Festivals

America’s Short Play Festival is back with the best short plays in the country including 10-minute musicals. This season’s Summer Shorts celebrates the laughter, diversity and joy of Miami in 90 action-packed minutes. Starring a company of South Florida Theatre All-Stars. Carnival Studio Theater The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts 1300 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL 33132 305.949.6722 www.arshtcenter.org

Praised by Le Figaro for his “unequaled touch, perfectly harmonious phrasing and breathtaking virtuosity” pianist Sergei Babayan will present a recital of works by Bach and Mozart. He will be joined by the festival artistic director and his former student at the Cleveland Instittue of Music, Marina Radiushina for a few duo piano selections. Gusman Concert Hall University of Miami University of … +

The Miami Chamber Music Society presents the Mainly Mozart Festival Inaugural Lecture Series with musicologist Frank Cooper. A celebration in learning, designed to heighten your experience of the music of history’s greatest prodigy Mozart, in the 250th Anniversary of his birth. Frank Cooper, award-winning Research Professor Emeritus (Musicology) at the University of Miami, Florida has appeared in the U.S, Canada, Mexico, the … +

GlobalFEST On The Road brings Creole Carnival, with a fusion of sounds from the Caribbean and Americas, and revolving around Carnival. From Brazil (Casuarina) to Haiti (Emeline Michel) and Jamaica (Brushy One String), each country has its own rich traditions for music, dancing and cutting loose. Back Yard Concert Lawn & Plaza Appropriate for all ages Lawn chairs and blankets welcome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyZYPOfRv6I … +

The Deering Estate presents Intersections – a thought-provoking exhibition of site-specific works by more than two dozen notable contemporary artists that bridge past and present, nature and the man-made. Part of the Deering Estate’s annual Festival of the Arts, Intersections offers visitors an opportunity to experience artworks inspired by crossroads, both physical and metaphorical, throughout the Estate’s varied and expansive outdoor and … +

FUNDarte and Miami Light Project present Global Cuba Fest 2016, the ninth edition of the much awaited festival that this year brings to the stage some of the most recognized musicians of the Cuban Diaspora in Spain. The program includes sets by Iván “Melon” Lewis, considered one of the most recognized jazz pianists of his generation; by Yadam, singer-songwriter who in the … +

Miami International Guitar Festival 2016 (MIGF) will present eleven concerts, five masterclasses, three lectures, and a composers panel, as well as a composition competition and luthiers expo. All masterclasses are open to the public for viewing. The composition competition invites the young and emerging composers of new guitar compositions for solo, duo, or trio in two age categories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_qoSNcTCvs&list=PL0OeASTO6ZjKiMt4_Kc3ct7OL2qEfSSSm&index=1 Miami International Guitar … +

PAMM will host the opening night of ScreenDance Miami, a festival produced by Tigertail. Festival shows internationally acclaimed Cinedans of the Netherlands. This series presents four films that have been curated and will be introduced by Martine Dekker, director of Cinedans Dance on Screen. In its second day six short dance works created for the camera as part of ScreenDance Miami will … +

ViolaFest includes activities exploring this instrument through master classes and Special Viola Topics with NWSA Professor Richard Fleischman, guest Master teacher Dr. Jesus Alfonzo, performances, and even a Viola Ensemble and Faculty Recital. Free event and open to students Grades 6-12, also College-age students Participants must bring their viola Check in and registration at NWSA Lobby 8:30 AM – 7:30 PM New … +

For the first time, HistoryMiami Museum will host the Miami Street Photography Festival (MSPF) during Art Basel Week (Dec 3-6, 2015). In conjunction with the festival, the Museum will exhibit the finalists of MSPF’s international street photography competition through January 2016. The MSPF is an international photography festival showcasing the best of contemporary street photography, and featuring the work of professional and … +

Presented in collaboration with the Frost School of Music’s Festival Miami, Jazz Roots on its 8th season, invites the jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who has over 50 film scores to his credit and is a multiple Grammy Award winner. The evening will also feature a montage of classic scenes from Spike Lee movies performed by a star-studded lineup with Blanchard and his … +

The MSPF is an international photography festival showcasing the best of contemporary Street Photography viewed through the eyes of emerging photographers in this genre capting the world around us. The featured artists of the present edition are Bruce Davidson, David Alan Harvey, Peter Turnley, Maggie Steber and Larry Towell. The 2015 MSPF Street Photography Festival holds its usual contest open to participants … +

Top Nashville Singer-Songwriters Craig Carothers, Tony Arata, Dave Berg, and Annie Mosher Present a Down-To-Earth Festival Miami Concert, on October 21, Featuring Their Biggest Hits. They hail from different parts of the USA, and each have their own musical perspective, but singer/songwriters Craig Carothers, Tony Arata, Dave Berg, and Annie Mosher all have something in common. They are some of Nashville’s most … +

Multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriter and pianist Ben Folds performs his acclaimed Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Frost School of Music’s Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra. Composed in 2013 and since performed to sold-out audiences with symphony orchestras around the globe, the fresh and appealing work is featured on his new album, So There, slated for release in September 2015. UM Gusman Concert Hall … +

Richard Todd, Joel Smirnoff and Christopher O’Riley will perform at Festival Miami 2015. A new interpretation of Johannes Brahms’s Horn Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 40. by Frost horn faculty member. A motion picture and solo recording by artist Richard Todd performing with violin soloist and Cleveland Institute of Music’s president Joel Smirnoff and award-winning pianist and NPR’s From the Top host … +

Sylvan Street, a high-wattage group of eight accomplished musicians, performs funk-infused originals with surging electric bass grooves, powerful drums, tight horns, and exciting keyboards. They blend a driving fusion of jazz, rock, Latin, urban, jump swing and blues. Bassist-composer Jay Rees, a new professor at the Frost School of Music leads the charge. For this concert they’ll jam on new tunes and … +

Oct 13, 2015 The Miracle A masterpiece by world-renowned director Mahsun Kirmizigul. Turkey’s most popular film in 2015. To celebrate this Miami Debut, the festival will be welcoming Director Mahsun Kirmizigul and producer Murat Tokat. Oct 14, 2015 Coming Soon The Husband Factor Oct 15, 2015 Sivas Turkey’s entry to the Oscars. Directed by Kaan Mujdeci, Sivas has won awards around the … +

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 … +

The Discovery Series introduces our audience to four extraordinary artists: Rachel Cheung from China, Raluca Stirbat from Romania, eighteen year old piano and cello prodigy Sarina Zhang, and Russian virtuoso Leonid Egorov. The Discovery Series concludes on May 17, 2015 with a special performance of piano transcriptions from operas and are partnering this evening with Miami’s acclaimed Vocal Studio of Manny Perez. … +

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 … +

Now in its sixth edition, FUNDarte’s Out in the Tropics is a unique, daring, and artistically outstanding performance festival featuring work by some of today’s most innovative and relevant GLBTQ artists, including Chely Lima, M Lamar, Marga Gomez, Caridad Svich and John Moletress of force/collision. Out In The Tropics 2015 starts with a poetry reading by Miami’s own Chely Lima followed by … +