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1 BUILD YOURSELF AT FROST There is no better pace to deepen your musica artistry and deveop a rewarding ife and career in music than at the highy accaimed Frost Schoo of Music. #frostschooum

2 5 TOP REASONS TO GET A FROST EDUCATION FROST is a high-energy artistic innovation hub where you can BUILD YOURSELF into a confident music professiona, prepared to succeed in any facet of the industry. By the time you graduate from the Frost Schoo of Music you wi have aready performed, composed, researched, and worked in an amazing array of areas. HERE S WHY: Innovative Curricuum Rea-Word Experiences Coaborative Opportunities Award-Winning Facuty Sizzing Miami Arts Scene The Frost Schoo is in a very specia category of one. For decades now, musicians have focked to Miami to participate in one of the most inspirationa music programs in the word. This is an environment where individuaity is not ony encouraged and ceebrated, it is buit into the fabric of the schoo s mission itsef. There is a reason why the Frost aumni represent an impressivey wide cross section of exceent musicians across the entire spectrum of music. The utimate testimonia is written in the names of the musicians who have come out of this amazing atmosphere, year after year after year. 1 Cover: Orchestra members in the Frost Schoo s Henry Mancini Institute perform to cick track in a ive-to-motion picture concert at the Adrienne Arsht Center. MY J IM Students in the Frost Concert Jazz Band perform with enthusiasm on stage at UM s 600-seat Maurice Gusman Concert Ha. Pat Metheny 20-time Grammy Award-winning guitarist, aumnus and former facuty KA TZ Musica America, The Hoywood Reporter, Biboard, aumni, and industry experts praise the Frost Schoo of Music as one of the most distinctive music schoos in the word.* PHO TO BY * Musica America Top 50 Music Schoos, 2018, 2017, 2016, and prior The Hoywood Reporter, Top 25 Music Schoos, 2016, 2015, 2014 Biboard, Top 11 Music Schoos to Learn About the Music Industry, 2014 Downbeat, Student Music Awards, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and prior

3 INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM At Frost, a students are performing musicians. Extraordinary taent radiates at every turn. It is an invigorating pace, with unparaeed teaching and creativity. Join us and immerse yoursef in our groundbreaking Frost Method (Experientia Music Curricuum). Our we-tested approach fosters astounding musicianship through interactive sma group instruction and skis ensembes. It interweaves composition, ear training, history, music business, digita recording, and keyboard into a powerfu ski set. You wi DO and BE music, not just earn about music. Frost is aso eading the way with graduate courses that are reevant for today s music scene. Experience vaueadded topics that range from creating your own repertoire and artistic vision to communication, pubicity, and marketing. Enter the professiona word with a focused business pan and the sef-assurance to succeed. Study in stimuating hands-on environments with outstanding musica peers and master facuty artists and researchers. MA PHOTO BY I GE FIR ST, LL 3 The Stamps Woodwind Quintet enjoys musica camaraderie in the acousticay superior Patricia Louise Frost Music Studios. C I ove that the Frost Schoo of Music has heped me become a versatie musician. Their vision for a modern day string payer gives us a major advantage in the current music word. Kathryn Severing, B.M. 15 vioa, instrumenta performance major

4 REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCES At Frost, we work in the rea word, and then redefine it. Our young entrepreneurs bring new ideas to seasoned pros. It is a connective community, where productive networks abound. PHOTO BY ANDREW INNERARITY You wi quicky become ensconced in Miami s professiona music scene and enjoy rich experiences that extend far beyond the cassroom. You wi perform, compose, produce, and participate at festivas and conferences. You wi have opportunities to pursue fim- and teevision-orchestrating projects, deveop interactive apps, and coaborate with ceebrated songwriters and touring artists. HENRY MANCINI INSTITUTE GUEST ARTISTS FROST MUSIC LIVE! The Henry Mancini Institute is excusive to Frost and aows students to have rea-word experiences as performing musicians in a variety of genres (jazz, fim music, cassica, word music) and to work with prominent performing artists, composers, and conductors. Touring artists, such as Roing Stones drummer Charie Watts, pictured above right, often stop by the Frost Schoo and spend time with students. Recent coaborators incude Pharre Wiiams, Arturo Sandova, Steve Mier, Simone Dinnerstein, Reneé Feming, Dawn Upshaw, Maria Schneider, Ben Fods, Back Vioin, Mark O Connor, and Christian McBride. Frost Music Live! Signature Series is the premier concert series of the Frost Schoo of Music, with yearround distinctive programming that refects the unique cuture and varied tastes of Miami. Concertgoers enjoy the taents of award-winning Frost student ensembes, esteemed facuty artists, and word-renowned guest artists and musicoogists. Enjoy the freedom to expore a wide spectrum of styes, and buid professiona skis that wi prope you forward. The Frost Schoo has provided opportunities that I woud not have received anywhere ese. From Beethoven to Bossa Nova, I have performed with word-renowned musicians in the Frost Symphony Orchestra and the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra. I fee more prepared to enter the music industry because of the performing opportunities at Frost. Who woudn't want to pay with Goria Estefan or Barry Maniow, or pay a concert of video game music, or perform Maher and Brahms, a within the same year? DAN PHOTO BY IEL AZ OU AY L 5 The Frost Schoo s Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra performs with seven-time Grammy Award-winning internationa superstar Goria Estefan and five-time Grammy-nominated Dean Shey Berg at the piano. Our criticay accaimed Frost Symphony Orchestra and the muti-genre Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra are in residence at the Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami s prime-time performing arts center. They perform with such artists as Joshua Be, Denyce Graves, and Bobby McFerrin, and appear on nationa PBS teevision specias. Sarah Gongaware D.M.A., 16, Ceo Performance

5 COLLABORATIVE OPPORTUNITIES At Frost, cross-genre coaboration is a way of ife. Immersion in diverse musica styes and infuences is encouraged. It is a futurefocused environment, with a profound respect for the past. Frost is a coaboration incubator, where music engineering and music therapy students team on rea-word research projects with peers from UM s Coege of Engineering and Mier Schoo of Medicine. Music business and entertainment industries majors aso pursue joint degrees with the UM Schoo of Law. It is no secret that the music industry is undergoing rapid change. Opportunities are expanding exponentiay for those who have the adaptive skis to take eadership roes. From sound design to songwriting, operatic to pop performance, the Frost Schoo wi hep you crosstrain to optimize your potentia. You wi graduate with an adventurous mindset and an expansive toobox, capabe of segueing into new musica fieds as they emerge. PHOTO B Y V E R SAT ILE LIG HT S A word of coaboration awaits you at Frost, where musica and cutura diversity is ceebrated and honored, and a who ove music are wecome. TU DI O At Frost, I earn from word-cass teachers, guest artists, and other students from a around the word with different musica backgrounds. I am exposed to many different genres of music, which has opened up my paying and istening. I am practicing and earning music in new situations and with new musicians every day. There is a unique bend of opportunity, mentorship and chaenge at Frost that is pushing me to be the best musician and person that I can be. Zoe Fromer Jazz voca performance major Cass of 2017 Students in the Frost Opera Theater and Frost Symphony Orchestra coaborate with a renowned famenco dance troupe in the opera Ainadamar by Osvado Goijov. 8

6 PH OT OB Y RAND Y TUNNELL Frost facuty are eaders in curricuar innovation and passionate about teaching and mentoring their students. I ve been a fan of Dafnis Prieto s (pictured right) uniquey artistic approach to the instrument. After having the opportunity to spend a fu year studying with him, I fee that I perceive my roe as a drummer differenty now. I think of mysef as an artist, amost ike a painter on the drums. The concepts and ideas that he passed on to me are things I m going to be working on for years to come, and as he woud say in every esson: It take some time, don t rush it. Victor Vades drummer, studio music and jazz major Briiant artists-in-residence aso bring their perspectives to the mix, whie guest ecturers ranging from musicoogists to hip-hop producers add immeasurabe vaue across the schoo. From Met Opera stars, to over 100 word-cass performers, composers, arrangers, conductors, industry professionas and schoars, Frost facuty are highy active, connected, and respected a around the gobe. You wi receive outstanding private essons from these unsurpassed masters and enjoy casses and ensembes with warm and coegia experts who truy ove to teach. At Frost, our stear facuty members are in a eague of their own. Grammy, DownBeat, Rome, Chopin, Van Ciburn, Naumburg, Tchaikovsky, and MacArthur awards are just a few of their countess accoades. PHOTO BY HENRY LOPEZ AWARDWINNING FACULTY CHARLES CASTLEMAN Professor, Vioin A medaist at both the Internationa Tchaikovsky and Brusses vioin competitions, Chares Casteman has appeared as a featured sooist with the orchestras of Phiadephia, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Seou and Shanghai, to name a few. SERONA ELTON Associate Professor, Chair, Music Media & Industry KEVIN KENNER Assistant Professor, Keyboard Performance Served as president of the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association, as we as hed positions on the boards of the Copyright Society of the USA, The Recording Academy, and the Forida Bar Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Section. Winner of the 1990 Chopin Internationa Piano Competition in Warsaw and bronze medaist at the 1990 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Kevin Kenner is accaimed as one of the finest American pianists to come aong in years (Chicago Tribune). Drummer, composer, and assistant professor Dafnis Prieto is director of the Frost Latin Jazz Orchestra and other ensembes, and teaches drumset and jazz composition. He was awarded a MacArthur Feowship, and was nominated for both a Grammy and Latin Grammy Award.

7 SIZZLING MIAMI ARTS SCENE At Frost, we ive in one of the word s cooest hotspots for internationa arts and entertainment. Miami is home base to internationay broadcast shows ike Premios Lo Nuestro, and the Latin Biboard Music Awards. We are a mecca for creativity, bursting with youthfu optimism and pride. In Miami you wi intersect with rising artists at the Utra Music Festiva, Winter Music Conference, Art Base Miami, Frost Music Live!, Boca Festiva of the Arts, Forida Grand Opera, Miami City Baet, New Word Center, and numerous performing arts centers and intimate concert venues throughout the region. You wi participate in mutimedia art exhibits and private gaery events, pus artistic ventures of your own making. You wi aso be exposed to exciting music, theatre, and visua arts from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Frost students aso have opportunities to intern with major music pubishers, Engish- and Spanish-anguage teevision networks, recording studios, record abes, video production and post-production houses, and our vast aumni network throughout the region. Imagine the possibiities, connections, experiences, and goba opportunities! PHOTO BY VERSATILE LIGHT STUDIO FROST & YOU I am deighted that you are considering the highy accaimed Frost Schoo of Music at the University of Miami to prepare for your future in music. Not ony are we one of the word s greatest music schoos, but we are a eader in innovation where you can buid yoursef to succeed as a 21st century music professiona. Frost is one of the broadest and most musicay diverse schoos anywhere, with exceence in cassica, jazz and popuar music, as we as music engineering, music education, music therapy and music business. Most importanty, there are no sios at Frost. We wi hep you become the best version of you, buiding on your core and your diverse interests. P H O T O B Y VERSATILE L I G H T S T U DI O We are very proud of our Frost facuty who are not ony outstanding professors, they are prestigious award finaists and winners from Grammy, DownBeat, and Rome to Van Ciburn, Naumburg, and Tchaikovsky. They are active music professionas, who are aso eaders in curricuar innovation, impassioned musica performances, groundbreaking research, and exceptiona teaching. Our Frost aumni are aso thriving throughout the music industry and wi be a vast network of connection and opportunity for you. I am not ony a dean, but aso a performing and composing musician. We wi a be with you every step of the way, heping you nurture your unique inner spark and deveop the skis beyond your taent that wi provide the foundation for your ife and career. Once you are enroed, I ook forward to sharing the stage with you, ceebrating your many achievements on the way to your commencement, and witnessing your path to a fufiing ife in music. Warmy, Frost aumna Raque Sofía, B.M. '09, Latin Grammy-nominated Best New Artist, got her break in Miami as a back-up singer with Juanes on his MTV Unpugged tour. Sheton G. Berg Dean, Frost Schoo of Music Patricia L. Frost Professor sberg@miami.edu

8 BUILD 20 YOUR FUTURE TOP PROGRAMS TO FROST is a rejuvenating pace where you can CUSTOMIZE your coegiate experience through an incredibe range of programs and earn degrees ranging from bacheor s to M.M., D.M.A., or Ph.D. You wi exce schoasticay and musicay and graduate with an expanded imagination, broader vision, and the abiity to fuy integrate the most essentia aspects of today s entrepreneuria word into your music career. INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE one night, and James Newton Howard fim scores the next, with the composer conducting. (B.M., M.M. A.D., D.M.A.) is one of the most effective, integrative ear-training and performance practice methods ever devised. You wi earn to hear and internaize music in sma ensembes, with instruments in hand. Theory is aso sequentiay expored through improvisation and arranging. The goa is to train performers to think ike composers. UNIQUELY FROST: As a graduateeve conducting major you wi be fuy prepared in rehearsa techniques. In instrumenta conducting you wi Instrumenta And Chora aso create and conduct your own arrangements of such major works Graduate as Beethoven s Egmont Overture and (M.M., D.M.A.) Stravinsky s L histoire du Sodat in Undergraduate students at Frost order to earn and experience basic and enjoy conducting casses that cover compex techniques and approaches. basic baton, rehearsa techniques, and You wi aso arrange and compose approaches to score study in a uniquey your own works in medieva, baroque, focused approach through the Frost and post-tona idioms to expore the Experientia Music Program. Chora and compexities of contrapunta and instrumenta graduate students receive non-traditiona compositions. Simiar considerabe podium time aong with creative approaches are aso provided individuaized coaching and are abe to for chora conducting majors. earn master s and doctora degrees. Brass, Strings, Woodwinds, UNIQUELY FROST: The Frost Percussion, Cassica Guitar, Harp Experientia Music Curricuum The Frost Schoo of Music s Department of Instrumenta Performance is best known for its distinguished artist facuty, chamber music focus, mutigenre ensembes, guest artists, Frost Symphony Orchestra, Frost Wind Ensembe, and the Henry Mancini Institute, which emphasizes cassica music pus. Under focused and caring tuteage, you wi deveop virtuosic skis on your instrument and receive broad performance opportunities to expore cassic works such as Maher symphonies CONDUCTING P H O T O S B Y V E R S AT I L E L I G H T S T U D I O CREATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC (CAM) AND SONGWRITING Contemporary Principas (Instrumenta and Voca) Undergraduate Minor in Creative American Music (18 credits) VOCAL PERFORMANCE (B.M., M.M., A.D., D.M.A.) At Frost, we ove singing! If you aspire to sing in the word s concert has, opera houses, and other exciting performance venues, Frost wi hep you do that. Frost singers have ampe opportunities to perform in operas, recitas, concerts, and chora performances. Our singers come to the department with unique skis and discover new perspectives and techniques to gain a competitive edge for the next step in their professiona careers. UNIQUELY FROST: The Department of Voca Performance is soey focused on your deveopment as a person, performer, and singer. Opportunities from soo to chora, and in criticay accaimed Frost Opera Theater productions, hone voca and acting skis needed to pursue a singing career. Our foundation is in the tradition of great singing with a vision for the future of voca performance. Graduate students are often tapped as teaching assistants for the Frost Experientia Music Curricuum. KEYBOARD PERFORMANCE (B.M., M.M. A.D., D.M.A.) Frost piano facuty and students are dynamic and creative. You wi join a rich history of students who triumph at piano competitions and perform recitas and concerts a over the word. You wi benefit from the expertise of wordrenowned artists and numerous soo and coaborative performing opportunities, to refine the performance skis necessary to have a career. We have deveoped the cuture of entrepreneurship among students to prepare the next generation of career-ready pianists. UNIQUELY FROST: Students receive hands-on, personaized, and devoted attention from our facuty. This unique support creates a famiy, and makes a asting impact on the deveopment of an artist. Our facuty aso encourages students with coaborative interests to bring coeagues to essons in order to broaden their skiset and knowedge of this important discipine. The Frost Schoo of Music, in partnership with muti-grammy Award-winning aumnus Bruce Hornsby, offers an excusive Creative American Music program that deveops exceent musicianship through immersion in the diverse traditions that form the foundation of modern American songwriting. It is a rigorous approach that wi require you to deveop an intimate understanding and practice of the vast and varied egacy that is American music. CONTEMPORARY PRINCIPAL students who take casses in the program often sing in pop, rock or country styes, and pay instruments such as keyboards, guitars, media, and drumsets. CAM students aso participate in the Frost Experientia Music Curricuum and perform in a variety of contemporary ensembes and a bi-annua CAM-Fest. UNIQUELY FROST: The CAM program is an option for a music undergraduates, regardess of major. Interdiscipinary by nature, it incorporates courses from musicoogy, composition, performance, media/ industry, and jazz. Students who compete 18 credits in the program wi earn a minor in Creative American Music. Among these wi be auditioned recipients of the Bruce Hornsby Endowed Undergraduate Schoarship, awarded to exceptiona juniors or seniors in the program. The Hornsby endowment aso funds workshops and master casses by respected artists.

9 M.A.D.E. PROGRAM MUSIC ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY Undergraduate (B.M.) (B.S., M.S.) If you are seeking a program that is designed to provide the highest eve of preparation to thrive in a aspects of the contemporary music industry, our highy fexibe Musicianship, Artistry, Deveopment, and Entrepreneurship (M.A.D.E.) program cuminating in a Bacheor of Music (B.M.) degree might be the perfect fit. The curricuum aows you the freedom and fexibiity to focus on your preferred areas of emphasis, with outcomes that ead toward a viabe career of your own choosing. S MEDIA WRITING AND PRODUCTION MUSIC COMPOSITION BACHELOR OF ARTS If you woud prefer to combine a genera music curricuum with a broad ibera arts education or doube major, consider our Bacheor of Arts (B.A.) degree program. It has penty of curricuum fexibiity for pre-professiona studies incuding pre-medica and pre-aw. A minor in an academic area outside the Frost Schoo of Music is required. You wi acquire a thorough knowedge of music theory and music history, take private essons from exceent teachers, perform in exciting ensembes, and deveop advanced competence in musica performance. You wi aso continue to deveop your abiity to think, speak, and write ceary, and with the capacity to expain and defend your views effectivey and rationay based on substantive knowedge of the ibera arts. E ST UD IO (B.M., M.M. D.M.A.) Undergraduate (B.A.) Our Internationa Rome Competition and American Arts & Letters prizewinning facuty ove to teach! In our Composition program, you wi earn techniques for writing for orchestra, band, jazz band, chamber ensembes, chorus, eectroacoustic ensembes, games, fims, music theatre, and percussion ensembes, and deveop your individua voice to its highest eve. UNIQUELY FROST: You wi have extensive opportunities to hear your music performed. Frost hosts orchestra, wind ensembe, and chora readings/ performances every semester, as we as readings by musicians of The Ceveand Orchestra. You wi expore a types of music incuding cassica, modern, fim, jazz, eectronic, and avant-garde. The program boasts exceptiona music technoogy resources. PH PHOTO TUD BY VERSATILE S O BY TO VE RS AT UNIQUELY FROST: A brand-new main recording studio in the L. Austin Weeks Center for Recording and Performance ocated at the crossroads of the Frost Schoo s quad is the first-of-its-kind in the nation, featuring three integrated mixing consoes: an Avid S6 digita controer, an a-anaog API 1600 series consoe, and a hybrid anaog/digita SSL AWS 948 consoe, in addition to stateof-the-art anaog and digita outboard gear. Undergraduate students receive a Bacheor of Science degree with a minor in either eectrica or computer engineering whie deveoping their skis as performing musicians in the Frost Experientia Music Curricuum. Graduate students receive a Master of Science degree and interface extensivey with the UM Coege of Engineering and externa app deveopers. IO DIO The Media Writing and Production program prepares undergraduate and graduate students for a career as creators and producers of music for various types of media. Our primary focus is to prepare aspiring professionas to successfuy navigate a continuay evoving media andscape by focusing on critica thinking and creative probem-soving skis. UNIQUELY FROST: Students enjoy sma cass sizes with ampe hands-on instruction and a wide range of production and composition opportunities. Access to ensembes, studios, student fimmakers, and singer-songwriters widen experiences and networking. The education I got from the Frost Schoo of Music has aways been the difference maker in my confidence eve on stage. IO YG PHOTO B AL TILE STUDIO MA Z RT GE LL BI STU VER IO TO B Y VER SA TILE BY UD PHO SA PHOTO BY VER TO T ES IL UNIQUELY FROST: M.A.D.E. students not ony pay, compose, and stretch themseves as artists but earn myriad skis needed for a career such as earning the intricacies of copyright and contracts, marketing and mutipe income streams, and how to create an eectronic press kit, write a ead sheet, direct a band, and get gigs. The degree s mixture of freedom, inspiration, and practicaity attracts students who are extraordinary not just for their taent but aso for their independent outook and awareness. PHO L ATI The Frost Schoo s Music Engineering Technoogy program was the first of its kind in the United States to feature an innovative combination of recording music and eectrica engineering components. As time progressed, so did the curricuum, faciities, PHO TO B and options for students intery GON ZALO MEJ IA ested in earning, combining, and advancing their skis at both the undergraduate and graduate eves. Companies such as Bose and Shure activey recruit our graduates. Appe And Music Media Computers, Microsoft Corp., and Production Waves Ltd, Soundtoys, Korg R&D, and Eventide Inc., to name just a few, aso hired recent graduates. (B.M., M.M.) PH OT O BY Jon Secada, B.M. 83, M.M. 86 Doube Grammy Award winner, singer, songwriter

10 M PHOTO BY ACADE N ART IC P STUDIO MUSIC AND JAZZ WRITING AND ARRANGING Graduate (M.M., D.M.A.) The Studio Jazz Writing (SJW) program emphasizes jazz and studio arranging and composing for voca and instrumenta ensembes. Students aso study symphonic orchestration, virtua orchestration (sampe based), fim scoring, and digita recording and mixing. This advanced ski set wi enabe graduates to pursue a career as a professiona arranger/ composer/media music producer. UNIQUELY FROST: Opportunities to earn Latin American jazz rhythms and be exposed to word-cass performers provide unique interactions and networking. Performances at jazz festivas and conferences are numerous. You wi receive mentoring and personaized instruction by a group of dedicated professors with stear performing careers. Whatever you dream, we wi find UNIQUELY FROST: a way to bring it to ife, together. Music composed by SJW majors is recorded in the jazz departments 24-track recording studio. You wi earn hands-on to record, mix, and master your STUDIO MUSIC AND JAZZ VOCAL PERFORMANCE (B.M., M.M. D.M.A.) At Frost, the Jazz Voca Performance program is designed to hone the artistry and skis of each individua student. Our vocaists buid (B.M., M.M. Ph.D.) Outstanding facuty prepare you to become an innovative 21st century music educator, ready to work in schoos, community programs, and cutura organizations. Sma cass sizes, engaging course work, and hands-on fiedwork provide you with guided experiences to deveop and refine your knowedge, skis, and understandings throughout our four-year degree program. UNIQUELY FROST: Our curricuum is among the most innovative and fexibe in the country. You can study jazz, cassica, and/or popuar music as a music education major at Frost. The music education emphasis offers you a chance to customize the degree to suit your professiona, artistic, and schoary aspirations. MUSICOLOGY Graduate (M.M.) Making music is a fundamenta human activity, spanning a known eras and geographica regions. At Frost we expore a broad range of the word s musica sounds, practices, ideas, and vaues in an effort to understand how and why peope have made music as they have. MUSIC THERAPY (B.M., M.M.) Music Therapy invoves using music as a too to hep peope regain or deveop important ife skis, such as communication, physica movement, attention and memory, emotiona growth, or socia skis. If this is your passion, Frost s Music Therapy facuty wi provide you with outstanding academic and professiona training in a variety of heath care settings, incuding the many hospitas and cinics housed within the word-famous Mier Schoo of Medicine. UNIQUELY FROST: Refecting and ceebrating Miami's ocation as a cosmopoitan gateway to the Americas, research of the Department of Musicoogy s award-winning facuty focuses on past and current music of Argentina, Brazi, France, the Caribbean, and the United States. Some of the musicoogy facuty members are aso renowned performers and composers in their own rights! P H O T O S B Y V E R S AT I L E L I G H T S T U D I O The Department of Studio Music and Jazz offers an innovative jazz program that aows you to experience the diversity of the jazz word whie honing your skis with professiona musicians. We encourage coaboration across the musica genres, not imiting you in your growth and creativity. The Frost Experientia Music Curricuum emphasizes improvisation, composition, performance, history, theory, recording techniques, and entrepreneurship, a within a vibrant, nurturing, creative, imaginative, sef-empowered community. MUSIC EDUCATION UNIQUELY FROST: Students at Frost earn a neuroogic approach to music therapy practice, based on scientific evidence regarding brain function and music response. Cinica training for music therapy students at Frost meets and exceeds the highest nationa standards. Students earn in Frost s rich music environment and work cosey with board-certified music therapists in the Miami area. ARTS PRESENTING AND LIVE ENTERTAINMENT MANAGEMENT IPS (B.M., M.M. D.M.A.) own music. You wi aso have opportunities to write for Frost ensembes incuding the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, Frost Symphony Orchestra, Frost Concert Jazz Band, and Frost Jazz Voca 1. You wi deveop hands-on recording studio management, music production and videography, and video editing skis. The Frost Recording Ensembe provides a studio writing, conducting, and recording production experience unique to jazz writers at the Frost Schoo. Studio Jazz Writing majors have won numerous DownBeat Student Awards in jazz composition, jazz arranging, and music engineering. SH STUDIO MUSIC AND JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE UNIQUELY FROST: Sma casses give you ampe opportunity to shine! We provide integrated voca and instrumenta combos, so you have opportunities to perform with jazz voca ensembes, big bands, sasa ensembes, R&B ensembes, and the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra as part of your curricuum. You may aso choose to doube major at UM, outside of the music schoo. Mutipe guest artists visit and perform with our jazz voca students every semester. ER their musicianship and technica skis through a variety of educationa styes and extensive performance opportunities. Graduate (M.A., and J.D./M.A.) The Arts Presenting and Live Entertainment Management (AP Live!) graduate degree program is distinctive in design and intent. Whie the program s courses cover a the fundamenta aspects of directing venues and teams, managing arts organizations and artists, and presenting arts in a wide variety of ive and technoogy-based settings, the vantage point is that of eadership, buiding upon each student s unique experiences, strengths, and interests. MUSIC BUSINESS AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRIES (B.M., M.M. and J.D./M.M.) Learn a about the business of music, such as how services ike Spotify and Pandora are changing the industry, and how to aunch PH OT a socia media OB YA CAD EMIC PARTNERSHIPS marketing campaign. Our program features courses in music copyright and pubishing, the record business, music contracts, and more. Get hands-on experience in our student enterprises, Cane Records and Cat 5 Music, as we as WVUM and Hurricane Productions. UNIQUELY FROST: Our facuty members have extensive professiona experience in the music business. We are abe to bring that experience into the cassroom and extracurricuar activities to teach you how the business has changed over time, how and why it works the way it does today, and the exciting ways it might change in the future. A joint Juris Doctor and Music Business and Entertainment Industries master s degree (J.D./M.M.) is aso offered in conjunction with the UM Schoo of Law. With two innovative and dynamic master s programs to choose from, the Frost Onine division of the Frost Schoo of Music prepares you for a satisfying career that combines your passion for music and performance with industry knowedge and skis. As a Frost Onine student, you be as much a part of the Frost experience as our on-campus students. You earn from the same word-renowned, award-winning facuty who serve our on-campus students and you have access to the same opportunities for experience and growth in your profession. In addition, you gain a rea-word understanding of the music and entertainment industry. Frost Onine provides you the fexibiity to compete a degree from home whie pursuing a fu-time career. With six entry points a year, you have the opportunity to start a degree at your convenience and finish in 18 months. aster of Music in MMusic Business and Entertainment Industries of Arts in MArtsasterPresenting and Live Entertainment Management Certificates in Professiona Music Industry and Arts Presenting Appy onine at: frostonine.miami.edu

11 ENSEMBLES TO ENJOY AT FROST FROST provides boundess opportunities to PERFORM, PERFORM, PERFORM! You wi grow in a cuturay rich environment, both musicay and sociay. I think that now, in this generation, we can t take it for granted that cassica music can just pu us out there, just cassica music aone. I think that someone has to be we versed in everything in order to make it in the music word. Here, I ve aso been abe to experience jazz, buegrass, and fidde music. At some music schoos, ony performance majors are permitted to perform in top ensembes. At Frost, a admitted undergraduate students, regardess of major, are abe to perform in a variety of incredibe ensembes for their entire four years. Micen LaiPang vioin, instrumenta performance major THE STAGE IS SET! Every student is an accompished musician at Frost. We offer more than 50 ensembes for credit and more than 300 student and facuty performances in our concert has every year. Frost Chorae Frost Symphonic Choir Frost Chamber Singers Cantiena Women s Chorus Frost Opera Theater Opera Scenes Frost Symphony Orchestra Frost Chamber Orchestra String Chamber Music Cassica Guitar Chamber Music Frost Ensembe Ibis Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra (HMI) HMI Big Band HMI String Quartet Frost Wind Ensembe Frost Symphonic Winds University Band Frost Band of the Hour Brass, Woodwind, Percussion Chamber Music Frost Fute Ensembe Frost Woodwind Ensembe Frost Brass Frost Horns and Friends Frost Trombone Choir Frost Saxophone Ensembe Frost Saxophone Quartet Frost Percussion Group Frost Concert Jazz Band Frost Studio Jazz Band Frost XJB Jazz Band Frost Sasa Orchestra Frost Recording Ensembe Frost Jazz Sextet Sma Jazz Groups Funk/Fusion Ensembe Bues Ensembes Jazz Guitar Ensembes African-American Roots Ensembe American Music Ensembe American Modern Ensembe Ango Roots Ensembe Vintage Pop Ensembe Modern Pop Ensembe Frost EDM C ontemporary A-Cappea Ensembe Contemporary Ensembe Workshop Contemporary Guitar Ensembe Contemporary Keyboard Ensembe Contemporary Recording Ensembe Contemporary Rock Ensembe Stamps Brass Quintet Stamps Jazz Quintet Stamps String Quartet Stamps Woodwind Quintet Frost Jazz Voca 1 Frost Jazz Voca 2 Frost Jazz Voca 3 Frost Extensions I O UD PHO 19 G TO BY VERSATILE LI HT ST TAK E A B OLD ST E P T OWARD YOUR NE W M USIC FUT URE AND SCHE D ULE A V ISIT T O FROST! MUSIC.MIAMI.EDU/ADMISSION 20

12 Designed by internationa awardwinning architects Yann Weymouth and HOK and buit by Skanska USA, the Patricia Louise Frost Music Studios is the first buiding project in Cora Gabes designed to achieve LEED Patinum status. The 41,089-squarefoot twin-buiding compex provides students and facuty the abiity to practice, record, teach, and earn in one of the greenest buidings in South Forida. Frost Schoo of Music is home to acousticay beautifu concert and recita has, rehearsa and practice rooms, state-of-the-art recording studios and abs, an expansive technoogy center, and an outstanding music ibrary that serves both our students and the community year round. Students may reserve has for their recitas or arts presenting projects. IMM PHOTO BY J N EN YI ER My time as a student at the UM Schoo of Music prepared me reay we for a ong and varied career as a musician wearing ots of different hats singer-songwriter, session musician, fim composer, sideman, disco ounge musician, and wedding reception pianist. My time meant so much that I endowed a new music program at the schoo, the Creative American Music curricuum that has been part of Frost's increasingy broad array of offerings for students. I'm proud to sti be invoved with my od schoo., JR Bruce Hornsby, B.M. 77 Grammy Award-winning Best New Artist, Doube Patinum singer, songwriter, recording artist. PHOTO BY JENNY ABREU PHOTO BY TOM CLARK / SAGE GLASS FROST musicians know a thing or two about being in harmony not ony in their music but aso with the environment. YOUR FROST HOME PHOTO BY M0RIS MORENO / PARNASUS IMAGES / HOK ARCHITECTS

13 PHOTO BY M0RIS MORENO / PARNASUS IMAGES / HOK ARCHITECTS BECOME A FROST SCHOOL STAR UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS Freshmen and Transfer Appicants A Frost Schoo of Music education is defined by fexibiity and opportunity. Your time here wi inspire you, shape you, and broaden your horizons. riority deadines: Check the website P for appication and portfoio deadines. The Frost Schoo deadines differ from those of the University Audition required for a appicants A prescreening is required in some studios/ programs check the website for specific information Admission is for the fa term ony T ransfer appicants must have a 3.0 GPA or higher for consideration Admission and aid decisions are reeased in mid-march You wi venture beyond cassroom was to interactive abs, studios, concert has, student organizations, and internships. You wi partner with other taented musicians who are passionate, aware, and striving to be cataysts for change. Our diverse campus wi enhance your earning and deepen your appreciation for other cutures and musica infuences. A in a city ike you young, vibrant, and ever evoving. Step 1 - Appy A unique offering for 19 high achieving, academicay and musicay taented students! Each Stamps Schoar is offered fu tuition, room and board for four years of undergraduate studies, as we as stipends for performance trave and other artistic experiences. Invited students perform in Stamps ensembes and participate in Stamps Famiy Charitabe Foundation eadership events. You must be accepted by the University of Miami, pass Frost Schoo of Music auditions, and be officiay accepted to the Frost Schoo to quaify for invitation. Appy to UM onine through commonapp.org A ppy to the Frost Schoo onine through SideRoom see website for ink U poad a prescreening (if required) on SideRoom at the time of appication GRADUATE ADMISSIONS On-campus Programs PHOTO BY JENNY ABREU On-campus Preferred - January/February egiona/recorded/skype auditions may be R an option depending on instrument/genre and avaiabiity. Pease check the website for more detais PLAYING IT FORWARD FROST BAND OF THE HOUR Step 3 Suppementa Materias Want to make a difference in the word? Pay it forward as a mentor, teacher, and roe mode in the Frost Schoo of Music s Donna E. Shaaa MusicReach Program. Seected undergraduate students may receive a $5,000 mentor schoarship to participate in the MusicReach mentorship program, which invoves teaching music to chidren and teens from underserved communities in South Forida, either on campus or in an after-schoo setting. Set yoursef on a path to becoming a successfu and sociay responsibe member of the professiona music community! The Frost Band of the Hour (FBOTH) marching band is one of the argest and most spirited organizations on campus. Student members, from a fieds of study, perform chaenging musica arrangements and progressive show designs. The band provides a $1,500 stipend to a UM students who participate in the band. Students in the FBOTH Pep Band (for Basketba season), receive an additiona $1,000. Students who are seected for a eadership position (e.g. drum major, section eader, fag captain) receive a $1,000 schoarship above and beyond the stipends. C omposition, Media Writing & Production, and Music Engineering Technoogy require suppementa portfoios heck the website for requirements and C deadines ortfoios wi be submitted onine. Submission P instructions can be found on website Priority deadine December 1st Appy onine through CoegNET prescreening is required in some A studios/programs check the website for specific information Admission is for the fa term ony raduate appicants must have a G 3.0GPA or higher for consideration equired suppementa materias R vary by degree/program and appicant type *check the website for specific information Suppementa Materias Required of a appicants A ppicants with internationa Step 2 - Audition STAMPS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION MUSIC SCHOLARSHIPS TOAPPLY HOW transcripts, pease see the website for specific instructions about approved evauation services ranscripts an officia transcript T of every post-secondary schoo attended must be provided Three etters of recommendation Resume Persona Statement Required for specific degrees/programs Writing Sampe GRE scores TOEFL/IELTS score Audition Portfoio Teaching sampe Interview SCHOLARSHIPS AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PACKAGES The Frost Schoo of Music and the University of Miami are proud to offer a fu range of financia assistance packages rewarding both musicay and academicay taented students. Quaified graduate students are eigibe for teaching assistantships and University Feowships. In addition, based on demonstrated need, students may be considered for state and federa grants, federa oan programs, and coege work-study. Undergraduate students are automaticay considered (no appication necessary), for merit schoarships based on both your taent and/or academic quaifications. Need-based aid requires submission of the FAFSA and the CSS Profie by the deadines on the Financia Aid website. Financia Aid for Graduate Appicants A graduate appicants are considered for Graduate Assistantships through the Frost Schoo which provide tuition schoarships and stipends. Visit the website at frost.miami.edu for more detais. Financia Aid F inancia aid consideration is for both merit- based schoarships and need-based aid For need-based aid consideration submit the FAFSA & CSS Profie. Check the Financia Aid website for more information and deadines For further admissions information, pease visit admissions.frost.miami.edu, emai admission.music@miami.edu, or ca

14 FROST AT A GLANCE DEGREES AT A GLANCE No matter what you choose to study at Frost, your education wi be comprehensive, experientia, and transformative. The Frost Schoo has a program to match your interests, and you may choose options to expand your abiities across a genres, if that s your preference. Being housed at a major research university aso enabes you to choose from severa cross-discipinary tracks. B.A. B.M. B.S. MINOR UNDERGRADUATE PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATE M.A. M.M. M.S. A.D. D.M.A. Instrumenta Performance and Conducting Instrumenta Conducting Instrumenta Performance Instrumenta Performance Mutipe Woodwinds Voca Performance and Conducting Chora Conducting Voca Pedagogy and Performance INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS Abania Arabia Argentina Begium Boivia Brazi Bugaria Canada China Coombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Repubic Ecuador Egypt France Ghana Greece Hungary India Itay Japan Korea Mexico Norway Peru Russia Serbia Switzerand Thaiand Taiwan Venezuea United Kingdom PH.D. Voca Performance Keyboard Performance Keyboard Performance 1926 Keyboard Performance and Pedagogy ESTABLISHED Number of Undergraduate Majors Number of Undergraduate Students Studio Music and Jazz Jazz Composition Jazz Pedagogy Jazz Performance - Instrumenta Jazz Performance Voca Studio Jazz Writing Number of Graduate Majors 41 Music Education and Music Therapy Music Education Music Education with Certification Music Therapy Music Therapy with Undergraduate Equivaency Music Education with Music Therapy Emphasis Music, Media and Industry Number of Graduate Students 220 Arts Presenting and Live Entertainment Management Arts Presenting/Juris Doctor - joint degree (JD/MA) Media Writing and Production Music Business and Entertainment Industries MBEI and Juris Doctor - joint degree (JD/MM) Music Engineering Technoogy Musicianship, Artistry Deveopment, and Entrepreneurship Composition and Theory Composition Students at Frost 689 FSOM Freshman Retention 96.9% Above information provided by the University of Miami Office of Panning, Institutiona Research, and Assessment. Musicoogy Musicoogy Bacheor of Arts Music major, with a minor or doube major outside of music Dance Dance (minor) A students receive individuaized attention, advising, and instruction. Creative American Music Songwriting (minor), Bruce Hornsby Creative American Music Pease consut Academic Buetin at Miami.edu for course istings and degree requirements

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