Orchestras

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

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 … +

South Florida Symphony Orchestra will present Masterworks II as a part of the current season. The Concert will include ORENSTEIN: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, OP. 60 and BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 6. Special guest will be Irmina Tynkos in Violin.

Sound meets sight in this evening of cinematic and artistic exploration that highlights the works of Copland, Wagner and Respighi. Exploration of Aaron Copland’s musical contributions to three classic movies: Of Mice and Men, The City and Our Town. Imagining Cosima Wagner’s delight on being woken on Christmas morning with a musical gift from her famous husband. Marvel at Ottorino Respighi’s musical … +

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 … +

Meet the Orchestra is an interactive program for children, their parents, and their grandparents, exploring music and its instruments. At this event, children will learn about parts of the staff and how to read music. The children will begin their morning by listening to Soprano Soloist, Robyn Marie Lamp perform Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with The Symphonia. All attendees will have the opportunity to meet … +

South Florida Symphony Orchestra will present Masterworks 1, with Soprano Brandie Sutton in a Program including BARBER: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Mahler’ Symphony No. 4 Hailed by The New York times for her “warm, ample voice” and “distinctive earthy coloring,” and by Opera News for her “sumptuos, mid-weight soprano,” Ms. Sutton first embraced classical music during her undergraduate studies at Oakwood … +

Be a guest as the South Florida Symphony Orchestra performs the score of Disney’s animated classic, Beauty and the Beast, in a live concert! Experience this full-length film, overflowing with unforgettable characters and Academy Award®-winning music (Best Original Song, Best Original Score, 1991)! Beauty and the Beast has been capturing the hearts and minds of generations old and new with its classic … +

The South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble will celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots which helped to propel the Gay Rights Movement into mainstream society. Two newly commissioned pieces will be performed alongside moving works that tell the story of the LGBTQ movement thus far and where we are going next. Miss Coco Peru, drag persona from such films as Trick … +

Under the conduction of Eduardo Marturet, Miami Symphony Orchestra will perform at ARSHT, as a part of its current season. With soloists Ed Calle in Clarinet & Alto Saxophone and Osvaldo Fleites in Trumpet, the concert will include pieces from Hindemith like  Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber. Martinez ‘ Contrapunto (World Premiere) a MISO 2019 Commission and Beethoven’ Symphony … +

FUNDarte’s 2019-20 Season opens up with the 5th edition of our International Festival of The Arts for Youth and Children, “ZunZún Children’s Fest”. A fun journey of classical and contemporary orchestral music performed by Musicall, brings us a lively Miami children’s orchestra, conducted by Jose Antonio Bornot. Rita Rosa Ruesga and musicians interpret the most popular and lasting Latin American songs. ZunZún … +

Conducted by Eduardo Marturet, Miami Symphony Orchestra will perform at Palm Court in Design District. The concert is part of the symphony’ current  31th Season. Eduardo Marturet enjoys an active career on three continents; he is the Music Director and Conductor of The Miami Symphony Orchestra and continues to guest conduct actively in Europe. He has made more than 60 CDs that … +

One of the most important skills to study in music, students of the NWSA college music program deliver personalized interpretations of chamber music masterworks in this important performance. Free and open to the public

Inspired by Frank Wedekind’s masterwork, Springs Awakening, Woke/Spring will bring audiences to contemporary American life brimming with multiculturalism, in a world where technology reigns king and connecting to other human beings is endangered. A new spring is upon the youth of America and their sexual coming-of-age story is a mix of religious oppression, bigotry, xenophobia & disease. Woke/Spring is a choreoplay that … +

Kameristika Ensemble was created in 2018 by Venezuelan musicians based in the US and trained in the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela “El Sistema”, a recognized Venezuelan institution, awarded and replicated worldwide, created by the Maestro José Antonio Abreu. It originates out of the immense need of its members to continue performing universal academic repertoire in … +

The popularity of film music concerts has been increasing, as have the number of films available for a full orchestral performance plus screening, The Sounds of Movies is a concert with live Symphony Orchestra and screen visuals performing along with exclusive film footage, solo performers, and unique interactive segments to create an explosive one-of-a-kind entertainment experience. Be prepared to use all your … +

Percussionists of the Magic City unite! NWS Percussion Fellows are joined by students from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music for a one-night-only adventure. Together they will perform the world premiere of the Percussion Symphony No. 2 by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen, who will be in attendance. Hailed by The New Yorker as “the most original musical thinker of our time,” … +

Frost Symphony Orchestra Live Signature Series welcomes internationally renowned classical musician and conductor Gerard Schwarz on its debut appearance conducting the Frost Symphony Orchestra. In nearly five decades, Gerard Schwarz has received hundreds of honors including six Emmy Awards, 14 GRAMMY nominations, eight ASCAP Awards and numerous Stereo Review and Ovation Awards. His move to South Florida, along with being named the new music director … +

One of the most important skills to study in music, students of the NWSA college music program deliver personalized interpretations of chamber music masterworks in this important performance. Free and open to the public

This program showcases the rediscovered sounds of Cuba, Bolivia, and Peru through ancient music that blends indigenous rhythms and instruments with European traditions. Patrick Dupré Quigley, conductor Join us for a PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION one hour before each concert Concert Schedule: Fri, Apr 12, 7:30pm  |  Coral Gables Tickets Sat, Apr 13, 7:30pm  |  Ft. Lauderdale Tickets Sun, Apr 14, 4:00pm  |  Naples Tickets Seraphic Fire … +

MacArthur “Genuis” Fellowship winner and two-time Grammy nominee Dafnis Prieto conducts the Downbeat Award winning Frost Latin Jazz Orchestra in music from his outstanding new big band recording, Back to the Sunset. This concert will highlight Prieto’s compositions, including Song for Chico, dedicated to the late Cuban composer Chico O’Farrill, and Una Vez Más, dedicated to Brian Lynch and maestro Eddie Palmieri. Dafnis Prieto, director Wednesday, … +