Frost Artist Launch

The Frost Artist Launch program is a career advocacy initiative that selects Frost School of Music’s top students and recent graduates who are ready for a successful career in performance. These emerging artists participate in a year-long artist residency that features professional performances, interaction with influential industry leaders, and a culminating debut concert at Carnegie Hall.

This program is a progression from traditional music school learning towards tangible career investment and implements a system for success that places selected students and recently graduated alumni directly into professional arenas. Artists within the fellowship are mentored by industry professionals, selected faculty, and alumni.

The selection process is an annual audience choice competition that includes notable guest artists who represent 50% of the final vote. 

• Lindsay Garritson

  Pianist Lindsay Garritson has performed throughout the United States and abroad since the age of four. 

  An award-winning performer, Lindsay has received top prizes at the Montreal International Piano Competition, USASU Bösendorfer International Piano Competition, and the Mozarteum International Chopin Competition (Salzburg). She was invited as one of thirty participants internationally to compete in the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, and she was selected as one of six finalists worldwide for the 2014 German Piano Award in Frankfurt, Germany. Read more>>

• Alicia Hall Moran

  Alicia Hall Moran, mezzo-soprano, is a multi-dimensional artist performing and composing between the genres of Opera, Art, Theater, and Jazz. 
  
  A unique vocalist performing across the fine arts and in her own contemporary work, Moran's creativity has been nurtured by, and tapped by, celebrated artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Adam Pendleton, Joan Jonas, Ragnar Kjartansson, Simone Leigh, Liz Magic Laser, curator Okwui Enwezor, and choreographer Bill T. Jones, musicians like Bill Frisell, Charles Lloyd, and the band Harriet Tubman, diverse writers from Simon Schama to Carl Hancock Rux, as well as institutions at the forefront of art and ideas worldwide. Read more>>

• Charles Letourneau

  For over 25 years, Charles Letourneau has produced several of the most successful performing arts projects in the business. Read more>>

• Cristian Măcelaru 

  Currently in his second season as Chief Conductor of the WDR Sinfonieorchester, Cristian Măcelaru is one of the fast-rising stars of the conducting world. Appointed Music Director of the Orchestre National de France in Paris starting with September 2021, one of Europe’s leading orchestras, he actually started this position a year earlier, effectively on September 1, 2020.
  
  In January 2020, Măcelaru received his first-ever GRAMMY^® Award for conducting the Decca Classics recording of Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto with Nicola Benedetti and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Frost Artist Launch invites you to help launch our students and recent alumni! There are many ways to support, from:

• hosting the artists in soirees or providing host accommodations in NYC,
• sponsoring the Carnegie Hall event,
• providing impactful networking opportunities with industry professionals,
• sponsoring landmark commissions that distinguish the fellow or ensemble

All offers of support will be received by

Dania E. Gorriz
Executive Director, Development
t: 305.284.8252

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