FIU School of Music welcomes new faculty for 2018-19
MusicThe 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”
MusicComposition 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...
Crossing Boundaries with Alan Dershowitz and Amernet String Quartet
MusicOn 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...
2018 FIU Concerto Competition Winners Announced!
MusicEvery 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...
A Recorder For Every Child
MusicAll 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,...
FIU Music Festival Returns November 3-18 with Top Artists To Benefit Relief Efforts
MusicOn 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...
Shaking Things Up With FIU’s New Orchestra Director – An Interview with Javier Jose Mendoza
MusicThis 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...
FIU School of Music Announces 2017-18 Season
MusicUpdate 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...
New Recordings of Handel Released on Toccata Classics
MusicPhoto 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...
Music Graduate Awarded Prestigious Cota-Robles Doctoral Fellowship at UCLA
MusicRecent 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...
Music alumna appointed position in Library of Congress
Music, Office of the DeanLike many other Cuban immigrants, music alumna Eva Reyes Cisnero, ‘11 moved to South Florida with little resource and knowledge of the English language in pursuit of a better...
FIU Counter Tenor And Organist Recognized as Worlds Ahead Graduate
MusicHumming “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,...
FIU Opera Theater Stages Opera Buffa Il Matrimonio Segreto
MusicPremiered 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...
Alumnus Leads FIU Winterguard To Victory At 2017 Winter Guard International Championship
MusicProud 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...
FIU Celebrates Successful Partnership with Knight Arts Challenge Miami
Music, Theatre, Office of the Dean, Uncategorized, Art + Art HistoryFor 10 years, the Knight Arts Challenge Miami has provided funding for winning ideas that have sought to challenge and enrich our community through the arts. In 2017 alone,...
FIU Concerto Competition Winners Featured in Orchestral Concert
MusicThe 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...
Arts Advocacy Day Winners of the FHEAN Student Arts Advocacy Award in Tallahassee, Florida
Music, Theatre, Communication, Office of the DeanOn March 21-22, 2017, the Florida Higher Education Arts Network (FHEAN) hosted their annual spring meeting in support of Arts Advocacy Day. The semi-annual meeting is an opportunity to...
Music Alumnus Appointed Executive Director of GMYS
MusicOne 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...
Miami Beach Urban Studios Researcher Records New Music in Spain
Music, MBUSMiami Beach Urban Studios Composer in Residence, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, is adding a new flare to contemporary music. While on his recent visit to Carranque, Spain, Garcia recorded his new...
Music Student Selected As World Ahead Graduate
MusicOn 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...