Music

Young Pianists Concerts. Selected local piano students in an all-Chopin program

The Side-by-Side Concert is an extraordinary opportunity for young instrumentalists (grades 7-12) to perform alongside the New World Symphony Fellows. The students share the New World Center’s stage and develop musical relationships with the Fellows as they rehearse and perform music of the highest caliber. The students have been selected through auditions from different schools and organizations, including students from São Paolo, Brazil and from Medellín, Colombia.

 

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

 

 

 

One of America's leading chamber ensembles, Zéphyros Winds brings together the diverse voices of the Great American Landscape in a richly varied program featuring works by Samuel Barber, John Harbison, Elliott Carter, Valerie Coleman, and the premiere of a newly commissioned work by renowned composer and jazz bandleader David Sanford.

Nano Stern’s Indie-Folk-Rock-Jazz sound bridges Chilean tradition with fresh, global relevance. A social activist and timely poet, he agilely traverses a range of instruments, layering indigenous, African and European elements into a sound all his own. His humble virtuosity brings audiences to tears, to reverie and to their feet. His particular love for the natural world and concern for issues of ecology has included him in this year’s Climakaze celebration. 75 minutes with no intermission.

Internationally-acclaimed pianist Jooeun Pak presents Florida premieres of pieces by American composers Cherise Leiter and Caroline Kyunga Ahn, along with works by two of the most beloved composers of all time: Frederic Chopin and George Gershwin. These works are all linked by a remembrance of the past. Cherise Leiter reimagines one of the oldest forms of piano music, one that Chopin himself had revolutionized and mastered, in her 6 Etudes for piano. The nostalgic element continues with “Water Image, Reflection, and Memories” by Caroline Kyunga Ahn, the title of which invokes the theme of finding one’s own reflection in the past. In Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, American music found a new voice through the melding of things past and current; classical tradition with pioneering jazz. Few pieces evoke such nostalgia as this work, which calls us back to the golden era of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age.

"Il Divo meet Michale Buble' with a touch of West End charm!" - BBC Radio The Barricade Boys are a spectacular group with incredible moments and deliver “an unmissable show with talent, flair, and fun” – West End Fabulous harmonies, incredible vocals, dashing good looks and fantastic personalities, the Barricade Boys showcase some of the world’s finest male voices from the West End, Broadway, International Tour and Hollywood movie of the world’s longest-running musical - Les Misérables. Not only do they perform the world’s greatest show tunes, but they celebrate music from some of the most iconic names in the music industry: from powerful ballads and beautiful operatic arias to some of the best pop, rock and swing numbers of all time.

Daymé Arocena & Cimafunk in Concert (Cuba) – GLOBAL CUBA FEST 2019. Mar. 30th at 8:00 p.m. | North Beach Bandshell, Miami Beach. This event is co-presented with FUNDarte and Miami Light Project DAYME AROCENA With her captivating charisma and radiant spirit, Daymé Arocena effortlessly blends traditional Santerian chant, jazz stylings, contemporary R&B influences, and Afro-Cuban rhythmic complexity for audiences worldwide. Her passion for the musical traditions of her homeland is boundless – “reigniting the Cuban soundtrack wherever she plays” (NPR). At every performance, Daymé coaxes her audiences into lively call-and-response chants with an irrepressible smile on her face, enamoring the whole audience in her charm. “Scat-singing over her trio’s swaying rhumbas and cha-cha-chas,” (DownBeat), Daymé’s impact upon the history of Cuban music is undeniable. CIMAFUNK Cimafunk is a singer, a composer and a producer and one of the most singular emerging artists of Cuba’s alternative music. His music is a fusion of funk and Afrocuban music. His lyrics come directly from the Cuban streets and his music is designed to get you dancing! His inspiration grows from an eclectic panel of black music: from James Brown’s, George Clinton’s and Prince’s Funk and the soul music of Al Green and Bill Withers to Cuban “Trova” of Beny Moré and Bola de Nieve and Juan Formell’s y Los Van Van’s “songo”. Cimafunk realesed its debut album, Terapia, at the end of 2017. More information: https://cimafunk.com/

Unlock a myriad of emotions through the music of two of Germany’s most famed Romantics alongside Minnesota Orchestra Music Director Osmo Vänskä and celebrated American-Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan. With tender lyricism and sweeping softness, Robert Schumann’s beloved Piano Concerto reads like a love letter to his pianist wife Clara, while Felix Mendelssohn’s classic Third Symphony evokes the atmospheric Scottish Highlands. The concert opens with fellow Finn Kaija Saariaho’s ethereal Winter Sky to set the evening’s magical mood.

 

Synopsis:
With outrageous wearable art, fierce Mexico-City performance art diva Astrid Hadad mixes feminism and fabulosity in extravagant events featuring a live band. Hadad confronts politics, Mexican hypocrisy, machismo, and corruption in cabaret-style productions that prompted The New York Times to describe her as “one of the most provocative stage acts since the Weimar Republic was in bloom.”

 

The 2018-19 MCC season draws to a close on May 19th when the group presents its annual spring concert, “Let The Children Sing."

 

This celebratory event showcases the artistic excellence and diversity of all three ensembles of the MCC and honors their personal and musical growth.