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You’re talented, technically accomplished,
and passionate about performance. You seek opportunities to further
your performance skills – both in and out of the classroom.
You know what you want and are willing to work hard to
achieve it.
Wanted: Serious Instrumentalists.
The Frost School of Music’s Department of Instrumental
Performance has programs tailored to meet the needs and interests
of students – like you – who aspire to performance careers.
Graduates of these programs often pursue careers as symphony musicians,
private teachers, concert soloists, or band or orchestra conductors.
Many graduates pursue advanced study and graduate degrees for further
preparation.
As an instrumental performance major, you will focus
on developing and honing your performance skills on a selected brass,
percussion, string, or woodwind instrument with assistance from
faculty who have distinguished themselves as teachers and performing
musicians. While the curriculum emphasizes improvement, tone, musicianship,
and technical mastery of the instrument, it also includes music
theory, music history and literature, orchestral literature and
teaching methods. In addition, you will develop expertise in contemporary
literature and chamber music performance.
All undergraduate instrumental performance majors also study piano.
During their last semester, students present a public recital, culminating
their years of training at the Frost School of Music.
In addition to piano study, students majoring in
percussion study percussion repertoire and percussion instrument
maintenance. Facility on mallet keyboard instruments is required
for these majors. As a sophomore, percussion majors play one shared
recital, and during their last semester they present a public recital.
Students majoring in string performance perform one
shared recital in their junior year, and a full recital in their
senior year.
All undergraduate majors participate in two ensembles
each semester. The instrumental ensembles include the Symphony Orchestra,
Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Winds, Contemporary Music Ensemble, Brass
and Woodwind Ensembles, Percussion Ensembles, Marimba Ensembles,
String Chamber Ensembles, and Guitar Ensembles. The Bergonzi String
Quartet, in residence, provides a model of excellence in performance
and the teaching of chamber music.
In addition to ensembles, weekly forums provide performance
majors with informal performance opportunities, as well as master
classes and performances by faculty and guest artists.
The Miami metropolitan area is home to the Carnival
Center for the Performing Arts, host to a number of resident companies
including the Concert Association of Florida, the Florida Grand
Opera, the Miami City Ballet, and the New World Symphony. These,
as well as numerous other professional ensembles, offer Frost School
students a wide range of symphony orchestra, opera orchestra, chamber
ensemble, and solo performance opportunities.
Department Chair:
Gary Green
gdgreen@miami.edu
305-284-2161, ext. 7926
Program Directors:
Orchestral Conducting (Graduate only)
Thomas Sleeper
Band Conducting (Graduate only)
Gary Green
Brass
John Olah
Guitar
Rene Gonzalez
Percussion
Ney Rosauro
Strings
Ross Harbaugh
Woodwind
Luciano Magnanini
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