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(Photo: Feb. 22, 2019: FIU Composer Federico Bonacossa performs the Bichord Drone after explaining the story behind its 3D design from the MONAD Studio.)   In its fourth year, the Miami International GuitART Festival (MIGF), organized by FIU faculty guitar member Mesut Ozgen, continues to bring world-class guitarists to the School of Music at [...]

For the first time, the FIU Opera Theater produced a fully-staged zarzuela at FIU on March 1 and 2: Doña Francisquita. It is based on Lope de Vega’s play La discreta enamorada, and tells the story of young lovers, Francisquita and Fernando, in mid-19th century Spain during the Carnival season. It was a [...]

The Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts is partnering with the Miami Jazz Cooperative to present a concert at The Wertheim on Friday, April 26, 2019 at 8 p.m. to honor the late Michael Orta, a longtime jazz piano professor and a mainstay in the Miami jazz community. Proceeds [...]

(Pictured L – R: Rachal Solomon, Orianna Gutierrez, Noelia Lee Luna, Gabriella Villalobos, Adam Levine, Ethan Soledad, Erika Vasallo, and Catherine Magarino)   Eight exceptional FIU voice students from the studios of Dr. Vindhya Khare, Robert B. Dundas, and Scott Bracken-Tripp won first-prizes in their age group at the 2019 Florida Gold Coast Chapter of the National Association of Teachers [...]

Originally posted by Patricia Cárdenas, FIU News In 1999, Oliver Diez ’99, MM ’16 interviewed for the position of music teacher at Palmetto Elementary School — straight out of college. He was notably enthusiastic, sharing a single, seemingly impracticable goal: starting a concert band, a rare feat for an elementary school. “I told the [former] principal, ‘I [...]

“My music emerges from the heart of Caribbean rhythms and chants. We are a creative mixture of cultures – an explosion of sounds, colors, and imagination. It has always been my universe, my poetic vision of the world.”   Darwin Aquino (MM ’15, orchestral conducting) returns to FIU this week for a collaboration with the [...]

(Pictured: FIU Concerto Competition Collegiate Winners, L to R: Vanessa Gentzchein and Alejandro Viera) Since 1996, music students have competed for the chance to perform as a soloist with the FIU Symphony Orchestra by winning first prize of the highly competitive annual FIU Concerto Competition each November. Three years ago, the competition expanded [...]

On November 1, the Amernet String Quartet, FIU’s Artist-in-Residence Ensemble, will hold a moment of silence and dedicate their “FIU Meets Juilliard: Amernet & Kalichstein” concert to the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. The Amernet will open with a special performance of Dem Rebens Nigun (“The Rabbi’s Melody”) by Jewish composer, Aleksandr Zhitomorskii. [...]

This October 26 – November 10, the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts will welcome over 50 high caliber guest artists from top universities and ensembles from the United States and abroad in curated performances with FIU’s preeminent Artists-in-Residence and student ensembles for the 2018 FIU Music Festival. This [...]

The Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts is pleased to announce two additions and two promotions to the faculty this fall.  Jacob Berglin, Instructor Jacob Berglin joined the music education faculty as vocal specialist in the fall of 2018. His research interests include access to music education based on race, [...]