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Professor Gerard Schwarz, the illustrious conductor and music director of the Frost Symphony Orchestra (FSO) and the Palm Beach Symphony; and his former graduate conducting student, triple Frost School alumnus Carlos \u201cCarlitos\u201d Lopez, have received multiple\u00a0<\/span>2025 Emmy\u00ae Award nominations<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for broadcast productions of ambitious concerts from both musical ensembles.<\/p>\n Two are for the FSO\u2019s performance of Beethoven\u2019s magnificent 9th Symphony, which South Florida\u00a0<\/span>PBS station WPBT<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>captured in its 2024 performance at the Maurice Gusman Concert Hall. The program aired on WPBT and was subsequently broadcast on 262 PBS stations across the U.S.<\/p>\n Together the\u00a0<\/span>performance and broadcast were a significant achievement<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>that brought the Frost School\u2019s rendition of one of the most important pieces in the classical music canon to a national audience.\u00a0<\/span>Schwarz<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>organized the concert for the 200th anniversary of Beethoven\u2019s masterwork, leading the FSO with the combined Frost School choirs, and brought the idea of a broadcast production to WPBT, with which he has fostered a growing relationship<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Frost School and WPBT production earned the Frost School of Music an Emmy\u00ae nomination for Special Event Coverage \u2013 Edited, with Schwarz listed as producer, together with Dean Shelton G. Berg.<\/p>\n Lopez<\/a>, a successful pop music producer who was mentored by Schwarz while earning his 2023 doctorate in classical conducting, was nominated for Audio – Live or Post Production, for the 9th Symphony production. This is the latest project in which Lopez, who earned a bachelor\u2019s in production and a master\u2019s in classical composition at the Frost School, has combined his talents and training across two musical worlds.<\/p>\n Both men also received Emmy nominations for a broadcast of the Palm Beach Symphony\u2019s \u201cThe Carnival of MORE Animals,\u201d a\u00a0<\/span>unique adaptation<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>of the beloved Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns orchestral work for children that expanded the chamber work to a full orchestra and added over a dozen Florida animals. Schwarz, who arranged and conducted the piece, was nominated for Musical Composition\/Arrangement, while Lopez was nominated again for Audio \u2013 Live or Post Production.<\/p>\n All the nominations are for the Suncoast Chapter of the Emmy\u00ae Awards, one of 19\u00a0<\/span>regional<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Emmy\u00ae chapters in the U.S., which gives awards to television markets throughout Florida, as well as in Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n