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Matthew Brady \u2013 Assistant Professor\/Director of Choral Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n Brady, who\u00a0<\/span>became an assistant professor<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in the Choral Studies program in the spring of 2024, also served as Interim Director of Choral Studies during the 2024-25 academic year, after former director Amanda Quist left for a position at Western Michigan University. This fall, Brady moves fully into the position of Director of Choral Studies. During his short time at the Frost School, Brady has endeared himself to students and faculty, chosen by his peers for a Kudo Award last February, and leading choral students in an enthusiastically received tour of Italy in May that one student called\u00a0<\/span>\u201cthe trip of a lifetime.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Brady has extensive experience as a conductor, clinician, professional singer, and educator at the collegiate, middle, and high school levels. He was previously Director of Choral Studies at the New Mexico Military Institute and Cal State San Bernardino, and has sung with the Philadelphia Symphonic Chorus, the New York Philharmonic, and the Dallas Choral Festival. He has been a guest conductor of the New Mexico All-State Choir and the Broward County Honor Choir.<\/p>\n Edward J. Carroll \u2013 Visiting Assistant Professor (trumpet) in Instrumental Performance<\/strong> Carroll, a trumpet player and artist who has a distinguished teaching and performing career, will teach during the fall semester while Professor Craig Morris is on sabbatical. A Chicago native and Juilliard graduate, Carroll has been a lecturer at Dartmouth College since 2005, and is also on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts. He has been International Chair of Brass Studies at London\u2019s Royal Academy of Music and a professor at the Rotterdam Conservatory. Carroll has taught masterclasses at the Juilliard, Eastman, and Manhattan Schools of Music, the Curtis Institute, Interlochen Arts Academy, the Tanglewood Institute, and music schools across Europe. He has been principal trumpet with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and San Diego Symphony, and performed as a soloist with many North American and European orchestras. Multiple composers, including Paul Moravec and Larry Polansky, have written music for him, and he has done solo recordings for Sony, Vox, MHS, and Newport Classic.<\/p>\n Tal Cohen \u2013 Lecturer in Studio Music and Jazz<\/strong> Jazz pianist\u00a0<\/span>Tal Cohen<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>has a rich history with the Frost School\u2019s jazz division. He was a Henry Mancini Institute (HMI) Fellow who received his master\u2019s from the Frost School in 2015, where he was mentored by Professor\u00a0<\/span>Martin Bejerano<\/a>. Cohen played on jazz studies chair\u00a0<\/span>John Daversa<\/a>\u2019s multi-GRAMMY-winning 2018 album \u201cAmerican Dreamers<\/a>,\u201d and the two subsequently joined up for the album and performing partnership \u201cThe Art of Duo<\/a>.\u201d Cohen\u00a0<\/span>won<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>the Detroit Jazz Festival\u2019s 2014 Barry Harris Jazz Piano Competition, and in 2015, he\u00a0<\/span>received<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>a prestigious Freedman Jazz Fellowship, performing at the Sydney Opera House. Raised in Israel and Australia, Cohen has toured with saxophonist Joe Lovano and famed composer and bandleader Terrence Blanchard, artistic director of the HMI from 2011 to 2015, who called Cohen \u201cone of the brightest stars playing the piano to come along in a long time\u2026 at the top of the curve changing our minds about music.\u201d Cohen also has\u00a0<\/span>a tri<\/a>o with legendary Cuban percussionist Ignacio Berroa. His own albums include 2011\u2019s \u201cYellow Sticker\u201d and 2017\u2019s \u201cGentle Giants,\u201d which received a four-star review from Downbeat Magazine.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Michael Hancock \u2013 Associate Professor\/Director of Bands<\/strong> Hancock, who holds a 2004 master\u2019s and a 2014 doctorate in wind conducting from the Frost School, steps into the band leadership position<\/a>\u00a0previously\u00a0<\/span>held by beloved Frost School professor Dr. Robert Carnochan, who passed away unexpectedly last September. Hancock will conduct the Frost Wind Ensemble; teach graduate conducting classes, lessons, and seminars; and oversee undergraduate conducting classes and the athletic band program. Hancock was previously Director of Bands at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA), where he was also an associate professor and wind ensemble conductor; and before that was Associate Director and Interim Director of Concert Bands at the University of Oklahoma. He has been immersed in the wind and marching band worlds since high school, and has been a band director at public high schools in Arkansas and Texas. Hancock earned a bachelor\u2019s in music education in 2000 from Arkansas Tech University, and has studied orchestral conducting and repertoire at the Conservatorium Maastricht in the Netherlands. He takes a collaborative approach to music, commissioning new work from contemporary composers and working with visual artists and actors. At the Frost School, he will conduct the Frost Wind Ensemble; teach graduate conducting classes, lessons, and seminars; and oversee undergraduate conducting classes and the athletic band program.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Ian Holljes \u2013 Lecturer in Modern Artist Development and Entrepreneurship (M.A.D.E.)<\/strong> The newest faculty member of the Frost School\u2019s innovative contemporary music program is literally a rock star.\u00a0<\/span>Holljes<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>is a member of Delta Rae, an Americana-rock-soul band which he co-founded in 2009 with his brother, sister, and three close friends.\u00a0<\/span>Delta Rae<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>became a major popular and critical success, appearing on major late-night TV shows and music festivals, lauded by the likes of Pharrell Williams, Melissa Etheridge, and David Byrne, and becoming the most funded independent band in Kickstarter history after raising $450,000 on the platform in 2019 for a double album project. Holljes and Delta Rae are working on \u201cThe Ninth Woman<\/a>,\u201d an immersive Southern Gothic musical that imagines what would happen if a Puritan witch hunt caught a real witch. The\u00a0<\/span>show<\/a>, which was workshopped at the renowned Williamstown Theater Festival this summer, is being developed for Broadway by\u00a0<\/span>P3 Productions<\/a>, the innovative company behind acclaimed musicals such as \u201cA Strange Loop\u201d and \u201cJust For Us.\u201d Holljes previously taught songwriting and voice as an adjunct professor in the M.A.D.E. program.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Ana Ivanchenko \u2013 Lecturer in Keyboard Performance<\/strong> This accomplished pianist comes to her new position with significant experience at the Frost School. Ivanchenko earned her doctorate in piano performance and pedagogy here in 2016, studying on a full scholarship. She began\u00a0<\/span>teaching in the Frost Prep<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>program in 2014, moving to the program\u2019s Advanced Piano division in 2019, and became an adjunct lecturer in the Musicology program in 2016; positions she leaves behind as she starts her new job. Ivanchenko replaced professor\u00a0<\/span>Santiago Rodriguez<\/a>, the acclaimed chair of the Keyboard Department, while he was on sabbatical during the 2022-23 academic year, and will substitute this fall for piano professor\u00a0<\/span>Kevin Kenner<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>while he is on sabbatical. Born and raised in Moldova, Ivanchenko has won top prizes in numerous national and international competitions in the United States and Europe, and has performed with major ensembles in Moldova as well as with the Frost Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles. She holds a bachelor\u2019s and a master\u2019s degree in music from Rowan University in New Jersey, where she was also on a full scholarship. Ivanchenko is married to fellow keyboard department lecturer\u00a0<\/span>Oleksii Ivanchenko<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Reid Masters \u2013 Assistant Professor\/Assistant Director of Choral Studies<\/strong> Acclaimed for his \u201cinfectious passion,\u201d Masters brings extensive experience as a conductor, educator, and countertenor to his new position with the choral program. He has served as Minister of Music at First Presbyterian Church of Fort Lauderdale, Assistant Director of Choral Activities at Kennesaw State University, and Artistic Director of the New Jersey Chamber Singers\u2014leading their internationally released Mozart\u2019s Requiem recording on the Naxos label. He is also co-founder of the professional chamber choir Kinnara Ensemble and has performed with ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic under conductors Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Alan Gilbert, Nicholas McGegan, and Jaap van Zweden. Internationally sought after as a clinician, Dr. Masters has led workshops and masterclasses for ensembles from Taiwan to the Bahamas, in addition to his extensive work with honor choirs and festival ensembles across the United States. A Rider Scholar, Masters graduated summa cum laude from Westminster Choir College and earned his D.M.A. from Rutgers University, where he taught conducting and directed the Rutgers University Choir.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Maria Alejandra Quintanilla \u2013 Jazz Vocal Lecturer in Studio Music and Jazz<\/strong> A distinctive vocalist and interdisciplinary artist whose musical work encompasses painting, film, poetry, improvisation, and extended vocal techniques,\u00a0<\/span>Quintanilla<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>joins the jazz vocal program after earning her doctorate here this spring. She was a Henry Mancini Institute Fellow, and graduate teaching assistant to jazz vocal program director Kate Reid, leading the Jazz Vocal II Ensemble. In her new position, Quintanilla will lead VoxCentric, a new, collaborative a cappella ensemble exploring extended vocal techniques through original works, which is open to all students, as well as teaching applied voice lessons and leading the Jazz Vocal I ensemble. In 2025,\u00a0<\/span>Quintanilla<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>received a $25,000 P.E.O. Scholar Award, an honor given to just 100 women doctoral students in the U.S. and Canada. It was the latest in a series of awards for Quintanilla, who was the first artist to receive the Ella Fitzgerald Scholarship for both her bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees. She has released two albums as a co-leader; her 2024 debut solo project, \u201cIrrefragible Laws<\/a>\u201d,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>explores a wide range of vocal techniques, sounds, and visual media. She also sings on \u201cSome Days Are Better: The Lost Scores,\u201d the\u00a0<\/span>album of music by jazz icon Kenny Wheeler<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>recorded by jazz program leaders and students from the Frost School and London\u2019s Royal Academy of Music at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. Quintanilla has performed at New York\u2019s famed Blue Note Jazz Club and Jazz at Lincoln Center with the Purchase Jazz Orchestra, as well as at New York\u2019s Summerstage and in festivals in Montreal, Portugal, and Africa.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Jenny Snyder \u2013 Lecturer in Vocal Performance\/Musical Director Frost Opera Theater<\/strong> A talented accompanist, composer, arranger, director, and coach, Snyder has worked with the Frost School since 2017. This fall she becomes the Musical Director of the Frost Opera Theater, involved in all musical aspects of preparing for opera productions, and will also work as a coach and pianist for classical singers. Born on the island of Guam, Snyder made her concerto debut at age 11, her solo recital debut at 12, and became the harpsichordist for the Black Hills Chamber Music Society the same year. She received her bachelor’s in piano (summa cum laude) from the Eastman School of Music, receiving Eastman’s Excellence in Accompanying Award in both 2001 and 2002 for her performances with students and faculty. Snyder has worked extensively throughout the United States as a pianist, music director, and composer in both classical music and musical theater; she has accompanied a wide variety of musicians, from professional whistler Jason Serinus (the voice of Woodstock in the Peanuts movies) to renowned mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source news.miami.edu \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Matthew Brady \u2013 Assistant Professor\/Director of Choral Studies Brady, who\u00a0became an assistant professor\u00a0in the Choral Studies program in the spring of 2024, also served as Interim Director of Choral Studies during the 2024-25 academic year, after former director Amanda Quist left for a position at Western Michigan University. 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