William Hipp, Dean of the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music at the University of Miami

As one of the nation's largest schools of music housed within a private university, the Frost School of Music continues on a path that has seen it emerge as a strong force in music higher education.

The School's graduates provide the best example of its influence on the world of music. Frost School of Music graduates perform in major opera companies and symphony orchestras; teach in leading universities, colleges, and schools; appear in television series and on Broadway; win Grammy awards in jazz and popular music; and provide technical, creative, and administrative support within the music industry around the globe.

Many of the School's performance faculty are regularly featured in concerts and recitals throughout the United States and abroad. The results of faculty scholarly and research pursuits appear frequently in the form of books, articles, papers, and monographs, while the works of composers and arrangers are widely published, performed, and recorded.

The Frost School of Music is a national leader in the development of contemporary programs that respond to the needs of music professions. For example, it was the first to offer degrees in Music Industry and in Music Engineering Technology, and among the first to offer degrees in Studio Music and Jazz, Music Therapy, and Musical Theatre.

Of equal importance are those programs which are essential to the core and substance of any great school of music. Strong traditional programs in performance, theory, composition, music education, and musicology have produced a constant stream of artists, creators, scholars, and teachers who have made significant contributions to the quality of musical life at local, state, national, and international levels.

This confluence of contemporary and traditional programs offers students a stimulating environment that resembles a microcosm of the music professions broadly. Couple this with a community of music students typically representing all fifty states and twenty-five countries, and the result is an energetic mixture that can be found in few schools.

William Hipp, D.M.A.
Dean
Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music