The School of Music at Florida International University invites you to attend Crossing Boundaries, a lecture series comprised of distinguished scholars and outstanding people in the arts discussing their experience and relationship with music. For the final lecture of the 2017-18 year, meet renowned Professor Emeritus at Florida International University, Fredrick Kaufman, for a discussion about “Music, [...]

Sirintip, a rising star on GroundUP Music, will perform and teach a masterclass on musician life after college! Enjoy a sampler of topics including artistic development, making an album, how to jump start your career, and how to take advantage of social media platforms and your experiences in the music industry. Stretching across three continents and [...]

Cellist Jason Calloway and composer/computer musician Jacob David Sudol discuss their electronic music to be performed during the New Music Miami Festival that evening. Their duo was founded in 2012 in order to create and perform exciting new works, play new classics from this repertoire, and revitalize recent classics that are on the threshold of [...]

Members of the Quasar Saxophone Quartet discuss their electronic music to be performed during the New Music Miami Festival that evening at 7:30pm. Acclaimed for its high energy and boldness, Quasar has, for now over twenty years, explored countless facets of musical creation including chamber music, improvisation, musical theatre and, particularly, the integration of technological developments [...]

"Muses, and Devas, and Manes, Oh My: Archetypes and Their Influence On the Artist" Join prize-winning visual artist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Derek Menchan, for a discussion on the influence of archetypes on the creative mind. From the notion that the muses secretly drop off cosmic and celestial gifts to the artist, to the idea that the [...]