Music

The Frost Latin Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Grammy-winning drummer, composer, and arranger Dafnis Prieto, features exciting big band music from fellow Grammy Award winner and trumpeter Brian Lynch's new album.

Dr. Carnochan’s multi-faceted career has included numerous high-profile collaborations with a number of esteemed colleagues and composers, including John Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, Gunther Schuller, Frank Ticheli, and more. He also invests substantial time in commissioning and performing works of the new generation of talented composers. This afternoon’s concert opens with visiting composer Aaron Perrine’s A Glimpse of the Eternal, which he has said alludes to the idea of “coming home.” It’s followed by Aaron Copland’s challenging Emblems, his only work for band. Then take delight on Gustav Holst’s masterwork, The Planets, in which he represented the planets in the Solar System, each with its corresponding astrological character. The musical performance will be complemented with images of each planet.

Multifaceted American jazz pianist and composer Emmet Cohen is in the vanguard of his generation's advancement of music and the related arts. A recognized prodigy, Cohen started playing the piano at 3 years old. Fresh off from receiving the 2019 American Pianists Award and being named the Cole Porter Fellowship winner, Frost Studio Music and Jazz alumnus Emmet Cohen returns to the Studio Jazz Band to present original music and new arrangements of standards. Cohen already has several albums under his own name and has performed with masters such as Ron Carter, Benny Golson, Jimmy Cobb, and Jimmy Heath.

Join us as we celebrate the stellar career and retirement of Frost’s director of Studio Jazz Writing and Jazz Composition Gary Lindsay, featuring Frost Concert Jazz Band plus strings with various special guests.

Take pleasure in a repertoire showcasing the integration of the instrumentalists and vocalists within each group through arrangements by Frost alumni Greg Jasperse, Jeremy Fox, Jennifer Barnes, and Kate Reid.

What ensues when three opera singers compete in a call to audition for Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)? You'll find out in this opera play with dialogue and music which Mozart himself wrote for an opera competition in 1786!

The Frost Cello Ensemble performs two great cello octets by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 and No. 5, written for voice and eight cellos, featuring Frost faculty soprano, Jeanette Thompson. This program also includes the world premiere of a new work for large cello ensemble.

The newly-formed Bergonzi Piano Trio celebrates Beethoven’s 250th birthday year by performing the monumental Piano Trio, Op. 97, known as “The Archduke Trio,” and Piano Trio, Op. 70, No.1. The program also features the world premiere of a trio by Scott Flavin based on themes from Beethoven’s piano, violin, and cello repertoire.

Tokyo born composer Miho Hazama is one of New York’s most astounding young talents. Lauded in Downbeat as one of “25 for the Future,” Miho is quickly establishing herself as a force of nature on the world’s stage. She has written for orchestras such as the Tokyo Philharmonic, and also arranged and orchestrated for the Metropole Orkest, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vince Mendoza, and NHK Symphony Orchestra, among others. Hazama’s debut release, Journey to Journey (2012), received the Jazz JAPAN rising star award. She has three albums under her own name.

A concert showcasing the music of John Mackey, one of today’s most prolific and engaging composers. His latest piece, Places We Can No Longer Go, features guest soprano Lindsay Kesselman, an “artist of growing reputation for her artistry and intelligence…with a voice of goddess-like splendor” (Fanfare Magazine).