Gerard Schwarz Joins The Frost School of Music

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U.S. Marine Band: An All-Star Orchestra Special


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APRIL 9, 2019 – The Frost School of Music at the University of Miami has appointed Gerard Schwarz as Distinguished Professor of Music; Conducting and Orchestral Studies. The announcement was made by Shelton G. Berg, Dean of the Frost School of Music. Schwarz will assume his position in the fall of 2019, and he will be a full-time member of the faculty as Professor of Practice in the Department of Instrumental Performance. Read more from the Frost School of Music here.

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FALL 2018 – Maestro Schwarz directs the United States Marine Band in an All-Star Orchestra special series of three programs – Above and Beyond, New England Spirit, and Classic Band Masterpieces – which includes works by Gustav Holst, Percy Grainger, William Schuman, and of course John Philip Sousa. The United States Marine Band is America’s oldest continually performing musical ensemble and was founded by an act of Congress in 1798. The programs air on public broadcasting stations across this nation beginning this November, offering a connection with Veterans Day: the 100th commemoration of the end of World War I. Check your local listings for the broadcast dates, and check the latest news from the All-Star Orchestra website including broadcast schedules here.

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MAY 6, 2017 – All-Star Orchestra took home its 5th and 6th Emmy® Awards at the 60th Annual New York Emmy Awards, which took place at the Marriott Marquis Broadway Ballroom in New York City. “1001 Nights – The Legend of Scheherazade,” a program featuring Rimsky-Korsakov’s Arabian Nights orchestral fantasy, Scheherazade, won in the category: Special Event Coverage (Other than News and Sports) with Gerard Schwarz as Music Director/Conductor, Habib Azar as Video Director, Dmitriy Lipay as Audio Recording Producer, Andrew Mayatskiy as Video Editor, and Paul Schwendener as Executive Director. The same program also won in the category Audio awarded to Dmitriy Lipay as Audio Recording Producer. Learn more...


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BBC Music Magazine
Behind the Baton Review


July 2017 — "As an uplifting retrospective of a highly successful career populated by some of the biggest names of the last half-century, and as a revealing, behind-the-scenes look at the near-impossible balancing act that is the lot of a music director, [Behind the Baton] makes for fascinating reading." 
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Gramophone
Record of a Lifetime


September 2017 — "Gerard Schwarz is celebrating his 70th birthday with a 30-disc retrospective, and yet the conductor's desire to reach new audiences remains undimmed... His autobiography, Behind the Baton, published earlier this year by Amadeus Press, traces the trajectory of his career from the eureka moment in the cinema through his appointment as co-principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic aged 24, his 26-year tenure as Music Director of the Seattle Symphony, and the founding of the Emmy-winning All-Star Orchestra TV series."
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The New Yorker
The Return of Mid-Century American Symphonies

Oct 23, 2017 — "The conductor Gerard Schwarz’s upcoming concert with the Juilliard Orchestra, at Alice Tully Hall on Thursday, highlights an essential but overlooked period of American composition: the great mid-twentieth-century symphonies.

Well, three decades later, while Barber and Bernstein have become fixtures of the American repertory, both here and abroad, Schuman, Diamond, and Piston have not been so lucky... One person who never got the message is the distinguished conductor Gerard Schwarz, now a free agent after long stints as the music director of the Seattle Symphony and the Mostly Mozart Festival, who has spent a lifetime advocating for the American symphonic school."
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