Frost Graduate Studies

📸Views from an outdoor practice spot, a between-classes walk, and studying at the Weeks Music Library - no matter where you are on campus, Frost has something beautiful to offer!

The annual Frost Research Showcase is a chance for student and faculty researchers to share their research process and findings with colleagues, classmates, faculty, and community members. Check out just a few of these incredible graduate student researchers showing off their hard work!

Featured:
Yingxi Liu, doctoral student in Vocal Performance
Cristina Morales, doctoral student in Music Education
Rey Sunglao, doctoral student in Music Education
Elizabeth Stamerra, master's student in Music Therapy
Jacob Batchelder, doctoral student in Jazz Composition
Anish Ghosh, master's student in Music Engineering
Juan Chaves, doctoral student in Jazz Composition

Maddie Noga is a first year master's student studying Jazz Pedagogy! She studies jazz voice with Dr. Kate Reid, and also plays and teaches viola with Frost Preparatory Academy. With a background in music education, Maddie shared that her favorite thing about studying at Frost is the unique flexibility her program allows her to tailor her educational curriculum to her specific interests.

Maddie shared that this semester she is most excited for her Jazz Cultures class with Dr. David Ake and Advanced Vocal Pedagogy with Dr. Adam Lloyd, in which students dive deep into vocal anatomy and physiology and teaching techniques. She is also looking forward to performances with Jazz Vocal Ensemble 1 and working with the Frost Summer Experience youth camps.

Thanks for giving us a glimpse into the life of a Jazz Pedagogy student, Maddie!

It's starting to be recital season here at Frost, and that means almost any night of the week you can hear our talented students playing fantastic, free recitals in many of our halls on campus. This Thursday, Frost graduate student Benjamin McLaughlin is giving his Master's recital in classical trombone! With works by Messian, Prokofiev, Hass, and Gilkes, this varied recital will feature not just Ben but 8 other stellar trombone players.
Catch this celebration of all things trombone this Thursday, February 19th at 5:00 pm, in Newman Recital Hall, and make sure to visit our events page to see which other fabulous student recitals are coming up. https://frost-music-live.miami.edu/calendar/index.html

⭐️Congratulations to the Frost faculty and alumni who were recognized for their excellence at music's biggest night, the 2026 GRAMMYS!⭐️
These spectacular musicians collectively took home 8 awards and 2 high-profile special honors this past weekend, and represented departments from music education, jazz studies, production and engineering, composition, and beyond. Read on below to learn more about the musicians representing The Frost School of Music at the Grammy Awards this year:

Community, pride, and big wins at the GRAMMY Awards A sense of connection and achievement for the Frost School of Music highlighted the events surrounding the 2026 GRAMMY Awards, even as alumni and faculty earned multiple honors.