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.”
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.
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.
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.