Ayriole Frost is an active composer, performer, and teacher. She co-founded and serves as executive director of Shift: Englewood Youth Orchestra, an El Sistema-inspired youth development program on Chicago’s Southwest Side. She is also a workshop leader for OrchKids, a program of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Frost serves as faculty for North Park University’s certificate in Music for Social Change and Human Values.

Frost’s music research interests include social justice through music, the works of Claude Debussy, and the chamber music of the Second Viennese School, with a specific interest in the music of Alban Berg. Frost’s writing on social justice can be read on her blog, on the New England Conservatory website, and in The Ensemble.

Frost received her Bachelor of Music in Composition from Ball State University. She studied composition with Reza Vali at Carnegie Mellon University, where she completed her Master of Music in Composition. Frost was also part of Sistema Fellows at New England Conservatory, where she received training in leadership, finance, and curriculum for social change, and completed a month-long residency in Venezuela. She is a member of Society for Composers, Inc; Society for Music Theory, and Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity for women.