Coral Gables

The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet features four extraordinary musicians who bring energy to the concert stage in programs ranging from Bluegrass to Bach. LAGQ’s Guitar Heroes album (Telarc), winner of a 2005 Grammy, is a brilliant follow-up to their Grammy-nominated LAGQ-Latin. This time the quartet will present music from its new album New Renaissance, including the engrossing suite “Music from the Time … +

Grammy- and Emmy-winning tenor John Easterlin returns to his hometown with a variety of Broadway, gospel, folk, operetta and opera favorites, featuring arias by Mozart, Strauss, Wagner, Shostakovich and more. The theatrical veteran, named the 2015 Frost Distinguished Alumnus, weaves an entertaining musical tale. New York pianist Mitchell Cirker accompanies and Dean of the Frost School of Music Shelly Berg appears as … +

A three-time Latin Grammy winner and double Grammy nominee, Natalia Lafourcade is one of the most important singer-songwriters of her generation. Originally from Mexico, her latest album Hasta la Raíz “to the root” was inspired by connecting with oneself and connecting with the universe. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Mexican sales charts and remains a top seller. UM Gusman … +

Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local Berliners outside a nightclub. Sonne and his friends promise to show her a good time and the real side of the city. But these lads have gotten themselves into hot water: they owe someone a dangerous favor that requires repaying that evening. As Victoria’s flirtation with Sonne deepens into something more, he convinces … +

Miami Chamber Music is pleased to present “Beethoven String Quartet” by Ehnes Quartet. Comprised of four internationally renowned string musicians: Grammy award winner James Ehnes, Fellow violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, Violist Richard O’Neill and Cellist Robert DeMaine; the Ehnes Quartet has been considered an important new force in the chamber music arena. Critically acclaimed performances from Seattle to Miami and Montreal have … +

Miami Chamber Music opens its 60th Anniversary Season proudly presenting The Borodin Quartet, who for seven decades, has been celebrated its insight and authority in the chamber music repertoire. Revered for its searching performances of Beethoven and Shostakovich, the Quartet is equally at home in music ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky. The Quartet is universally recognized for its genuine interpretation of Russian … +

Cuban-born pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Bulgarian-born percussionist Svet Stoyanov and American-born trumpeter John Daversa met at UM Frost as new faculty. In this energizing program with the Frost Concert Jazz Band they celebrate the multicultural vibrancy of their new musical home inspired in part by “Afro Blue” by Mongo Santamaría and “Manteca” by Dizzy Gillespie. Rubalcaba also performs highlights from his illustrious career … +

Frost Studio Jazz Band and Concert Jazz Band present Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess by Bill Potts. These two of the Frost School’s DownBeat collegiate award-winning big bands will also perform new works by Frost composers for soloists in the bands. UM Gusman Concert Hall University of Miami Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive, Room 110 Coral Gables, FL 33124-7610 … +

Thomas Sleeper conducts the Frost Symphony Orchestra in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, aptly described as moving ‘from tragedy to triumph.’ It features the tender and beautiful “Adagietto.” Thomas Sleeper is professor of instrumental performance and program director of orchestral activities at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, where he also teaches instrumental conducting. He is conductor of the Frost … +

Best of Enemies. Buckley vs. Vidal. The 10 Debates that Changed Television Forever tells the story who changed television news in 1968. Directed with consummate skill by filmmakers Robert Gordon and Sundance Film Festival alumn Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet From Stardom), Best of Enemies unleashes a highbrow blood sport that marked the dawn of pundit television as we know it today. Dead … +

Arturo O’Farrill, pianist, composer, and educator, is the 2015 GRAMMY winner for Best Latin Jazz Album. Arturo is hailed by The New York Times as the leader of the “first family of Afro-Cuban Jazz,” and he’s the son of late, great composer Chico O’Farrill. Be prepared for a combination of piano, trumpet, sax, bass, drums and percussion that will move you, literally, … +

America’s most prolific filmmaker is at it again. Here is Woody Allen’s 45th opus. Neither a drama nor a comedy, but a dramedy instead, Irrational Man involves the arrival on campus of Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix), a professor that “should put some Viagra into the Philosophy department.” Gravitating toward Abe-in-a-funk are science colleague Rita (Parker Posey), locked into a loveless marriage, and … +

The Lowe Art Museum is thrilled to present the first public exhibition of works from the Francien C. Ruwitch and the Ruwitch Family Collections as a tribute to the wonderful woman who catalyzed their very existence. The Francien C. Ruwitch and the Ruwitch Family Collections comprise a rich, intergenerational assortment of art in all media, including works by Olafur Eliasson, Walker Evans, … +

Unnecessary Farce takes place in a cheap motel room, where an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant. In the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there’s some confusion as to who’s in which room, who’s being videotaped, who’s taken the money, who’s hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps … +

First love, school bullies, British New Wave … and SCUD missiles. This bittersweet 80s coming-of-age drama from director Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride, The Lemon Tree) adapts two semi-autobiographical novels by the popular Arab-Israeli Sayed Kashua. Eyad is a gifted Arab teenager who wins the chance to attend one of the most prestigious Jewish boarding schools in Israel. Isolated and lonely at … +

This season the festival continues its partnership with the landmark Coral Gables venue – The Biltmore Hotel – that will host 7 of the festival Sunday afternoon concerts and 2 Family Concerts. The Opening Night will take place on Saturday, April 25, 6pm, at Gusman Hall-UM; this special event will honor Doreen Marx and Byron Krulewitch for their remarkable contribution for the … +

The event is focused on FGO’s dynamic General Director & CEO, Susan T. Danis. Her over 20 years experience in the opera industry makes her an interesting subject for a Susan’s Salon, since not many people know what it takes to run an opera company. Danis will share her experiences and humorous anecdotes while audiences are entertained by FGO’s Young Artists performing … +

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 … +

Now in its 32nd year, the Miami International Film Festival is 10 days of provocative cinema and fabulous parties attended by guests from around the globe. Love the red carpet? See a CINEDWNTWN gala screening . Like films about food? Sink your teeth into one of our mouth-watering Culinary Cinema pairings. Can’t get enough of the Oscars? Attend a master class with … +

The Brazilian-born Muniz is known for the startling materials he uses in the production of his stunning images. By employing diverse materials such as toys, diamonds, garbage and magazine clippings, the artist creates tableaux, which are then photographed. Poetics of Perception includes elements of several of his renowned bodies of work, including Diamond Divas, Pictures of Chocolate, Pictures of Junk, Pictures of … +