FIU Music Festival brings world-renowned musicians to Miami, creates opportunities for students

FIU Music Festival brings world-renowned musicians to Miami, creates opportunities for students

October 17, 2018/By Michelle Vires

This October 26 – November 10, the FIU School of Music will welcome over 50 high caliber guest artists from top universities and ensembles from the United States and...

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FIU School of Music welcomes new faculty for 2018-19

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August 16, 2018/By Michelle Vires

The FIU School of Music is pleased to announce two additions and two promotions to the faculty this fall. Jacob Berglin, Instructor Jacob Berglin joined the music education faculty...

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Music Alumnus Carlos Rafael Rivera Scores for Netflix Series “Godless”

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June 26, 2018/By Michelle Vires

Composition alumnus Carlos Rafael Rivera (BM ’96) is a commissioned and award-winning composer whose career has spanned several genres of the music industry. Known for his original score of the...

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Crossing Boundaries with Alan Dershowitz and Amernet String Quartet

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January 26, 2018/By Michelle Vires

On January 23, Florida international University School of Music welcomed world-renowned Professor Emeritus of Law at Harvard University, Alan Dershowitz, and members of the Amernet String Quartet, FIU’s celebrated...

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2018 FIU Concerto Competition Winners Announced!

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January 24, 2018/By Michelle Vires

Every year the FIU School of Music sponsors the Concerto Competition, providing an opportunity for students to perform a concerto or similar work with the FIU Symphony Orchestra during its...

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A Recorder For Every Child

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December 14, 2017/By Michelle Vires

All across America, students in elementary school are given a recorder to develop music literacy at an early age. As a simple, inexpensive instrument that children usually enjoy playing,...

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FIU Music Festival Returns November 3-18 with Top Artists To Benefit Relief Efforts

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October 17, 2017/By Michelle Vires

On November 3 – 18, 2017, the FIU Music Festival will take Miami by storm with a star studded line up of Classical, Early Music, Jazz, and Latin Jazz...

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Shaking Things Up With FIU’s New Orchestra Director – An Interview with Javier Jose Mendoza

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September 5, 2017/By Michelle Vires

This season, Javier Jose Mendoza will step onto the podium as the first Mexican-American conductor of FIU’s largest music ensemble, the FIU Symphony Orchestra, with plans to give it...

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FIU School of Music Announces 2017-18 Season

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September 1, 2017/By Michelle Vires

Update 9/18/17: Please check music.fiu.edu/concerts for our list of rescheduled and/or cancelled concerts due to Hurricane Irma. Please note that our October 6th season kick off at the Wertheim...

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New Recordings of Handel Released on Toccata Classics

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June 16, 2017/By Michelle Vires

Photo Credit: Teresa Michelangeli; Pictured L-R/T-B: Brad Michel, Robert Crowe, David Dolata, Juvenal Correa-Salas, Peter McGrath, and Victor Coelho FIU Professor of Musicology David Dolata and his early music...

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Music Graduate Awarded Prestigious Cota-Robles Doctoral Fellowship at UCLA

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June 2, 2017/By Michelle Vires

Recent School of Music graduate, Marcus Norris (17’), has been awarded the prestigious Eugene Cota-Robles (ECR) Fellowship at UCLA where he will receive a full scholarship and a $100,000 fellowship...

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FIU Counter Tenor And Organist Recognized as Worlds Ahead Graduate

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May 11, 2017/By Jennifer Lacayo

Humming “Once Upon a Dream” from Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty,” Edgar Sanfeliz-Botta took a short break between orders at the busy McDonald’s drive thru on Sunset Drive. Meanwhile, Roberta David,...

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FIU Opera Theater Stages Opera Buffa Il Matrimonio Segreto

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April 27, 2017/By Michelle Vires

Premiered in Vienna in 1792, Domenico Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio segreto (The Secret Marriage) became one of the most popular 18th century comic operas, having allegedly received the longest encore...

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Alumnus Leads FIU Winterguard To Victory At 2017 Winter Guard International Championship

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April 14, 2017/By Michelle Vires

Proud Golden Panther Enrique Perez (’11) led the FIU Winter Guard to victory for the first time in its history, beating out 62 other teams competing for the coveted...

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FIU Concerto Competition Winners Featured in Orchestral Concert

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April 3, 2017/By Michelle Vires

The FIU Symphony Orchestra and the Miami Music Project orchestras, conducted by Raffaele Livio Ponti, performed on March 26 with the FIU Concerto Competition winners, pianist Monika Miodragovic and...

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Music Alumnus Appointed Executive Director of GMYS

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March 14, 2017/By Michelle Vires

One of FIU School of Music’s recent graduates, Matthew Sheary, has been appointed as executive director of the Greater Miami Youth Symphony (GMYS). He received both a Bachelor of...

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Music Student Selected As World Ahead Graduate

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December 20, 2016/By Michelle Vires

On Tuesday, December 13, Nimia Marquez was recognized by FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg as a Worlds Ahead graduate at FIU’s 2016 fall commencement ceremony. Only 22 students received this...

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Miami International GuitART Festival Wins Knight Arts Challenge

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December 8, 2016/By Michelle Vires

On November 28, 2016, the FIU School of Music’s Miami International GuitART Festival (MIGF) was recognized as one of the winners of the 2016 Knight Arts Challenge during the 9th annual celebration...

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Conductor Brenton F. Alston Performs Tribute Concert To Pulse

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November 20, 2016/By Michelle Vires

Photo courtesy: Maica Altmeider/NYT On Monday, November 21, South Florida families will have another change to pay tribute to those who impacted by the Orlando shooting at Pulse NightClub...

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The FIU Music Festival Returns This October in Celebration of the Wertheim Performing Arts Center’s 20th Anniversary

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September 20, 2016/By Michelle Vires

The Florida International University School of Music announces its 2016 FIU Music Festival (FIUMF) in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center,...

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