Music

Piotr Anderszewski’s profile has risen exponentially since his 1999 debut at the Miami International Piano Festival. He has collaborated with acclaimed orchestras worldwide and most recently has given recitals at London’s Barbican Centre and Royal Festival Hall, the Wiener Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall and the Mariinsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg. He returns to Miami for the first time in over 10 years … +

Pianist Zlata Chochieva (Russia), the winner of ten international competitions, returns to the Miami International Piano Festival following her acclaimed May, 2014 recital at The Colony Theatre. The Miami Herald wrote that “Chochieva received repeated ovations and bravos from an excited audience… she coaxes a thunderous sonority from the instrument and can roll octaves and draw out inner voicings from the music … +

The Greater Miami Youth Symphony will present a special concert of Taiwanese and Chinese symphonic works and folk melodies. The themed feature work will be the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto, to be performed by Ms. Huifang Chen, GMYS Music Director and Symphony Orchestra Conductor. The Concerto, written in the western orchestra style and premiered in 1959, is based on an ancient Chinese … +

This thrilling program opens with Paul Hindemith’s energetic Symphony in B-flat, written in 1951 for the United States Army Band and beloved ever since by wind bands worldwide for its triumphant glory. Next up, the world premiere of Rage Against the Machine by faculty composer Scott Stinson. The second half of the program features Ingolf Dahl’s enduring Concerto for Alto Saxophone featuring … +

Experience concerts exploring the highly tempestuous and deeply emotional intermingling of music and politics. Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst takes a fascinating look at two highly autobiographical composers, whose lives and careers were separated by over a century, yet whose works demonstrate how artists of two eras wrestled with themes of freedom, personal and collective liberty, and politics. FEB 27 – … +

Frost Opera Theater rounds out their season of Puccini’s romantic masterpiece Il trittico, with the two final one-act operas of the trilogy: Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica. Gianni Schicchi, the most popular and lightest of the three, is a farcical and familial tale of greed and conniving with a libretto based on an incident in Dante’s Divine Comedy, featuring one of the … +

Vying for the largest cash prize ever awarded in a U.S. piano competition, 24 of the nation’s most gifted young pianists will compete in the 9th National Chopin Piano Competition held in Miami from February 21-March 1, 2015 at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium. The competition is open solely to U.S. pianists born between 1985 and 1999. The 24 contestants will compete over … +

New World School of the Arts’ Make Art Work (MAW) series will continue its dialogue series with the distinguished violinist Glenn Dicterow, former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. The illustrious musician will follow the conversation, directed at the music students of New World School of the Arts, with a Master Class. A Q&A session will follow the presentation. MAW LECTURE “AN EVENING … +

Orchestra Miami presents its biggest event of the Season- a FREE "pops" concert on Sunday, February 8, at 4:00 pm in Collins Park, to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the City of Miami Beach. The concert takes the audience on a musical tour through highlights of Miami Beach’s history. Sunday, Feb 8, 2015, 4:00pm Collins Park. 2100 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL … +

Last weekend audiences laughed and loved Florida Grand Opera’s production of Così fan tutte. This modern twist to a Mozart classic is about the frailty of love in a comic light. The battle of the sexes was never this much fun! With new costumes, updated scenery and a fresh interpretation of this classic story, Florida Grand Opera has brought Mozart into the … +

The Miami Classical Guitar Society and Centro Cultural Español present Maestro Ricardo Gallen in concert. He has performed with numerous symphonic orchestra with maestros Jordi Savall, Leo Brouwer, Maximiano Valdes, Monica Huggert and has recorded six albums with Naxos, Sunnyside, Eudora with works by Giuliani, Brouwer, Takemitsu and Rodrigo, Bach. Born in Linares, Spain, Ricardo Gallen has been a professor of superior … +

One of the oldest musical institutions in Russia, the Mariinsky Orchestra enjoys a long and distinguished history. Founded during 18th century under the reign of Peter the Great, the Orchestra has established its reputation as one of the finest orchestras in Europe. Through the leadership of Valery Gergiev and extensive touring, Mariinsky is often referred to as “the world’s first global orchestra.” … +

As one of the most anticipated performance of the college, the New World School of the Arts College BFA Dance Concert will present 20 Hues of 15, a program that showcases the dancers’ various talents, creativity, training and passion. This diverse group of 20 dancers, – BFA candidates from the class of 2015, has produced a mosaic of choreography and film with … +

The Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra (HMI) performs the world premiere of Paul Hayden’s Simple Serenades for Bassoon, Strings, and Percussion featuring faculty artist Gabriel Beavers on bassoon. The second half of the concert features the legendary Bob Brookmeyer’s glorious Music for String Quartet and Orchestra featuring the HMI String Quartet (Abby Young, Jaya Varma, Kathryn Severing, and Boris Popadiuk). UM Gusman Concert … +

The New World Symphony will celebrate the 70th birthday of co-founder and artistic director Michael Tilson Thomas at its annual gala. Highlights of the evening include a four-foot cake inspired by Frank Gehry’s design of the New World Center by celebrity cake-maker Syliva Weinstock and the return of five illustrious NWS alumni. Returning Fellows include Brook Ferguson, Principal Flute at the Colorado … +

The Bass Museum of Art present "MISO for the Family" . This year marks the third annual free concert in Collins Park. Under the direction of Music Director and Conductor Eduardo Marturet and Assistant Conductor Marco Real-d’Arbelles, the program includes Haydn’s "Toy" Symphony in C Major, plus a rare two-piano performance of Saint-Saëns’ popular Carnival of the Animals by Sebastian and Barbara … +

Miami Dade College’s (MDC) MDC Live Arts will present The Nile Project, an unprecedented artistic endeavor that calls together musicians from Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt, using music as a means to address the cultural and environmental challenges facing the Nile region, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24 at the … +

Mozart, temptation, and a risqué wager. A comedic romp of an opera! Two military officers decide they will test the faithfulness of their fiancées by wearing disguises. The battle of the sexes was never this much fun…and all set to Mozart’s masterful music. Così fan tutte opens January 24 at the Arsht Center and February 12th at the Broward Center. To see … +

Wherever they play, Davide and Daniele capture audiences with their original style, their unison and their fantastic energy. Deeply rooted in the music of the great classical composers with a passion for the works of their own time, their repertoire reaches from the masters of the 18th Century to those of the 21th. They are equally interested in the works by jazz … +

The Orchestra continues its 25th anniversary season with its annual showcase of young local musicians selected in a rigorous competition. Top winner Annabel Chyung, a Ransom-Everglades senior, performs the Sibelius violin concerto with the orchestra. James Leng, a 10th-grader at New World School of the Arts, performs a Schumann piano concerto, and cellist Roey Dushi, a senior at the Dreyfoos School in … +

The Lord Nelson Mass has been lauded as “arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition,” by the master’s chief biographer. The profound majesty of this monumental work is a highlight of the Classical era and influenced, among others, the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms. The Nelson Mass will be sung by the expert voices of Seraphic Fire, and, for the first time … +