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For nearly two decades, The Miami Symphony Orchestra and the University of Miami Frost School of Music have worked together to offer quality concerts to the South Florida community. The Frost School of Music at UM has hosted The Miami Symphony Orchestra for exciting concert seasons featuring renowned international artists and outstanding repertoire. The Frost School of Music performing venues have proven ideal for The Miami Symphony Orchestra to perform and to provide better quality of life to the Miami-Dade County audiences.
Dean Berg of the Frost School of Music and Eduardo Marturet
create the Assistant Conductor Program partnership
The Frost School of Music and The Miami Symphony Orchestra have created an Assistant Conductor Program which will facilitate the selection of a UM Teaching Assistant whose duties will include apprenticeship with The Miami Symphony Orchestra. The Music Director of The Miami Symphony Orchestra will select the candidate from the group of graduate students that UM offers. Each Assistant Conductor will hold the position for two years, and it will be renewed on an ongoing basis.
Some of the opportunities for the student include having the opportunity to conduct the orchestra in rehearsals and concerts; active technical coaching by the Music Director; receive a paid stipend by The Miami Symphony Orchestra that will contribute to cover expenses of transportation, music scores, and others; devote roughly half of his UM Teaching Assistant load to the Assistant Conductor position.
"We are very excited about the partnership between The Miami Symphony and the Frost School,"
said Dean Shelton Berg of the Frost School. "This relationship allows a brilliant Frost doctoral
student to collaborate and 'share the podium' with the MSO's esteemed conductor, Eduardo
Marturet."
Jeffrey S. Stern, Assistant conductor as part of the Frost School of Music and MSO Apprentice Program
Jeffrey S. Stern is currently a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Miami, Frost School of Music, studying choral conducting under the direction of Joshua Habermann. A native of Long Island, New York, Jeff received his Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Minnesota in 2009, where he studied under Kathy Saltzman Romey and Matthew Mehaffey. While in the Twin Cities, heserved as Assistant Conductor of the Oratorio Society of Minnesota, sang with VocalEssence, and conducted at various churches and synagogues throughout the community. Jeff graduated summa cum laude from The George Washington University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Political Science. He performed with the GW Chamber Choir and University Singers in venues throughout the Washington, DC area, along with concert tours to Romania, Bulgaria, Argentina, and Uruguay. Jeff's performing interests also include musical theatre; for the past two summers, Jeff has served as Associate Conductor for the College Light Opera Company on Cape Cod, MA, preparing the repertory company on nine productions each season.
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