"When the 2020-21 academic year started, my sole focus was on creating experiences for our students that would help them remember this college year as one filled with learning new skills, meaningful music-making, camaraderie, and networking for the future. Through our production of Frost Music Fest ’21 and a regular season of concerts by the Frost Symphony Orchestra, Frost Wind Ensemble, Frost Concert Jazz Band, and hundreds of chamber music and contemporary ensemble performances, I can truly say that we achieved greatness," Dean Shelly Berg stated in his opening message in Score magazine.
Score inspires and shows the spirit of Frost. Highlights include: how our talented students discovered new ways of connecting with audiences; spotlights on our distinguished award-winning faculty and how they adapted to teach under extraordinary circumstances in meaningful ways, how faculty and alumni excelled this year–including our Grammy, Latin Grammy, and Emmy award winners and students awarded honors in international competitions.
Score showcases the school’s promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion along with a graduate musicology student who brought racial justice to the forefront of his latest research in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Score introduces you to our amazing new faculty hires, our board of advisors and supporters, highlights from our Frost Music Fest’21 featuring superstar soprano Renee Fleming, the establishment of new scholarship funds, and our extraordinary summer programs namely JAS Academy in Collaboration with Frost, Frost School at Festival Napa Valley and so much more.
Score applauds our students, faculty, alumnus, and staff for their inspiring resilience during these unprecedented times. As the cover headline states: "Stronger Together—Rising above a pandemic of epic proportions the Frost community forges a bright path forward."
The full 2021 Score Magazine can be found here:
The Frost School of Music would like to acknowledge additional accomplishments from our Frost Faculty:
Don Coffman, professor, published “Time to Face the Music? Possibilities for Community Music with Older Adults,” and “A description of New Horizons Band assistants’ perceptions and experiences” in the International Journal of Community Music.
Carlos Abril, professor, was appointed chair of the National Association for Music Education Society for Research. Carlos also published an article in the Music Educators Journal on music teachers. In 2020, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia (NY) and gave lectures at Northwestern, Indiana University, Temple, and the University of North Texas.
Juan Chattah, associate professor, published “In Soundtrack design: The impact of music on visual attention and affective responses”. Juan was also awarded the Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory for his collection of essays, “Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera (Oxford University Press, 2020
Timothy Conner, associate professor of practice, was invited to participate in the "Educator Circle” at The Art of Practicing Institute Online Summer Program.
Amanda Quist, associate professor, was guest conductor for the Oklahoma All-State Mixed Choir, California All-State Treble Choir, All-Eastern NAfME Honor Treble Choir, and the Worship and Arts Institute, Lake Junaleska. Amanda published "Pedagogy of Choral Sound and Spirit" in the Choral Journal, Publication of the American Choral Directors Association, February 2020, Volume 61 no 7.
Joseph Abbati, lecturer, was invited to give a Plenary Lecture and host a discussion forum at the 2020 CMS (College Music Society) National Conference, held in conjunction with the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI), National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors (NACWPI), and Pi Kappa Lambda (PKL).
Troy Roberts, lecturer, released his 12th album “Stuff I Heard” on April 10, 2020.
