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Downbeat, the jazz world’s leading publication, named multiple Frost School students and ensembles in their prestigious annual Student Music Awards.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/05/downbeat-students-2025.html



Top Frost School graduates honored

Outstanding graduating students from the Frost School of Music were honored in a joyful end-of-the-year ceremony at the annual All-School Forum.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/05/all-school-forum-2025.html


At the Frost School, she took ‘every opportunity to grow, connect, and make an impact.’

Samantha (Sam) Kopec, a high-achieving music industry major who juggled an impressive number of internships and two minors while continuing to play her beloved clarinet, hopes to make change in the music world.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/05/canegrad-samkopec.html





The Frost School partners with AI program to shape the future of music

The Frost School of Music announces a groundbreaking partnership with Suno, an artificial intelligence music program, to explore ways to leverage the powerful new technology to shape the future of music creation and education.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/04/partner-ai.html



In Memoriam: Donald Oglesby

A devoted and influential advocate of music education and music in the community, Donald Oglesby was a mainstay of the Frost School’s choral program for four decades.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/04/oglesby-memoriam.html


Music Therapy

A perfect score for a prize-winning thesis

A music therapy student beat out older and more advanced competitors to became the first Frost School entrant to win the Three Minute Thesis competition.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/04/3minute-thesis.html



Bigger, better, and back to rock you

Rock Symphonic, the ambitious Frost School student concert uniting pop-rock bands with a classical orchestra, returns next week. The massive event, created and produced entirely by students, was a huge success in its debut last year.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/04/rock-symphonic-2025.html


Vocal Performance

High notes – and high numbers

A video of a Frost School masterclass where classical vocal student Haojin Mo soars to dazzling heights has racked up an equally astonishing number of views on social media. Teacher Jennifer Rowley has a theory on why.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/04/viral-masterclass.html


Dolphins star Jaelan Phillips pays it forward musically

Former University of Miami Hurricane and Frost School of Music student Jaelan Phillips came to campus this weekend to surprise the teenage musicians studying audio engineering through his sponsorship of the Frost School’s MusicReach program.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/04/jaelanvisitmusicreach.html



Connecting with top educators teaching the next generation

The annual Super Teacher Weekend brings leading high school music educators to the Frost School campus to showcase the program’s benefits to potential applicants.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/04/super-teachers.html


A musical changemaker moves to the next stage

Dean Shelton G. “Shelly” Berg, the transformative leader who made the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami into one of the top music schools in the country, will step down from his position next spring. Berg, who has led the Frost School for 19 years, plans to focus on his musical career.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/04/changemaker-next-stage.html


Celebrating a vital musical resource

This week, the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library celebrated 20 years of providing indispensable resources to Frost School music students and faculty, from rare scores to state-of-the-art recording facilities.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/04/weeks-anniversary.html



Electrifying concert captures the centennial spirit

Generations of Frost School alumni artists celebrated the centennial of the school that shaped them in a grand, emotional concert for a crowd of thousands at the University of Miami campus on Tuesday evening.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/04/april8-wrap-up.html


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