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Frost Choral Studies 2023-2024 Season

September
Chamber Singers Recital 1
Location: Gusman Concert Hall 
Date: September 28, 2023, 4:00 pm 
 
Gabe Harley, Supitcha Kansirisin, Jisu Oh, Maxwell Trombell; Conductors
Join four Frost Choral Studies graduate student conductors as they present  movements of J.S. Bach's "Jesu, Meine Freude" BWV 227. 

October
Choralcopia
Location: Gusman Concert Hall 
Date: October 6, 2023, 7:30 pm 
 
Amanda Quist, Director of Choral Studies
Matthew Brady, Conductor
Jeffrey Buchman, Stage Director
Stephen Gleason, BisCaydence Advisor
Anita Castiglione, piano
Celebrate vocal ensemble music at Frost! Choralcopia features a collage experience that highlights diverse genres of the Frost School of Music. With traditional choirs, opera, jazz, and contemporary a cappella, this concert promises a wide range of musical styles and vocal techniques to delight the audience. Join us to enjoy the harmonious blend of voices when all choirs come together in Choralcopia.


October
Frost High School Honor Choir
Location: Gusman Concert Hall 
Date: October 20, 2023, 7:30 pm 
 
Jake Runestad, Guest Conductor
Featuring over 300 high school students, the event culminates in a performance at 5:00 pm.


October
Let My Love Be Heard
Frost Chorale
Location: Gusman Concert Hall 
Date: October 21, 2023, 7:30 pm 
 
Jake Runestad, Guest Artist
Amanda Quist, Conductor
Anita Castiglione, piano
Jake Runestad's "highly imaginative" (Baltimore Sun) and "stirring and uplifting" (Miami Herald) musical works have been featured worldwide. The Emmy award-winning composer and conductor joins Frost Chorale to present an unforgettable evening in the heart of Coral Gables.
Works will include a range of choral pieces performed by the award-winning Frost Chorale, with Runestad's music as a center point. Join the Frost Chorale, Amanda Quist, and Jake Runestad for an unforgettable evening of choral music!

November
Knight Center Opening
Seraphic Fire Scholars
Location: Knight Center for Music Innovation | Newman Recital Hall
Date: November 1, 2023, 7:00 pm 
 
The Frost School of Music presents a musical extravaganza in the new acoustically refined Robert and Judi Prokop Newman Recital Hall overlooking Lake Osceola.
Join us early and immerse yourself in a world of technological possibilities with 360 audio and video experience. Doors of the Tech Fest will open at 5:30 pm, with shows at 5:30 pm and 6 pm.

November
Chamber Singers Recital 2
Location: Gusman Concert Hall 
Date: November 2, 2023, 4:00 pm 
 
Samuel Sherman and Kyra Stahr, Conductors
Presenting choral works through the ages

December
Winter Wonderful
Location: JW Marriot Marquis 
Date: December 3, 2023 
 
A magical holiday dinner and musical experience by candlelight. Share a special evening with family and friends in a spectacular seasonal setting, with carols and holiday favorites performed by some of the Frost School of Music's finest musicians.

December
Holiday Dinner
Location: Ocean Reef Club 
Date: December 4, 2023 
 
A magical holiday dinner and musical experience by candlelight. Share a special evening with family and friends in a spectacular seasonal setting, with carols and holiday favorites performed by some of the Frost School of Music's finest musicians.

December
Chamber Singers Recital 3
Location: Chapel of the Venerable Bede
Date: December 7, 2023 
 
Jennifer Grover and P. Wesley Roy, Conductors
Presenting choral works through the ages. 

January
In Her Own Voice
Seraphic Fire Scholars with Seraphic Fire
Date: January 18-21, 2024
Guest conductor Elena Sharkova conducts a concert highlighting the creative expressions of women composers and poets. Enjoy a diverse program of music where the lives, experiences, passions, and pains of women are described in their own voices. Seraphic Fire scholars perform alongside Florida’s GRAMMY-nominated ensemble.

February
Voices Rising
Seraphic Fire Scholars with Seraphic Fire
Location: Gusman Concert Hall 
Date: February 18, 2024, 7:30 pm
Richard Carrillo, Wesley Roy, Sam Scheibe, and Kyra Stahr, graduate student conductors
A spectacular choral music recital with four different choirs to highlight our incredible students.

March
Chamber Singers Recital 4
Seraphic Fire Scholars with Seraphic Fire
Location: Gusman Concert Hall 
Date: March 28, 2024, 1:00 pm
Supitcha Kansirisin and Jisu Oh, graduate conductors
Repertoire: W.A. Mozart Missa Brevis in G major, K. 49
Byunghee Oh, Horn Mass

 


April
Serenade
Frost Chorale
Location: Gusman Concert Hall 
Date: April 13, 2024, 7:30 pm
Amanda Quist, Conductor
Anita Castiglione, piano
Featuring Ralph Vaughan Williams' famous Serenade to Music, the audience will be treated to works dedicated to celebrating the beauty of song, with soloists from the Frost School of Music. You will hear works by Zanaida Robles, Schütz, Rheinberger, Eleanor Daley, and the East Coast premiere of a piece by Shelly Berg, Frost's Dean of the School of Music. With the Frost Chorale, Shelly Berg on piano, Charles Bergeron on bass, and Julius Rogers on drums, Berg's piece is a response to Renaissance composer Orlando Gibbons' O Clap Your Hands. The Frost Chorale will also include two student works by David Caldarella and Sam Scheibe.
 

April
Frost Symphony Orchestra and Frost Chorale Ensembles
Location: Gusman Concert Hall 
Date: April 27, 2024, 7:30 pm

The FSO season finale presents a symphonic masterwork alongside four American orchestral miniatures by Augusta Reed Thomas, Bernard Rands, Daren Hagan, and Chen Yi. Beethoven’s ninth symphony closes the program featuring Frost choirs and full orchestra.