Music

Jazz South Florida celebrates 25 years of jazz with Benny Green Trio in Concert. Benny Green (piano), David Wong (acoustic bass) and Rodney Green (drums). Green’s most recent recordings, Live in Santa Cruz (2015) and Magic Beans (2012) (Sunnyside) are examples of his brilliance. Since emerging under the four-year tutelage of Betty Carter, then Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard and Ray Brown in … +

Steve Vai is a virtuoso guitarist, visionary composer, and consummate producer who sculpts musical sound with technical mastery. At age 12, he started taking guitar lessons from Joe Satriani. At 18, he began his professional musical career transcribing for, and then playing with, the legendary Frank Zappa. After more than three decades, 15 million album sales and three GrammyAwards later, Vai continues … +

Jazz South Florida celebrates 25 years of jazz with a series of Concerts. In this occassion Etienne Charles Sextet will present the album Creole Soul. Etienne Charles will be in trumpet and percussion, Brian Hogans in saxophones, Victor Gould in piano, Alex Wintz in guitar, Jonathan Michel in bass and John Davis in drums. Trumpeter Etienne Charles is among the most compelling … +

For almost 50 years, Bob Dylan has remained one of the most influential American musicians rock & roll has ever produced. Inscrutable and unpredictable, Dylan described as a folk, blues, and rock & roll legend has been both deified and denounced for his shifts of interest, most notably from acoustic to electric. Au-Rene Theater Broward Center for the Performing Arts 201 SW … +

Frost Opera Theater students with Alan Johnson as director present the operas Scenes in Concert and Dido and Aeneas. Scenes in Concert includes classical and Bel Canto repertoire revealing the influences that will herald Frost Opera Theatre’s spring production of Stravinsky’s neoclassical opera The Rake’s Progress. In the other hand Dido and Aeneas -Henry Purcell’s extraordinary opera dating from 1680s- is a … +

Seraphic Fire, in concert with GRAMMY Award-winning organist Nathan Laube, performs a program of remembrance featuring the world premiere work, The Fate of His Ashes: A Requiem for Victims of Power, by Douglas Cuomo and the requiem masses of Fauré and Duruflé. From the delicate melody of Pie Jesu in Fauré’s Requiem to the unmistakable Gregorian chant in Duruflé’s Agnus Dei, this … +

Robert Carnochan leads the Frost Wind Ensemble on a musical celebration 90 years in the making. The world-renowned German Donaueschingen Music Festival takes center stage and features popular works from the wind band repertoire. A travel back in time to witness the programming of some of the greatest gems from legendary composers, including Hans Gál, Ernst Toch, Ernst Krenek, Ernst Pepping, and … +

With the scholarship help from the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation, a group of four outstanding young string musicians (violin, violin, viola, cello) take the stage by storm, performing with Ross Harbaugh as director. UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 305.284.2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

The four women of Las Migas come from four different cities that span not only the geography of Spain but also its cultural diversity–Barcelona, Sevilla, Cordoba and Lerida. The guitarists: Marta Robles, the veteran, and Alicia Grillo, the youngest. Alba Carmona on vocals, and Roser Loscos on violin. They all came to the group with one common passion: Flamenco. The quartet has … +

Soprano Michelle Bradley, from the Metropolitan Opera has performed such roles as Mozart’s Fiordilligi and Donna Anna, Strauss’ Marschellin, and Verdi’s Alice from Falstaff. Included in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2016-2017 season, she was the 2014 grand prize winner of The Music Academy of the West’s Marilyn Horne Song Competition and completed a nationwide recital tour in May 2015. On the other hand, … +

Five-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Mary Chapin Carpenter hits the road in 2016, performing songs from her expansive 14-album catalog and new songs from her latest record The Things That We Are Made Of, released in May 2016. Over the course of her acclaimed career, Carpenter has recorded 14 albums and sold over 14 million records, … +

The Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum selling artist—whose music incorporates hip-hop, gospel, old-school funk, even a dash of dancehall—comes to the Broward Center in support of his critically acclaimed album, What I’m Feelin’. Hamilton’s signature, honey-dipped vocals shine on hits like “Charlene,” “The Point Of It All” and “Pray For Me.” The evening’s R&B/soul lineup features special guests Lalah Hathaway and Eric Benet. … +

Viola Fellow Hannah Nicholas explores how Improvisation is shaped by the audience, featuring improvised transitional music between pieces. An intimate glimpse into their craft with these behind-the-scenes presentations on topics ranging from music appreciation to the historic contexts of composers and more. Audience members are encouraged to participate by asking questions and taking part in post-presentation discussions. Third-year Viola Fellow Hannah Rose … +

Bach’s B minor mass takes listeners on a journey they will never forget, considered as infectiously joyous and hailed as “a cathedral of sound,” this masterpiece is widely considered one of the best choral works ever written. In this occasion the Master Chorale of South Florida gets together with the Symphonia of Boca Raton and world-class soloists. Dates, Times and Venues November … +

The SYMPHONIA Boca Raton proposes an exotic evening of sultry sounds by the Latin-Grammy-nominated Colombian Tango Ensemble, Quinteto Leopoldo Federico and a dramatic dance performance. Spectators will enjoy a night of cocktails, dinner, music and dance, to challenge tango skills with local/award-winning dance instructors. Boca West Country Club The SYMPHONIA Boca Raton 2285 Potomac Road Boca Raton FL 33431 561.376.3848 www.thesymphonia.org

Bernard Labadie—renowned specialist of Baroque and Classical repertoire—makes his much-anticipated return to the New World Center for an evening of the two eras’ masters. The standard Baroque dance suite gets an upgrade in J.S. Bach’s Fourth Orchestral Suite, including trumpets and timpani Soprano Lydia Teuscher’s voice in a collection of opera and concert arias by George Frideric Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, … +

The Frost Symphonic Choir and Chamber Singers join together for a chortal concert. Special guest group BisCaydence will join in to add some collegiate a cappella style to this event featuring music from Bach to Rock with Karen Kennedy as director. UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

Georges Bizet’s Carmen is considered one of the most requested, anticipated and beloved operas. Carmen, tells the story of the fiery gypsy cigarette girl, gets any man she wants—and then gets rid of him when a better one comes along. When she sets her sights on Corporal Don José, he doesn’t stand a chance. He’s smitten and gives up everything—his career, his … +

Alhambra Orchestra presents Spooky Symphony as a part of its current season. Spooky will be a Multimedia Halloween Spectacle for children and families, designed as one-hour kid-friendly event with only two shows. The Alhambra Orchestra, Miami’s Community Orchestra, is a vibrant, performing organization for amateur and professional musicians dedicated to bringing musical experiences to audiences of all ages. 2 Performances only: Oct … +

Pianist Monty Alexander along with his Harlem-Kingston Express Band bring together the musical worlds of American jazz, Calypso, bebop and the music of his native Jamaica into one grand show. Monty Alexander long ago combined together the influence of Oscar Peterson with the soul of Gene Harris and Nat “King” Cole to form his personable style. His band Monty and the Cyclones … +

Named “Entertainer of the Century” by CNN in 1988, Charles Aznavour has a career spanning 70 years! Over 100 million record sales, 1,200 songs, 80 movies, 294 albums, hundreds of gold, platinum, diamond records and thousands of concerts in around 94 countries. Charles celebrated his 92nd birthday earlier this year, which makes him the “longest standing A List star” ever, still filling … +