Frost School of Music
“The Frost School of Music is rapidly becoming the great music school of the modern era. Strengthened by incredible generosity from major benefactors and alumni, our awardwinning faculty and industry-savvy students are poised to reinvigorate the entire music profession.� Shelton G. Berg Dean
The Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music is fully ensconced in the digital and multimedia age, leading the pack in higher education.
• We educate high-achieving performers, teachers, and
researchers who will become the industry leaders of tomorrow.
• We embrace our role in helping to guide our vast and varied profession. • We make it our business to help musicians fulfill
The future of music is here. their artistic potential and market and profit from their creativity.
• We’re creating new cross-genre ensembles and nurturing superb solo artists. • We’re providing free multicultural music instruction to underserved youth in our community. • We’re forever breaking the mold in pursuit of real-world impact.
• At the Frost School of Music, excellence is our touchstone, innovation is our passion, and every day brings advances of note.
The Student Experience
Engaging Passion, Inspiring Innovation Building a successful career in the competitive world of music demands enormous dedication, extraordinary talent, and an excellent education. Supporting generous scholarships, novel programs, and enhanced facilities, Momentum2 will enable us to continue to draw a superb community of musical performers, scholars, and innovators to the Frost School.
A music scholarship makes a world of difference.
Acquiring and retaining excellent faculty requires
What is the sound of a gift silenced? When a talented young musician cannot attend or continue their education at the Frost School due to financial barriers, we all feel the loss.
resources to be extraordinary. Establishing new pro-
Expanding undergraduate music scholarship funds and graduate fellowships with cash donations or endowments during Momentum2 will ensure that the most deserving students will be able to attend the Frost School of Music without financial burden—and enable them to receive the kind of rigorous and relevant musical training needed to pursue a career in today’s rapidly changing world.
grammatic and faculty chair endowments will attract more of the world’s most celebrated musical artists, educators, musicologists and researchers to our faculty, taking our stellar music school to even greater heights. Whether in violin or guitar, conducting or composition, creating a faculty chair endowment during the Momentum2 campaign will ensure essential programmatic continuity at the Frost School of Music—in perpetuity.
Momentum2 will maximize opportunities for Frost School faculty and students to excel across the board—and make the school a magnet for more talented young musicians.
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Infrastructure to Support Innovation Building new facilities and renovating others will enable the Frost School of Music to move to the forefront of developing the newest audio and multimedia technologies for research, composition, and performance. New classroom, rehearsal, performance, and recording spaces, and more than 100 state-of-the-art teaching studios will provide acoustically superior environments for our faculty and students and promote new kinds of musical collaboration and innovation like we can barely imagine today.
Achieving Artistry, Building Confidence The Frost School of Music’s groundbreaking Experiential Music Curriculum provides an integrative music teaching and learning environment to foster true ‘internal musicianship’ that begins in the freshman year. Instead of sitting passively in large lecture classrooms, undergraduate students learn performance, music history, ear training, music theory and composition while honing performance skills on their primary music The nation’s premier innovators in higher music education, the instruments as well as on the piano award-winning faculty of the Frost keyboard. Moving from small groups School have honed an immersive, to larger ensembles and opportunities technology-rich model that crossto perform with renowned visiting musitrains stellar young musicians across varied disciplines. cians, they develop an expressive capacity for composition, improvisation, and performance through internalized musical ideas. Frost School students in every musical genre, from classical to contemporary, learn to transcribe and compose music with digital and audio tools, while also learning the essentials of the music business. They graduate with a deep, versatile knowledge of performance practice, a solid ability to adapt and create music within their chosen musical occupation, and well-earned confidence.
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While the U.S. is home to 62 million amateur musicians, only .2 percent of Americans actually pursue careers in music.* UM student Andrew McCormick, who received a Marta and L. Austin Weeks endowed scholarship, is one of them. He performs in the Frost School orchestra and a brass quintet, carries a full course load, participates in campus activities, and studies and practices for many hours each week. “My professor was the principal trumpet of a major symphony orchestra, so he’s a very effective mentor,” McCormick says. “My scholarship made it possible for me to get an amazing education and move forward with my dream.” * National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) and Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor (2011)
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The Frost School’s Master of Music in Digital Arts and Sound Design, reflecting dramatic advances in the use of technology to create music, is in the vanguard of such academic programs worldwide.
Leading the Charge The Frost School prepares students for rewarding careers through multidisciplinary programs that not only hone musical abilities, but build the business skills, entrepreneurship, and technological sophistication needed to thrive in today’s professional music environment. The Frost School and the UM School of Law now offer a joint Master’s of Music (M.M.) and Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree that can be completed in three years, the first of its kind in the world. Students in the popular program study the quickly evolving legal and business climate in both the for-profit and non-profit music worlds. When the record industry underwent significant changes in the past decade, major and emerging artists in all genres significantly ramped up their touring and live entertainment activities through “360-deals” while expanding their fan bases through popular social media sites and blogs. The new “AP Live” graduate program at the Frost School introduces students to the exciting world of live entertainment management, and involves them in hands-on internships and marketing projects that serve them well upon graduation. The recording industry is a $160 billion enterprise* that employs some two million people. The Frost School’s Music Business and Entertainment Industries Program (MBEI) is headed by faculty with vast industry experience who equip young professionals with a myriad of licensing, marketing, artist development, and financial management tools and assist them in securing industry internships. Entertainment corporations and start-ups heavily recruit our new music business grads and alumni. *International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Music Market Statistics, 2011
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D i st i n c t i v e P r o g r a m s
Powerful Learning, Unforgettable Lessons Groundbreaking coursework, inspiring master classes, cross-genre performance opportunities: Momentum2 will provide essential support for these and many other distinctive learning experiences at the Frost School of Music. Philanthropic gifts also help fund outreach activities that harness the power of music to improve quality of life and expand opportunity in our community.
When three-time Grammy Award winning pianist-songwriter-rock legend and UM music alumnus Bruce Hornsby generously endowed his Creative American Music Program at the Frost School of Music, his goal was to steep our student singer-songwriter-performers in the rich history and performance styles of American roots music, blues, R&B, gospel, bluegrass, rock ‘n’ roll, and more, using a curriculum that he personally helped design. The program’s annual Songwriters Showcase at the Frost School’s Festival Miami is one of the most popular events of the entire year.
The Stamps Family Charitable Foundation sponsors the Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series at the Frost School of Music, bringing musical legends and industry visionaries to campus for several days each year to share career insights and interact with students. The lectures or master classes are free and open to the public. The foundation also provides four-year scholarships that include full tuition plus room and board for 19 academically superior instrumental students, who participate in the Stamps Ensembles, tour, and record.
Momentum2 will allow the Frost School of Music to break through to new levels of excellence and join the very top tier of U.S. music higher education.
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Vibrant Virtuosity The appointment of multi-Grammy Award winning film composer and trumpet virtuoso Terence Blanchard as the artistic director of the Henry Mancini Institute (HMI) ushered in an exciting era at the Frost School of Music, filled with performances of film scores, classical and jazz cross-over selections, and concerts with renowned celebrity artists. The Mancini Institute also introduces new blends of music to the region through HMI Outbound, a community engagement program sponsored in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and UM trustee and philanthropist Adrienne Arsht.
Inspiring Young Neighbors to Soar Music uplifts economically challenged communities and at-risk youth like no other outreach activity. The Frost School of Music collaborates with local public schools, charter schools, and community centers to provide free music lessons and after-school music instruction in economically disadvantaged areas through our new Harmony Project Miami initiatives.
Talented violinist Relyn Mirthil is among the young people whose lives have been transformed by the Frost School’s MusicReach program, which matches musically inclined teens in economically disadvantaged areas with outstanding Frost School freshmen for four years of musical and life mentoring.
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In addition, the Frost School’s MusicReach mentors provide at-risk teens with free music instruction for four years, making a permanent, positive impact on our community. Because Frost outreach programs are entirely funded through charitable contributions, a Momentum2 pledge will benefit both Frost student mentors and their teen mentees.
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C h a r t i n g O u r W ay F o r w a r d
The Momentum2 Campaign for the Frost School of Music is ramping up for a stunning sequel to its Momentum campaign, which began with a historic naming gift by Phillip and Patricia Frost and concluded with the opening of the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library and Technology Center. Frost ensembles, soloists, and composers present more than 300 concerts each year and are deeply involved in the cultural life of South Florida. Our outstanding new recruits pursue a dazzling variety of majors, from performance to engineering, arts presenting to music therapy. Our music education professors and musicologists publish landmark scholarship; collaborative research with medical researchers improves the lives of patients with paralysis and other serious conditions. Our outreach programs are keeping at-risk young people in school. Amid this crescendo of activity and accomplishment, we are poised to make even more extraordinary strides in the years to come. With our ambitious vision, thorough strategic planning, and inexhaustible energy, we are now ascending to the summit of U.S. higher music education. And with your generous participation at this pivotal moment, Momentum2 will multiply the Frost School’s beneficial impacts on the world. We invite you to join us on our exciting journey from great to exceptional. Shelton G. Berg Dean, Frost School of Music Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music David R. Weaver Momentum2 Campaign Chair, Frost School of Music
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Forging our Future The top Momentum2 campaign priority for the Frost School of Music is an Experiential Center for Music. Built to the highest LEED standards and equipped with sophisticated multimedia and interactive learning capabilities, this state-of-the-art facility will provide flexible studios, classrooms, black box, and rehearsal halls. The school also plans a new Recital Hall and a grand entrance and music quad that will integrate the newest buildings with the Weeks Music Library and Weeks Center for Recording and Performance. Because we must compete with renowned institutions that often waive tuition for outstanding students, Frost School priorities also include opportunities to provide for a greater number of endowed scholarships and student stipends. Other key goals include endowments to retain top faculty, recruit renowned musicians as visiting or permanent faculty, and expand traveling programs, as well as increased support for community outreach and mentorship programs.
Frost School of Music Momentum2 Key Campaign Goals For more information about Momentum2, please contact University Advancement Executive Director Holly Freyre at 305-284-2819 or Director of Development Lynne Gibson at 305-284-2238 or visit www.miami.edu/momentum2 or www.music.miami.edu.
New Buildings and Facility Improvements
$ 27M
Scholarships and Student Support
$ 6M
Faculty Support
$ 6M
Community Outreach and Program Support
$ 1M
TOTAL
$ 40M
Holly Freyre University of Miami Frost School of Music Executive Director, University Advancement Gables One Tower, Suite 300 1320 South Dixie Highway Coral Gables, FL 33146
305-284-2819 Phone 305-284-8478 Fax www.music.miami.edu www.miami.edu/momentum2 An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer University Communications 11-345