Frost Flute Studio

FFA was last weekend, and our studio members were booked and busy!! First, A HUGE congrats to senior Ben Novotny for winning 3rd place in this year’s Collegiate Artist Competition!! His rendition of Griffes Poem was SO stunning and musical and we’re SO proud!!

DMA student Alyssa Mena gave an incredible recital with flutists from Florida Grand Opera, including studio alum, Emilio Rutllant !! Peep the Florida premiere for her piece for alto and bass flute, Hermanas👀 Alyssa also signed and sold several copies of her newest work for wind quintet, El Ajiaco, as well as her solo flute piece Hasta La Raiz, that was performed by Emilio!

Congratulations, Alyssa and Ben!! We’re so inspired by you both every day

Our awesome faculty duo (and chamber department co-chairs) Solidaire gave an amazing recital on Friday night! Their program featured all new music for flute and percussion, and a few of our studio members joined them onstage for the finale! Congrats to all!!

During Friday’s studio class we welcomed Cleveland Symphony’s Joshua Smith to campus for an orchestral excerpts masterclass with a few of our flutists! Beautiful playing to our performers, Chi, Abrielle and Tessa, and thank you so much Joshua for sharing your wisdom with us!! Be sure to catch the Cleveland Symphony when they’re back in Miami in March!!

So proud of our masters students Lauren and Abrielle for their awesome concert with the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra last night!! Always fun to see our HMI flutes perform with the studio jazz students, and so great to have the opportunity to work with renowned vocalist Patti Austin! Brava!!

Last Friday we welcomed some fantastic flutists to Frost for our 43rd annual Honor Band Festival auditions! Each year high school musicians from across Miami are nominated to participate, and it’s always a blast working with everyone!! Our studio TAs, Chi, Lauren, and Abrielle, were busy adjudicating and leading a Q&A/masterclass in the afternoon. ✨🤓🪈 Congrats to all who auditioned!

Friday’s forum and studio class were a real treat! In studio Lia gave us a recital sneak peek and played Allison Loggins-Hull’s Say Can You for picc/electronics! Mark your calendars for Lia’s recital this week: Thursday 11/20 @ 7:30 in St. Bede Chapel‼️‼️

We’re also sending a huge thank you to Maestro Schwarz and Prof. Tindall for sharing some insight on taking and preparing for orchestral auditions during forum!

Chi’s 2nd DMA recital was last night, and it was amazing!! Her program featured 20th and 21st century works by Karg-Elert, Colgrass, Messiaen, and Ewazen! Chi, we’re so proud of you and your growth over the past year! HUGE congratulations!!💐🙇⭐️

Congratulations to junior Lia Suk and the Stamps Woodwind Quintet on a spooktacular Halloween performance on Friday!🎃 Their program featured Valerie Coleman’s Red Clay & Mississippi Delta, Barber’s Summer Music, and Taffanel’s Quintet! Visit the livestream to check out their encore, a Halloween medley by recent alum, Joseph Herring (DMA ‘25)!

We’re at the height of recital season! In yesterday’s studio class we heard a recital sneak peak from Chi (tune in on Nov 9!!), and some duo excerpt prep from Julia and Tessa for the Frost Repertory Orchestra concert on Nov 18!

And as per usual, it’s always a pleasure to have Adam Workman on campus with us! He gave an awesome presentation about how flutes are made and sold— and helped some of the studio out with a bit of quick maintenance:)

The Frost Flute Ensemble had a fantastic concert last night! We shared a rainbow of works (shoutout to this year’s dress code🌈), from Boismortier’s Concerto for Five Flutes to flutist-composer Kyrese Washington’s recent NFA premiere, Fiercely Blue! We’re in the height of fall semester recital season. Stay tuned for more Frost Flute performances via the Frost Events page. Link in to watch Tuesday’s concert in bio!!

Thursday’s performance at Lincoln Center was a success! Congratulations to Chi, Abrielle and Rodrigo for a fantastic concert!! FSO had a blast working with Etienne Charles and Creole Soul over the past couple of weeks. Swipe for a mini photodump➡️

Rodrigo (BM ‘26), Abrielle (MM ‘26) and Chi (DMA ‘27) are in New York this week with FSO and Creole Soul, performing faculty composer Etienne Charles’ work, San Juan Hill! Catch the performance tomorrow evening at 7:30 in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall!