We are proud to announce the release of the 2025 issue of Score, our annual magazine showcasing the accomplishments of students, faculty, alumni, and guest artists at the Frost School of Music.
In this year’s publication, Setting a New Standard, we explore the innovations and achievements that make the Frost School a changemaking institution that continues to transform music education. As we celebrate our centennial year, our cover story reflects on how our boundary-breaking history laid the foundations for the Frost School today.
We mourn the loss of Professor Robert Carnochan, the Chair of Instrumental Performance, Director of Bands, and one of the Frost School’s most beloved leaders, who passed away last fall. But we also celebrate the many ways that members of the Frost School community forged new projects and ideas that expand our art form and help to reshape the future of music.
Faculty members Tom Collins and Raina Murnak collaborated with students in a groundbreaking exploration of the possibilities and risks that artificial intelligence brings to music. Chair of Studio Music and Jazz John Daversa took Frost School students and alumni to London to record lost music by jazz icon Kenny Wheeler in the famed Abbey Road Studios with their counterparts at the Royal Academy of Music. Maestro Gerard Schwarz commissioned new works from renowned outside composers and Frost School faculty to commemorate our centennial. The Henry Mancini Orchestra performed at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, to celebrate the centennial of their legendary namesake.
Undergraduates produced Rock Symphonic, an ambitious, original concert bringing contemporary music students together with an orchestra of classical instrumentalists. Alumni like vocalist Julia Keefe, who created an ensemble spotlighting the hidden history of Native American jazz artists; and composer Kevin Day, commissioned to create the first opera for the Cincinnati Opera’s groundbreaking Black Opera Project, filled us with pride.
Discover all this and much more in the latest issue of Score, available online now.
