\n <\/p>\n
The 43rd edition of the\u00a0<\/span>Frost School of Music\u2019s annual Honor Band Festival<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>welcomed 286 student musicians from 50-plus high schools across Florida on campus for a full weekend of concerts, masterclasses, and rehearsals. More than 500 students applied for this year\u2019s program, which began with auditions on the first morning.<\/p>\n \u201cStudents auditioned, then placed in ensembles, and began rehearsing that afternoon to play a concert the next day,\u201d said\u00a0<\/span>Michael Hancock<\/a>, director of bands at the Frost School as well as conductor of the\u00a0<\/span>Frost Wind Ensemble<\/a>. \u201cIt was a very intense weekend of music-making. Honor Band Festival is an opportunity for us to bring the students and directors of South Florida to our campus and revel in a shared musical experience. This event is highly sought after by high school students.\u201d<\/p>\n Students were placed in three different ensembles, each of which performed a concert at Gusman Concert Hall alongside the Frost Wind Ensemble. The program also included masterclasses taught by Frost School faculty and studio teaching assistants.<\/p>\n \u201cAnytime we can make music together here with our partners in music education and grow students, it\u2019s a spectacular thing,\u201d said Hancock. \u201cWe really try to pull out all the stops with it.\u201d<\/p>\n This was Hancock\u2019s first year overseeing the event. This year\u2019s program received overwhelmingly positive reviews from participants.<\/p>\n \u201cIt went swimmingly,\u201d Hancock said. \u201cI always ask directors and students how they felt it was run, and just about everyone said this was one of the best they\u2019ve ever attended. It\u2019s a fantastic tradition that has continued over the years, providing a great opportunity for high school students and band directors to come onto campus and be part of our musical culture at the Frost School of Music.\u00a0 We are already working on ways to make it even better next year.\u201d<\/p>\n \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":" The 43rd edition of the\u00a0Frost School of Music\u2019s annual Honor Band Festival\u00a0welcomed 286 student musicians from 50-plus high schools across Florida on campus for a full weekend of concerts, masterclasses, and rehearsals. More than 500 students applied for this year\u2019s program, which began with auditions on the first morning. \u201cStudents auditioned, then placed in ensembles, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2300681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[445771,260129,187166,445772,445773],"class_list":["post-2300680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-frost-honor-band-festival","tag-frost-school","tag-frost-school-of-music","tag-marching-bands-south-florida","tag-michael-hancock-band-director"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Honor-Band-Festival-a-rousing-success.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300682,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300680\/revisions\/2300682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2300681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Students](\"https:\/\/news.miami.edu\/frost\/_assets\/images\/images-stories\/2026\/02\/2-frosthonorband940x529.webp\")
![\"Students](\"https:\/\/news.miami.edu\/frost\/_assets\/images\/images-stories\/2026\/02\/3-frosthonorband940x529.webp\")
\n
\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n