Capture the Galapagos in Words, Sights, and Sounds RICH WITH BIODIVERSITY, the Galapagos things, to make them better writers and researchers, Islands are where Charles Darwin did his early work on and to introduce them to storytelling with words and evolution. is cluster of about a dozen volcanic islands pictures and recorded sounds.” in the Pacific Ocean near the equator, 600 miles off the He writes that the students in the Galapagos carry coast of Ecuador, has been photographed and described exten- sively by researchers, students, journalists, and travelers. Until recently, the medley of sound in this dynamic region has been largely un- heard. Each summer for the past four years, two University of

Miami professors TREASTER OF JOSEPH COURTESY PHOTOS have gone on an expedition to the Galapagos Islands “spiral notebooks as writers’ journals and little black H2n Left: Colby with about a dozen UM students. eir mission: Tell Zoom recorders with highly sensitive, built-in micro- Leider, associate vivid stories enriched with sound. phones.” professor of Colby Leider, associate professor and director of the Students write at least 500 words a day in their Music Engineering Frost School’s Music Engineering Technology program, journals on what they see, hear, and feel, taking down Technology, is an expert on sound and a leading music engineer- facts and comments and scribbling out the beginnings of demonstrates ing researcher. Joseph B. Treaster, a professor and the stories. ey learn to edit their recordings and to shape how sound travels Knight Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication at the them into music. in a cave in UM School of Communication, is a former reporter and Leider teaches the students how to listen better, how the Galapagos. foreign correspondent for e New York Times. Leider to become an “ear witness,” which he describes in the Right: School of and Treaster are partners in a six-credit, three-week ex- Journal article as someone who “can perceive aspects of Communication periential learning project called e Galapagos Islands: the environment that a purely eye witness cannot.” Professor Joseph Environment, Culture, and the Music of Darwin. Max Gailey, a music engineering technology major, Treaster makes Leider has performed copious audio research in says that in the Galapagos program he “picked up on notes in his the Florida Everglades. He believes capturing sounds the idiosyncrasies—the pace of life, the way people writer’s journal conveys a sense of place, much like renowned landscape interact—things that couldn’t be picked up from reading upon encountering a photographer Ansel Adams captured a sense of place a book.” giant tortoise. with photography. Leider helps his students do just that, Students showcased their work through writing, “by collecting sounds with a tape recorder—the rustle of photography, videography, and sound recordings on leaves, the hissing and spitting of a tortoise, footsteps on e Miami Planet, the University of Miami’s online the side of a volcano, sometimes bits of conversation— environmental publication. e students and Leider edit and editing them into a musical narrative,” Treaster the sounds they gather and blend them with the text of wrote in an article in e Journal of Sustainability Educa- their writing projects into multimedia articles. To view tion published May 13, 2013. some of the multimedia articles from the Galapagos Treaster’s goal is to “give students a chance to embrace on e Miami Planet: visit www.themiamiplanet. the Galapagos and to let the Galapagos embrace them, org/2014/02/12/galapagos-diary-the-story-of-a- to sharpen their critical thinking and their ability to see tortoise/

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Music @ MOCA and Other High Points with The Cleveland Orchestra

Cleveland Orchestra THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA musicians Jack and Frost School of Music marked their Sutte, trumpet eighth season of collaboration with (far right), and events and performances in February Jesse McCormick, and March 2014. horn (right), Cleveland Orchestra musicians, led perform Witold by Assistant Conductor Brett Mitchell, Lutosławski’s Mini performed a new music reading session Overture with Frost of new works for mixed ensemble by instrumentalists Frost student composers in February.

Connor Haley, ey selected two of the compositions— CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA COMMUNICATIONS tuba (center), “Nonsense Gardens” by Richard Yates and “Appollonean Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Andrew Friedrichs, Echo” by Peter Learn—for world premiere performance on Performing Arts. Frost students rehearsed with Cleveland trombone (left), March 20 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Orchestra members and attended the orchestra’s subscrip- and Philippe Brunet, in North Miami. Musicians from both Cleveland and tion series concert the following evening. Side-by-side trumpet (far left), Frost performed the new compositions, as well as works chamber music coaching sessions with string, wind, brass, at the Museum of by J.S. Bach, Bartók, Taffanel, and Lutoslawski. and percussion ensembles also took place on campus. Contemporary Art is year’s Cleveland Orchestra residency also in- Women of the Frost Symphonic Choir also joined in North Miami. cluded a side-by-side rehearsal of Tchaikovsky’s Sym- e Cleveland Orchestra at the Arsht Center on March phony No. 5, led by Giancarlo Guerrero, the orchestra’s 21 and 22 for two magnificent performances of e Miami principal guest conductor, on February 20 in the Planets by Gustav Holst.

Birdhouse Benefit Draws Big-Time Beboppers

Will Lee, center, jazz musicians in the industry. jams with acclaimed Bill Lee, an accomplished jazz pianist, composer, jazz guitarist arranger, and educator, was dean of UM’s music school Chuck Loeb, right, from 1964 to 1982. He co-founded the International and legendary Association for Jazz Education and, like Dean Berg, drummer Steve served as one of its past presidents. Gadd, left, during Drummer Steve Gadd, saxophonist Eric Marienthal, a benefit concert trumpeter Brian Lynch, guitarist Chuck Loeb, and vibist to raise funds Joe Locke shared the stage with the hosts for an exciting for a scholarship evening of bebop style jazz reminiscent of the 1940s.

in memory of his AZOULAY DANIEL Will Lee dubbed the event “Birdhouse” in honor of the father, the late UM DEAN SHELLY BERG AND WILL LEE, ’71, the legendary bebop saxophonist Charlie Parker (“Bird”) music dean Bill Lee. long-standing house bassist for CBS’s Late Show with and Bill Lee, who recorded an album by that name. David Letterman, hosted a high-energy scholarship Memorial contributions can be made online to the benefit in memory of late UM music dean William “Bill” William F. Lee III Music Scholarship Fund or mailed F. Lee III. Held last year at the Deauville Jazz Club in to UM Frost School of Music, P.O. Box 248165, Coral Miami Beach, the fundraiser featured some of the top Gables, FL 33124-7610.

{ 14 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 Alumni and Guest Artists Play a Swinging Tribute to Whit Sidener Music @ MOCA and Other High Points MORE THAN 500 ALUMNI, faculty, B.M. ’92, M.M. ’02; Walter White; the Jaco Famed composer/ with The Cleveland Orchestra and friends of Professor Emeritus Whit Pastorious Big Band; Lee Levin, B.M. ’89; orchestrator Maria Sidener, B.M. ’69, M.M. ’72, poured into Dan Warner, ’92; Kenny Anderson, B.M. Schneider conducts Gusman Hall on March 7 to pay a tribute to ’88; Dennis Marks, B.M. ’89, M.M. ’92; Don the Frost Concert the inspirational former department chair Harry; and the UM Frost jazz faculty. Jazz Band in honor who served UM Frost for four decades with e Frost School hosted a four-hour jam of Whit Sidener’s humor, persistence, and a drive for excellence. session the following day, which provided a 41 years of Whit Sidener Sidener began teaching in the Depart- relaxing way for alumni to catch up and take teaching at the ment of Studio Music and Jazz in 1972, was a long-time photos. Alumni also visited the Foster 206 classroom, University of Miami. chair of the department, and conducted the Frost Con- where they’d spent countless hours woodshedding and cert Jazz Band (CJB). “Practice” was his constant mantra, recording. and it clearly served his pupils well, based on the many Ticket proceeds “Whit stories” alumni swapped when they gathered for a and donations made mega rehearsal prior to the event. in Whit Sidener’s A blowout event organized by Gary Keller, M.M. ’80, honor were allocated the concert featured hundreds of jazz alumni and to a fund that will musical icons with the CJB, now under the direction of ultimately name a new department chair John Daversa. Guest performers suite of teaching included NEA jazz master Dave Liebman; Grammy studios for Sidener

Award winner Maria Schneider, ’83; Mark Egan, B.M. in the new Patricia LIGHT STUDIO VERSATILE PHOTOS: ’73; Danny Gottlieb, B.M. ’75; Ed Calle, M.M. ’84, M.M. Louise Frost Music Studios building. Additional contri- ’01; Mark Colby, B.M. ’72, M.M. ’75; Vince Maggio, butions are needed to reach the naming minimum. To B.C.S. ’82, M.M. ’84; Ron Miller, M.M. ’74; Marko donate to the fund online, visit music.miami.edu/giving Marcinko, B.M. ’93; Lisanne Lyons, B.M. ’90, M.M. ’94, or contact Lynne Gibson, director of development, at D.M.A. ’09; Wendy Pederson, B.M. ’89; Jim Gasior, [email protected].

Collaboration with Smithsonian Folkways Offers World Music Pedagogy Certification Course

arlos Abril, B.M. ’93, director of undergraduate music Cliff Sutton, D.M.A. Ceducation and associate professor in the Department of ’13, a Fulbright Music Education and Music Therapy at Frost, received funding scholarship to present a world music pedagogy course for educators at recipient in 2011- the Frost School of Music in collaboration with Smithsonian 2012, shares Folkways. his expertise The workshops explored world music through singing, playing, on Uruguayan and dancing and were presented by guest clinicians Patricia candombe drumming Shehan Campbell, Nick Page, Ann Clements, Deborah Schwartz- at a world music Kates, Andy Hernandez, and Cliff Sutton, D.M.A. ’13, as well as Abril pedagogy course and others. The sessions, which explored the interplay between The course consisted of six Saturday workshops through- hosted by the Frost music and culture, included: Music and Dance of the African out the 2013-2014 school year. Participants who successfully School and the Diaspora and Americas; Voices of Afro-Spanish-Caribbean; and completed the program received a Smithsonian Folkways World Smithsonian. Salsa, Bachata, and Drumming from the Caribbean to New York. Music Pedagogy Certification.

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Musical Heavyweights Share Their Expertise IN ADDITION TO STUDYING with the incred- FSO in an excellent performance of Igor Stravinsky’s Le ible faculty of the Frost School of Music, students were sacre du Printemps (“ e Rite of Spring”) while omas treated to a steady stream of guest lecturers and per- Sleeper was on sabbatical in the spring. Maestro James formers over the past year who shared their professional Judd was also a guest conductor in the spring in a season expertise, artistry, and advice on the business of music. closer featuring D.M.A. candidate in keyboard perfor- e Department of Studio Music and Jazz hosted mance Ana Cristea performing Sergei Rachmaninoff ’s a number of jazz heavyweights at its Friday Forums Piano Concert No. 3. this academic year, Christian Howes including Fred Hersch, Gary Smulyan, Mark Morganelli, Jim Snidero, Dafnis Prieto, and Boris Kozlov. Jeff “Tain” Watts, one of the most in-demand jazz drummers in the world, worked with students and performed with the HMI Jazz Septet in February 2014. Electrifying interplay emerged, inspired by Watts’s artistic ingenuity, explosive Opera students attended an “Inside the Opera power, gritty street funk, and mastery of complex rhythms. Studio” forum with opera, theater, and film director A six-time Grammy winner, Watts has toured and Kevin Newbury on November 6, 2013, and a master recorded with Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, class with opera conductor and pianist David Aronson Kenny Garrett, Danilo Pérez, Kenny Kirkland, Geri and soprano Sylvia Greenberg in February 2014. In Allen, and others. He performed in television and film as a addition, Frost Opera eater students had the opportu- musician on e Tonight nity to work with stage director Ben Krywosz, projection Show with Jay Leno and as designer Laurie Olinder, and set and costume designer an actor in the role of April Soroko during their April production of Michael Rhythm Jones in Spike Daugherty and Wayne Koestenbaum’s opera, Jackie O. Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues. Jazz violinist Christian Howes presented an impro- e Frost Symphony visation workshop for string students in January 2014. Orchestra (FSO) had the Frost Artist-in-Residence Mark O’Connor and Lecturer opportunity to work with Scott Flavin then co-hosted a master class in February James Judd guest conductor Cristian with visiting violin artist Nicola Benedetti. During spring Măcelaru, B.M. ’03, associate conductor of e Phila- break a month later, O’Connor and Assistant Professor delphia Orchestra, for FSO’s season opening concert on Brian Powell co-hosted a teacher training session for the September 6, 2013. Frost School’s own Professor Gary O’Connor String Method. Green, who is regularly director of bands and conduc- Composition and Instrumental Performance tor of the Frost Wind Ensemble, guest conducted the students also enjoyed a master class and rehearsal with

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Richard Goode

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Bernard Rands, a contemporary classical recital with violinist Benjamin Sung, and classical guitar recitals with Paul Bowman and Alvaro Pierri. academic year, including presentations by Joe Salvo, In a March 2014 master class, acclaimed pianist president of e Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Richard Goode coached Department of Keyboard Per- general counsel for HiT Entertainment, and vice formance students on a variety of classical and romantic president and assistant general counsel at Mattel, Inc.; piano performance practices. e Grammy winner is Dan Goldberg, vice president, 360 Operations, Warner hailed for the tremendous emotional power, depth, and Music Group; and Rick Drumm, president of D’Addario expressiveness of his music. & Company, Inc. Charles P. Schmidt was the featured e Department of Music Media and Industry forum speaker in December for the Graduate Music offered several enrichment sessions throughout the Education Program.

Robert Kelley Distinguished Musicology Lecture Series Established

A GENEROUS BEQUEST made David Ake, B.M. by the late Robert Kelley, M.S. ’60, ’83, left, was the former associate professor in the inaugural speaker UM Department of Mathematics, for the Robert has endowed a new annual lecture Kelley Distinguished series in the Frost School’s Depart- Musicology ment of Musicology. Kelley’s gift Lecture Series. was inspired by his enjoyment of a The Department community lecture series presented of Musicology by Frost Research Professor Emeritus also hosted guest Frank Cooper. lecturer J. Peter

e inaugural lecture in the ED FREEDMAN PHOTOS: Burkholder, right. Robert Kelley Distinguished Musicology Lecture Series students as they prepare for a rapidly changing and on February 21, 2014, featured the award-winning increasingly globalized jazz marketplace. musicologist, jazz pianist, and educator David Ake, B.M. e department also hosted a musicology lecture by ’83, who currently chairs the Music Department at Case J. Peter Burkholder on February 28, “Musical Borrowing Western Reserve University. Ake’s dynamic lecture, or Curious Coincidence: Testing the Evidence,” which “Hearing All the Changes: e Importance of Musicol- explored the subject of musical borrowing, variations, ogy for Jazz Education in the 21st Century,” outlined paraphrasing, and derivative works—and the type of how musicology—with its insights into history, identity, evidence that can be used to argue for or against a claim and meaning—provides valuable tools for today’s jazz that a composer has used material from another work.

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The Art of Composition

Rafael Piccolotto de and having great interest in big Lima, M.M. ’13, a bands and jazz, I realized I had to doctoral candidate come to the U.S. to continue my studying music studies,” says Piccolotto de Lima. composition and jazz “When I visited the Frost School orchestration and and met Gary Lindsay, I immedi- arranging at Frost, ately knew this would be my place, was nominated for especially after learning about the a Latin Grammy possibility to be a composer for the Award in 2013 in Henry Mancini Institute. It was a the Best Classical dream come true!” Contemporary Piccolotto de Lima received the Composition Latin Grammy nomination for category. “Abertura Jobiniana,” featured on the Bossa Nova Sinfonica album, recorded by the Costa Rica GROWING UP IN BRAZIL AS THE SON of National Orchestra. He wrote the overture after Jeremy an award-winning architect and painter, Frost School Fox, D.M.A. ’13, arranger and conductor of a bossa nova doctoral candidate Rafael Piccolotto de Lima, M.M. ’13, concert with the Costa Rica National Orchestra, invited spent much of his childhood in the art studio, trying to Piccolotto de Lima to collaborate. mimic his father’s brushstrokes or creating blueprints for “Abertura Jobiniana” is a tribute to Brazilian imaginary castles. But at age 13, the protégé discovered a composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, who is famous for new medium—music. bossa nova songs but less known for his classical “Creation was always a part of my life,” says Piccolotto compositions. e idea was to “evoke and pay tribute to de Lima, a composer and arranger who was nominated for this other side of Jobim,” says Piccolotto de Lima, whose “ When I visited the Frost School and met Gary Lindsay, I immediately knew this would be my place, especially after learning about the possibility to be a composer for the Henry Mancini Institute. It was a dream come true!” a 2013 Latin Grammy in the Best Classical Contemporary goals as a composer are to push conventional boundaries Composition category. “When I started in music, it was or expand an established musical aesthetic in new ways. much more natural for me to spend hours experimenting e Latin Grammy nomination is one of many and inventing things, rather than the practice routine that honors Piccolotto de Lima has received for his work, is required to be a performer.” including first place in the Ricardo Rizek Latinameri- Following his first professional symphonic premiere can Composers Competition, five DownBeat Student as a composer in Brazil, Piccolotto de Lima earned a de- Awards, a JEN Student Composition Showcase Award, gree in classical composition and Brazilian jazz studies at and winning the Ars Brasilis Arranger Competition. He UNICAMP in São Paulo. An ASCAP Henry Mancini won the 2014 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Com- Fellowship enabled him to pursue a master’s degree at poser Award and was selected for the Metropole Orkest the Frost School, studying jazz composition and arrang- Arrangers Workshop to work with Vince Mendoza and ing with Professor Gary Lindsay. arrange for Gregory Porter. “Being passionate about medium-large ensembles His music has been performed and recorded by artists

{ 18 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 such as Terence Blanchard, Chick Corea, and the Philharmonic PBS show, which included Eric Owens, Jon Secada, B.M. ’83, M.M. his arrangement of Spanish Suite, featuring pianist ’86, and Steve Miller, as well as en- Chick Corea. sembles such as ASCAP/NYU Studio “Rafael grew so much as a writer in just two Orchestra, Frost Concert Jazz Band, and years that I agreed to have him stay and pursue a the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra. D.M.A. in jazz composition,” Lindsay says, adding As an HMI fellow he composed, arranged, and was as- that Piccolotto de Lima also “dabbles in cinematography sistant producer with Larry Rosen in the mix of the Jazz and painting—a Renaissance artist with a great future.”

Frost Musicians Rack Up Awards and Accolades FROM COMPOSITION TO JAZZ, Matthew Evan Taylor Maria Sumareva opera, musicology and more, several undergraduate and graduate students this year were recognized at the national and international level. Nicolas Hetko, senior Stamps music scholar, jazz pianist, and music engineer- ing technology major, received ASCAP Foundation’s 2014 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award, along with Rafael Piccolotto de Lima, M.M. ’13, a composi- tion D.M.A. candidate and 2013 Latin Grammy nominee. Choice top-ten finalist for her original song “Blacktop Junior composition major Ben Morris received the 2014 Ballroom,” co-written with Clinton Zehr. Alumna Tori ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer’s Award. Tullier, B.M. ’11, was also selected as a finalist for her e American Composers Orchestra selected com- song,“Your Nicotine.” position D.M.A. candidate Matthew Evan Taylor, M.M. From the Department of Musicology, undergraduates ’11, to have his orchestral work, ree Glorious Days, Jorge Modolell and Xuan Qin were among 12 students read at the Detroit Symphony EarShot Classical Roots nationwide to receive 2013 Eileen Southern Travel Fund Readings with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) awards to attend the National American Musicological in March. Last year, Taylor received a Community Grant Society meeting. Musicology major Michael Palmese from the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs presented an analysis of John Adams’s China Gates at and celebrated the world premiere of his ballet, Elvrutu’s the annual Royal Music Association Research Students’ Fall, commissioned for the Miami Light Project. Conference in Birmingham, England, and then discussed Vocal students from Frost Opera eater’s workshop e Death of Klinghoffer at a conference in Lucca, Italy, performed in January at the finals of the National Opera devoted to Protest Music in the 20th century. Association’s Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition in Teaching assistant Maria Sumareva, D.M.A. candidate New York City. Frost sent two undergraduates, Alissa in keyboard performance and pedagogy, received a 2013 Roca, soprano, and Eric McConnell, bass, to compete, Presser Music Award, which carries a one-time stipend of along with pianist and program director Alan Johnson, up to $10,000. Her project is the first complete recording B.M. ’82, and stage director Tony Boutté. Roca and and critical edition of Keyboard Sonatinas by Jiri Antonin McConnell performed the duet “Quanto amore!” from Benda (1722-1795). Another D.M.A. candidate in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. keyboard performance and pedagogy, Larisa Soboleva, Singer-songwriter Meaghan Campbell, a freshman in was selected the 2013 winner of the annual Clavier the Bruce Hornsby Creative American Music Program, Companion Collegiate Writing Contest for her essay, was voted a Country Music Television 2014 Listeners’ “Learning Away from the Piano, à la Gieseking.”

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 19 } Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt were known for entertaining audiences with off-the-cuff compositions, but classical improvisation has since become a lost art. Today the Frost School’s Experiential Music Curriculum is helping all students— regardless of genre—gain the power to express music from the inside out.

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By Dorothy Hindman, B.M. ’88, D.M.A. ’94

ON A WARM THURSDAY MORNING IN FEBRUARY, THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI’S

Frost School of Music Dean Shelly Berg leads 33 sophomores in an improvisation class on the standard “ ere Will Never Be Another You.” As Berg accompanies on piano, the young musicians sing the melody using various methods: note names, solfège, and scale numbers. Solely by ear, they identify what part of the melody they are singing. Berg stops occasionally, asking students what note they are on, and where it might go next. • “Do you feel it like I do?” he asks. “ ose notes make you feel something. at’s how composers use them, and how we use them to appeal to an audience when we play. Being aware of those things is powerful.” • Remarkably, most of the students are not jazz musicians, and they are not reading from any written music. While this class involves a

Great American Songbook standard, Berg demonstrates in an action-packed half hour how the song’s harmonies also appear in Beethoven’s string quartets, film music, blues, and show tunes. • “Improvisation at Frost means all of our students are playing and singing music from the inside out,” says Berg, who calls improvisation spontaneous composition. “It’s a completely different way of music making. ere’s virtually nowhere else in the country that I think it’s happening.”

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 21 } of an actor to illustrate this innova- tive pedagogy. “When you see a great actor, you never get the impression that they’re n accomplished classical the age of 6 at the Cleveland just reciting lines they’ve learned,” A and jazz musician, Berg is Institute, then in jazz from his Berg points out. “You believe they’re a master teacher in improvisation father, a trumpeter, Berg credits his speaking spontaneously because they and the visionary behind Frost’s insight to this dual background. “My understand English. If a play was Experiential Music Curriculum pathways were opened simultane- in a language the actor didn’t speak, (EMC). Two other master teachers, ously,” he says. “We don’t learn to you could teach him, ‘When you Juan Chattah in contextual listening read and write before speaking, and I say this syllable, act more angry, or and Raina Murnak in sight-singing, don’t believe music instruction more sorrowful,’ but there’s only so lead a team of a dozen others in should be that way. e more a far you’ll get. If you don’t speak the implementing the program. musician progresses without being language of the music you’re playing, Berg’s primary purpose in able to ‘speak,’ the more closed down you can’t play as if you composed coming to the Frost School was to the improvisation pathways become.” it. To improvise effectively, you implement the EMC. “Training Prior to the 20th century, have to study musical grammar, musicians to really know the music musicians were expected to syntax, phrasing, and more to make they’re singing or playing lets them improvise as part of every classical it your own.” create music, not merely re-create it. performance. Berg compares that to Chattah finds Berg inspiring. It’s why I am at Frost: to do this with many of today’s classical musicians, “When students hear master impro- the faculty and these students.” trained to play a Mendelssohn visers like Shelly, they might think, It’s rare to find the dean of a concerto perfectly but unable to play ‘I’ll never be able to do this!’ But he school of music in an undergraduate “Happy Birthday” by ear, due to the takes them from the very beginning, classroom, but Berg’s new paradigm preference given to ‘note perfection’ step by step, and makes it accessible, stems from his early teaching experi- over improvisation. giving them clear tools and basic ence. Immediately after his role as a “People are graduating from top structures they can play with. Re- graduate teaching assistant in a clas- conservatories who have little innate gardless of their starting point, after sical ear-training program, Berg was understanding of what they’re playing,” just a few sessions with Shelly, every hired to teach jazz improvisation at a Berg says, “Performers have almost no student is improvising.” community college. spontaneity, and the audience doesn’t Berg wants to demystify improvi- “ e difference in what the jazz come with any expectation that they’re sation for all Frost musicians. “With students could hear, because they going to hear something they couldn’t improvisation, people think you were improvising, was astounding,” hear in a recording.” face the East, and a great mysteri- recalls Berg, who realized that mak- Encouraging creativity through ous force passes through you,” Berg ing music come from inside was key. improvisation is a cornerstone of laughs. “But it’s really a reservoir of Trained in classical piano from the EMC. Berg uses the analogy skills, experience, and knowledge

{ 22 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 that is harnessed “Karen is a violinist, so she may functions differently or similarly for an inspired have them play a classical quartet,” across many genres, in a film, even performance. Berg explains. “She’ll ask, ‘How does in the context of society,” explains at’s the whole this relate to what you’re doing in Chattah. “As a result, students can magic of spontane- improv and sight-singing? Who has identify musical structures by ear, ous composition,” the seventh of the chord? Where is but most importantly, they under- he says. the tension?’” stand how they function within any Michael Newell, a sophomore musical context. violinist with a minor in com- “Or, Shelly might present a fter the position, says the improvisation phrase of music exactly as Mozart A singing experience he gains in Powell’s skills wrote it, with the next phrase left of “ ere Will Never Be Another ensemble and other EMC classes open for the students to improvise You,” most aural skills classes would is helping him to understand why upon,” Chattah continues. “Often, be done for the day, but Berg’s high- composers in his own repertoire the students will spontaneously energy teaching pushes much made certain choices. compose something very close to further. He is constantly in motion: “Creating beautiful melodies what Mozart wrote. At the end, we at the piano, at the board, mingling with smooth voice leading in real reflect on why Mozart chose his among the students. “Who wants to time is a skill that not many classical notes and why a student might share with me a melody they tran- musicians have,” Newell says, “but have chosen differently. It’s very scribed from a recording?” he asks. it’s something that I will have for the enlightening.” Before he’s through, he introduces rest of my life.” e integration of the EMC’s a new topic and modes, demonstrat- Master teacher Murnak, a core three components—sight singing, ing how to practice improvising over developer of EMC who helped to improvisation, and aural skills—is them for homework. en comes create the curriculum’s materials, crucial because they all cover the “ The difference in what the jazz students could hear, because they were improvising, was astounding.” another hour of class, when EMC is the sight-singing specialist. “If I same topics from three different students meet in small skills observe Karen’s string ensemble,” she perspectives. ensembles led by other faculty and says, “I’ll make them sing their parts On this ursday, the students graduate teaching assistants, while before or after they play them.” are smiling and engaged, and at the master teachers float around to help. Before Murnak’s innovations, end of both sessions, they give Berg On this day, Berg visits Karen students memorized a packet of a round of applause. Lord Powell’s skills ensemble: five chords, progressions, and scales. “Students tell me they play and classical string musicians. He begins “In our new curriculum, we give the sing better in tune, and are much playing “ ere Will Never Be student hands-on tonal knowledge.” more aware of the music going on Another You.” Going around the And when it comes to contextual around them when they’re perform- room, each performer plays a listening, master teacher Chattah ing in an ensemble. at’s the benefit completely improvised, richly literally wrote the book: Aural Skills I hoped for,” beams Berg, “that com- decorated melody over Berg’s in Context (Oxford). Chattah was bination of inspiration and craft. harmonies. It’s evident they listen also integral in developing the EMC. And you really need both, because intelligently, conscious of each chord “We may listen to how one music doesn’t work with either one and its melodic possibilities. chord, say a secondary dominant, on its own.”

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 23 } { 24 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 JOHN DAVERSA KATE REID PHOTOS: VERSATILE LIGHT STUDIOS PHOTOS: VERSATILE

John Daversa, THE FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC’S NEW CHAIR of the Department of Studio Music and Jazz, was not looking to make a career change when the school came calling last year. Daversa was on the faculty at California State University, Northridge and busy with his own touring and recording career. In addition to leading both a progressive big band and a small ensemble, he had been working with a wide range of genre-spanning artists, including fusion quartet the Yellowjackets, gospel singer Andraé Crouch, and pop stars Michael Bublé and Sheryl Crow. • But then Daversa learned the department would be seeking a new leader upon Whit Sidener’s retirement after four decades at Frost. All it took was a visit to the UM campus to convince Daversa that it was a jump worth taking.

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 25 } “I’d never even been on campus until maintain a performing career of my last April,” says Daversa, who also own where I’m growing and chang- assumed directorship of the Frost ing,” Reid says. “I enjoy teaching and Concert Jazz Band. “But coming to performing at the same time, which Frost and seeing what was happen- sounds like the Miss America ‘world ing with new buildings going up and peace’ speech, but teaching and the Henry Mancini Institute, I knew performing really do enhance each ing open at the same time after so that I could do some good things other. Having to explain concepts long seems very unusual, and it’s a for the program and for myself. It all and get them through to students is big shift,” says Reid. “I think it’s a fit at the right time. I’ve been given a really good tool for keeping your fantastic opportunity to focus on the carte blanche to do as I see fit, and game together. You’ve got to put up solo artistry of the students in our it’s great to have a dean like Shelly or shut up, whether you’re in front program. We won’t necessarily be Berg, who understands jazz educa- of an audience or students. at looking to reinvent the wheel of jazz tion and has been a leader in it for balancing act is frankly hard to do, education, but we do want to look many years. It was an easy decision.” but it’s an exciting challenge.” at different ways of teaching. ings “ As educators and performers, we have to ask ourselves how we keep the music accessible, vibrant, and relevant.”

Likewise, Kate Reid, M.M. ’96, Daversa and Reid have joined are so different from ten or even five D.M.A. ’03, new director of the Frost at a time of immense change years ago. When I was at Frost, most school’s Jazz Vocal Performance pro- in the music industry. Modes of of the students I taught as a grad gram, was content in her previous music production and consumption student wanted to be jazz singers. job at Cypress College in the Orange have changed enormously over the Today, they want to do so many dif- County area of Los Angeles. She past decade, creating new challenges ferent things.” taught there for more than a decade, as well as new opportunities—and “Career choices and paths are becoming chair of the music depart- the need for broader skill sets to certainly different,” Daversa says. ment and head of its jazz program forge a career. While “business” has “Technical advances have given all while staying active with her own traditionally been a dirty word in the musicians their own studio. You jazz quartet (she still has the quartet, music-education world, regarded as can’t just write and record any- with a new album on the way later something that should be beneath more—although you still have to in 2014). Reid’s predecessor, Larry true artists, the reality is that teach- be great at that—but you also have Lapin, put in 45 years at Frost before ing entrepreneurial skills has to be to be a recording engineer and en- retiring this year. a major curriculum element of any trepreneur, where you network and “One reason why I came to Frost modern-day arts program. maintain a website and social-media is that I knew I’d be expected to “Two positions like this com- presence. But for all that, a lot of the

{ 26 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 primary elements are still the same: jazz with other genres the human element, and the mentor is absolutely necessary. relationship between teacher and Some might think that student. at’s pretty much the same has no place because it’s as it was in 1752. You have to be not pure or traditional. human to be an artist, and that bond But in order to keep it must remain.” alive, we’ve got to show Another challenge is outreach, to that music is all one bring jazz to a younger demographic. kind. We have to get listeners and It’s the same task facing everyone in performers alike to listen with a dif- a niche genre with a greying audi- ferent set of ears.” ence, whether jazz or classical or For all that, Reid and Daversa bluegrass—how to keep the music both pronounce themselves optimis- alive and hand it down to the next tic—about Frost, about jazz, and generation. even about the music industry. From “As educators and performers, we Daversa’s perspective, it’s as simple have to ask ourselves how we keep as deciding for yourself how hard the music accessible, vibrant, and it’s going to be and then making it relevant,” says Reid. “ e literature happen. arts. If you decide it’s hard, it will of jazz-standard lyrics is still very “You are the creator of your own be, and if you decide it’s easy, it will relevant to the human condition— reality,” says Daversa. “In our culture, be. All you have to do is go at it with wanting and getting and losing love; we’ve devalued art so much that all your passion and purpose, have the desire for that never goes away. we’ve brainwashed ourselves into the will to create, and believe. It will Stylistically, I think the infusion of thinking it’s hard to have a life in the always be a leap of faith.” Frost Jazz Legends

hit Sidener, B.M. ’69, M.M. ’72, John Daversa’s under and students he’d taught, in bands both on and off W predecessor as chair of the Department of Studio campus. Music and Jazz, remembers the old days when he started “It was a really wonderful time to be a working musi- teaching at the school way back in the early 1970s. It cian in Miami,” Sidener says. “The music business as it was, he says, “not much of a department” back then. But exists today is a totally different era, and I don’t under- under Sidener’s leadership, the Frost School of Music grew stand it. It’s not the age of the working musician so much into one of the country’s premier jazz schools, numbering anymore. There was a time when musicians were a giant guitarist Pat Metheny among its many notable alumni. workforce filling radio and TV stations and traveling bands. “A lot of my students went on to have major, major ca- That’s not really the way it seems to work anymore, which reers,” says Sidener. “I was surrounded by so much talent isn’t to say it’s not a good profession. Just different.” at Frost, I might have taken it for granted and thought every school was Sidener (the honoree of an on-campus tribute concert the weekend of like that. So I just kind of expected it and was never in awe, even though March 7-8) is happy with the selection of Daversa as his successor. Also I probably should have been. That may have been a failing on my part, the pleased with his successor is Larry Lapin, B.M. ’65, M.M ’71, who recently downside of inexperience. But the upside when you’re young is you just retired as director of Frost’s Jazz Vocal Performance program after a 45- forge ahead and do crazy things, and a lot of them work out. I think the year run. Lapin takes particular satisfaction that his department wound up program has so much momentum. I believe in evolution rather than revolu- in the hands of another Frost alumnus, Kate Reid, M.M. ’96, D.M.A. ’03. tion, and I think it’s evolving and moving forward as it should.” “Of the six finalists for the job, three of them had come through this Sidener completed his education and assumed his leadership role at program as students,” says Lapin, who is still busy in retirement as a the school in his late 20s, and the line between students and faculty was teacher and composer. “I’m so pleased they picked Kate because she’s blurry in a healthy way. Sidener worked with many professors he’d studied marvelous. But they could not have gone wrong with any of them.”

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 27 } { 28 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 Entering the Online Frontier With the launch of two online master’s degree programs this fall, and a third in 2015, Frost will be the fi rst school at the University of Miami to offer the accessibility and fl exibility of the virtual classroom.

By Lisa Sedelnik, M.A. ’00 A gigging guitarist in Memphis wants to advance his career by enrolling in music management courses, but his grueling schedule makes attending live lectures impossible. A classically trained fl utist in Madrid wants to learn more about the ever-changing music industry, but job- and family-related obligations deplete her free time. A Frost School alumnus in Miami wants to study music entrepreneurship but is still searching for a fl exible course off ering. Starting this fall, people who are seeking graduate music education can turn to Frost Online. is new initiative enables the Frost School of Music to off er two of its well-established music business- related master’s degree programs online, with a third in music therapy to follow early next year. “At Frost, we are committed to providing students with a highly innovative, inspiring, and relevant education so they can be leaders in the world of music,” says Dean and Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music Shelton G. Berg. “Our decision to make our degree programs available online refl ects that commitment and our deep desire to ensure that talented students around the world who are interested in contributing to the elevation of the musical arts have the ability to do so.”

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 29 } WIDESPREAD ENRICHMENT to providing the infrastructure and faculty training to Offering online graduate degree programs allows the create the online course material, the company will use Frost School to “cast a wider net” in attracting qualified integrated marketing and branding strategies to extend students to its world-class music programs—regardless of Frost’s outreach to highly qualified potential students. geographic location or time zone. It’s also a testament to the school’s ongoing commitment to serve its alumni for THE ONLINE LINEUP life and its ability to respond to the needs of prospective Frost will begin offering its Master of Music in Music students in today’s fast-paced, technology-driven world. Business and Entertainment Industries and its Master of “ e world of music is changing rapidly, so providing Arts in Arts Presenting and Live Entertainment Man- these courses online is a great way to offer our alumni agement online beginning this August, pending approval skills that will help them as they continue their careers,” from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. says Dean Berg. “It’s also a way to reach people who have Both programs are accepting applications now. graduated from other music schools but didn’t have ac- e Music Business and Entertainment Industries cess to the kinds of things we are teaching now; this is a program enables students to study music copyright, real opportunity for us to provide that enrichment.” music publishing, record companies, entertainment e ideal candidate for a Frost Online master’s contracts, music licensing, touring, and music marketing. degree is someone who has been working in the music e Arts Presenting and Live Entertainment Manage- field for several years and who is ready to expand his or ment program, also known as AP Live, provides a thor- her knowledge and skill set but can’t be tethered to a ough understanding of for-profit marketing, promotion, traditional, face-to-face classroom setting. and management, as well as the legal aspects, risks, and “‘I wish I could enroll in one of your programs; I wish financing of a wide range of live entertainment endeav- there was something like this I could do.’ ese are the ors. A Master of Music degree in music therapy, which words we would hear over and over again, and it’s the is designed to prepare students for either advanced-level main reason we decided to offer these courses online,” says clinical practice or additional opportunities in research Reynaldo Sanchez, B.M. ’80, M.M. ’82, associate dean for or college teaching, will be available online in early 2015. strategic initiatives and innovation at the Frost School. Students will also have the option of entering Frost teamed with Academic Partnerships, one of these programs through a massive open online course the world’s largest representatives of online learning, to help convert three of its master’s programs into an online format, recruit students, and support student retention. ‘‘ If you want your alumni base to be successful and powerful “If you want your alumni base to be successful and powerful players in the music industry, these individu- players in the music industry, these individuals are als are not the ones who can come and sit in class every night,” says Jim Lummus, senior vice president for the not the ones who can come and sit in class every night.’’ Southeast for Academic Partnerships. “It’s not necessar- (MOOC). e MOOC in Music Entrepreneurship is ily a competitive advantage to go online these days; it’s a offered as a first course at www.frostonline.miami.edu, competitive disadvantage not to be.” allowing students to “test drive” online learning risk-free. Today, online learning is growing at more than nine ose who pass this MOOC and are qualified to enroll times the rate of on-campus instruction. Many of the in a Frost degree program are eligible to earn one credit world’s leading colleges and universities offer online cours- hour in music entrepreneurship for free. es, including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute Frost Online students will be as much a part of the of Technology, Stanford University, Boston University, Frost experience as their on-campus counterparts. ey and Berklee College of Music. According to a study by the will learn from the same award-winning faculty and will Research Institute of America, roughly 50 percent of all have access to the same opportunities for experience college classes by 2019 will take place online. and professional growth. ese online graduate degrees Academic Partnerships has been working closely are being built by the same faculty who created the brick- with Frost faculty to ensure that Frost Online programs and-mortar versions, which are some of the school’s maintain the highest educational standards. In addition strongest and most established programs.

{ 30 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 rough the use of a course prototype, Frost in- and I am not sure it’s always the best way to get informa- structors are being guided through the course-building tion,” says Dean Berg. “I can teach you something right process, which includes hours of videotaping and subse- now in a lecture, and if you don’t do it within the next 24 quent cataloging of lectures and other material. A course hours, chances are you will never be able to. I am excited map, a set of tools that serves as a “road map” for faculty, that the online space gets us past that.” ensures that learning objectives are met. According to e online format also facilitates administrative tasks Sanchez, since music course objectives are clear, specific, for professors. ey can grade essays and term papers and highly measurable, these graduate programs are par- online and electronically track their changes. Entire dis- ticularly suited for conversion into an online format. cussion threads can be saved and then reviewed at a later “If you walk into our piano class, it’s all about mea- date, eliminating the need for note taking or the reliance sures and outcomes. ‘Can you play all the different types of the instructor’s own memory. of scales in all 12 keys? Do you understand the differ- ent types of chords?’ ere is a checklist of things that BLAZING THE TRAIL students must do,” explains Sanchez. “And with online Frost is the first school at the University of Miami to courses, you must be able to measure competency. ” offer fully online degrees. is is not surprising, given e Learning Management System (LMS) known the school’s reputation for pioneering new curricula,

‘‘ If you want your alumni base to be successful and powerful players in the music industry, these individuals are not the ones who can come and sit in class every night.’’ as Blackboard, the software application being used at including the Frost Experiential Music Curriculum, an the Frost School to deliver the e-learning courses, also interactive approach to music making that trains ‘internal provides professors with a greater level of transparency musicians’ rather than rote learners. Frost was also the than typically found in the traditional classroom setting. first in the nation to offer accredited bachelor’s and e LMS can tell a professor how many times a student master’s degrees in music business and music engineering logged on, how many times he or she clicked from one technology, as well as degrees in music therapy and in page to another, and how many minutes the student studio music and jazz. spent on a specific page. “Frost Online is a chance for one of the greatest and “You can’t sleep online; it’s impossible,” says Lummus. most innovative schools of music in the country to project With online learning, information is broken up into our mission and core values to a wider audience,” says smaller modules, allowing students to interact and Dean Berg. “I believe music is the most important force demonstrate competency in the course material right in the known world, so having online degrees that can away, which may lead to better learning outcomes. potentially reach more students and get music into more “I know what it’s like to sit in an hour-long lecture, places is very exciting.”

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 31 } Faculty Updates Welcoming New Frost School Faculty NEW FACULTY AT THE PHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC BRING A BROAD RANGE OF EXPERIENCES TO THE SCHOOL AND ENGAGE STUDENTS IN NEW WAYS OF LEARNING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. AMONG THIS GROUP ARE AWARD-WINNING AND INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED MUSICIANS WHO TEACH INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL PERFORMANCE, MUSIC THERAPY, JAZZ, AND MUSICOLOGY. THEY ARE AT THE TOP OF THEIR FIELD IN PERFORMANCE AND RESEARCH. THE FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC IS IN GOOD HANDS WITH THESE FULL-TIME AND LECTURER APPOINTMENTS, AS THEY PROVIDE DYNAMIC AND INSPIRED MUSIC INSTRUCTION FOR TODAY’S EXCITING WORLD.

Gabriel Beavers, associate professor of bassoon in the addition to his orchestral activities, Beavers has an active Department of Instrumental Performance, was on the schedule of solo and chamber performances. He has ap- faculty of Louisiana State University School of Music peared as a concerto soloist with the Virginia Symphony, for six years. He teaches private bassoon lessons and also Baton Rouge Symphony, and Louisiana Sinfonietta, and coaches the Frost Woodwind Ensemble. Formerly a fel- he has given recitals throughout the United States and low with the New World Symphony, he has also served at international festivals in Brazil. His solo CD, Gordon as principal bassoon with the Virginia Symphony, acting Jacob: Music for Bassoon, has been released to critical principal bassoon with the Malaysian Philharmonic acclaim on the Mark Masters label. His recording of the Orchestra and the Jacksonville Symphony, and as acting Dinos Constantinides Bassoon Concerto is available on second bassoon with the Milwaukee Symphony for one iTunes. He attended Boston University and Southern season. He is a former visiting assistant professor at the Methodist University, where he studied with Matthew University of Missouri-Columbia School of Music. In Ruggiero and Wilfred Roberts.

John Daversa, assistant professor, chair of the Depart- terey Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, and Montreux ment of Studio Music and Jazz, and director of the Festival, to name a few, and performed or recorded with Frost Concert Jazz Band, is a performer (trumpet/EVI), Fiona Apple, Michael Bublé, Dori Caymmi, Joe Cocker, composer, arranger, producer, bandleader, educator, Andraé Crouch, Sheryl Crow, Dr. Dre, Bob Mintzer Big and recording artist. He previously taught at California Band, and e Yellowjackets. e John Daversa Proges- State University, Northridge and University of Southern sive Big Band has released two albums to date. His solo California. He is a winner of the Herb Alpert Award, trumpet and flugelhorn work can be heard on dozens National Trumpet Competition, and ITG Jazz Soloist of television and motion picture soundtracks. Daversa Competition, and was a finalist in the elonious Monk earned a B.A. in music from University of California, International Jazz Competition. He has performed on Los Angeles, an M.F.A. in jazz studies at California world stages, including e Today Show, e Late Show Institute of the Arts, and a D.M.A. in jazz studies at the with David Letterman, e Oprah Winfrey Show, Mon- University of Southern California.

{ 32 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 Karen Henson, associate professor of musicology, also contributed articles to e New Grove Dictionary of focuses her research on 19th-century opera, singers and Music and Musicians and e Cambridge Verdi Encyclope- opera performance, and opera and technology. Henson dia. She recently completed her first book, Opera Acts: trained at the University of Oxford and in Paris. Fellow- Singers and Performance in the Late Nineteenth Century, ships and awards from e British Academy, the Stanford which will be published by Cambridge University Press in Welcoming New Humanities Center, Harvard University, and the Radcliffe 2014. She is now finishing an edited volume on sopranos Institute have supported her work for advanced study. Her and technology, which will also be appearing with writing has appeared in the Cambridge Opera Journal, Cambridge, and working on a new book on opera and 19th-Century Music, Journal of the American Musicological early sound recording. She has been a regular guest Society, and in the edited volumes L’Opéra en France et en speaker for the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Frost School Faculty Italie and Le spectaculaire dans les arts de la scène. She has Opera, and the BBC.

Kate Reid, M.M. ’96, D.M.A. ’03, is associate professor Hendricks, Mark Murphy, Paul Anka, Liza Minnelli, and of jazz voice and program director for Jazz Vocal Tito Puente. Her latest album, e Love I’m In, and her Performance. An acclaimed jazz singer and pianist, previous release, Sentimental Mood, received extensive Reid was previously chair of the music department airplay on jazz radio stations. Reid also works regularly and head of the applied music and jazz programs at as a studio session singer. Film credits include Star Trek Cypress College in California. In demand as a guest Into Darkness, Oz: e Great and Powerful, Epic, and Men artist, clinician, and adjudicator at jazz and choral in Black III, singing the music of Danny Elfman, Michael festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada, Reid earned Giacchino, and more. Other session work includes her graduate degrees in jazz vocal performance from the commercial spots for T-Mobile and backing vocals for Frost School and a B.M. in jazz studies from Western artists Muse, X Japan, and Josh Groban. She is co-author Michigan University. She has appeared with Jon of the Glee Vocal Method (Hal Leonard Publishing).

The Frost School also congratulates assistant professors Robynne Redmon and Kevin Short on joining the full time vocal performance faculty, after serving as visiting assistant professors last year. See their profiles in Score 2013 and faculty updates on page 40 of this edition. Please visit music.miami.edu for additional faculty announcements throughout the upcoming year.

Executive Leadership t the start of the 2013-2014 academic year, Dean M.M. ’82 (associate professor in AShelton G. Berg announced several leadership changes the Department of Music Media to the Frost School’s Executive Committee. and Industry, director of the Bruce Professor Shannon de l’Etoile, former director of the Music Hornsby Creative American Music Therapy program, was appointed associate dean for graduate program, and former chair of studies. Associate Professor Teresa Lesiuk was appointed Music the Department of Music Media Therapy program director. and Industry) to a newly created Steven Moore was newly hired as associate dean for leadership position, associate dean undergraduate studies, replacing Kenneth J. Moses, B.M. ’72, for strategic initiatives and innova- M.M. ’74, who retired in June 2013. Moore was previously chair tion. In this role, Sanchez oversees Steven Moore of the Department of Music at University of Central Missouri, the content development for online where he taught conducting and music education and conducted education that will be offered through the new Frost Online the Symphonic Band. He holds a B.M.E. from University of South portal (see page 2), as well as other technological improvements Carolina and an M.M. and D.M.A. from University of Kentucky. He at Frost. Serona Elton, associate professor in the Music is a member of the American Bandmasters Association. Business and Entertainment Industries program, was appointed Dean Berg also appointed Reynaldo Sanchez, B.M. ’80, chair of the Department of Music Media and Industry.

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 33 } Faculty Updates New Lecturers Maria Fenty Denison, D.M.A. ’12, mezzo soprano, is distinction for her work in Beethoven’s Mass in B Minor, a lecturer in the Department of Vocal Performance teach- Mass in C, and Symphony No. 9; Mahler’s Symphony ing Voice, Diction, Opera Workshop, Vocal Techniques No. 2; and the Verdi Requiem and Duruflé’s Requiem. for Music Educators, and more. Denison holds a D.M.A. Her doctoral research centered on the physiological find- in vocal pedagogy from UM Frost, and earned M.M. ings of the developing young singer, and she has presented and B.M. degrees from Westminster Choir College. She her research at the 2013 Florida Music Educator Associa- was featured recently with the New World Symphony, tion conference. Denison founded both the Girl Choir Colorado Symphony, Master Chorale of South Florida, of South Florida and e Musical eatre Academy at South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble, and Festival Inter- St. Mark’s Episcopal School in Fort Lauderdale. She has national de Colmar. She debuted at Avery Fisher Hall as served as voice consultant for e American Boychoir mezzo soloist in Handel’s Messiah and received reviews of and Florida Singing Sons Boychoir.

Coreen Duffy, M.M. ’08, lecturer in the Departments repertoire. Her choral works are published by Walton of Musicology and Vocal Performance, teaches choral Music and ECS Publishing, and her compositions have literature, choral arranging, and music history. She also been recommended at ACDA conferences and reviewed supervises graduate student conductors in the Frost in Creator Magazine, Journal of the Association of Anglican Chamber Singers. She is the founding music director Musicians, and e American Organist. Her scholarly of the Second Avenue Jewish Chorale and serves as writings have been published by American Choral Review repertoire and standards chair for ethnic and multi- and Choral Journal. Duffy is completing a D.M.A. in cultural perspectives for the Florida American Choral choral music from USC ornton School of Music. She Directors Association (ACDA). At the 2013 National earned a master’s in choral conducting from the Frost ACDA Conference, Duffy presented a Music and Wor- School and Juris Doctor and undergraduate degrees ship Interest and Performance session on Jewish choral from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Amy Kalas, B.M. ’06, M.M. ’09, is a board-certified Education Center in New Jersey, she was hired in 2006 music therapist and professional member of the Ameri- as a full-time music therapist at United Cerebral Palsy can Music erapy Association (AMTA). She is a (UCP) of Miami. At UCP, she worked with children visiting lecturer in the Music erapy Program at the from birth to age 8 with special needs and served as the Frost School of Music, where she earned both bachelor clinical internship director and practicum supervisor. and master’s degrees in music therapy. After complet- Kalas also owns a private music therapy practice, ing her clinical internship at the Matheny Medical and Wholesome Harmonies, LLC.

Ana Flavia Zuim, lecturer in the Department of includes voice, piano, and electric bass, both privately and Vocal Performance, returned to teaching full time in at the New World School of the Arts, Barry University, August 2013 after a yearlong national tour with the and Florida Atlantic University. She was assistant direc- award-winning Broadway musical Billy Elliot as associ- tor for FAU Tops Camp in 2008 and 2009 and worked ate conductor, pianist, and vocal coach. She was recently at the Belvoir Terrace Performing Arts Camp in 2011. A musical director for the Latin musical El Club de Las native of Brazil, Zuim earned a B.M. at State University Divorciadas (“e Divorcees Club”) and worked on the of Londrina. She holds an M.M. in piano performance show Viva Broadway at the South Miami-Dade Cultural from Lynn University and a Ph.D. in fine and perform- Arts Center. She has been musical director at Miami ing arts at Florida Atlantic University, where she was a Children’s eatre since 2009. Prior teaching experience winner of their annual Concerto Competition.

{ 34 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 Joe Abbati, B.M. ’92, M.F.A. ’11, a performed at the Mainly Mozart rehabilitation. The Miami Clinical and lecturer in the Music Engineering Festival, Coral Gables Congregational Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Technology program, has an evolving Church series, the On Top Series in is now partnering with Bennett and his role in the Contemporary American Fort Lauderdale, and in Naples, team to turn research they’ve been Music (CAM) program, with teaching Florida. During the summer they conducting on amputees (“Body private students and coaching the toured Michigan as part of the Pine Tune-Up,” Score 2013) into a product Laptop Ensemble. He performed a Mountain Music Festival, and that can be used by student athletes live electronic music performance at presented two master classes and a during rehab of an injured leg; W.H. the Virginia Key Grassroots Festival in concert in Grand County, Colorado. Coulter Foundation funded the February 2014, finished another origi- Martin Bejerano, M.M. ’98, assistant partnership. nal music score for a new computer professor, jazz Tony Boutté, tenor, assistant professor game; presented a lecture at the piano, released in the Department of Vocal Perfor- Miami Ableton Live User Group gath- his second CD mance, performed lead roles in two ering, and presented a workshop at as leader, world premiere operas at Symphony this year’s Winter Music Conference. Potential Energy Space in New York City: Rerouted Carlos Abril, B.M. ’93, associate (Figgland (John Eaton) and The Death of Webern professor and Records). It (Michael Dellaria). He performed program reached top with Hollywood and Broadway actors director of 25 in JazzWeek’s Campbell Scott and Melissa Errico Undergraduate airplay charts. He performed at the in the off-Broadway production of Music Education, Newport Jazz Festival, Torino Jazz More Between Heaven and Earth, a was a keynote Festival in Italy, and on The Jazz play with music recounting Thomas presenter at the Cruise. He also enjoyed stints at Jefferson’s relationship with Maria North Carolina Ronnie Scott’s in London, Blue Note Cosway. He received a UM Provost Music Educators Jazz Clubs in New York City and Research Award for the second year Conference and the American Orff Milan, New Morning Jazz Club in in a row, which will help fund a new Schulwerk Association Conference, Paris, and Sculler’s Jazz in Boston. He recording of songs by Gabriel Fauré and was a visiting scholar at Penn performed with the Roy Haynes with acclaimed pianist Roy Howat State University. He gave presenta- Quartet, saxophonist Jimmy Greene, (Royal Academy of Music, London). tions at the College Music Society vibraphonist Joe Locke, vocalist His research on the early songs of International Conference in Buenos Lauren Kinhan from New York Voices, Benjamin Britten culminated with a Aires, the International Symposium for and the Martin Bejerano Quartet. As a celebratory concert at Festival Miami Research in Music in Seattle, and the composer, he was awarded the 2013 that was widely praised by press Mountain Lake Colloquium in Virginia. “Bacardi Choice” composition award, and audiences alike. This past year he published a chapter commissioned by the Dranoff Juan Chattah, assistant professor of in the book Orff Schulwerk: Reflections International Two Piano Foundation music theory and Directions (GIA Press) and and sponsored by Bacardi, USA. The and composi- articles in General Music Today and commission was for a jazz-and-Latin- tion, celebrated Orff Echo. He received funding from influenced composition for two pianos the August Smithsonian Folkways to host a World and was premiered April 2014 by the publication by Music Pedagogy professional award-wining piano team Duo Oxford Univer- development course at Frost for music Yamamoto. sity Press of his teachers in the region. Abril was also Christopher Bennett, B.S.E.E. ’05, M.S. ’07, Aural Skills in awarded a Provost’s Research Award Ph.D. ’10, Context: A and was named a Faculty Fellow for research Comprehensive Approach to Sight Civic and Community Engagement assistant Singing, Ear Training, Keyboard at UM. He continues to serve as an professor in the Harmony, and Improvisation, which he educational consultant for Ravinia’s Music Engineer- co-authored with Evan Jones and Steans Music Institute in Chicago and ing Technology Matthew Shaftel. The book, which Florida Grand Opera. He serves on program, received outstanding reviews, five editorial boards, including Journal continues his addresses the pervasive disconnect of Research in Music Education. teaching in between formal training and popular Bergonzi String Quartet, composed of psychoacoustics. He had a highly culture while fostering cognitive Frost School string faculty Glenn productive year at the UM FORE synthesis, knowledge transfer, and Basham, Scott Flavin, Pamela Center, mentoring graduate students critical thinking, thus preparing McConnell, and Ross Harbaugh, in audio and music engineering students for an ever-changing musical performed two concerts on the research projects as well as continu- environment. He presented a paper prestigious Slee Beethoven string ing his work in the field of auditory “Irony and Related Tropes within Film quartet cycle in Buffalo last year. They biofeedback on medical patient Music: Analysis and Categorization” at

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the Society for Music Theory National became editor of the FMEA Research Frost. In January 2014, his solo perfor- Conference. This research speculates Perspectives in Music Education mance of Thomas Sleeper’s “Translu- on the cognitive processes taking journal. In 2013 he gave community cence for Trombone and Orchestra” place during the perception of music research presentations at the was released on CD with the Brno musical irony. Stemming from this FMEA conference in Tallahassee, the Philharmonic, Zoe Zeniodi, D.M.A. ’10, research, a promising collaboration Community Music and Music Peda- A.D. ’11, conductor. with colleagues at the UM Miller gogy: Collaborations, Intersections, Shannon de l’Etoile, professor of music School of Medicine will employ fMRI and New Perspectives Symposium in therapy and to explore the (neural-) cognitive Munich, Germany, and at the Music in associate dean processes for categorization of Lifelong Learning Symposium in for graduate musical irony. He founded the Society Columbia, South Carolina. studies, for Music Theory’s Film Music and Tim Conner, lecturer, trombone, was presented her Multimedia Interest Group to more an invited participant at the Summer research paper firmly establish a scholarly space to Session on Contemplative Pedagogy on “Infant-Di- stimulate and disseminate research held at Smith College. Sponsored rected Singing on music and sound within film, game, by the Association for Contempla- and Self-Regula- and multimedia. tive Mind in Higher Education, the tion in Infants with Down Syndrome” Don D. Coffman, professor and chair of weeklong conference was a gathering at the annual meeting of the American the Department of educators from all disciplines in the Music Therapy Association, held in of Music arts, humanities, and sciences, and Jacksonville, Florida, in November Education and explored contemplative practices that 2013. She partnered with Blythe Music Therapy, serve teaching, learning, and knowing LaGasse from Colorado State co-authored a in higher education. In November University as guest co-editors for a book chapter in he collaborated with music therapist special issue of the peer-reviewed Community Teresa Lesiuk to present the work- clinical journal Music Therapy Music Today, shop “Mindfulness for Musicians.” As Perspectives. Published in 2013, the authored an a performer, Conner continues his issue, “Music and Neuroscience: article in the International Journal of role as principal trombone in the pit Clinical Implications for Sensorimotor Community Music, and contributed with Miami City Ballet. He performed Functioning,” represents the first in a entries to The New Grove Dictionary at the International Trombone Festival series designed to explore the topic of American Music. He was appointed in June 2013 at Columbus State Univer- of music and neuroscience. Within this research chair for the Florida Music sity and presented a solo Trombone issue, de l’Etoile co-authored another Educators Association (FMEA) and Awakening recital in November at manuscript with LaGasse, “An

Gary Keller Receives 2013 Phillip Frost Award Jazz saxophone faculty member Gary Keller, Keller has performed and/or recorded with the M.M. ’80, was awarded the 2013 Phillip Florida Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Frost Award for Excellence in Teaching and and others. His debut solo CD, Blues for an Scholarship at a Frost School of Music faculty Old New Age, garnered widespread critical ac- meeting on August 20, 2013. He was also claim. He has appeared in clubs, jazz festivals, promoted this spring to the rank of professor and presented guest lectures at universities of professional practice. throughout the United States, Europe, and Ja- Keller has been teaching in the Depart- pan. Keller is the founder of the Miami Saxo- ment of Studio Music and Jazz at the Frost phone Quartet and author of The Jazz Chord/ School for three decades. A highly versatile musician, Keller Scale Handbook (Advance Music). A long-time Miami freelance has toured with the Woody Herman Thundering Herd and musician, he has played on numerous recordings, on television performed and/or recorded with such prominent jazz artists as shows, and in Broadway pit orchestras, and has backed scores Kenny Werner, Billy Hart, Maria Schneider, ’85, Jim McNeely, of prominent entertainers, including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ira Sullivan, and the late Jaco Pastorius. In the classical realm, Johnny Mathis, Natalie Cole, Lou Rawls, and Mel Torme.

{ 36 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 introduction to music and neurosci- Cathédrale Américaine, as well as Rachmaninoff songs with the ence: Implications for clinical numerous concerts and classes Deerfield Symphony. He toured with practice.” Upon invitation, de l’Etoile across the the Bergonzi String Quartet to New submitted a chapter, “Music therapy: United States. He York, Colorado, and Michigan. He was Processes of music therapy—clinical conducts the invited to the Orfeo Music Festival and scientific rationales and models,” Miami Mozarte- in Italy for the third straight year, for the new edition of The Oxford um Orchestra where he gave master classes, taught Handbook of Music Psychology, due and performed private lessons, and performed eight for publication next year. as concertmas- chamber concerts. He performed Alberto De La Reguera, director of the ter for Florida with the Frost Chamber Players DownBeat Award-winning Frost Salsa Grand Opera during Festival Miami and performed Orchestra, continues to conduct, com- and the Palm Beach Symphony, as six concerts with the Deering Estate pose, and arrange for the ensemble. well as for Andrea Bocelli and Itzhak Chamber Ensemble, a piano quartet. Among his innovations this year was Perlman. As a member of the He continued mentoring the Stamps to include music from Venezuela, Bra- Bergonzi String Quartet, he also String Quartet with weekly coaching zil, and Argentina in its repertoire, in performed at prestigious festivals and and coordination of concerts and addition to the usual Afro-Caribbean participated for the 19th summer in summer travel. He performed the format. He also continues writing residence at Pine Mountain Music Dvorák Cello Concerto with the Frost symphonic arrangements of Latin Festival in Michigan. Symphony Orchestra in March 2014 classics for Juan Pablo Subirana, M.M. Melissa J. de Graaf, associate professor and has been invited to teach at the ’93, and is arranging a new piece for of musicology, Philadelphia International Music piano and orchestra for Frost faculty- celebrated the Festival winter program in December. artist Santiago Rodriguez. publication of Esther Jane Hardenbergh, associate pro- Margaret Donaghue, associate professor her new book, fessor and chair of the Department of clarinet, The New York of Vocal Performance, was invited to performed at the Composers’ Japan last year to sing the national International Forum Concerts, anthems of Japan and the United Clarinet 1935–1940 States in a celebration honoring the Association’s (University of birthday of Japanese Emperor Akihito. ClarinetFest in Rochester Press, 2013). The Compos- She was subsequently invited to sing Assisi, Italy, in ers’ Forum was a weekly series of a recital of Japanese and American August, was new music concerts sponsored by the songs at the Counsulate-General of guest artist at Federal Music Project and Works Japan’s residence in Miami. She also Keene State College’s Woodwind Fest Progress Administration. It showcased sang recitals in Salzburg, Austria, and in New Hampshire in November, and such diverse composers as Aaron appeared as soloist with the Master performed at the New Music Festival Copland, Amy Beach, Henry Cowell, Chorale of South Florida in its 10th at the University of South Florida in and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Question- birthday celebration, conducted by February 2014. As a member of the and-answer sessions between Choral Studies program director chamber trio Pulse, she performed at composers and audiences followed Karen Kennedy and former fac- La Cathédrale Américaine; the the concerts, prompting discussions, ulty Jo-Michael Scheibe and Joshua opening concert and a master class arguments, and sometimes even riots, Habermann. She performed a series for Brookings Chamber Music documented in nearly complete of orchestra holiday concerts in Society’s season in South Dakota; and transcripts. De Graaf’s new book December 2013 with the Mid-Atlantic the National Music Museum in explores the remarkable diversity of Symphony Orchestra. She also Vermillion, South Dakota. The group composers and musical styles adjudicated vocal competitions in inaugurated a new series, Musica Viva represented, and it quotes heavily Oklahoma, Boston, Louisiana, Austria, Miami, with three local concerts in from the transcripts, which expose and Germany. November and December 2013, and composers’ and listeners’ attitudes Dorothy Hindman, B.M. ’88, D.M.A. ’94, also performed and presented master toward modernism, politics, gender, assistant classes during a weeklong tour in race, and American identity. professor of Georgia in February 2014. She is Ross Harbaugh, cello professor, String composition, has launching the Blue Ridge Chamber Program director, and interim chair of enjoyed recent Music Festival in Blue Ridge, Georgia, the Department of Instrumental performances of this June with her husband, faculty Performance, performed the Elgar her work in violinist Scott Flavin. Concerto with the Alhambra Sym- Atlanta, Raleigh, Scott Flavin, lecturer, violin, and resident phony and the Broward Symphony in Orlando, and conductor for the Henry Mancini the month of February, Zoe Zeniodi, New York City Institute Orchestra, performed in Paris D.M.A. ’10, A.D. ’11, conductor. He (Empire City Men’s Chorus). Her with his chamber trio, Pulse, at La also performed a concerto based on Mechanisms was premiered by the

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Frost Flute Ensemble in November Concerto for Flute with Flute of Music-Mindfulness on Attention and 2013 and performed at the Florida Orchestra as well as Dorothy Quality-of-Life in Women with Breast Flute Association conference in Hindman’s Mechanisms, which they Cancer,” in collaboration with Joyce January 2014. Her Cascade, written later recorded. The composers were Chavarria, director of nurse educa- for the Frost Saxophone Ensemble, in attendance and participated in a tion at the Sylvester Comprehensive was performed at the Florida State panel moderated by Kane on writing Cancer Center, University of Miami University New Music Ensemble in for flute ensemble. At the convention Hospitals and Clinics. She is in press February. She is completing commis- Kane also performed a concert of with the journal Psychology of Music sions for Ensemble FORO of Portugal French music and a tribute to Julius for “Measuring Music Perception and classical guitarist Mikkel Baker. In September 2013 she of Children with Executive Function Andersen of Denmark. Her work for presented a recital at Gusman Hall Deficits,” a study that involved data youth orchestra, Urban Myths, with pianist Paul Schwartz and a collection from 71 children ages 9 to received its Miami premiere in two master class at the Boston Flute 11 and their respective teachers from performances in October by the Academy. four elementary schools in Miami. Greater Miami Youth Symphony. Karen Kennedy, associate professor and In November 2013 she presented Hindman’s first solo CD, Tapping the program “Mindfulness-Based Music Therapy Furnace, will be released this year on director of and Attention Control” at the annual the innova label. She also continues to Choral Studies at conference of the American Music review for South Florida Classical Frost, was Therapy Association, Jacksonville, Review and The Miami Herald and keynote speaker Florida. In June 2013 she was a panel hosts The Po Mo Show on WVUM, 90.5 and headline member for “Music and Your Health,” FM, every Wednesday at noon. guest artist at a session at the biennial International Alan Johnson, B.M. ’82, associate profes- state confer- Women’s Forum, themed “Music: An sor and program director of Frost ences in Instrument for Change” in Montego Opera Theater in the Department of Colorado and Minnesota. An Bay, Jamaica. Vocal Performance, was integrally in- in-demand clinician and conductor, Brian Lynch, associate professor of jazz volved in Frost Opera Theater produc- she was selected to conduct at recent trumpet, performed with his quartet tions of Britten and Beyond in Great and upcoming all-state choirs and at the 7th Winter Festival of the Arts Britain and the South Florida premiere choral festivals in Hawaii, Minnesota, in Sochi, Russia, during the Winter of Jackie O by Michael Daugherty Colorado, North Carolina, California, Olympics. The group, which includes and Wayne Koestenbaum. Additional Ohio, Washington, Delaware, and Emmet Cohen, B.M. ’12, on piano, was performances in 2013-2014 included Missouri. She also participated in the sole U.S. representative for the Schubert’s Winterreise with Metropol- residencies at Lincoln Center and Cultural Olympiad. His most recent itan Opera tenor Dennis Petersen at Carnegie Hall in March and April CD release, Unsung Heroes Vol. 2, OPERA America in New York; Festival 2014. stayed in the top five of the jazz radio Miami’s Britten Celebration; and Frost Colby Leider, associate professor and charts for four consecutive weeks, Opera Theater’s selection in the finals director of the peaking at No. 2. A full-length feature of the National Opera Association Music Engineer- about him appeared in the October Collegiate Scenes Competition in ing Technology 2013 issue of Jazz Times. Notable New York. program, is appearances in New York City jazz Trudy Kane, associate professor, flute, currently clubs include weeklong residencies performed a serving as with The Messenger Legacy, com- transcription of investigator on posed of Lynch’s fellow alums of Art Tiger Rag for approximately Blakey’s illustrious Jazz Messengers. flute solo, flute $5 million in He continued his 20-plus-year tenure ensemble, and sponsored research. He welcomed with the Phil Woods Quintet with a jazz tuba with four new faculty members and a voyage on The Jazz Cruise, as well as the Frost Flute senior research scientist to the an engagement at the Blue Note Jazz Ensemble and program, co-authored 11 papers, Club and a journey to Santiago, Chile, tuba professor participated in four media interviews, to perform at their Jazz Festival. Also Sam Pilafian, B.M. ’72, at the Florida gave three invited presentations, and on The Jazz Cruise, Lynch preformed Flute Convention in January 2013. The spoke to President Donna E. Shalala with Latin legend Eddie Palmieri in Frost Flute Ensemble repeated the and the University of Miami Board a jazz quartet setting. Educational concert again at the National Flute of Trustees about his research and residencies included a return to the Association Convention in New teaching. He also officially became faculty of the Stanford Jazz Workshop Orleans, plus an arrangement by a Scottish Lord. and the fourth year of his Artist In Pilafian called “New Orleans.” Kane Teresa Lesiuk, associate professor Residence position for the Jazz and the Frost Flute Ensemble also and director of the Music Therapy Institute high school program at the performed Thomas Sleeper’s program, continued her study, “Effect Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.

{ 38 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 Charles Mason, B.M. ’77, associate Música Nueva (Mexico City), and temporary music concert, played a professor and chair of the Depart- Tanglewood Institute, where he was a complete recital, performed as soloist ment of Music Theory and Composi- guest composer and gave lectures with the Wind Ensemble, and also tion, experienced many performanc- and master classes. McLoskey also conducted the Wind Ensemble with es of his music this year. Max Lifchitz lectured at the National Conservatory trombone virtuoso Christian Lindberg and the North/South Consonance of Music, Mexico City, and gave in his concerto for trombone and chamber orchestra premiered his presentations and/or master classes winds, Mandrake in the Corner. two-movement work, Soumaya for at four other institutions. Three CDs of Morris is currently recording a new flute and string his music were released to critical solo trumpet album in surround sound orchestra. His praise in 2013, including Specific featuring the music of Philip Glass. piece for violin, Gravity: Chamber Music of Lansing Corin Overland is assistant digital audio, McLoskey and The Unheard Music, professor of and video was featuring his multi-award-winning professional performed on concerto for brass and wind ensem- practice in the Spectrum ble, What We Do Is Secret. The Choral Music Series, a concerto was performed at Temple Education and technology- University and the University of an expert in intensive site for innovative music and Nebraska-Lincoln last spring, with choral conduct- multimedia. Recent composed works upcoming performances at Yale and ing and choral include Egress for Marimba and Eastman. In April, Sonograma, the literature and MalletKAT (an electronic MIDI mallet Spanish-language journal about pedagogy. He was guest conductor of percussion instrument) and Bee Sting contemporary music from Spain, ran a the 2013 All-State Junior Honor for guitar and digital audio. This year feature article about McLoskey and Chorus in Delaware and a panel Mason was one of several composers his music. Honors in 2013 included an member at the NAfME National selected to compose a piece for Aaron Copland Fund Grant, Third Pre-Conference Session on teacher cellist Jason Calloway as part of a Prize in The American Prize, and evaluation practices in music. He Cellotronics project. His piece, nomination for the 2013 Luise authored two articles to appear in the influenced by games, will be Vosgerchian Award at Harvard Music Educator’s Journal: “Integrated premiered in New York this fall. University. He also won First Prize in Arts Teaching: What does it mean for Pamela McConnell, professor of viola, the 2014 Red Note Festival Composi- music education?” and “Teacher once again hosted the popular Viola tion Competition. Commissions in Evaluation: Joining the National Day at Frost School of Music, a special 2013 included a Barlow Endowment Conversation.” He was invited to event devoted to the advancement Commission for ensemberlino vocale apply for a position on the journal’s of viola playing for middle school (a professional chamber choir based editorial board. He was accepted to students through adults. This year in Berlin) and a commission from present research at the annual she introduced the Frost Viola Solo Ensemble Berlin Piano Percussion, meeting of the American Educational Competition, offering first- and both for the 2014-15 season. Research Association (AERA): second-place prizes in Middle School Craig Morris, associate professor, “Statistical Power in the Journal of and High School categories. A grand trumpet, performed last spring Research in Music Education: A Power finale concert included an ensemble with Charles Lazarus and the Frost of the Field Analysis.” of all attendees playing J. S. Bach’s Faculty Brass as part of the Stamps Brian Powell, assistant professor, “Air” and “Arioso,” arranged for viola Distinguished Visitors Series. In April double bass, ensemble by McConnell. In addition 2013 he spent two weeks performing was appointed to teaching viola at Frost, she main- with the Swedish Radio Orchestra in president of tains a busy performing schedule in Stockholm; he performed Bruckner’s Florida’s chapter the Bergonzi String Quartet. Symphony No. 4 under the direction of the American Lansing McLoskey, associate professor of Manfred Honeck and the complete String Teachers of composition, Miraculous Mandarin by Bartók. In Association had performanc- June 2013 he was a featured soloist, (ASTA) through es in more than recitalist, and presenter at the Inter- 2016. He 20 cities last national Trumpet Guild Conference, presented on topics related to double year, including where he also gave a master class on bass and string teaching at the the Festival orchestra auditions. In the summer Florida Orchestra Association/Florida Nacional de he performed as principal trumpet in ASTA Fall Conference in Orlando in Metales de the orchestra at the Cabrillo Festival October 2013, as well as at the Bogotá (Colom- of Contemporary Music. He was a Florida Music Educators’ State bia), the Lieksa Brass Festival guest artist at Instrumenta Oaxaca Conference in Tampa in January 2014. (Finland), Birmingham Conservatoire in Mexico, where he performed 13 He was invited to present again at the (UK), the XXXV Foro Internacional Melodies by Philip Glass on the con- 2014 FMEA fall conference. On the

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performance side, he gave solo and Florida Grand Opera. He performed and program director, Keyboard ensemble performances, adjudicated summer concerts with Omsk Performance and Pedagogy, performed competitions, and gave master Philharmonic and recorded classes at two BassFest Events in early Orchestra, Kazan Aaron Copland’s 2014, one at Florida Gulf Coast Philharmonic Applachian University and one at Louisiana State Orchestra Spring with the University in Baton Rouge. Concert (Porgy Smithsonian Robynne Redmon, mezzo-soprano, and Bess), and Chamber assistant at the Split Orchestra. She professor of Festival, Croatia also appeared as voice, per- Opera Company. concerto soloist formed in a He performed in Verdi’s Requiem with performing Benjamin Britten’s Young studio recording Austin Symphony Orchestra in Apollo in conjunction with the of Stravinsky’s October and Holiday Concerts with Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. Les Noces in Mid-Atlantic Orchestra in December Her article, “The Mentoring Dance,” Russian with the 2013. was published in the November- Virginia Thomas Sleeper, professor, director of December issue of Clavier Symphony, JoAnn Falletta conductor. orchestral studies, and prolific Companion. She presented “Music She and the orchestra also performed composer, enjoyed the premiere and Us: Brain Facts Every Musician the work with ballet at the Virginia in February 2014 in Texas of Can Use” at the Florida State Music Arts Festival. She performed Ravel’s his Symphony No. 3 “Ex Nihilo,” Teachers Association (FSMTA) Annual Chansons madécasses (“Madagascan commissioned by the United States Conference in November 2013. She Songs”) with the Frost Chamber Navy Band. Albany Records released is credited as session producer: Players and shared the stage with a new CD featuring Sleeper’s Four Schumann: Piano Quartet & Quintet, a Elizabeth Caballero, B.M. ’99, and Concerti with the Brno Philharmonic CD (Smithsonian Chamber Music Kevin Short in a recital at Festival and featuring Frost’s own Tim Conner Society Friends of Music) featuring Miami. She performed in a Viva Verdi and Dale Underwood, as well as Lambert Orkis, Ian Swensen, Marilyn concert celebrating Verdi’s anniver- Jennifer Culp, Huifang Chen, M.M. McDonald, Lisa-Beth Lambert, Steven sary year with Orchestra Miami and ’05, and Zoe Zeniodi, D.M.A. ’10, A.D. Dann, and Kenneth Slowik. also performed in Handel’s Messiah ’11. In March 2014, Appalachian State She was named a Fellow of the 2013 with Symphonicity, the symphony University premiered the orchestral UM Faculty Learning Community orchestra of Virginia Beach, Virginia. version of his Trumpet Concerto, and to explore ICT (information Deborah Schwartz-Kates, associate The Greater Miami Youth Symphony, communications technology) professor and Huifang Chen, conductor, premiered component inclusion into piano chair of the “Comhrå” for cello and Orchestra in pedagogy curricula. Department of Dublin, Ireland, with cellist Yue Tang. Richard Todd, associate professor, horn, Musicology, Svet Stoyanov, assistant professor, continues his published an percussion, will long-time article on music soon release a relationships as of the Southern CD on the principal horn Cone in the Bridge Records with the Los Handbook of label featuring Angeles Latin American Studies—an interna- two pieces by Chamber tional reference work that is produced Paul Lansky, Orchestra and at the Library of Congress. Her newly including the Miami City revised article on Alberto Ginastera premiere Ballet. In 2013 he appeared as guest will appear in Grove Music Online this recording of Textures for two pianos artist at the Midwest Horn Conference year. She recently lectured at the and two percussion. This summer he at University of Wisconsin as well as University of Florida and received a will travel to Croatia to perform a the Southeast Horn Conference at 2014-15 fellowship from the Center percussion concerto with the Croatian Virginia Commonwealth University. He for the Humanities. Radio-Television Orchestra; judge a performed at the Oregon Bach Festival Kevin Short, bass-baritone, assistant competition, perform a recital, and in July and was the featured guest artist professor of voice, appeared in major present a lecture in Portugal; and at the first annual International Brass operatic productions in 2013 and present a duo concert with Interna- Festival in Merida, Mexico, in 2014, including Un giorno di regno tional Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) December. In 2014 he performed as (“King for a Day”) with Sarasota flutist and MacArthur Genius Fellow guest principal horn with St. Paul Opera; Der fliegende Holländer (The Claire Chase at the River to River Chamber Orchestra; performed the Flying Dutchman), Indianapolis Festival in New York City. world premiere of a new horn Opera, Sarasota Opera; and Nabucco, Naoko Takao, pianist, assistant professor concerto by Mark Harrell with Lucas

{ 40 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 Richman and the Bangor Symphony; latest album, The Sonatas, on Dema chaired a panel at the NAfME and appeared as a guest artist at Texas Records. He returned to Eureka conference in St. Louis, and this Christian University’s Horn Day. Chamber Music Festival in March summer he will Upcoming activities include serving 2013 for its 20th anniversary season; present at the on faculty at the fi rst annual Miami Ying performed on its inaugural ISME Music Festival in June, returning to season and has since given more than research perform again at the Oregon Bach Fes- 15 performances there. In 2013 he commission tival, and fi nishing a commission for a conducted master classes for the conference in string quartet composition. He is the Miami International Music Academy Brazil. He has international spokesperson for Hans at the Steinway Piano Gallery in articles Hoyer horns for the Buffet Corporation. Coral Gables, performed at the Lee published or in Tian Ying, associate professor, piano, International Piano Festival in Tennessee, press with the Florida Music Director, presented a and conducted master classes as well Research Perspectives in Music nearly sold-out as private teaching sessions. Education, and the Council for recital at Gusman Stephen Zdzinski, associate professor of Research in Music Education Bulletin. Concert Hall last music education, presented at the Zdzinski was recently selected to join spring, where he Tampa FMEA conference, at the the editorial board of Contributions to performed both Society for Music Teacher Education Music Education. He also served as Liszt and Brahms conference in Greensboro, North the Southern Association of Colleges No. 3 Sonatas Carolina, and at the Society for Music and Schools (SACS) liaison for the and more, Education in Ireland conference in Frost School this spring, evaluating presented in conjunction with his Dublin, Ireland. In April 2014 he 46 of 48 program reports.

Frost Salutes Newly Tenured Faculty and Retiring Legends

Paul Posnak Melissa de Graaf Glenn Basham Brian Lynch Alan Johnson

Melissa de Graaf (musicology), Alan Johnson, B.M. ’82, Concert Series series in North Miami. Glenn Basham, (vocal performance), and Brian Lynch (jazz trumpet) were professor of violin, is retiring from his full-time teaching awarded tenure at the end of the 2012-2013 academic role at Frost to focus on his ever-growing career as year, which included a promotion to the rank of associate concertmaster of the Naples Philharmonic in Naples, Florida, professor. They join a prestigious group of UM faculty who and as a solo artist in classical, jazz, and bluegrass realms. are considered national or international leaders in their He will transition to part-time teaching at Frost as his respective fields. schedule permits and will continue his role as first violinist Paul Posnak, professor of piano, retired from teaching in the Bergonzi String Quartet. Kenneth J. Moses, B.M. at UM Frost at the end of the spring 2014 semester. He will ’72, M.M. ’74, retired last summer from his role as associate continue to perform solo, duo, and collaborative concerts dean for undergraduate studies after 38 years in academic internationally and curate his popular St. Martha-Yamaha and administrative roles.

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The Harmony of Coming Home By Lisa Sedelnik, M.A. ’00 HE HAS RECORDED AND Pilafian is versatile in both classical PERFORMED with the Boston and jazz genres. He is also an Symphony Orchestra, Duke arranger, composer, and recording Ellington Orchestra, and Pink producer. With tuba virtuoso Patrick Floyd. He has built successful Sheridan, he co-authored Breathing music programs at Arizona State Gym and Brass Gym, a series of University and Boston University. bestselling pedagogy texts on the He’s even played live on Soviet duo’s research-based breathing television with the Empire Brass method. ey won an Emmy in quintet to more than 160 million 2009 for their instructional video people in 11 time zones. For on the technique. renowned tuba artist Sam Pilafian, Today Pilafian runs a live B.M. ’72, these achievements are “Breathing Gym” every weekday part of a lifelong musical journey at 6:30 a.m. After 30 minutes of that has come full circle. intensive breathing warm-ups, “Even 40 years ago the Frost Pilafian and his bevy of low brass School was known for its progressive faculty, individu- students play complex musical patterns designed to build als who had the ability to rethink things, and although I stamina and technique, along with beats and loops the didn’t realize it at the time, they set me down this incred- students have composed and dubbed amusing names ible path,” says Pilafian, a Miami native who studied tuba such as “Shawarma.” with Professor Emeritus Constance Weldon, B.M. ’52, e breathing pedagogy began when Pilafian first M.Ed. ’53. studied with Weldon in high school. He was smaller “ You might come here to be the greatest classical violinist in the world, but you’re going to learn a few more things on your way out the door.” By age 5, Pilafian, of Armenian descent, was playing in stature than most other tuba players, and “it became improvised Armenian folkloric music on the accordion. evident that I was not going to grow large and have At age 10 he wanted to join his elementary school band massive amounts of air to play the tuba. Connie started but was told to select a different instrument. “A volun- me on an odyssey of discovery about how to become an teer suggested I play tuba because I would always have efficient breather on the tuba.” Low brass players around friends if I played it. He was right!” the world today are the beneficiaries of his findings. When his alma mater called in 2012 about a tuba Pilafian often travels on the weekends to perform, but faculty opening, Pilafian interviewed within 24 hours. when in town you might find him boating and fishing on He enjoys being part of what he calls a “renaissance of Biscayne Bay. His enthusiasm for teaching and knack for educational ideas” at the Frost School—a world-class challenging students to think outside the box is making music curriculum combined with a broad liberal arts a lasting impact. He recently formed an ad hoc Dixieland education. band with Frost classical brass students, complete with “I get goose bumps thinking about this new type of an accordion and a washboard player. student,” he says. “You might come here to be the greatest “I owe this school so much,” he says, crediting UM classical violinist in the world, but you’re going to learn a Frost for bringing a wonderful diversity to his musical few more things on your way out the door.” life during his student days. “So a big part of why I came Known for his technical prowess on the tuba, back was to give back.”

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Committee in 2009. He teaches and National Association of Teachers construction law as an adjunct faculty of Singing, and he has been a board 1950s member at the Florida International member of the Bach Festival Society of Roy (Gus) Perry, B.M. ’59, recently retired University College of Law, while Winter Park since 1999. This year the from Miami Dade College and moved keeping his chops up with various City of Orlando and Onyx Magazine to St. Johns, Florida. band gigs. recognized him as a Black History Honoree. Upcoming engagements include recitals at Xavier Catholic University and Nicholls State University. Nathan Wine, B.M. ’74, M.M. ’76, 1960s 1970s premiered a new Reverend Dr. Leeomia W. (Minnis) Kelly, B.M. Mark Colby, B.M. ’72, M.M. ’75, teaches show, Mr. Nathan ’66, is a piano instructor and owner of applied jazz saxophone at DePaul Sings, in January Kelly’s Music in Hallandale, Florida. University in Chicago as well as Elm- at the Winchester This past year she composed “ZETA hurst College, where he is also the jazz Cultural Center Lady,” the Southeastern Region Sweet- combo coordinator. He is a recording in Las Vegas, heart Song for Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, artist on Columbia Records, Hallway Nevada. He performed at Florida International Records, Origin Records, and his own arranged, in his University in March 2014 at the Finer label, RCI Records. Colby has toured own style, songs Womanhood Luncheon of the Zeta Phi with Maynard Ferguson, Bob James, made famous by Tony Bennett, Robert Beta Sorority. Frank Sinatra Sr. and Jr., and Doc Goulet, Plácido Domingo, and others Robert Jason, B.M. ’69, produces albums Severinsen, to name a few. He and retained some of the finest for independent artists and conducts serves as a clinician for Selmer Paris musicians in the city, including Dave songwriting workshops through his Saxophones and Vandoren Reeds Richardson, B.M. ’88, M.M. ’93, who company, Robert Jason Productions. and performs clinics, workshops, and plays electric keyboard/strings for Songwriting credits include a No. 1 guest appearances at high schools and Rock of Ages at The Venetian. song recorded by Alabama, “She colleges around the world. Don Gorder, M.M. ’75, is the chair of Ain’t Your Ordinary Girl,” and cuts Victor de Diego, B.M. ’72, M.M. ’75, music business and the management by Reba McEntire, Barry White, a music teacher department at Berklee College of and Melissa Manchester. Jason has for Miami-Dade Music. In December 2013 he gave a produced 14 No. 1 singles, mainly County Schools, presentation titled “Your Music, Your in the Christian music genre. Other recently became Business” at the Universidade Federal writing credits include national TV a National Board do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. and radio commercials and show Certified Andrea Green, B.M. ’75, is a composer, themes on MTV, ABC, NBC, and Fox. Teacher. He also lyricist, play- He has sung more than 100 national teaches at his wright, director, and regional TV commercials, and own studio and and music his vocals are featured on dozens of continues to perform the piano music therapist. She is TV shows; 25 feature films, including of Cuban composers. nationally known Terms of Endearment, Batman I and II, David Drubin, B.M. ’73, resides in both for her work Home Alone I and II, Jurassic Park, The Florida and creating musicals Perfect Storm; and on albums by Rod Virginia and for children that Stewart, Lorrie Morgan, Ronnie Milsap, continues to entertain and Jim Lauderdale, and others. perform with teach tolerance and is the owner/ Milford Kuhn, M.M. ’69, is a retired music major touring publisher of Andrea Green Music. Her professor and celebrities and groundbreaking music therapy work is principal horn jazz performers the subject of the documentary On the emeritus at throughout Other Side of the Fence, premiering Morehead State the U.S. spring 2014. University. He is Laura Larson, B.M. ’73, released Jinju, a Curtis McKonly, B.M. ’76, composer/ currently a compilation of classical works for flute arranger, French hornist she recorded over the last 30 years, orchestrated, with the Tampa including two world premiere pieces recorded, and Fanfare Band, written for her. released two South Shore Concert Band in Sun City Curtis Rayam Jr., B.M. ’73, tenor, is a original holiday Center, Florida, and East Hillsborough lecturer at Bethune-Cookman Univer- songs, “Wishing Concert Band in Brandon, Florida. sity in Daytona Beach and an adjunct You a Happy Larry R. Leiby, B.M. ’69, J.D. ’73, received professor of voice at Rollins College in New Year” and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Winter Park, Florida. He is a member “The Warmth of the Florida Bar Construction Law of the National Opera Association Christmas,” with the 41-piece Curtis

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 43 } Class Notes McKonly Orchestra. Recent arranging Studies at Leiden University in the seven poems by John Updike for credits include a gold CD with Vanessa Netherlands in 2001 through the baritone voice and chamber ensem- Williams and orchestrations for Jennifer Fulbright Foundation. ble; and Songs of Innocence and of Hudson with the Boston Pops for a July Christy Pearson, B.M. ’77, is professor Experience, four poems by William 4, 2012 concert, plus songs for Brian of English linguistics and TESOL at Blake for baritone voice and chamber Stokes Mitchell, the Four Tops, and the Grand Valley State University in the ensemble. Temptations. He has orchestrated for Grand Rapids, Michigan, area. She has the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the returned from sabbatical, transitioning Boston Pops, and most recently the from psycholinguistics into neurolin- Dallas Symphony Orchestra; com- guistics, exploring the potential use of posed TV themes for WCBS News, music therapy with second language 1980s Sunday Edition, Sports Update, A&E: learners who also have underlying Victor Oraham, B.M. ’80, is vice president The Stage, and the theme for the language-processing problems. of financial related services for the WCBS news exposé, Shame on You. Al Hospers, B.M. ’78, is the owner of Ayco Company, LP, of Goldman Sachs. He has composed underscores for Clever Sounds Recording in North He continues to perform in community national commercials, theatrical Conway, New Hampshire. He records theater and recitals, last appearing in trailers, and promotional spots for and produces local artists and is now the concert version of The King and networks including NBC, WPIX, WCVB, working on two singer-songwriter proj- I with the Palm Beach Gardens Brass and Showtime. As a keyboardist, ects. Over the winter, Clever Sounds Symphony. McKonly recently performed the shows upgraded its console and other gear, Russell Robinson, M.M. ’80, Ph.D. ’84, is Evita and The Lion King at the Pantages allowing for much larger sessions; work professor of Theater in Los Angeles. was also done to the control and live music and area Nancy Geller Rosenberg, B.M. ’76, M.M. room acoustics. Hospers plays in numer- head of music ’83, just retired as a general elemen- ous bands and is the area’s most on-call education in the tary school music teacher from Miami- bassist. His personal project, Sounds School of Music Dade Public Schools after teaching Clever and the Valley Horns, continues at University of for 35 years at Emerson Elementary to perform throughout the Northeast. Florida. He has School. She serves on the boards of Sally K. Albrecht, M.M. ’79, recently made more than the UM Frost Band of the Hour Associa- retired as director of school choral, 300 appearances tion and the Greater Miami Symphonic vocal, and classroom publications as a conductor, speaker, presenter, or Band, where she plays the clarinet. for Alfred Music Publishing after clinician on six continents and in major She is also a new member of Florida nearly 24 years with the company. venues including Lincoln Center, the Grand Opera’s Young Patronesses of She is still active as a composer and Kennedy Center, and Carnegie the Opera. Rosenberg and her hus- guest conductor of choral festivals Hall—where he will conduct Mozart’s band Michael Rosenberg, M.M. ’75, live in and special events. This past year, Solemn Vespers in June 2014. He is a Miami. They have two daughters and her choral publications included past president of the Florida Music one grandson. Lux Aeterna, The Season of Love, Educators Association; interim Steve Brecker, B.M. ’77, formerly worked and A Very Merry Fa La La, to name associate dean of the UF College of in the music a few. Her elementary musicals Fine Arts; and national collegiate chair business in sales and songbooks for 2013-2014 and choral advisor for MENC. This for United Record included A World of Christmas, Crazy past year he conducted professional & Tape and CBS Christmas!, and Broadway Partners! development for international schools Records, as well Her reproducible textbook/CD Rhythm and associations sponsored by the U.S. as served as Workshop was recently awarded the State Department in Qatar, Buenos the president of NAMM Best Tools for Schools award. Aires, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Rio the Jazz Store Kenneth Fuchs, B.M. ’79, composed and de Janeiro, Cartagena, and Mexico until 2002. He completed his City. Robinson is a published author, currently works as a freelance trumpeter fourth recording composer, and arranger with more in jazz and classical performance. with conductor than 200 publications in print, Reed Gratz, D.M.A. ’77, composer, is JoAnn Falletta, including choral compositions, professor of music and department featuring baritone arrangements, articles, books, and chair at University of La Verne in Roderick instructional DVDs. La Verne, California. Gratz also Williams and the Daniel Adams, M.M. ’81, presented the works as a freelance composer London paper “Sardanes: The Catalan National and pianist, and self-published a Symphony Dance as the Thematic Basis of Alberto book of 45 compositions, American Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in Ginastera’s Glosses Sobre Temes Music: Compositions by Reed Gratz. September 2013. Naxos will release de Pau Casals Opus 48, Movement Among many accomplishments the recording on its American Classics Three” at the College Music Society and guest teaching appointments, label in 2014. Fuchs’s original reper- International Conference in Buenos he held the Walt Whitman Distin- toire includes Falling Man, for baritone Aires, where he had the opportunity to guished Chair of American Culture voice and orchestra; Movie House, meet Georgina Ginastera, daughter of

{ 44 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 the composer. Adams is a professor of Steve Hobbs, M.M. ’82, jazz vibraphonist, lectured for the National Endowment music at Texas Southern University in arranger, and for the Arts and the Congressional Houston. session player Black Caucus. Michael R. Diliberto, B.M. ’81, J.D. ’87, for many labels, Carolyn Zorn, B.M. ’82, affectionately teaches leads his own known as Miss negotiations as band, Steve Wiggles, is an adjunct Hobbs Quartet, founder of professor at featured Wiggles N’ Loyola Law frequently on Tunes, an School in Los Pandora, iTunes, award-winning Angeles; Reuters and cable jazz and jazz radio stations early childhood recently awarded across America. His last release as music and him the title of leader, Steve Hobbs/Vibes Straight Up, movement “Super Lawyer” for Alternative was No. 1 in airplay on JazzWeek for program that was voted the “hands Dispute Resolution. Diliberto plays seven straight weeks in January and down, parent-pleasing favorite music drums and sings in a working February of 2010. program” by Discovery Zone, nine-piece classic rock band, The Dawnn Lewis, B.M. ’82, continues her International. Other business ventures Weasels, headlining and opening for active career in include Eggshakerworld.com, which different acts in Los Angeles; plays theater and TV. produces custom imprinted logo egg percussion with the Los Angeles She starred in a shakers, as well as the anticipated Lawyers Philharmonic; and recently new Pasadena launch of Wiggly Apps. She is also played drums on the soundtrack for Playhouse pursuing a new business venture with the documentary Grounded, which has production of veteran video game developers and won several independent film awards. Intimate Apparel; designers to create a high-quality John Holt, B.M. ’81, M.M. ’83, is associate appeared in her browser, Tiki Interactive, as well as mo- professor of trumpet and chair of the reprising role as bile and tablet games. Division of Instrumental Studies at Dr. Knapp on Days of Our Lives; and David Ake, B.M. ’83, jazz pianist, serves the University of North Texas. Holt is co-starred in upcoming made-for-TV as professor and chair of the Depart- also principal trumpet with the Dallas movies The Divorce, Mom & Dad ment of Music at Case Western Re- Opera Orchestra. Undergrads, and Second Chances. serve University. His CD Bridges (Posi- Sam Hooper, B.M. ’81, is a guitarist and Lewis is owner of Morning Jewel Music Tone Records), released in 2013, also singer-songwrit- and worked this past year as com- features Ralph Alessi, Ravi Coltrane, er for his label poser and singer on her record Let Me Scott Colley, Peter Epstein, and Mark FBJoy Records. Be Your Island and soundtrack for the Ferber. It received four-and-a-half stars He is the short-film Jennifer. She recently from DownBeat and was named to bandleader for performed in L.O.V.E. - Let One Voice multiple “Best-of-2013” lists. the Sam Hooper Emerge, a non-partisan campaign to Chris Tedesco, B.M. ’83, is a professional Group, which reach out to nonvoters in America. She trumpeter in Los Angeles. Recent released the also toured her concert, “DAWNN . . . recording credits for film and televi- album LIVE in AT NIGHT!,” throughout the southern sion include Showtime’s Homeland, Shanghai, and is the contemporary United States. HBO’s Family Tree, Starz’s Magic City, music leader for St. Andrew Episcopal Chuck Webb, B.M. ’82, was recently Warner Brothers’ cartoons The Green Church in Mentor, Ohio. In 2012 he named director of bass studies at Lantern and Beware the Batman, as performed on cruises in Europe, the Columbia College, Chicago, where he well as in the 80-piece orchestra for Baltic, and Scandinavia, as well as in also serves as coordinator of the the DreamWorks film Need for Speed, Alaska, Canada, Hawaii, and Mexico. Contemporary, Urban and Popular released this spring. He performed as Christopher “Kip” Sullivan, B.M. ’81, M.M. Music ensemble program, and directs a trumpet soloist in three Symphony ’84, M.B.A. ’86, a partner with Summit the R&B Ensemble. Chuck has toured Pops concerts with the Wheeling Sym- Records, celebrated a Grammy win for the world with Ramsey Lewis, David phony Orchestra under the direction of Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for Sanborn, and Al Di Meola, to name a Frost alumnus André Raphel, B.M. ’84. his work on Randy Brecker’s Night in few. He is the Kevin Bethel, B.M. ’84, performs key- Calisia (Randy Brecker, Włodek Pawlik creator of boards with reggae group PATWA on Trio & Kalisz Philharmonic, winners). educational Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Kristian Truelsen, M.M. ’81, actor and music programs John Easterlin, B.M. ’84, tenor, starred director, resides in Toronto and in Mind Games and this season as Larry King in the U.S. 2013 appeared in the films Hacker, It’s Multiply This, premiere of Anna Nicole for New York Not Right and The Date; the TV series utilized by City Opera; as Andres in Wozzeck at Lucky 7; and on stage in Polonius at school systems Covent Garden; and Monostatos in The Play. He also had a featured role in the internationally. Magic Flute at the Kennedy Center for Vancouver premiere of the musical He is a member of numerous Washington National Opera. He also Floyd Collins. professional organizations and has appeared as a guest soloist in Broadway

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 45 } Class Notes Unplugged and debuted as Nick the California. She just completed a incident response. She is a freelance Bartender in Fanciulla del West with three-year elected term on the board solo flutist who developed a workshop the Indianapolis Opera. In 2013 he of the Major Orchestra Librarians’ titled “Music in Healing; Music in Joy.” created the role of Andy Warhol in Association. She also performs “free She is the recipient of the Florida the world premiere of Philip Glass’s jazz” on the theremin and amplified Psychological Association’s What a The Perfect American at the English cello in a newly formed avant-garde Woman Award and is president of National Opera and Teatro Real in jazz group, The Clinic, which debuted the Women’s Division of the Florida Madrid, which was also released on live on Tampa’s WMNF 88.5 radio and Psychological Association and a DVD by Opus Arte. presented a concert of improvisational member of the advisory board for The Lynne Gackle, M.M. ’84, Ph.D. ’87, is music hosted at The Studio@620 in Florida Center for Survivors of Torture. professor of ensembles and associate St. Petersburg, Florida. She is a frequent guest on television director of choral activities at Baylor Myra Cole, B.M. ’86, is director of programs on the topics of health and University in Waco, Texas. She is an ac- technical wellness and grief/trauma. tive clinician, conductor, and adjudica- operations at Pete McGuinness, B.M. ’86, professor tor throughout the U.S. and abroad and CBS Television in of jazz arranging is a member of ACDA, MENC, TMEA, New York City. at William TCDA, ISME, and NATS. Gackle was She is the winner Paterson awarded Baylor’s Outstanding Faculty of three Emmy University in Award in Research in 2012. She is the Awards, most Wayne, New editor of Choral Artistry for the Singer recently in 2013, Jersey, was the (Walton Music) and the Lynne Gackle an Engineering winner of the Choral Series (Colla Voce Music), has and Technology Emmy for “Develop- 2013 Ithaca written articles for the Choral Journal, ment of an Electronic Mastering College Jazz and contributed to the MENC publica- System for Large-Scale Content Composers Competition for Trixie’s tion, Music at the Middle Level: Building Distribution.” Little Girl, for solo trombone and jazz Strong Programs. She is the author of José Dueñas-Arbide, B.M. ’86, often serves orchestra; it was performed in October Finding Ophelia’s Voice, Opening Oph- as a music consultant and is pres- by the Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble. elia’s Heart: Nurturing the Adolescent ently finishing his master’s degree in New compositions for big band are Female Voice (Heritage Music Press). German Language and Literature at The Swagger (Kendor Music) and Jim Trompeter, B.M. ’84, M.M. ’86, is Arizona State University. Sadie’s Sister (Smart Chart Music). He senior principal Ralph Raymond Hays, B.M. ’86, J.D. ’89, celebrated the release of a jazz vocal composer/sound woodwinds, is an CD, Voice Like a Horn (Summit designer at WMS adjunct professor Records), in July 2013 to excellent Gaming Inc. in at the College of reviews and nationwide radio play. A Chicago; an Saint Rose in new big band album, Strength in adjunct professor Albany, New Numbers, by The Pete McGuinness of jazz piano at York, where he Jazz Orchestra (Summit Records) was Roosevelt teaches music released in April 2014. University; and theory, orches- John Monllos, B.M. ’86, is a jazz guitar owner of Earthborne Music, a tration, and instructor at the University of Rhode commercial music production arranging. His compositions have Island and a former guitarist with company. In 2013 he composed music received accolades from ASCAP and U.S. Navy Band from 1986 to 2006. for television shows on HBO, VH1, and others. He has orchestrated for live In August 2013 he appeared at the the Oxygen Network, as well as for concerts featuring Michael Feinstein Newport Jazz Festival as director of the commercials for McDonald’s, and Bernadette Peters. His Canonic University of Rhode Island Newport Coca-Cola, Toyota, Walmart, Allstate, Sonata for Electric Guitar and Bass Jazz Festival Big Band, where the gov- AutoZone, and Travelocity. He was performed at the 2013 Parma ernor of Rhode Island recognized him performed and mixed a live recording Music Festival in Portsmouth, New with a proclamation for representing with Dave Liebman at Chicago’s York, and his Divertimento for Clarinet the state. He also maintains a private Green Mill in 2013. He toured this Quartet was featured at the 2013 teaching studio. spring with Grammy-nominated jazz International Clarinetfest in Assisi, Italy. David Ruttenberg, B.M. ’86, continues his singer Kurt Elling. He performs regularly with his work at Polar Boehme Music as a pro- Seth Wexler, M.M. ’84, is percussion saxophone quartet and woodwind ducer, engineer, mixer, and writer. instructor and assistant jazz band quintet and is associate conductor of David Champouillon, B.M. ’87, professor director at North Broward Preparatory the Ballston Spa Community Band. of trumpet and jazz studies at East Schools and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Lori Kleinman, B.M. ’86, Ph.D. ’00, is a Tennessee State University, also serves Ella (Scofield) Fredrickson, B.M. ’85, is prin- licensed psychologist and music as a Bach Trumpet artist and clinician. cipal librarian for the Florida Orches- therapist in St. Petersburg, Florida, Champouillon is the leader of The Jazz tra in the Tampa Bay area and is the providing individual and couples Doctors and performs with the Lenore music librarian for the Cabrillo Festival counseling, corporate training, public Raphael Quartet in Raleigh, North of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, speaking, and crisis and critical Carolina. He has given recitals and

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master classes at many universities across the U.S., conducted Internation- Raphel Returns al Trumpet Guild Lectures in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Valley Forge, onductor André Raphel, B.M. ’84, recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Pennsylvania, and served as a judge CAlumnus Award from the University of Miami Frost School of Music, returned in the International Trumpet Guild Jazz to his alma mater in March 2014 to conduct the HMI Trumpet Competition Finals. He is a Orchestra with multi-Grammy-winning composer and jazz columnist for The Brass Herald and published an article in Journal of the violin virtuoso Mark O’Connor performing his own International Trumpet Guild. five-movement Improvised Violin Concerto (subtitled Janet Duguay Kirsten, B.M. ’87, M.B.A. ’89, Fire, Air, Water, Earth, and Faith). M.M. ’92, Ph.D. The New York Times has described Raphel as ’06, is director of bands at Frank C. “an agile, demonstrative conductor who is physically Martin Interna- drawn into the music.” Currently in his 11th season as tional K-8 Center music director of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, in Miami, where she conducts a he led the orchestra during the 2013-14 season in beginning band, the World Premiere of Avner Dorman’s Prayer for the Innocents. He has led the concert band, orchestra in highly acclaimed festivals, world premieres, and commissioned works jazz band, string orchestra, and harp by Richard Danielpour, Kenneth Fuchs, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. ensemble. She is a member of the Sunrise Symphonic Pops Orchestra and During the 2013-14 season, he returned to the Bamberg Symphony to record freelances throughout South Florida works by Gershwin, Ravel, and Roy Harris for Bayerischer Rundfunk. He made his performing with Bravo Musicians. debut with the Jacksonville Symphony, and in recent seasons has conducted the Kathy Pyeatt, B.M. ’87, recently Detroit Symphony and Oregon Symphony. He has appeared with most of the major performed the title role in Tosca American orchestras, including Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland with Asheville Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. Lyric Opera, the Bryan Symphony Orchestra (Tennessee), and and begin serving as a pastor in the Greensboro, studying the effects of the Springfield Evangelical Lutheran Church. music and formal musical training (Missouri) David Hamilton, B.M. ’88, works in the on the brain. Her paper, “Investigat- Symphony Orchestras; Lady Billows in Nashville area and has earned a ing the Effects of Music on the Brain: Albert Herring at Florentine Opera; reputation as a premier orchestral From Beethoven to Eminem,” won and Fiordiligi in Così Fan Tutte with arranger. He has a growing list of the Most Outstanding Paper from the Skylight Opera Theatre. This season credits producing artist recordings, International Conference on Net- she will make her debuts with Opéra writing songs, playing keyboards, and work Science (NetSci 2012), and was Louisiane as Rosalinda in Die conducting choirs and orchestras. He subsequently submitted to, reviewed Fledermaus, Winter Opera St. Louis as arranged Lang Lang’s piano part for by, and placed under revision by the Alice Ford in Falstaff, and as Donna the collaboration with Metallica at the Proceedings of the National Academy Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Peninsula 56th Annual Grammy Awards. of Sciences (PNAS) in 2013. She has Music Festival and Asheville Lyric Barry Hartglass, B.M. ’88, is a producer, received several outstanding teaching Opera. She is director for the composer, arranger, engineer, and awards and is listed in Who’s Who in Wisconsin District Metropolitan Opera musician for Barry Hartglass Music American Education. She is a member National Council Auditions and vice Composition & Production and bassist of the Laboratory for Complex Brain president for SOS, Supporters of for Hank Lane Music in the New York Networks at Wake Forest University Opera Singers, Inc., a nonprofit arts tristate area. Hartglass is an adjunct Medical Center. organization that promotes and lecturer in audio production and sound Walter Gerard Busse, M.M. ’89, Ph.D. ’97, supports young opera singers. design at Hostos Community College is performing Andrew Clarkson, B.M. ’88, pursued a CUNY and a piano and bass instructor arts coordinator, career in mechanical engineering and at Guitar Center Studios. He is cur- music director, is working as a project manager at rently pursuing an M.A. in composition and instructor at Rolls-Royce Energy Systems, manag- at Hunter College in New York. Carrollton School ing projects in the oil and gas industry. Robin Whitener Wilkins, M.M. ’88, is a of the Sacred Paul Gibson, B.M. ’88, vocal performance, Ph.D. candidate in neurosciences Heart in Coconut will receive an Master of Divinity and music research and a neuromu- Grove, Florida; degree from the Lutheran Theological sicology/neuroimaging research as- music director Seminary at Philadelphia in May 2014 sistant at University of North Carolina and organist at the First United

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 47 } Class Notes Methodist Church of Miami; vice year, DeRosa also celebrated the birth Music Group/Capitol CMG in Brent- president of the Greater Miami of a daughter, Haven. wood, Tennessee. He has mastered Youth Symphony; a private investigator James Dorgan, B.M. ’90, is vice president 169 albums for CMG, including three of copyright infringement for ASCAP; of business and legal affairs for Warner 2014 Grammy award winners: Best and owner of Busse Music Enterprises, Bros.’ Telepictures Productions, where Gospel Album, Greater Than by Tye Inc. Last Easter, his women’s choir at he manages daily business and legal Tribbett; Best Gospel/Contemporary Carrollton, Les Choristes, sang issues for The Ellen DeGeneres Show Christian Music Performance, Break alongside the Sistine Chapel Choir for and oversees Telepictures Music, a Every Chain by Tasha Cobb; and Best newly elected Pope Francis’s first WB-owned music production company Gospel Song, If He Did It Before...Same Easter in St. Peter’s Square. that provides original content and pro- God by Tye Tribbett. Buckley J. Hugo, B.M. ’89, and Alan B. duction music to divisions across Time Ted Bonar, B.M. ’91, a music business Cobo-Lewis, A.B. ’88, are working togeth- Warner. Dorgan received his J.D. from major while studying at UM, is er in Maine as advocates for children Whittier Law School and previously now working as a psychologist in with special needs. held positions at Paramount Pictures Columbus, Ohio. He was the 2013 John Merchant, B.M. ’89, continues and EMI-Capitol Records. Distinguished Alumnus of the Year to operate his Miami-based studio, Ronald Dziubla, B.M. ’90, saxophonist, is for the Illinois School of Professional RedDoor, where he produces new chair of All-MI at the Musicians Insti- Psychology. and established acts and has worked tute in Hollywood, California, oversee- Stewart Jean, B.M. ’91, is program with producers and engineers Arif ing common course programs and live chair of drums at Musicians Institute Mardin, David Foster, Russ Titelman, performance workshops and a faculty in Hollywood, California, where he Raphael Saadiq, and Phil Ramone. He of 15 instructors. In 2013 he recorded recently authored a new curriculum is presently touring with Barry Gibb saxophones on the Grammy-nominat- for drum performance, keyboards, and in the UK and presented a master ed album Seesaw, by Joe Bonamassa ear training. He continues to work for class for graduate music production and Beth Hart, and toured Europe with the West Coast Music Agency in live students at the University of Stavanger the group. He also worked with singer- performances and recording and in Norway in partnership with Mark songwriter Nick Waterhouse on a live is endorsed by Paiste Cymbals, Vic Drews, B.M. ’83, who is currently recording and video for Pandora and Firth, Ludwig Drums, and Remo director of Music Production and performed on sessions and live with Drumheads. Recording Studies there. artists such as Duane Eddy, Waddy Arnaldo Rivera-Santos, M.M. ’91, is assis- Andrew Scheps, B.M. ’89, was the Wachtel, Pete Anderson, Los Strait- tant professor of music at La Univer- engineer for a new Black Sabbath jackets, the Mannish Boys, and his own sidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, comeback album, 13 (Vertigo/Repub- ensemble, the Ron Dziubla Group. Metropolitan Campus, and was cam- lic), which won the Grammy in the John F. Fournier, B.M. ’90, M.M. ’94, is the pus director of the Music Department Best Metal Performance category and composer and lyricist of the original from 2009 to 2011. He is a drummer earned two other nominations in the play The Life & Death of Madam Barker, for various organizations, including the Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song which premiered at Red Tape Theatre Puerto Rico Philharmonic Orchestra, categories. in Chicago this past fall. and local musical productions of Les Carlos E. Vega, B.M. ’89, is assistant Shenita Hunt, B.M. ’90, performs with her Misérables, Legally Blonde, Peter Pan, professor of applied saxophone at company, Rolls Voice Entertainment, and Rent, and is a session drummer Florida A&M University. He also Inc., and recently performed a concert and engineer in his home studio, Nal performs with Chicago Afro-Latin Jazz in her hometown of Dublin, Georgia, a Productions. Ensemble (CALJE) and tours with the first in over 20 years. Roberta Rust, D.M.A. ’91, is a professor Doc Severinsen Big Band. Alyse Korn, B.M. ’90, is the founder, of piano at Lynn director, and teacher of the Suzuki Conservatory in Piano School of Santa Clarita and Boca Raton, Early Childhood Programs. She has Florida. A busy recorded as a pianist/keyboardist on performer, in the 1990s Chilean guitarist/composer/recording last year she Chris DeRosa, B.M. ’90, recently traveled engineer Waldo Valenzuela’s album presented a solo to Germany and Light of the Sixth Sun. Korn is a D.M.A. recital and gave Thailand to candidate in jazz studies at the Univer- master classes at perform in the sity of Southern California. the University of Iowa and the Renee Ruth Steve Pearson, B.M. ’90, is assistant pro- University of Tennessee; appeared as video for his fessor of English at University of North soloist in Beethoven’s “Emperor” upcoming single Georgia, Gainesville campus, where Concerto with the Knox-Galesburg “Midnight” and he teaches multicultural and global lit- Symphony in Illinois; and gave master was invited by eratures. He sings in the Athens Master classes, taught, and adjudicated at the D.I.A. Manage- Chorale and is a founding member of Chautauqua Festival and the new ment to drum and music direct for the Knoxville Gay Men’s Chorus. Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival. H.R., the legendary front man of Bad Vinnie Alibrandi, ’91, is a post-production Norman Arnold, B.M. ’92, is creative Brains and the Dubb Agents. This past mastering engineer for the Universal director for music at Warner Bros.’

{ 48 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 Telepictures Productions, where he international hit “Grace Kelly” by Mika. resident teaching artist for the Blues oversees production and execution He won a 2008 Emmy for co-writing in the Schools program in the Wichita of all original music for Telepictures’ the comedy song “I’m F***ing Matt area. She has toured extensively in properties, including Anderson Damon” by Sarah Silverman. the U.S. and Canada and appeared as Cooper, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Corbin Abernathy, B.M. ’93, had a a side-woman and bandleader at the Lopez Tonight, TMZ, and Extra. featured role in the film A Change of King Biscuit Blues Festival and Chicago Current responsibilities include hiring Heart, scheduled for release in August, Blues Festival. She recently completed composers and songwriters, creating plus several other film/commercial a two-month Australian tour as a solo show themes and underscore, and credits this past year. He is on the cast performer and was invited twice last supervising song placement. Prior albums of two workshop musicals, year as a special guest artist on the to his position at Telepictures, he The Tattooed Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. worked as a composer and creative Angel and Douglas P. Cyr, B.M. ’93, is a consultant director of music at AMI Music Group, 3Divas3. He for the Federal Occupational Health where his clients included MTV, partnered with EAP in San Francisco. He has a Miramax, Lionsgate Films, the Walt Frost choral law enforcement-exclusive private Disney Company, CBS Television, 20th conducting practice and provides Critical Incident Century Fox, Saatchi & Saatchi, Y&R, alumna Candace Stress Management services for the and the Leo Burnett Agency. Wicke, M.M. ’92, San Jose Police Department and the Scott Baker, B.M. ’92, is director of at the Minuetto California Highway Patrol. He has worship and instrumental music at Music Festival in Summit, New Jersey, provided workforce development Saint Francis United Methodist Church teaching two Singing Actor Workshops trainings for organizations including in Cary, North Carolina. for young professional opera singers the CA Department of Public Health, Ney Rosauro, D.M.A. ’92, composer, and providing private coaching. He the Florida Association of Hostage percussionist, and professor emeritus, resides in Philadelphia, where he Negotiators, and the U.S. Forest presented concerts and clinics in the continues with the Walnut Street Service. In 2013 he received a U.S., Germany, Greece, Brazil, and Theatre, Philly Senior Stage, and Philly Certificate of Specialized Training Mexico, where he was honored at ASAP to provide ongoing music and in Emergency Services from the the Second Latin American Marimba theatre classes to all ages and runs a International Critical Incident Stress Festival in Chiapas. He composed two growing private voice and acting Foundation, and volunteers as an new works for orchestra, arranged studio. E.M.D.R.-certified therapist for the for string orchestra, and published Steven J. Barke, B.M. ’93, is a drummer, West Coast Post-Trauma Retreat / several new pieces for marimba singer-songwrit- First Responder Support Network. He (ProPercussão/Malletworks). He er, educator, serves on the board of directors for continues to reside in Miami, where he composer, and the Rainbow Community Center and also plays guitar and sings in hospitals inventor in the volunteers as a guest singer for the and nursing homes and coordinates a Washington, D.C. Mount Diablo Unitarian Universalist music program with the homeless at area, teaching in Church. Camillus House. and operating Charles T. Dennard Jr., B.M. ’93, is the Dan Warner, ’92, is a producer, writer, his own studio. In bandleader for and studio 2009 he was the touring guitarist in awarded a U.S. patent for his practice production of Miami. He was a aid device for drummers, The Pinch Cirque du 2013 Latin Pal. Soleil’s TOTEM. Grammy Ana Garcia Chapman, B.M. ’93, is in her Jacqueline London, Nominee for 20th year as an elementary music edu- B.M. ’93, is an at- Producer of the cator in Berea, Ohio. She was recently torney in Florida Year for his body elected to the Berea City Schools for civil litigation of work, Board of Education and honored by representing disabled individuals. including albums 12 Historias (Tommy the White House in 2012 as a “Cham- Marko Marcinko, B.M. ’93, drummer, Torres), EliaCim (EliaCim), Mojado pion of Change” for her PTA work is adjunct professor of jazz studies - Rock Version (Ricardo Arjona), and at the local, state, and national level. at The Pennsylvania State University, Postales (Gaby Moreno). He previously Her husband, John Chapman, B.M. ’93, is artistic director for The Scranton Jazz won four Latin Grammys and one also in his 20th year as an elementary Festival, and artistic director for The Grammy for his work as a producer/ music educator. He is a leader in the Jazz Institute at Keystone College in engineer with artists such as Calle Berea Federation of Teachers as well La Plume, Pennsylvania. He is touring 13, Alejandro Sanz, and Amaury as in his church. They have three chil- and recording with the Organik Vibe Gutierrez. He has produced many dren—Julia, 15, Jack, 12, and Carter, 8. Trio plus One, featuring Dave Samuels, other critically acclaimed albums. Rachelle Coba, B.M. ’93, is a roots and Joel Frahm, and Ron Oswanski; the As a songwriter he has worked with blues writer/performer in Wichita, Dave Liebman Big Band; and The artists including Enrique Iglesias and Kansas. She recently released an Marko Marcinko Latin Jazz Quintet. Lil Wayne and co-wrote the 2007 original tune, Mother Blues. She is a Marcinko is an endorser for Zildjian,

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 49 } Class Notes Yamaha, Vic Firth, and Aquarian Drum arranged for bassist Nathan East’s CEO of New York Broadway Tours. She Heads. upcoming solo album. Babko often was honored with the MVP award from Shoshana Zisk, B.A. ’93, J.D. ’96, is the co- performs for film scores, most recently The Power Player Club for her work producer of the Stand Up Guys (2012) and The in 2013. In 2010 she won Outstand- SF MusicTech Adventures of Burt Wonderstone (2013). ing Supporting Actress at The Planet Summit in San Tom Parker, B.A.M. ’94, is a drummer, Connections Theatre Festival, playing Francisco, bassist, and Darcy in Danny. Other credits include California. She is composer in VH1’s You Oughta Know, QPTV’s Sing, an entertainment New England. As Sing, Sing!, CUNY-TV’s Study with the lawyer, including a drummer, he Best, and NBC’s Today Show, featuring interim chief has recorded her nonprofit organization, Thrill the operating officer multiple jazz World NYC, with whom she led the 7th for In Ticketing, Business & Legal albums and Annual Dance Parade. Affairs for funk artist George Clinton plays regularly David F. Eccles, M.M. ’96, is assistant and his musical groups Parliament with his jazz trio professor of Funkadelic and The P-Funk Allstars, and quartet; he is also a bassist and string music and general manager of Clinton’s composer with Berkshire Bateria and education and independent record label The C Bossa Tribat. Parker has diversified orchestral Kunspyruhzy. Previous positions were into instrument building and silver- activities at in the Business & Legal Affairs smithing, and now owns and operates VanderCook department at BMG U.S. Latin, the The Berkshire Gold and Silversmith in College of Music Copyright Department at Motown, and Great Barrington, Massachusetts. in Chicago, A&R Administration for Island Records. Chris Garges, B.M. ’95, is a national Illinois. He is Zisk is currently the CEO of Kiddie touring drummer also a contributing editor and clinician Village, which creates award-winning with noted for the Hal Leonard Corporation. children’s videos and music. producer and Eccles guest conducts and performs Eric Alexandrakis, B.S.C. ’94, M.M. ’96, is artist Mitch around the country and also serves as a composer/ Easter, as well the president of the Illinois Chapter of producer who as a member the American String Teachers provides music of instrumental Association. services for a groups Bunky Eric C. Hughes, M.M. ’96, is a drum line broad range of Moon and Big instructor at Travis High School in media, including Octave. He recently purchased and Austin, Texas, and plays drums for film, television, relocated Old House Studio, a Austin singer-songwriter Jesse Dayton, advertising, and professional recording facility he has as well as for the Houston-based video games managed and is now chief engineer Allen Oldies Band. He is a member through his production company, and owner near downtown Charlotte, of the Percussive Arts Society on the Minoan Music. His clients include Nike, North Carolina. Drum Set Committee, and is the lead NBC, LiveNation, Motorola, Universal, Christopher Powell, M.M. ’95, is in his archivist for the committee’s Oral and more. He has collaborated with 13th season as music administrator at History program, for which he was Steve Ferrone of Tom Petty & The Pittsburgh Opera. Powell was selected awarded the PAS Supporter Award at Heartbreakers, Roger O’Donnell to participate in the 2013 OPERA the 2013 Percussive Arts Convention. of The Cure, Rami Jaffee of The America Leadership Intensive pro- He is an educational endorser for Wallflowers and the Foo Fighters, gram in New York City, which identifies Sabian Cymbals, Vic Firth, Remo Drum director David Lynch, and actor John the most promising emerging leaders Heads, and Humes & Berg Cases. Malkovich. This past year he remixed in opera administration. He was a Jason A. Leshowitz, B.M. ’96, is the new the third single for Depeche Mode’s guest speaker addressing singers’ district supervisor of fine and per- latest album, Delta Machine. training and professional development forming arts for the Clifton, New Jersey Jeff Babko, B.M. ’94, is the keyboardist/ at both the OPERA America Confer- Public School system. staff music ence 2013: Opera Out of Bounds Sandra Lopez, B.M. ’96, A.D. ’98, soprano, arranger at in Vancouver, Canada, and at the has starred this past year as Elisabetta ABC’s Jimmy Chautauqua Institute summer opera in Don Carlo with the Finnish National Kimmel Live. program in Jamestown, New York. In Opera; Cio-Cio San in Madama But- He recently August 2013 he completed his M.B.A. terfly with Opéra de Massy; on tour toured with in international business management with Opéra Éclaté and Festival de St. James Taylor, and from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Céré; and in recitals and galas with the is touring Pennsylvania, where he was the School Nuremberg Symphony (Germany), musical director of Business chair of the Graduate the Lithuanian National Opera and for Martin Short. He played on the Student Association. Ballet Theatre, the St. Martha-Yamaha Grammy Award-winning album Treinta Amada Anderson, B.A. ’96, is an actress/ Concert Series in North Miami, and Dias, by La Santa Cecilia, and played/ singer/philanthropist and founder and ArtNaples in Naples, Florida.

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For Julio Bague, Producing Is the Perfect Arrangement By David Menconi Julio Bague, B.B.A. ‘90, M.M. “Working with Peermusic, ‘93, entered the world of music which controls such a large cata- by taking up the violin at the log of Puerto Rican composers age of 9. Just a few years and maybe the most important AS later, he began learning Latin catalog in the world, is EXECUTIVE how to arrange and as much of a responsibility as a DIRECTOR orchestrate music job,” he says. “I promote it by in- OF PEERMUSIC, at the behest of his cluding a lot of that material in first mentor, Carlos production projects I do and us- BAGUE ENJOYS Varela (who earned ing it as the basis for concepts— RECONNECTING his bonafides as homages and things like that. WITH HIS orchestrator for Arturo Last year, I was nominated for Toscanini, conductor a Latin Grammy for an opera ROOTS of the NBC Orchestra). composed by Rafael Hernandez, Today Bague is executive director one of the great Latin compos- at Peermusic, the world’s largest ers of the 20th century. We dis- independent music publisher. tributed it through Starbucks. “Some people get into I like making the business and producing through being an engineer, or an artist,” Bague creative sides work together.” says. “For me, it was being an arranger.” A father to a 13-year-old son and 7-year-old Born in Puerto Rico, Bague spent his childhood daughter, Bague proudly notes that he has a piano in New Jersey and moved to Miami as a teenager. After at home that both of his children play. Bague’s son is completing his undergraduate business degree at the especially serious about it, having shadowed his dad in University of Miami, he went on to earn a master’s de- the business since the age of 3. gree in media writing and production at the Frost School “I’d take him to rehearsals, give him a little acoustic of Music, learning the ins and outs of studio work. In the guitar, and put him in like he was in the band—un- process, he realized he prefers the studio to the stage— miked because God knows what he was playing,” Bague “the laboratory sense of recording, the creation, making says. “But he had good timing right away, always knew things happen,” he says. So he focused on studio work when to start and when to stop from watching me.” after school, starting with a two-year stint at Radio Bague says the early development of his arranging Disney, writing and recording soundtracks, bumper chops has proved to be a good foundation for his success music, and commercial spots. as a producer. His undergraduate business degree also In 2000 Bague went to work for Peermusic and serves him well in such a fast-changing industry. When in 2010 was appointed to run the Miami office, which he started at Peermusic 14 years ago, royalties from oversees U.S. and Puerto Rican operations. Along with album sales accounted for 80 percent of the company’s production work, he has signed key writers and art- income—a figure that is now down to 50 percent. But ists including Puerto Rican salsa star Victor Manuelle, sync licenses for film and TV use have tripled over the Bronx-born singer/songwriter Prince Royce, and Puerto same period, up to around 30 percent. Rican singer/actor/composer Chayanne. As executive “What that means is you have to adapt or you director of Peermusic since 2012, he enjoys the oppor- won’t survive,” Bague says. “Artists and songwriters have tunity to stay connected with the music of his Puerto to have a head for business, too. More than ever, there Rican heritage. has to be entrepreneurial spirit in every musician.”

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 51 } Class Notes Kate Reid, M.M. ’96, D.M.A. ’02, is to Consulting-Specifying Engineer Mapping World Markets and associate professor of Studio Music magazine’s “40 Under 40” list and Archives.” Forthcoming publications and Jazz and director of the Jazz Vocal recognized in its May 2013 issue. The include “From ‘Angel of Music’ to Program at Frost School of Music. In annual award is given to 40 building ‘that Monster’: Music for Phantoms 2013 she performed as a SAG/AFTRA industry professionals age 40 and and Villains,” Studies in Gothic Fiction session singer for the films Star Trek younger, selected by their peers for (Spring 2014) and several book Into Darkness, Planes, Epic, and Oz: their innovation, inventiveness, chapters on music and Shakespeare. The Great and Powerful, and on demos personal integrity, academic training, She was scholar-in-residence at the for Hal Leonard Publishing. She has client relations, community service, 2014 City University of New York served as a guest artist and clinician leadership skills, sustained career (CUNY) Graduate Students in Music for the Eastern Washington University progress, technical skills and work/life conference and was recently named Jazz Festival in Spokane, the Reno balance. the American Musicological Society’s Jazz Festival at University of Nevada, Matt Roberts, M.M. ’97, media writing representative to the Coalition on the and at the Cuesta College Vocal Jazz and production, Academic Workforce. Festival at Cuesta College in San Luis is an attorney in Xueli Tan, B.M. ’98, M.M. ’04, is a doctoral Obispo. She recently performed with West Virginia fellow in music therapy at the Univer- renowned jazz guitarist Larry Koonse with Poole sity of Iowa. During a visit to the Frost in Los Angeles. Mahoney PC; he School this past year, she lectured on David W. Brubeck, D.M.A. ’97, was practices in her clinical work in medical hospital recently named music law, and burn units, as well as her research chief educational clients include exploring the use of music in pain officer for recording artists, management. TROMBA-The performers, composers, and record Norman Wika, B.M. ’98, director of bands, Ultimate Plastic companies. recently received tenure and promo- Trombone. His Craig Christman, B.M. ’98, is a profes- tion to the rank of associate professor method for the sional musician, musical instrument at Northeastern State University in instrument has repair technician, and president of Tahlequah, Oklahoma. been translated Christman Music, Inc., in Fort Myers, Anne Cecere, ’99, was elected vice into Spanish and Polish and is to be Florida. He performs regularly with president of the California Copyright included with all TROMBA Trombones. national acts and touring Broadway Conference. She continues to serve as Richard Kosowski, M.M. ’97, vocal shows that come through Florida, and Director of Film/TV Relations at Broad- performance, his own group, Stardust Memories Big cast Music, Inc. became tenured Band. His company is developing a Douglas Scott Mead, B.M. ’99, D.M.A. ’04, in spring 2013 as line of musical instrument accessories is the dean at the School of Health, associate to be debuted at NAMM in 2015. Education and Human Services at professor of Pamela Youngdahl Dees, D.M.A. ’98, pianist, Owens Community College in Findlay, music at is music program director and associ- Ohio. Townsend School ate professor of music at Saint Louis John F. Warren, D.M.A. ’99, is the director of Music at University in Missouri. of choral Mercer University Gerhard Guter, B.M. ’98, joined the activities at in Macon, Georgia. He is director of faculty of Syracuse graduate studies and music director/ Elmhurst College University. This conductor for Mercer University as assistant year he Opera, where he recently conducted professor of jazz conducted the Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Gilbert studies and Syracuse and Sullivan’s Iolanthe. This is also his music business University third year as music director for Mercer in fall 2013, Singers in University Children’s Choirs, where he teaching courses performance at the American Choral oversees 50 children ages 8 to 17 in in jazz history Directors Association Eastern Division five choirs, touring 23 states in the past and music production. Guter’s recent Conference in Baltimore and present- three years. projects include producer, editor, ed a series of conducting master Alexis D. Kurtz, B.M. ’97, music arranger, trumpeter, and baritone classes and worked with choirs at the engineering vocalist for Vocalogy’s follow-up Conservatoire de Strasbourg in technology, is album, Refilled. France. In 2012 he travelled to Cuba an acoustic Kendra Preston Leonard, M.M. ’98, a and conducted the National Choir of consultant and musicologist, authored Louise Talma: Cuba. Warren has published the project manager A Life in Composition (Ashgate articles “Cuban Choral Music by for The Sextant Publishing, expected autumn 2014). Roberto Valera and Guido López- Group in She was an invited speaker at the Gavilán” and “5 Canciones by Wilma Washington, D.C. 2014 George Washington University Alba Cal” in the International Choral She was named symposium “Global Shakespeares: Bulletin.

{ 52 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 is working as first Kapellmeister at Sarita Rachelle Lilly, M.M. ’01, vocal the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, performance, is Germany. performing as 2000s Carlomagno Araya, B.M. ’01, M.M. ’08, The Strawberry Joshua Desrochers, B.M. ’00, is a music is pursuing his Woman in The teacher at Goffstown High School in D.M.A at Frost. Gershwins’ Porgy New Hampshire. This year he spent He freelances as & Bess on the first two days in Augusta, Maine, conduct- a drummer/ national tour. ing the Maine District 3 High School percussionist Jonathan Neal, B.M. Honor Choir. and producer in ’01, is director of Jeremy Goldsmith, B.M. ’00, is a studio South Florida and bands and percussion at Lock Haven guitarist, composer, producer, and internationally. University of Pennsylvania. ASCAP publisher/writer based in This year he Philip Schuessler, M.M. ’01, is instructor the New York City area. This year he produced the Latin Grammy-nominated of music theory and composition at toured with The Broadway Boys, Victor and Brazilian Press Awards-nominated Southeastern Louisiana University Bailey, Clara Lofaro, Jesse Terry, and album Bossa Nova Sinfonco with the in Hammond, Louisiana. Several many others. In addition to a busy National Symphony Orchestra of newly commissioned works were home recording studio, he does exten- Costa Rica and toured the album in premiered in 2013 including Particle sive session work at Avatar and other Mexico. He will soon produce a Fountain for piano-percussion quartet, well-known studios in Manhattan. second album with the same orchestra, commissioned by the Yarn/Wire Michael Johnson, B.M. ’00, performs Latin Jazz Sinfonico, featuring the Araya ensemble; Driftwood Box Puzzle for throughout New York City at venues Orta Latin Jazz Quartet and Randy alto saxophone, piano, and electronic such as the B.B. King Blues Club and Brecker, as well as a Stéphane fixed media, commissioned by Knitting Factory, as well as on a touring Grappelli tribute album for jazz saxophonist Richard Schwartz, and version of Dreamgirls. violinist Federico Britos. Rube Goldberg Variations for tuba- Bernard Mathews, M.M. ’00, is the Kevin Babuder, B.M. ’01, recently euphonium quartet, commissioned orchestra director at Old Bridge orchestrated and conducted a film by tuba artist Brian Gallion. He also Township Public Schools in Old project at Skywalker Sound (Lucas published Still Life with Wave for flute Bridge, New Jersey, and adjunct Ranch, Marin County, California), and alto saxophone (Potenza Music). professor of guitar at New Jersey City where he conducted members of the Jessica Vanderhoof, B.A. ’01, is in her University. San Francisco Symphony Chorus and third season at the Metropolitan Opera David Rowe, B.M. ’00, is a senior sound the San Francisco Opera Chorus. He as an administrator, after singing designer at Infinity Ward, which also orchestrated for Hans Zimmer for six years with Cincinnati Opera, created the No. 1 console video for The Longest Daycare, an Oscar- Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, and game of the year, Call of Duty: Ghosts. nominated animated short film. the Merola Program at San Francisco Rowe worked with team members Olesia Borisenko, B.M. ’01, is owner of Opera. She was a 2009 Eastern District and contractors to create the game’s Miami Piano Academy. She is actively Winner in the Met National Council audio, including music, dialogue, teaching and performing in concerts Auditions, a finalist in the 2009 and sound effects, and worked with and ensembles in the Miami area Shreveport Opera’s Singer of the Year film composer David Buckley. The and working on publishing her own Competition, and a semifinalist in the soundtrack is on iTunes. beginning piano method. 2009 Florida Grand Opera’s Young Gabriel Saientz, B.M. ’00, pianist/ Alan Chan, B.M. ’01, pianist, released his Patronesses of the Opera Competition. independent debut big band Ludwig Afonso, B.M. ’02, drums, played music producer, E P, Rancho as a band member on several new recently toured Calaveras, in albums this year, including Sotarno by with Chayanne; October 2013, a Carolina Calvache, Potential Energy performed with fan-funded by Martin Bejerano, and Expectativas Venezuelan pop project. He was by Manuel Valera. He previously duo Chino y awarded two performed on Grammy-nominated Nacho; per- NewMusic USA albums Wrapped in a Dream by formed on the Grants (MetLife Spyro Gyra, The Magician by Sammy TV show La Voz Kids (The Voice – Creative/CAP Grant) and was a finalist Figueroa, and Second Chance by Kids), with the highest ratings in for the 2013 Brussels Jazz Orchestra Hector Martignon. Telemundo’s history; and has written International Composition Contest. Josh Berman, B.M. ’02, is the North music for Zumba fitness and TV DownBeat magazine published a America Label Manager for UK- commercials. He is the CEO/founder “Players” article about his music in its based Warp Records, which won the of Million Ducks Music, a new February 2014 issue, written by jazz Independent Label of the Year award production music library that has critic Kirk Silsbee. He attended a at the 2013 Association of Independent already placed tracks in commercials, one-month residency at the Visby Music (AIM) award show in London. films, and Web series. International Centre for Composers in The company produced Brian Eno’s Joseph Trafton, B.M. ’00, composer, Sweden in April 2013. latest album, Lux.

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 53 } Class Notes Peter G. Fielding, M.M. ’02, is associate Jesse D. Fishman, B.M. ’03, senior AV and holds the position of second flute dean for systems designer, has been promoted with the Lincoln Symphony. She is half academic affairs to associate at the design architec- of the pop-fusion flute duo In Sterio, and research for ture firm Westlake Reed Leskosky in which recently released its sophomore the College of Cleveland, Ohio. album, Awake, a CD-DVD combo that Music at Mahidol Lawrence W. Moore, M.M. ’03, D.M.A. unifies music and art in an original University, in ’12, is a lecturer in the Department of project inspired by the works of Thailand. He is Music Theory and Composition at the abstract artist Jerry Peel. In Sterio has also a research Frost School of Music. He also teaches performed at the National Flute As- fellow for the in the School of Entertainment and sociation convention five times and has Holy Cross Historical Trust. Design Technologies at Miami-Dade been a two-time Featured Artist for the Aaron Irwin, M.M. ’02, is a critically College and at Miami International Florida Music Educators Association acclaimed saxophonist, multi-wood- University of Art and Design. He is Conventions in Tampa. wind player, and composer who just co-founder of the Kendall Sound Art Sam Bergstrom, B.M. ’04, works as a released a successful third album, Or- Concert Series, which holds concerts patent attorney in Munich, Germany. dinary Lives. He is on faculty teaching of new music at the West Kendall He often plays with amateur orches- woodwind at the British International Regional Public Library, which recently tras, having the opportunity to travel School and the Bank Street School in premiered his work A Ring of Pearls for to China, and intends to start a new Manhattan, as well as Rutgers Univer- Cello and Fixed Audio/Video Media, chamber music group. In Amsterdam, sity. He was also featured in jazz author with cellist Jason Calloway of the he has kept in touch with Tom Trapp, Cicily Janus’s 2010 book, The New Amernet String Quartet. In November B.M. ’02, who currently arranges for Face of Jazz (Billboard Books). 2013 he was invited to present his rock and pop musicians. Brian Cappelli, B.M. ’03, is vice president paper, “The Making of Angel Wing,” Tara Hanish, M.M. ’04, teaches cello at of the Commercial Music Group at at the Humanities and Technology the Cleveland Sony/ATV Music Publishing. In 2009 he Conference. Institute of Music, was selected as one of Billboard’s “30 Erica Peel, B.M. ’03, is currently the maintains a Under 30.” piccoloist with the Omaha Symphony, private studio, is assistant principal cellist with the Akron Symphony, and is Congrats, Caballero manager and cellist of Mayfield Strings. She yric soprano Elizabeth Caballero, B.M. ’99, appeared performed the Brahms Double as a guest artist at the 30th annual Festival Miami Concerto with violinist Andréa Belding L in 2013 and the Boccherini Cello and was presented the 2013 Frost School of Music Distin- Concerto No. 9 in Bb Major this spring. guished Alumna Award on stage in Gusman Concert Hall Her indie band, Seafair, was named for her many accomplishments as a professional singer. “Best New Breakout Artist/Band” in 2013 by Cleveland Scene magazine. A Cuban-American, Caballero has been heard They headlined several local festivals; in theaters throughout North America, including the released a music video and two Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, Florida Grand Opera, critically acclaimed EP’s, Paintings and and many others. The New York Times praised her Photographs; and performed on Cleveland’s Fox 8 Morning Show. performance as Musetta in La bohéme at New York City Opera as “the evening’s Hanish also performs in the instrumen- most show-stopping performance.” tal new age group Cellocentric; the At Festival Miami, Caballero presented an enchanting recital of operatic favor- group’s self-titled album aired on Ohio ites, joined by two new members of Frost’s vocal faculty, mezzo-soprano Robynne NPR’s Ideastream and the nationally syndicated radio show Echoes. They Redmon and bass-baritone Kevin Short, accompanied by pianist Elaine Rinaldi. Her toured Florida, Georgia, and Tennes- recital was met with outstanding reviews. see in January and plan to tour the Recent engagements for Caballero include her debut in Santo Domingo in the Southwest this fall. Jen Hitt, M.M. ’04, media writing and title role of La Viuda Alegre in The Merry Widow, her first Alice in Falstaff with production, resides in Austin, Texas, Virginia Opera, a return to Florentine Opera as Violetta in La Traviata, a debut in where she is a private voice teacher, Rio de Janeiro with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra as Anne Trulove in The Rake’s performs as a singer-songwriter, Progress, a debut in Hawaii Opera Theater as the Soprano Solo in Carmina Burana and is a section leader for the SoCo Women’s Chorus. She is also a radio and Nedda in Pagliacci, and a return to Seattle Opera as Donna Elvira in producer for WAMU’s Bluegrass Don Giovanni. Country and hosts the weekly radio

{ 54 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 show Capital Americana. Becky Foster, B.M. ’05, is the studio Allongo planned and executed 15 Annop Michael Kettratad, B.M. ’04, a music manager for Dark Horse Recording in events. The company was awarded engineering technology major, is Franklin, Tennessee. the “Couples Choice Award” by now living and working in Bangkok as Jonathan Lazar, B.M. ’05, a music busi- WeddingWire. assistant marketing communication ness grad, is co-founder of Urband & Claire Courchene, B.M. ’06, is manager at Samsung. Lazar Music Publishing, which pursues creative director of Stereographic Jaclyn Mullen, B.M. ’04, music business, and explores revenue streams though Entertainment with fellow Frost is a Los Angeles-based performing film, TV, advertisements, and video alumnus Ethan Carlson, B.M. ’05. She is artist/entrepreneur who creates games and pairs clients with writers also a freelance performer on cello content for brands, blogs, and small and new media. Recent work in- and trombone with many artists in business owners. She performs with cludes Glee (Fox); New Girl (Fox); The Los Angeles and on tour, including dance groups; performs stand-up Olympics (NBC); Hawaii Five-0 (CBS); Miley Cyrus, Madonna, Rhye, Salaam comedy at venues such as New York Draft Day, a new Kevin Costner film; Remi, Akon, and Frank Ocean. She City’s Gotham Comedy Club; and and When the Game Stands Tall (Sony has recorded and arranged strings on created her own one-woman show, Pictures). He is also vice president Yuna’s Nocturna (Verve), Quadron’s This Is Not Your Practice Life. She was of strategic music partnerships at Avalanche (Vested in Culture), and a 2014 Scholar in the Tory Burch “muzik” Smart Headphones, coming Niia’s Generation Blue (Armida Foundation/Goldman Sachs 10,000 to market spring 2014. Records). She has also played on Small Businesses program at Babson Nancy Luzko, D.M.A. ’05, released a multiple TV performances with artists College. compilation of on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel David Parente, B.M. ’04, jazz performance, original piano Live, American Idol, MTV’s Unplugged, is currently compositions in and The Voice. working as a South America Steve Danyew, B.M. ’06, composer, freelance last year, which resides in Rochester, New York, and musician based contained 14 enjoys writing music for large instru- in South Florida, original piano mental ensembles, vocal groups, and as well as scores. The chamber ensembles; his works are writing, Kansas City Ballet generously performed at schools and recording, and also choreographed pieces from her colleges across the country. He is or- teaching from his ballet Madame Lynch in a production ganizing a consortium of ensembles to home studio. titled “Dancers Making Dances” in support the composition of a new song Congrats, Caballero Mykal Sumter, B.M. ’04, in media writing February and March of 2013. cycle, Alcott Songs, scored for soprano and production, is a copyright analyst Kristi (Rostad) Shade, B.M. ’05, married and chamber winds octet. for RCA Records, a label of Sony fellow Frost Natalie Gelman, B.M. ’06, singer-songwriter, Music Entertainment, and an ASCAP alumnus Chris performed writer member for the Women in Shade, B.M. ’05, recently at Music organization, whose mission is and is a Sundance Film to advance the awareness, equality, professional Festival, NAMM diversity, heritage, opportunities, harpist in New Show, and The and cultural aspects of women in the York City. She House of Blues. musical arts and industry through is on the harp She sang the education, support, empowerment, faculty at national anthem and recognition. Manhattan School of Music’s Precol- at the Staples Britt Daley, B.M. ’05, M.M. ’07, works lege Division and is a founding Center in Los Angeles last July 4th. In as lead creative member of the harp duo Duo Scorpio. summer 2013, she was featured in for Promo Only, Recent awards include grants from Songwriting magazine, and M Music & Inc., in music Chamber Music America and Musicians magazine’s “Who’s Next” promotion and American Harp Society to commission section. Two CDs include Streetlamp as a singer-song- new works for the harp, to be Musician and her latest, Sundance in writer. In 2013 premiered at the World Harp Con- Your Eyes. she opened for gress in Sydney, Australia, in July 2014. Joshua Henry, B.M. ’06, earned his sec- indie rock duo Stefany Allongo, B.A. ’06, is owner/chief ond Tony nomination for his return to Tegan & Sara wedding and Broadway this spring in the Round- and has an EP due out this spring. Her event coordina- about Theatre Company’s produc- song “I Like It Loud,” recorded by tor of The tion of Violet. His performance as Carmen Electra, reached the Top 25 Majestic Vision, Haywood Patterson in The Scottsboro Billboard chart for Dance/Club. She primarily Boys earned him a 2011 Tony Award writes with various Electronic Dance serving clients in nomination. Henry recently starred Music (EDM) producers, including Bill South Florida as “Jake” in the Tony Award winning Hamel, The Oddictions, and Winston and Puerto Rico. revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Wolfe. In her first year, Bess and as “Favorite Son” in the

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 55 } Class Notes original Broadway cast of the Green In the fall of 2013, he released his first an NBC Diversity Scholarship to study Day musical American Idiot. He has album as a leader, The Super Villain at The People’s Improv Theater. She also co-written a new children’s musi- Jazz Band (Artists Recording Collec- performs with the improv troupes cal, Amigo Duende, and held a concert tive), earning a four-star review in Marriage Bed, Monjannetty, and Just this February at 54 Below titled “This the January 2014 issue of DownBeat. One! Other credits include a national Is the Love,” a follow-up to his sold-out White also played on new record- commercial for 7UP Ten; MTV’s PSA debut “Soul Weakness,” featuring ings for The Nashville Jazz Orchestra, Half Of Us; and the Web series Kelsey, Broadway classics and original songs. Lynn Lewis, and Oscar DeLeon, and a critic’s pick for IndieWire’s 2013 Best Alexandra Jackson, B.M. ’06, headlined played on the national PBS television Comedy Web Series. She has written the 2013 Atlanta Jazz Festival. Her special The Mavericks: In Time Live. and starred in two films, Kissed and father, Maynard Jackson, founded the He has mixed and mastered music for Hiccup, now being submitted to event 35 years ago. an upcoming live compilation of the festivals. Emilie Kennedy, M.M. ’06, is an attorney Dave Douglas Quintet. White is also Genevieve Burgess, B.A. ’08, M.M. ’11, in entertainment involved with “The St. Helena Island in music business and entertainment law and Spiritual Project,” which documents industries, is executive assistant to the intellectual the music and spirituals of the Gullah COO at SoundExchange, an inde- property at people and will culminate in a digital pendent digital performance rights Lipscomb, publication, box set, and other stu- organization. Eisenberg, & dent-generated projects via the CCU Emma Cohen-Joppa, B.M. ’08, is an Baker, a firm Edwards College Athenaeum Press. elementary music teacher at The that represents White works regularly in Nashville International School of Panama in clients in the and Charleston, and is a member of Panama City, Panama. music and entertainment industry. She the Long Bay Symphony. Brian Losch, B.S. ’08, garnered a 2014 has represented clients in litigation Amanda ‘Mandy’ (Blickensderfer) Andreasen, Grammy win in the Best Engineered involving novel areas of copyright law M.M. ’07, plays Classical Album category for his work and recently negotiated a music cello and fiddle on singer Dawn Upshaw’s Winter distribution agreement on behalf of a with Shania Morning Walks (ArtistShare). The record label. Twain’s show, Still album also garnered two wins for both Bruce Kiesling, D.M.A. ’06, continues as the One, at Best Contemporary Classical Compo- conductor of the Young Orchestra of Caesar’s Palace sition and Best Classical Vocal Solo for Los Angeles with the Los Angeles Phil- in Las Vegas. She Maria Schneider, ’83, who composed and harmonic, music director of the Tulare is also a cellist orchestrated the record. County Symphony, assistant conduc- with Frankie Chris Mazur, B.M. ’08, is music producer tor of the Pasadena Symphony, and Moreno’s band, the Nevada Chamber and radio producer for Ogilvy & music director of the Pasadena Youth Symphony, and as a founding member Mather, an international advertising, Symphony. He is on faculty for the Los of String Chix string trio. She teaches marketing, and public relations agency Angeles MAT Program at the Longy on the cello faculty at the Nevada based in Manhattan, overseeing School of Music at Bard College. He School of the Arts. advertising projects for American recently guest conducted the Pacific Benom Plumb, M.M. ’07, is the new as- Express, Blackrock, British Airways, Symphony and will conduct the Long sistant professor, clinical track, in the Castrol, IBM, Kimberly Clark, NASCAR, Beach Symphony in January 2015. Music and Entertainment Industry and Time Warner Cable. This year he Jonathan Tuzman, B.M. ’06, works Studies department at the University of was awarded an Ogilvy and Mather prominently in the Washington, D.C., Colorado in Denver. He continues his Award for Best Ad of the Year. musical theater community as an relationship with Bluewater Music in Luke Moellman, B.M. ’08, M.M. ’10, accompanist and music director. He Nashville and other music companies, is co-leading, writing, producing, won the 2013 Helen Hayes Award for artists, and songwriters as an advisor engineering, and playing synths for Outstanding Musical Direction for Mr. and consultant. his new group, Great Good Fine Burns, a Post-Electric Play at the Woolly Mark Poiesz, B.M. ’07, is the touring OK, which showcased at South by Mammoth Theatre Company. He is drummer with country artist Lindsay Southwest in Austin, Texas, this year. a resident pianist for La-Ti-Do, D.C.’s Ell, of Stoney Creek Records, as part of The group also features alumni Zach premier weekly cabaret and spoken- The Band Perry’s North American tour. Morillo, B.M. ’09, and Tristan Clopêt, B.S. word series, and keyboardist-music Nichole Yannetty, B.A. ’07, is an actor, ’09. Moellman also freelances in NYC director for Infusion, one of the area’s comedian, and as a producer/engineer. best private event/variety bands. Tuz- writer perform- Tivon Pennicott, B.M. ’08, was named man also busks in the D.C. and Silver ing in New York “second place winner” in the Spring area with fellow Frost alumnus City. She studied finals of the 2013 Thelonious Monk Brad Emmett, B.M. ’06. improv and International Jazz Saxophone Matthew White, M.M.A. ’06, D.M.A. ’11, is sketch comedy Competition, held at the Kennedy assistant professor of music, teaching writing with the Center Eisenhower Theater in trumpet and jazz at Coastal Carolina Upright Citizens Washington, D.C., in September 2013. University in Conway, South Carolina. Brigade and won He has toured with Kenny Burrell

{ 56 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 and Esperanza Spaulding and is now video honoring the 50th anniversary of performing with the Roy Hargrove the Los Angeles Music Center Big Band, Gregory Porter, and others (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Walt while working on his own projects. 2010s Disney Concert Hall). He worked as an Parker Smith, B.M. ’08, is currently Gregory Campbell, M.M. ’10, is a customer orchestrator and music programmer pursuing an M.M. in music and human relations representative and group on the upcoming WWE Studios’ learning at the Butler School of Music, sales associate for the Kansas City Scooby Doo cartoon, and as a music University of Texas at Austin. Symphony, with whom he performs programmer on the motion picture Luke Walters, M.S.M.E.T. ’08, is working regularly. He also started a new brass score for Fast and Furious 6. He was as a research engineer with the Bose quintet in the Kansas City region called nominated for Best Original Score at Corporation. Borderline Brass Quintet. He recently the Action On Film Festival in Pasa- April Liberty, B.M. ’09, is a violin and performed with the Fountain City Brass dena, California. viola instructor and conductor of Band in their first-place performance Rodney A. Lancaster, D.M.A. ’10, jazz the Young Musicians’ Junior and at the 2013 U.S. Open Brass Band performance, is Intermediate Orchestras within the Championships. on tour Community Arts Program (CAP) Korre D. Foster, D.M.A. ’10, is director of throughout Conservatory for the Arts in Coral choral activities Australia and the Gables, Florida. She is certified in the and assistant U.S. with the O’Connor Method, teaches general professor of Broadway show music and violin at the Carrollton music at Austin In the Mood in School of the Sacred Heart, and Peay State the role of teaches private violin and viola University in Tommy Dorsey. lessons throughout the region. She is Tennessee. Jamie L. Nix, D.M.A. ’10, is director of also president of the Liberty Family Under his wind ensemble activities and associ- Foundation, which will host the first direction, the ate professor of conducting at the O’Connor Method Camp in Maine in University Chamber Singers were Schwob School of Music at Columbus July 2015. selected to perform at the 2014 State University (CSU) in Georgia, Caitlyn A. Smith, B.M. ’09, A.B. ’09, won Tennessee Music Educators where he was awarded tenure in 2013. two 2013 Association Conference. In recent This year he conducted the Florida regional years, he sang with the Gateway All State Concert Band and the Music orchestra Chamber Orchestra Chorus and the for All Summer Symposium, and auditions in Tennessee Chamber Choir. Foster he released a CSU Wind Ensemble California for the represents the state of Tennessee on album featuring two world premieres. Santa Rosa the board of the National Collegiate Nix also produced the CSU Trom- Symphony (utility Choral Organization. He presented bone Octet album, A Beautiful Noise, horn) and the “The Rhetorical Implications of featuring trombone soloists Joseph Stockton Charpentier’s Use of Silence and Alessi, Charles Vernon, and others. He Symphony (principal horn). She also Absence” at the 2013 Conference of conducted performances at the 2013 performed with the San Francisco the International Association for Word International Trombone Festival and Symphony on its domestic tour in and Music Studies at the University of the 2012 International Trumpet Guild November 2013, playing assistant horn London. Conference. on Copland’s Symphonic Ode in Evan Goldman, B.M. ’10, is the CEO Jason Stevens, B.A. ’10, is a financial advi- Carnegie Hall and the Krannert Center of Evan Goldman sor for The Bartlett Group of Wells Fargo at the University of Illinois. In addition Music, providing Advisors, working on Wall Street. With to her freelance work, she is develop- original music fellow Frost alumnus Philip Muellerschoen, ing a small teaching studio and enjoys scoring for film, B.M. ’10, he is an active supporter of playing with the chamber group TV, and market- Rich Chwastiak, B.M. ’09, who is pursuing Valinor Winds. ing campaigns. an international DJ career. Jamie Perez Sutta, M.M. ’09, is the Project highlights Zoe Zeniodi, D.M.A. ’10, A.D. ’11, continues founder and from the past her appointment artistic director year include as head of music of The Children’s scoring a TV pilot produced by UM and assistant Voice Chorus in School of Communication alumni conductor at the Miami area, Stephen Interrante, ’06, and Peter Saroufim, Florida Grand which will B.S.C. ’09, through an award from Opera and perform in Samsung and the New York Television serves as artistic Carnegie Hall Festival, scoring a national Pizza Hut director and June 2014. She is commercial, and scoring a horror principal also the choir director and worship feature, The Den, released in select conductor of the Alhambra Orchestra leader at Old Cutler Presbyterian theaters this spring. Goldman also and assistant conductor of the Palm Church. wrote an Orchestra Suite for a promo Beach Symphony. In 2013 she

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 57 } Class Notes conducted the Children’s Concert and 2013 and performs in NYC with Anna C. Hersey, D.M.A. ’12, is lecturer of Life Gala with Palm Beach Symphony, Cosmos & Cyrillus, Sunken Meadow, musicology at guest conducted the Thessaloniki State and Plasma Face. Broward College, Orchestra in Greece, and performed a Heath Saunders, B.M. ’11, is music Frost School of piano solo recital in the Thessaloniki director at Village Theatre in Issaquah, Music, and Barry Concert Hall. Zeniodi also presented Washington. He was previously University. She recitals of the complete piano music of director and music director at CORE recently UM Frost professor Thomas Sleeper in Theatrics and continues to freelance presented and Miami, Athens, Crete, and Berlin. She as an actor, singer, songwriter, and participated at released her third CD on the Albany director in the Seattle area. conferences for Records label, including Sleeper’s Tori Tullier, B.M. ’11, singer-songwriter the University of Copenhagen “Translucence.” and alumna of the Bruce Hornsby Linguistics Department, the Yale Luis Fernandez, D.M.A. ’11, is adjunct Creative American Music program, Conference on Baltic and Scandinavian assistant was selected as one of ten finalists in Studies, the National Opera Associa- professor at the 2014 Country Music Television tion, and the National Association of University of (CMT) Listeners’ Choice/ Nashville Teachers of Singing. She was also Florida, on Songwriters Association International awarded a postdoctoral fellowship faculty at the Song Contest, for her original song from the American Scandinavian Blue Lake Fine “Your Nicotine.” Foundation, a research residency at Arts Camp, and Eric Spiegel, B.M. ’11, is a music educa- Det Kongelige Bibliotek, The Royal an instructor with tion teaching assistant at the Univer- Library in Denmark. the Greater sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rachel Hershy, A.D. ’12, M.M. ’13, is Miami Youth Symphony. He performs where he is pursuing an M.M.E. principal bass of Shen Yun Symphony with the South Beach Chamber Joey Barreiro, B.M. ’12, recently toured and performed this past fall at a Ensemble. Europe and the Caribbean on Royal multitude of venues, including The Daniel Grambow, B.M. ’11, received his Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas, where Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, M.M. from the Cleveland Institute he played Tony Manero, the role made Symphony Hall, Meyerson Hall, of Music and is currently singing in famous by John Travolta, in Saturday and Davies Hall. As part of their Chicago and Milwaukee. Last year Night Fever. This fall he played Jack international company, Hershy his performances included Papageno in Studio Tenn’s production of Into is currently on a five-month tour in The Magic Flute with Tuscia Opera the Woods, in Nashville. He also performing in Japan, South Korea, Festival, Betto in Gianni Schicchi with spends much of his time writing and Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand. Main Street Opera, Juryman in Trial composing. Paige Martins, B.M. ’12, worked as lead by Jury with Music at Unity Temple, Jason Cooper, M.M. ’12, J.D. ’12, is work- vocalist for a ten-piece lounge band Rasmus in Maskarade with Vox 3 ing as an intellectual property attorney and host of Live Band Karaoke on Collective, and Carpenter in HMS with Lipscomb, Eisenberg & Baker, in Carnival Cruise Lines for the past year Pinafore with the Gilbert and Sullivan Miami, Florida. and is currently singing as a Hal Cat Society of Chicago. This summer he John Farrey, B.M. ’12, music business, is vocalist on Holland America Line. will sing Schaunard in La bohème and serving as Michelle Ozog, M.M. ’12, J.D. ’12, is Papageno in The Magic Flute with membership an in-house copyright attorney at Chicago Summer Opera. coordinator for TuneSat, LLC in NYC and a member Katerina “Kat” Kuscevic, B.A. ’11, resides the Pacific in good standing of the New York Bar in Miami, where Northwest Association. she is oboist for Chapter of The Jenna Tasha Rubaii, B.M. ’12, played Compositum Recording the role of Extraordinary Girl on the Musicae Novae Academy national and international tours of the and the Miami (NARAS); he is Green Day musical American Idiot. Wind Symphony. also co-founder of Pop Sells Artist Trent Allen Saunders, B.M. ’12, played She has Management. the role of St. Jimmy on the national recorded works Levi Hammock, B.M. ’12, keyboard and international tours of the Green of Giuseppe performance, is Day musical American Idiot, traveling Sammartini for oboe and harpsichord; the box office to seven countries over the past Georges Auric for oboe, clarinet, and manager for year. After the tour he joined the bassoon; and Anton Reicha for oboe Global Spec- ensemble of Aladdin, opening on and piano. trum’s venue at Broadway in 2014. This will be his Alessandra Levy, B.M. ’11, bass, is a UM’s BankUnited Broadway debut. freelance performer and studio Center while Alessandra Salvati, D.M.A. ’12, is the musician based in New York City, pursuing an M.A. winner of The American Prize recording for demos, video games, in arts present- 2013 for her work Tektosyne: movies, and more. She toured The ing and live entertainment manage- Three Architectures for Orchestra, Czech Republic with Khorikos in ment at UM Frost. a symphonic cycle composed for

{ 58 } SCORE MAGAZINE Spring 2014 her doctoral thesis at the University management, is the box office Fellow he wrote for Chick Corea, of Miami. Tektosyne had its world manager for the New World Symphony Terence Blanchard, Eric Owens, Jon premiere by the Frost Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida. Secada, and the HMI Orchestra, and Orchestra at its Annual Concerto Leonardo “Lenny” Dosoretz, M.M. ’13, J.D. assisted producer Larry Rosen in the Competition and Composition Winners ’13, is currently practicing in the cor- mix of the Jazz and the Philharmonic Concert in February 2013. porate mergers and acquisitions group PBS show, which included one of his Kate Simon, Ph.D. ’12, is assistant of Shumaker, Loop, and Kendrick law arrangements. He premiered a new professor of firm in Tampa, Florida. He also enjoys work in March with the Campinas music education volunteering with the Tampa area Symphonic Orchestra and will at Towson Gasparilla Music Festival. conduct a Latin Jazz concert and University in Jeremy Fox, D.M.A. ’13, conducted live recording project with Randy Maryland. She the album Bossa Nova Sinfonica, Brecker, Araya Orta Latin Jazz serves on the recorded by the Orquesta Sinfonica Quartet, and the Costa Rica board of Nacional De Costa Rica on the Centro National Orchestra. directors for the Nacional De La Musica label, which Megan Roy, B.M. ’13, has been teaching Maryland/D.C. was nominated for a 2013 Latin English and music in Poland as a American Choral Directors Association Grammy for “Abertura Jobiniana” Fulbright Scholar during the 2013- and has adjudicated, presented in the Best Classical Contemporary 2014 academic year. Upon her research, and conducted workshops at Composition category. He continues return to the U.S., she plans to attend numerous educator associations. She to compose, orchestrate, and arrange William Paterson University to obtain is an invited music teacher in-service his own new works. a Master of Music in jazz studies and clinician on classroom management Nessyah (Buder) Gallagher, M.M. ’13, is performance. and rehearsal strategies in Baltimore a teaching assistant at Shenandoah Hanako Sawada, B.M. ’13, is a County and Carroll County Public Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia, mathematics teacher at University Schools. This spring she guest pursuing a D.M.A. in saxophone Prep Science and Math High School conducted the Middle School Honors performance. She teaches music in Detroit and the school’s first Chorus for Carroll County Public history and private saxophone lessons. instrumental music club’s supervisor. Schools. In October 2013 she performed She is currently working to encourage Laura Sutnick, M.A. ’12, will be a featured a lecture recital at the Winchester and provide music/arts education to DJ at the New World Symphony’s Pulse Medical Center called “Music students from low-income families in a Music Experiences. She is music from Down Under: The Australian variety of settings, from an after-school director and programming director Saxophone” and performed in music club to a math classroom. for Internet radio startup Klangbox. master classes at The Hartt School at Daniel Susnjar, D.M.A. ’13, is performing fm. Sutnick has performed at Ultra the University of Hartford and at the across his homeland of Australia as a Music Festival and in Miami venues Konservatorium Wien in Austria. first-call musician with a wide array like the Electric Pickle, Bardot, and the Isabella Gaviglia, B.M. ’13, is currently of artists, including Paul Bollenback, Vagabond. She was named Miami’s teaching and directing band, orches- as well as leading the Daniel Susnjar Best DJ by the Miami New Times. tra, chorus, and guitar at Aventura Afro-Peruvian Jazz Group. He lectures Tomas Cotik, D.M.A. ’13, violin, performs Waterways K8 Center. at the Western Australian Academy in the Cotik/Lin Duo with pianist Rafael Piccolotto de Lima, M.M. ’13, is of Performing Arts and released his Tao Lin, M.M. ’98. The duo just signed now a D.M.A. debut album in May 2014 at the Perth a contract to record four albums of candidate at International Jazz Festival. Mozart’s Complete Sonatas for Violin Frost. He was Liza Seigido, D.M.A. ’13, premiered a new and Piano with Centaur Records. nominated for a composition in They recorded the first volume of the 2013 Latin May 2014 Complete Works of Franz Schubert Grammy in the commissioned for Violin and Piano to rave reviews; it Best Classical by the San was nominated for Recording of the Contemporary Francisco Year 2013 by MusicWeb International. Composition Community They will soon release an album of category for “Abertura Jobiniana,” Music Center for Schubert’s Sonatinas. In 2013 Naxos on the album Bossa Nova Sinfonico its children’s released their duo album Tango Nuevo, recorded live by the Costa Rica chamber music featuring music by Astor Piazzolla, National Orchestra. He won five program. She is an instructor at Miami plus the world premiere of Quartet DownBeat Student Awards, a JEN Dade College Kendall Campus in the No. 5 by Kenneth Fuchs, B.M. ’79, Student Composition Showcase Music Theater and Dance Department recorded with the Delray String Award, and an ASCAP Herb Alpert and a musicianship instructor at the Quartet. Cotik will release a solo violin Young Jazz Composer Award, and he Superior Academy of Music. She also CD in 2014 and record another with was selected for the 2014 Metropole serves as coordinator of Kendall the Delray String Quartet. Orkest Arrangers Workshop to work Sound Art’s new music concert series, Eduardo Delgado, M.A. ’13, arts with Vince Mendoza and arrange partnering with Lawrence W. Moore, presenting and live entertainment for Gregory Porter. As an HMI M.M. ’07, D.M.A. ’13.

Spring 2014 SCORE MAGAZINE { 59 } Class Notes In Memoriam

Victor E. Clarke, a UM trustee who donated funds to James R. “Russell” Young, D.M.A. ’90, former build a UM recital hall that bears his name, died on November adjunct assistant professor, conductor, and program director 27, 2013, at the age of 81. of Frost Opera Theater from 1989 to 2005, died December 8, Born March 13, 1932, in Miami, 2013, in Marietta, Georgia, after a brief illness. He was 60. He Florida, Clarke served his country as was serving as professor of opera theater at Kennesaw State an officer in the United States Air University and a faculty member at many international vocal Force during the 1950s. Shortly after programs. He is survived by his wife, Jana Revels Young; son, graduating from Cornell in 1956, he Zachary; daughter, Anna; and brother, Kenneth Young. joined his father’s avionics firm, Gables Engineering, later succeeding the elder Clarke as chairman, CEO, William Russell, B.M. ’57, M.M. ’58, Band of the and principal owner. Hour director from 1972 to 1991, died at the age of 77 on Clarke was appointed a University of Miami trustee in 1982 December 3, 2012, in Lake Placid, Florida. He played a key and an emeritus trustee in 2000. He served on several com- role in developing the Department of Studio Music and Jazz at mittees and chaired the visiting committees of the College of Frost in the early 1960s. In 1984 he received the UM Alumni Engineering and Frost School of Music. He also was a member Association’s Inside Out Award. He is survived by his sister, of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Barbara Darrow, B.Ed. ’67. visiting committee. The Victor E. Clarke Recital Hall is a 139-seat venue Kirby Campbell, former tenured professor at Frost dedicated in April 1994 that continues to host solo performances who taught saxophone and flute in the Department of Jazz, and smaller concerts. With the Frost School now in the midst died on September 27, 2013, in North Carolina following a brief of a major expansion, Clarke Recital Hall will be retrofitted illness. He was 97. With only an 8th-grade education, Campbell with high-tech sound and lighting features to accommodate was a self-taught professional musician, playing and mastering electronic classical music. all the woodwind instruments, especially the saxophone and “Victor was always curious about technology,” recalls Frost flute, as well as the cello. After serving two years in World War School Dean Shelly Berg, “and I think that’s what drew him to II in the Philippines, he played in big bands, including several music. He was somewhat of an amateur music technology buff.” years with the Johnny Long Orchestra and the Sammy Spears Clarke is survived by his daughters, Charlotte “Anne” Clarke Orchestra for The Jackie Gleason Show. He performed with an and Patricia “Lynn” Clarke Cogan; six granddaughters; and five array of entertainers, including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, great-grandchildren. Barbra Streisand, and Nat King Cole. He is survived by his son, John Kirby Campbell; daughter, Louis Tertocha, an attorney and adjunct lecturer in the Patricia C. Higgins; son-in-law, Terry Higgins; three grandchil- Arts Presenting program whose career included a successful dren; brother, Owen Campbell, and his wife; numerous nieces private practice and serving as general and nephews; and his beloved companion, Mary Armstrong. counsel for the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, lost his battle Robert Henry Meyer, B.M. ‘76, M.M. ‘78, of Lakeway, with leukemia on October 11, 2013, Texas, died June 24, 2013, after a two-year battle with cancer. in Miami. He was 59. Tertocha was a He is survived by his wife, Bonnie; brother, Zachary; daughter, beloved lecturer, mentor, colleague, and Melissa Braeger; son-in-law, Chris Braeger; son, David Meyer; friend to many in the UM Frost School daughter-in-law, Jenn Matheson; stepdaughter, Bethany Parish, of Music and School of Law. He is survived by his life partner, and her husband, Anthony Parish; stepson, Jeremy Brock; and Maribel Biamon; mother, Joan Bird; and his younger brother, five grandchildren. Roger Tertocha.

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