Citizen ’Cane The Nu Sound of Music Fusing a traditional art form with pop and electronic music, Sam Hyken, M.M. ’12, is creating a hybrid genre that’s reinvigorating classical music for a new generation. “I pride myself on being able to speak multiple musical languages,” says the trumpeter, composer, entrepreneur, and Frost School of Music […]
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Sir James Galway Joins Frost School Faculty
Famed flutist kicks off his UM connection with lively master class With a twinkle in his eye and a bounce in his step, the Belfast-born and world-revered flutist Sir James Galway conducted a master class at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music in March, entertaining the audience with musical stories from his vast […]
Sound Device
Alumni awarded $120K for medical startup with musical roots. Take two University of Miami engineering alumni with the pluck and ingenuity of MacGyver, a Frost School of Music program rooted in the sounds of Elvis Presley, and the life-and-death stakes of earthquake-ravaged Haiti and you’ve got the makings of potentially game-changing medical technology. In October […]
Body Tune-Up
Christopher Bennett, B.S.E.E. ’05, M.S.M.E.T. ’07, Ph.D. ’10, instructs Kelly Elizabeth in the functions of an iPad app that can “talk” to her prosthetic leg. By Meredith Camel, M.F.A. ’12 Photos by versatile light studios Songs and sounds that can help amputees walk better, safer, stronger? Researchers are merging music, engineering, and medical disciplines to […]
Instrumental Overtures
Frost MusicReach programs are playing a key part in enriching young lives with music Six-year-old Amad Nelson dutifully claps to the rhythm of an American bluegrass fiddle tune, paying close attention to the changes in tempo. The lively song, “Boil ’Em Cabbage Down,” is played deftly on the violin by the college-age instructor, whose tapping […]
