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The Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts is pleased to announce the hiring of exceptional faculty this 2019 – 2020 academic year. Avi Nagin, Visiting Instructor of Violin & Second Violinist of the Amernet String Quartet Maria Guinand, Adjunct Professor of Choral Conducting Maibel Troia, Adjunct Professor of Choral [...]

Name: Mavy Mastrovito Hometown: Miami Lakes, FL Degree/Major: Music Where did you intern? What did you do there? The Broward Center for the Performing Arts. As the programming intern, I was responsible for artist research in sale statistics for ticket pricing, fan following, venue sizes, etc. I helped in preparing budgets and offer [...]

Panther music campers are learning to write songs this summer. Led by Miami educators and FIU alumni, campers explore the art of songwriting and are introduced to the songs of the Great American Songbook through The Johnny Mercer Foundation’s lyric writing program. At the heart of the program is Accentuate the Positive, a [...]

For the first time, Friends of Chamber Music of Miami (FOCM) will officially partner with Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts to host the FOCM Series.  The series features top chamber musicians from all over the world.  This year, it will be held throughout the concert season at The Wertheim, [...]

Interim Director of the School of Music, Karen S. Fuller-Veloz, has been invited to serve as a higher education advisor on the National Alliance for Audition Support (NAAS). The Alliance is a national initiative to increase diversity in American orchestras by offering mentoring, audition, and financial support to Black and Latinx orchestral musicians [...]

FIU Artist-in-Residence and acclaimed pianist Kemal Gekić and FIU Professor Emeritus of Composition Fredrick Kaufman, just returned from a 10-day U.S. State Department-sponsored concert tour to Serbia initiated by The Academy of Arts in Novi Sad where they were received by dignitaries from the United States, China, and Japan at their performance of [...]

Are you a student entering grades 4 – 12 who is interested in building a strong musical foundation for yourself? Live, learn, and perform with other young musicians during the Panther Summer Music Camp from July 22 – August 2, 2019 at FIU’s Wertheim Performing Arts Center. The camp offers aspiring musicians at [...]

Each spring semester, the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts hosts an annual Graduating Awards Ceremony to showcase the important contributions and achievements made by students throughout the year in support of service, performance, and research. This May 1, four outstanding graduates have been nominated and recognized by current faculty [...]

Dr. José López, associate professor and area coordinator of Keyboard Studies at Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts, has been unanimously elected to serve a three-year term as Honorary Secretary on the board of the Alkan Society in London. López is the first FIU faculty member to sit on [...]

On April 10 – 11, the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts is hosting a residency with GRAMMY®-nominated vocal ensemble, Seraphic Fire, that will culminate in a finale performance paying homage to Esteban Salas, Cuba’s first native-born composer of art music, with “Barocco: Latin American Baroque” on April 11, 2019 [...]