Frost Piano Performance

📣Upcoming concert from the Frost School of Music Department of Keyboard Performance！

🎹✨ Join us for an unforgettable afternoon at the Golden Anniversary Gala celebrating 50 years of the National Chopin Piano Competition!

📅 Date: Sunday, November 10th, 2024
⏰ Time: 4PM
📍 Concert Location: Gusman Concert Hall
📍 Dinner Location: Hormel Music Innovation Stage

Presented by the Chopin Foundation in collaboration with the Frost School of Music and Frost Music Live! Signature Series, this special gala event is part of the PRELUDE to the 2025 National Chopin Piano Competition.

✨ Featuring: World-renowned pianists Kevin Kenner & Avery Gagliano 🎶
From celebrating emerging talent to recognizing our esteemed Founder and President, Lady Blanka Rosenstiel, this gala supports the Competition’s legacy in fostering American pianistic talent and is the only public fundraising event of the season!

🎟️ Tickets:
* General Admission: $50
* Concert + Dinner: $200
Secure your seat, celebrate 50 years of musical excellence, and support the next generation of American pianists! Tickets are limited, so reserve yours now at https://ci.ovationtix.com/1811/production/1213521?performanceId=11524607

📣🎶 Upcoming Concert Announcement 🎶

“BACH 2 BACH 2 BACH | Frost Chamber Players”

📆Date: THU / OCT 17, 2024
🎹Location: Newman Recital Hall
🕰️Time: 7:30PM

✨We are thrilled to invite you to BACH 2 BACH 2 BACH featuring the Frost Chamber Players, including our esteemed department chair, Dr. Naoko Takao！This concert will present innovative arrangements that bridge classical and jazz, offering a fresh interpretation of J.S. Bach’s keyboard partitas and vocal works.

A highlight of the evening is Bach’s Keyboard Partita No. 1 in B Flat (BWV 825), presented in three unique settings: on piano by Naoko Takao, as a horn and guitar arrangement by Richard Todd and Rafael Padron, and as a jazz trio reinvention featuring Shelly Berg, Charles Bergeron, and Dafnis Prieto.

Join us for an unforgettable evening of musical artistry and collaboration！

Learn more about this upcoming event and purchase your tickets at
https://events.miami.edu/event/bach-2-bach-2-bach-frost-chamber-players

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Professor Robert Carnochan, whose passion for music education and conducting left a lasting mark on students and colleagues.

Since joining the Frost School of Music in 2015, Carnochan served as Chair of Instrumental Performance, Director of Bands, and Music Director/Conductor of the Frost Wind Ensemble. Last month, his peers honored him with the Phillip Frost Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship—our institution's highest recognition for outstanding faculty and leadership.

“Rob Carnochan was a peerless conductor and musical artist, and an inspirational leader to every student and colleague he touched,” said Dean Shelton G. “Shelly” Berg. “We have lost a giant in the wind band world.”

His dedication to music and commitment to nurturing future generations of musicians will forever be remembered. We extend our deepest sympathies to Carnochan's family, friends, and the many students and colleagues who were fortunate to have known him.

We honor his life and legacy in today’s Frost News.

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🎹✨ Great news from the Frost School of Music’s Department of Keyboard Performance! 🤩

Congratulations to Hongxi Li, our third-year DMA student of Dr. Naoko Takao, for her incredible recent performances at the Daejeon International Music Festival in South Korea! 🎉 !
Hongxi shared the stage with acclaimed Austrian cellist Attila Pasztor, with whom she performed an unforgettable duo recital. Their stunning collaboration garnering critical acclaim and received glowing praise from the audience.🙌 Following her success in South Korea, Hongxi continued to shine with Pasztor during a successful solo/duet recital tour across China, with stops in Yanji, Changchun, and Jinan. Each performance was met with overwhelming praise and recognition. 🎶
Once again, we are so proud to have such brilliant students, and we look forward to more exciting achievements from our department! 🎵👏

🥳👏🏻✨A huge shoutout to our talented DMA student, Lizzie Wu, for her brilliant performance of Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Winds this past Sunday in Gusman Concert Hall!🥳👍🏻
As the first FWE concert of the 2024-2025 season, Lizzie’s captivating interpretation of the piece, along with her excellent collaboration with the ensemble and conductor Robert Carnochan , left the audience with a splendid and unforgettable musical experience.
The MKP department is proud to have such outstanding students, and we look forward to more exciting achievements from our pianists!！✨

🤩 Frost School of Music Piano Department Upcoming Event：

⭐BORIS BERMAN Piano Recital⭐

🎹✨ Don’t miss the chance to experience an extraordinary musical afternoon with the internationally renowned pianist and pedagogue Boris Berman, hailed as a pianist’s pianist! As a guest artist at the Frost School of Music, Berman‘s upcoming recital is featured as part of Frost Music Live’s Signature Series.

📅 Date: September 29, 2024
🕑 Time: 2:00 PM
📍 Venue: UM Gusman Concert Hall
🎟️ Tickets: $30 / $25 / $15

Known for his “limitless” technique and “breathless virtuosity,” Berman’s artistry is celebrated for its “selfless commitment to stylistic integrity” (The Boston Globe). He will present a captivating program featuring:

* Franz Schubert: Four Impromptus, Op. 142
* Claude Debussy: Suite Bergamasque
* Claude Debussy: Estampes

With a career spanning from the Soviet Union to global stages, Berman has performed with prestigious orchestras like the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic. He currently leads the Piano Department at Yale School of Music and is a renowned teacher worldwide.
Don‘t miss this chance to witness a true master of the piano in a program of remarkable depth and beauty.

✅Learn more about this event at https://events.miami.edu/event/boris-berman-piano-recital

✅Get your tickets now at https://ci.ovationtix.com/1811/performance/11506786?performanceId=11506786

🤩🔥 The Frost School of Music Piano Department sends our warmest congratulations to our renowned faculty member, Professor Kevin Kenner, on his most recent success at the 20th Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, sponsored by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.

✨Professor Kenner performed at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall with solo works by Chopin on a period piano, as well as Haydn‘s String Quartet in F Major, Op. 77 No. 2, with the world-renowned string quartet ”Quatuor Mosaïques“ and double bassist Grzegorz Frankowski.

Make sure to follow Professor Kenner at .kenner for updates on his upcoming performances and events!

Learn more about this fantastic performance at
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_sTOUltJGd/?igsh=MWZmZ25qNjh3eDZ6bA==.

📣MKP Piano Department Upcoming Event！

🎶✨Get excited for the first concert of the Frost School of Music Wind Ensemble in the 2024-2025 season, featuring conductor and FWE Director Robert Carnochan, along with our wonderful colleague and the concerto competition winner, Lizzie Wu！ 🌟

The concert, titled ”Anniversaries,“ includes three carefully selected orchestral works that correspond to the theme of anniversaries, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the University of Miami. The repertoire features：

🎺 Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare by Richard Strauss (100th anniversary)

🎹 Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments by Igor Stravinsky (100th anniversary)

🖼️ Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky (150th anniversary)

📅 Date: Sunday, September 8th
📍 Location: Gusman Concert Hall
🕓 Time: 4 PM

Come support Lizzie and enjoy an afternoon of fantastic music! We can’t wait to see you all there！🧡🙌

🎟️ Tickets: tinyurl.com/y99rbcvm
📺 Livestream: tinyurl.com/3j63h4hz

🎉 Exciting news from the Frost School of Music Department of Keyboard Performance!
We are beyond proud to share that our alumna, Priscila Navarro (DMA KPED, Spring 2022), has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Kansas! 🌟 🎹

Landing a tenured position in the competitive world of piano is an extraordinary achievement, and Priscila‘s success is a testament to her incredible talent, hard work and dedication. We couldn’t be prouder of Priscila for reaching this incredible milestone in her artistic career, and we can‘t wait to see the impact she will make at KU！🤩👍🏻

Join us in congratulating Priscila on this well-deserved accomplishment! 🎹🎓You can learn more about this exciting news at https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7RxIqaqasD/?igsh=MWk0eXU5ZjlndTZ5
and about Priscila and her upcoming performances at www.priscilanavarro.com

✨🤩The MKP department sends its sincerest congratulations to Shuguang Gong, who has just performed a successful and brilliant concert at the Manhattan School of Music in NYC. Shuguang‘s rendition of Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony, conducted by Alison Norris, exemplified the theme of the concert, ”Divinity and the Cosmos: A Genderqueer Exploration of Messiaen‘s Turangalila-Symphony,“ showcasing his brilliant techniques and amazing musicianship.🥳👍🏻

Shuguang is a first-year DMA student and a full-time graduate research assistant, majoring in classical piano performance under the guidance of Prof. Kevin Kenner.

Here at the MKP department, we are proud to have such talented and outstanding colleagues, and we eagerly anticipate witnessing more success from this amazing community!！

The MKP department is proud to announce the winner of the 2024 FWE (Frost Wind Ensemble) Concerto Competition: Lizzie Wu 🤩🥳👏🏻
Congratulations to Lizzie!!

Lizzie is currently a second-year DMA student and a full-time TA in Piano Performance under the tutelage of Prof. Santiago Rodriguez.

We all look forward to Lizzie’s upcoming concert on September 8th (Sunday) at 4 PM in Gusman Concert Hall with the Frost Wind Ensemble and its Director/Conductor Dr. Robert Carnochan, performing Stravinsky‘s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments！！
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👏🏻✨Huge congratulations to our amazing faculty member Dr. Naoko Takao for completing her successful and astonishing recital on April.1!
It was such an unforgettable night and a pure enjoyment of musical feast for all of us! The recital featured works of Schumann, Chopin and Rachmaninoff, alongside artistic paintings that were carefully chosen by Dr. Takao herself to be displayed on the screen for creating an even more immersive and memorizing atmosphereper for the audience!
Thank you Dr.Takao for such a wonderful evening! We all look forward to more performances like this in the future! 🥳🤩❤️

It's time for an unforgettable musical experience! 🤩Join us tonight at 7:30PM sharp in the Newman Recital Hall for Dr. Takao's upcoming recital！
See you all there！

⭐Important MKP Upcoming Event Notice❗🤩👏🏻

Official Poster for Dr. Naoko Takao's upcoming recital on April.1st at 7:30PM at Newman Recital Hall! !
Don't forget to mark your calendar and join us together on the day of Rachmaninoff's birthday to enjoy some great music and celebration! !
If you couldn't make it in person, make sure to watch the livestream at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q96Ayxdan6M

📣 MKP Upcoming Event❗🤩✨04/01/2024

Frost School of Music presents: "Schumann & Chopin celebrate Rachmaninoff's birthday!" Concert.
Pianist: Naoko Takao
Program: Works by Schumann, Chopin and Rachmaninoff Date: On the day of Rachmaninoff's birthday, April 1st!
Venue: Newman Recital Hall
Tickets: Free

Mark your calendar and join us together on April 1st at 7:30PM at Newman Recital Hall of the Knight Center for music innovation for the concert on the theme of "Schumann & Chopin celebrate Rachmaninoff's birthday," performed by our amazing faculty member, the chair of the MKP department: Dr. Naoko Takao!!

The program will include Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze, Chopin's Barcarolle, and selected works by Rachmaninoff-the birthday honoree.

We all look forward so much to hearing Dr. Takao's performance and getting together to celebrate the birthday of Rachmaninoff, one of the most renowned composer in the music history, with our greatest salute and genuine appreciation!!

✨MKP Piano Department Star Alumni Series✨🤩
Meet Priscila Navarro (Class of 2022 KPED DMA)

Congratulations to Priscila on winning the 2023 Astral Artist Fellowship Competition and officially joined AstralArtists！！
In the same year, she joined the faculty at Whitworth University as the new Director of Keyboard Studies! Huge Congrats!!

Peruvian pianist Priscila Navarro performs solo recitals, chamber works, and a large selection of concerti with orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. Her talent has been widely recognized and she has been awarded the first prize at several international competitions, including the Liszt-Garritson International Competition in Baltimore, Maryland, Beethoven Sonata Competition in Tennessee, Chopin International Competition of Texas, Artist Series of Sarasota, Imola City Awards, Italy, and the Heida Hermanns International Music Competition.

Priscila made her Carnegie Hall solo recital debut in 2013 and will return there twice in 2022. She received a Special Bach prize at the International City of Vigo Competition in Spain, where she was one of five finalists from over 400 participating pianists, with a jury presided by Martha Argerich. As a chamber musician, Priscila regularly performs with a wide variety of musicians. She performed in several cities in Peru with violist Jodi Levitz, viola professor at the University of Miami. Priscila forms a piano duet with Dr.Michael Baron. Their first album is set to release in December with the MSR Classics label, with a Carnegie Hall premiere concert in March 2022.

Priscila holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance and pedagogy from the Frost School of Music, where she also completed Masters and Artist Diploma degrees as a student of Santiago Rodriguez and Kevin Kenner.

Besides her busy performance career, Priscila is a passionate pedagogue and has been on the jury at several international competitions, including the Chopin International Competition for Latin American pianists, and the Heida Hermanns International Competition. Priscila is the current artistic director for the Parnassus Music Society.Last year, they hosted the first International Piano Competition Parnassus Music, an event born of her initiative to showcase and promote talented Latin American pianists.

You can learn more about Priscila on her website at:
www.priscilanavarro.com
Priscila Navarro

✨MKP Piano Department Star Alumni Series ✨🤩

Meet one of our most distinguished Star Alumni:
Asiya Korepanova (class of 2017 MKP AD and MKP DMA 2016)
The only pianist in the world who performed the complete Rachmaninoff solo piano works within the composer's 150th-anniversary year of 2023. Asiya Korepanova is a pianistic powerhouse hailed as a " tremendously gifted pianist who exhibits a singular affinity for Rachmaninoff's Russian romantic idiom and possesses the blazing technique to fully realize his distinctive scores" (South Florida Classical Review). She is also the only pianist currently performing Liszt's 24 Etudes as a single program and one of few to tout a concerto list that features over 60 works, Asiya Korepanova is a pianistic powerhouse, who is also highly recognized for her work as a transcriber, composer, visual artist, and poet, reflecting her uncompromising dedication to the arts.
Asiya's historic solo piano transcriptions of Richard Strauss' 'Ein Heldenleben', Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata, Mussorgsky's 'Songs and Dances of Death', and many others, have given her a place among today's formidable transcribers.
She creates a series of multimedia projects featuring original poetry and visual art that serve as an interpretive commentary to each movement in a particular cycle of piano works. Examples include List's Transcendental Etudes, Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Tchaikovsky's 18 Morceaux, Op. 72, and Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition'.
Most recently, Asiya premiered her latest piano quintet work
'I marvel at the sky', commissioned by the Third Dimension Music Festival in Astoria, OR, and published the score of her Rachmaninoff Cello sonata transcription. Her Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Piano, Poéme, was released in its premiere recording, performed by Thomas Giles and Liana Pailodze Harron. Asiya eagerly anticipates the premiere of her latest transcription of the Manfred Symphony by Peter Tchaikovsky in January, 2023.
She will debut her signature recital program at the Merkin Concert Hall in New York on February 21, 2023.
⭐You can read more about Asiya and all of her upcoming performances at her website: http://www.asiyakorepanova.com
Asiya Korepanova

✨2023 Fall MKP Piano Department Faculty Highlights✨

Our distinguished faculty: Prof. Santiago Rodriguez, along with Asiya Korepanova, one of our most renowned star alumna, performed an astonishing four hand showcase at the Knight Center for Music Innovation's grand opening gala.
Aisya also preformed a brilliant Rachmaninoff solo and was awarded the first-ever Frost School of Music Centennial Medal alongside Frost Alumni legends such as Gloria Estefan, Jon Secada, Dawn Lewis, and Sandra Lopez Neill.
Held at the Frost School of Music campus, the Knight Center for Music Innovation celebration gala was a vibrant and historic event that brought together our community in a festive atmosphere, which Dean Shelton " Shelly" Berg recalled as a " worldwide Frost school family night." Featuring a variety of activities, from a private showing of multi-media visual and audio history of the Frost School at the Thomas D.
Hormel Music Innovation Stage, a lineup of performances at the Robert and Judi Prokop Newman Recital Hall, and the award ceremony of the first-ever Frost Centennial Medals.
The evening celebrated the power and strength of coming together to support the next generation's creativity, talent, and musical excellence. We look forward to continuing to shape the future of music, sharing our vision with the world, providing an innovative platform for our students to create, and bringing our community together.

✨2023 Fall MKP Piano Department Faculty Highlights✨

In the first week of November 2023, Our amazing faculties: Dr. Naoko Takao and Prof. Kevin Kenner contributed a brilliant four-hand performance during the week of the grand opening celebration of Knight Center for Music Innovation at Frost School of Music.
This performance was on live and featured at the big screen of the mesmerizing, brand new WindowCast System. Light up with night and bringing music to life, the HD Audio and Video from a 20X40-foot window of this brilliant feature on the plaza of the Knight Center for Music Innovation brings our community of all ages together to enjoy live performances.
Many Piano students participated in this event and watched this fantastic performance of our faculties from the WindowCast and it was for sure a wonderful experience for all!
this event at the Opening Celebration with Frost School of Music students and faculty featured a nearly three-hour program including classical, jazz, and pop genres.
It was hosted by Corin Overland, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Serona Elton, Associate Dean of Administration, and Shannon de l'Etoile, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, this musical extravaganza was the ideal opportunity to showcase the talent and creativity of our students and world-class faculty.

We are delighted to announce that the Chopin Foundation of the U.S. has established a registered permanent endowment, The Frost Chopin Academy and Festival Endowment Fund, at the Frost School of Music.

Supporting a shared mission of helping young, talented American pianists and making classical music, and above all, the music of Chopin accessible to everyone, the $100,000 Endowment Fund ensures that the Frost Chopin Festival lives on.

Read more on today's Frost News on how the Frost Chopin Foundation of the United States continues to help shape the future of music. Direct link is available below.

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The 5th Frost Chopin Festival opens its curtains today at 4:00p.m. with a
wonderful program: Pianists Kamil
Pacholec and Dmitry Ablogin perform music by Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven, and Mozart. Join us at Maurice Gusman Concert Hall. There’s still time to get your festival subscription here: bit.ly/ChopinSub.

Every edition of the Frost Chopin Festival has presented audience members and Frost Chopin Academy students with the phenomenal opportunity to learn from the world’s leading Chopin specialists. This year, Cardiff University professor and author of the best-selling book “After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance,” virtuoso pianist Kenneth Hamilton presents two lectures: on Monday, 6/26 at 7:30 p.m. and on Tuesday, 6/27 at 9:00 a.m. - both at Gusman Concert Hall.

For more information, visit https://piano.frost.miami.edu/frost-chopin-festival/tickets/index.html.

To purchase a Festival Package, visit bit.ly/ChopinSub.

The 5th Frost Chopin Festival (Artist Director Kevin Kenner) is presented by Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and Chopin Foundation of the U.S.

With only two weeks to go before the 5th Frost Chopin Festival returns to Miami, we couldn’t be happier to share the full
schedule of this enriching musical immersion! This festival is presented in partnership with the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, and the Chopin Foundation of the U.S.
The Festival Package offers additional VIP perks along with entry to all six festival concerts: bit.ly/ChopinSub.

Congratulations to (Da Jin Kim, Adrienne Williams, and Sally Kim) who recently won the “Horszowski Trio Prize” in the 50th Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the largest and longest-running chamber music competition in the United States. The prize was awarded to the top-ranking piano trio consisting of piano, violin, and cello. On top of the cash prize, they will be invited to the Mimir Festival in the summer of 2024 to work with the Horszowski Trio and other distinguished faculty members.