Gallery: Knight Center at The Frost School Opens
The grand opening of the new Knight Center for Music Innovation featured a gathering of musical luminaries and a star-studded concert, hosted by Gloria Estefan, and the awarding of the first-ever Frost Centennial Medal Recipients on Nov. 2, 2023.
Renaldo Sanchez, associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation and a professor of Music Business and Entertainment Industries at the Frost School of Music. Philanthropists Julia and Phillip Frost Grammy award-nominated jazz vocalist, composer and arranger Carmen Lundy and Elisabeth Oei, owner/producer at Record Label Afrasia Productions Frost School of Music Dean Shelly Berg and his wife Julia. Grammy award-winning singer, actress, songwriter and author Gloria Estefan and her husband, Grammy award-winning producer Emilio Estefan Nelson Albareda, President and CEO, Loud and Live Pianist and composer Asiya Korepanova, Dmitri Koshkin Steve Bailey, electric and double bassist, and chair of the bass department at the Berklee School of Music Jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles Multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy award-winning vocalist Jon Secada, Julio Bague James S. and James L. Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen, Victoria Rogers and Dennis Scholl, documentary filmmaker and the recently retired head of Oolite Arts Randy Spann with University of Miami President Julio Frenk and his wife, Susan Warren Maria Sales and James Cubby University of Miami Dean of Nursing and Health Studies Cindy Munro, Interim Provost Willy Prado Fred Berens, Illona Peterfly McMaster Maribel Wadsworth, Josh Friedman, Karen Wilkins Lesley and JP Faber Evan Pilgrim and Dan Halmi Jessica Brumley, Willy Prado, Jaedie Menendez, Viena Perez Jazz vocalist Carmen Lundy performs Grammy award-winning songwriter and actor Dawnn Lewis (“A Different World”) performs Steve Bailey performs Vocalist Tucker Smith, a senior at the Frost School of Music, performs Gloria Estefan adjusts her husband Emilio's Frost Centennial Medallion Gloria Estefan performing at the gala celebrating the grand opening of the new building on the Frost Music School Campus, with Shelly Berg at the piano, as Emilio Estefan and Jon Secada look on All of the gala's performers gather on stage, under a projected photo of the groundbreaking for the new building Photography: Charlotte Libov