Music

“Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra is one of the best jazz orchestras in existence, a powerhouse outfit whose precise section work is enhanced by thrilling soloists“ The New Yorker O’Farrill’s debut album with the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Una Noche Inolvidable, earned a first GRAMMY® Award nomination in 2005. His next album, Song for Chico, earned a GRAMMY® Award for Best Latin Jazz … +

Featuring South Florida’s own Lisanne Lyons Jazz Trio! Lisanne Lyons, internationally recognized jazz vocalist and Chair of Jazz Vocal Studies at FIU, joins the full Symphony with her jazz trio in the music of Gershwin, well-loved Nelson Riddle arrangements, and more. Feb 18, 2020 7:45 PM

As a part of the Frost Honor Band Weekend, the Frost Wind Ensemble plays a concert featuring guest conductor Steven D. Davis, from University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. The program features works by David Maslanka, Percy Grainger as well as Ottorino Respighi’s epic symphonic poem Pines of Rome. Robert M. Carnochan and Steven D. Davis, conductors Tina DiMeglio, graduate conductor Jennifer Grim, … +

Hailed as “an important new force in the chamber music arena,” the Ehnes Quartet is comprised of four internationally renowned artists: James Ehnes, violin; Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin;  Richard O’Neill, viola and Edward Arron in cello. Co-presented by Friends of Chamber Music of Miami and the FIU School of Music.

Featuring acclaimed violinist Gareth Johnson, Gareth is Artist in Residence at Albany State University and founder of the Sphinx String Quartet; he has appeared as soloist with Pittsburgh, Rochester, Baltimore, Atlanta, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and the Boston Pops among others. Jan 07, 2020 6:45 PM

Bee Gees NOW presents a dynamic, interactive & thoroughly entertaining live tribute to the multi-platinum kings of disco. Put on your dancing shoes & get ready to experience Saturday Night Fever with this nationally touring premiere Bee Gees Tribute Band. Close your eyes & you will swear the real Gibb Brothers were performing! Open your eyes & experience the illusion that they’re … +

Twice named “New Ave Artist of the Year” by Billboard magazine, five-time Grammy Award Nominee and nouveau flamenco guitarist, Ottmar Liebert, brings his richly textured and sensuous musical style described as “poetic sunshine at midnight” to the Amaturo Theater. Considered one of the most successful instrumental artists of the past two decades, Liebert has released 25 albums and earned 38 Gold and … +

A night of classic R&B and soul celebration featuring three legendary groups. Russell Thompkins Jr. and The New Stylistics (“Betcha By Golly Wow”, “You Make Me Feel Brand New”, “I’m Stone in Love With You”), The Chi-Lites (“Oh Girl”, “Have You Seen Her”) and Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes (“If You Don’t Know Me By Now”, “Don’t Leave Me This Way”, “Bad Luck”). … +

Martin Hand, Music Director, will lead members of the Gold Coast Jazz Society Band in this free evening of jazz.  Jazz standards as well as music from the Great American songbook.

Celebrate with a night of classic R&B and soul featuring three legendary groups. Don’t miss Russell Thompkins Jr. and The New Stylistics (“Betcha By Golly Wow”, “You Make Me Feel Brand New”, “I’m Stone in Love With You”), The Chi-Lites (“Oh Girl”, “Have You Seen Her”) and Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes (“If You Don’t Know Me By Now”, “Don’t Leave Me This … +

Celebrate the holidays with Latin music icon Oscar D’León! A Venezuelan musician who achieved international acclaim for his salsa music, his most famous song is perhaps “Llorarás,” which he recorded in 1975 with his group La Dimensión Latina. In Spanish, he is known as El Diablo de la Salsa (“The Devil of Salsa”), El Sonero del Mundo (“the Son Singer of the … +

Join Nicole Yarling and members of the Gold Coast Jazz Society Band’s Quartet for an evening of jazz!  Area student jazz musicians are invited to come and jam with the professionals in front of a live audience in a family-friendly space.  Audience members welcomed. Participation, attendance and parking is free for everyone. Jan 3, 2020 at 07:30 pm – 09:30 pm Feb … +

The Ten Tenors are undoubtedly one of Australia’s most successful touring entertainment groups of all time, with more than 90 million people worldwide witnessing their unmistakable charm, camaraderie and vocal power. Following 16 years of sell-out performances across the globe, including more than 2000 of their own headline concerts, they have cemented their place as one of the worlds most loved classically … +

Highly praised for it impeccable technique, Hungarian musician Daniel Lebhardt won 1st Prize at the Young Concert Artists International auditions in Paris and New York in 2014. A year later he was invited to record music by Bartók for Decca and in 2016 won the Most Promising Pianist prize at the Sydney International Competition. Now he comes to play as a part … +

William Anthony Colón Román, better known as Willie Colón, is a Nuyorican salsa musician and social activist. Bronx-born of Puerto Rican grandparents, as musician, composer, arranger, singer, and trombonist, as well as producer and director, Colón still holds the all time record for sales, he has created 40 productions that have sold more than thirty million records worldwide. His Asalto Navideño and … +

Orchestral works that turn our attention to the beauty and romance of Italy. The program opens with the whimsical Suite for Lower Strings, by Brazilian American composer Clarice Assad. It adds new twists to familiar music by Bach, in which the main melodies are played by the lower strings for a change. Then the attention shifts to the Italian peninsula. The Haydn concerto … +

Two-time Tony-winning actress, singer and dancer Sutton Foster returns to The Parker Playhouse in an intimate evening of song with music director Michael Rafter. Sutton will perform Broadway favorites and original recordings, focusing on selections from her new album, Take Me to the World, and stories of how being a mother of a two year-old has informed her work and changed her … +

Jan 9, 2020, 8 PM Co-Artistic Directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and recipients of Musical America’s Musicians of the Year award, David Finckel and Wu Han are among the most esteemed and influential classical musicians in the world today. The energy, imagination, and integrity they bring to their concert performances and artistic projects go unmatched. “Mr. Finckel and … +

The Gold Coast Jazz Society will present their annual gala fundraising jazz party at The Grateful Palate. The evening will include reception, dinner, dancing and jazz featuring vocalist Wendy Pedersen backed by members of the Gold Coast Jazz Society Band.

The Sunrise Pops opens its 33rd season on November 24 presenting music from ‘Back to the Future’, The Beach Boys, Funny Girl medley and more. Our second act performance features one of our favorite performers, Soprano Josephine Dolce, singing tunes from Opera to Broadway. Nov 24, 2019, 2 PM

What inspires a composer to compose? Come experience how film, nostalgic prose, a birthday gift, and Renaissance frescoes inspired Copland, Barber, Wagner and Respighi. The curtain rises with music from three films scored by Aaron Copland: The City, Our Town and Of Mice and Men. Then The Symphonia performs Samuel Barber’s richly textured lyric rhapsody, “Knoxville: Summer of 1915.” It is a setting for soprano … +