Music | Culture Shock

Unidos Por La Libertad

United by music and freedom, accompanied by the Florida Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Marlene Urbay, various artists from different generations and style join this concert. Among them, we have the Cuban singers Argelia Fragoso, Mike Porcel, the actor Jorge Hernandez, the American singer Lucy Grau and the Argentinian tenor Rodrigo Aragon. With this concert, we want to send a message to the world, a message of peace and freedom in its widest extension. We are here as a fraternal voice for solidarity. We play music as a hymn of freedom and speech defending our most basic human rights

Culture Shock SnapShot: Interview with Dr. Gloria Cook, Piano Performer and Professor

Written by Kerren Dieuveille

Happy World Piano Day! To celebrate, Student Council Member Kerren Dieuveille (Junior at Rollins College) interviewed Professor Dr. Gloria Cook about her journey with the piano.

Pictured: Dr. Gloria Cook and Kerren Dieuveille

Sounds of the Times: Songs of Hope Presented by New World Symphony

German conductor Matthias Pintscher returns to Miami Beach to present works by his native land’s composers. Operatic master Bernd Alois Zimmermann lets the cello sing in his Song of Hope, performed by NWS’s own Cello Fellow Ben Fryxell, a winner of NWS’s Concerto Competition. In Schreiben, Helmut Lachenmann operates the orchestra as a writer that sometimes whispers and at other times screams. This concert includes the world premiere of a new work—Orun—by Brazilian innovator Marcos Balter, whose works are rooted in hyper-dramatization of live performance.

Concert Miami Symphony Orchestra

Join us for a fantastic evening with the Miami Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Eduardo Marturet at the historial Peacock Park in Coconut Grove.

Fly with MISO Presented The Miami Symphony Orchestra

After our successful first season with the fabulous new concept we have developed, you will fly again with MISO to some of the most inspiring destinations where the music, combined with a multimedia experience will be a unique journey for some of the world’s most iconic cities in the world. New York, Madrid, Seville, Venice, Paris, and Dubai, will be on this year’s itinerary sounding and looking better than you have ever dreamt before. CHRISTIE JULIEN – PIANO ALEXANDER MARKOV – VIOLIN MARIACA SEMPRUN – VOCALIST FERNANDO DUPRAT – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR SPECIAL EVENTS EDUARDO MARTURET – CONDUCTOR

Ancient Arias From the New World Presented by Encantus Music

Encantus is please to share that With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, The Church of the Little Flower, Colonial Florida Cultural Heritage Center, Grove Wealth Management, and Encantus Music presents this unique concert "Ancient Arias from the New World''. An investigative work by Juan Francisco Sans based on baroque arias composed during the XVII | XVIII | XIX Centuries from cathedrals of Colonial Latin America (Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Perú, and Venezuela).

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Presented by New World Center

Conductor Roderick Cox is setting the musical world afire. He makes his anticipated NWS debut in an energetic program that mimics his dynamic talent. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony is an urgent account of destiny and a creative outburst of extreme force. When Esa-Pekka Salonen premiered Helix, it was hailed as exuberant, dazzlingly colorful and a funnel of energy and suspense. Grammy Award-winning artist Zuill Bailey performs fellow cellist Victor Herbert’s enchanting Second Concerto.

WALLCAST® Concert: Tchaikovsky's Fourth Presented by New World Symphony

Conductor Roderick Cox is setting the musical world afire. He makes his anticipated NWS debut in an energetic program that mimics his dynamic talent. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony is an urgent account of destiny and a creative outburst of extreme force. When Esa-Pekka Salonen premiered Helix, it was hailed as exuberant, dazzlingly colorful and a funnel of energy and suspense. Grammy Award-winning artist Zuill Bailey performs fellow cellist Victor Herbert’s enchanting Second Concerto.

WALLCAST® concerts are free. No tickets required.

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra on Limited US Tour Presented by Chopin Foundation of the United States

The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of artistic director Andrey Boreyko, comes to Miami's Arsht Center on April 5 with special guest pianist Bruce Liu, Winner of the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition. This limited Florida tour will be the FIRST and ONLY scheduled chance for audiences in the U.S. to experience Liu’s mastery in a live concert — with the same orchestra that propelled him to the winner’s podium in Warsaw. Program: Stanisław Moniuszko, Overture to the opera Paria Frédéric Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1 E minor, Op. 11 Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 Tickets starting at $29 Available at the Arsht Center Box Office www.arshtcenter.org | 305.949.6722

Chamber Music: Then and Now Presented by New World Symphony

The International Contemporary Ensemble amplifies creators whose work propels and challenges how music is made and experienced. Its Artistic Director Emeritus, NWS alumna Rebekah Heller, embraces this mission as she returns to share works by today’s visionaries and yesterday’s trailblazers. From Hannah Kendall’s scenes of World War I to Ruth Crawford Seeger’s playful Suite, the pieces explore myriad emotions and techniques. Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quintet is often called the crown of his chamber music.