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

September 5, 2017/By Michelle Vires

Updated 9-19: Due to Hurricane Irma, the October 6th debut concert has been rescheduled for November 18th. This season, Javier Jose Mendoza will step onto the podium as...

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FIU School of Music Announces 2017-18 Season

Music

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

Music

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

Music

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

Music

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

Music

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

Music

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

Music

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

Music

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

Music

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

Music

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

Music

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

Music

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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New Music Faculty 2016-17 Positions Announced

Music, Theatre

August 15, 2016/By Michelle Vires

The FIU School of Music has four new full-time faculty positions for the 2016-17 academic year: Bruce Allen Carter, research associate in music education, is an arts educator and...

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Music Student Participates in Disney’s Royal Welcome Show on August 11

Music, Theatre

August 15, 2016/By Michelle Vires

Nadya Borno, a vocal performance student in her junior year, will be playing a principle character role in Disney’s Latina Princess Elena’s Royal Welcome Show to be debuted on...

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Alumnus Darwin Aquino ’15 Wins at Soberano Awards 2016

Music, Theatre

June 14, 2016/By Michelle Vires

Less than a year after graduating, FIU School of Music alumnus and conductor/composer Darwin Aquino ’15 received the Successful Dominican Artist Abroad Award in the classical category at the...

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Soprano Alumna Laura Martinez Leon ’15 Performs In Madrid

Music, Theatre

May 25, 2016/By Michelle Vires

[Photo Courtesy: Michelle Vires; Borja Mariño accompanies Laura Martinez León for the Opera Fusion-FIU School of Music “Zarzuela de las Americas” competition, located at FIU’s Herbert and Nicole Wertheim...

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FIU Singers and John “Bowzer” Bauman Celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month

Music, Theatre

May 18, 2016/By Michelle Vires

Repost from Sun Sentinel, May 16, 2016 By Marvin Glassman Jewish American Heritage Month was celebrated musically recently with a salute to the many Jewish American composers who created...

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FIU Indoor Winds Take Gold Second Year in Row

Music, Theatre

May 17, 2016/By Michelle Vires

The FIU Indoor Winds once again placed first in the Independent Category at the annual Winter Guard International (WGI) Winds World Championships this April, becoming the only world team...

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2016 School of Music Award Winners Announced

Music, Theatre

May 17, 2016/By Michelle Vires

[Photo, Left to Right- Diana Fernandez, Maria Gutierrez, Esther Umansky Roth, Maureen Reyes] On Wednesday, May 11, the FIU School of Music announced its 2016 award winners. Every spring,...

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