Music Theory & Composition

Music Media & Industry

A national prize for a trailblazing opera

A Frost School composer and an alumna received one of the top awards from The American Prize, a prestigious and uniquely wide-ranging performing arts contest, for their opera “Stained Glass.”

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/11/stained-glass-american-prize.html


Instrumental Performance

A musical bridge builder at the heights of pop and classical music

Frost School triple alumnus Carlos “Carlitos” Lopez has parlayed his degrees in pop production, classical composition, and conducting into a groundbreaking career connecting musical worlds, from Bad Bunny to symphony orchestras. Recently, he’s been showing young people how to do the same.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/10/carlitos-lopez-profile.html




Music Theory & Composition

Helping the next generation of composers find their voice

Marcos Balter, the celebrated music artist who is the current composer in residence at the Frost School’s composition program, is the latest in a series of famous composers who open creative and professional doors for students.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/10/composer-in-residence-balter.html




Instrumental Performance

Celebrating a milestone with premieres by world-class composers

The Centennial commissioning series, created by Frost Symphony Orchestra musical director Gerard Schwarz to celebrate the Frost School’s 100th birthday, winds up this fall with premieres by two of the most important composers in contemporary classical music.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/09/centennial-commissions.html


Vocal Performance

Leading a new kind of musical storytelling

Frost School faculty member and award-winning composer Shawn Crouch has been tapped to direct the innovative Miami music group IlluminArts.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/07/shawn-crouch-illuminarts.html


Music Theory & Composition

Frost School composition students help merge music and science

https://news.miami.edu/as/stories/2025/05/a-laboratory-muse.html


Music Theory & Composition

Scoring classical ballet – and a classic novel

Composing a score for a classical ballet based on the iconic American novel “The Great Gatsby” was a “transcendent” experience in musical storytelling for a Frost School doctoral student.

https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2025/05/colin-martin-great-gatsby-ballet.html