MUSIC
A Night with the Florida Grand Opera featuring Four Arias FREE
Friday, May 3, 7:00 p.m.
The Wolfsonian–FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue
305.535.2622 www.wolfsonian.org
The Wolfsonian-FIU co-presents an evening with The Florida Grand Opera featuring four arias. Songs will reflect well-known female characters from Nixon in China, Carmen, La Traviata, and Der Rosenkavalier. This event serves as an introduction to the exhibition Women in Motion: Fitness, Sport, and Female Figure opening May 17.
Richard Strauss: Revelry and Romance (WALLCAST™ Concert) FREE
Friday, May 3, 8:00 p.m.
New World Center, 500 17 Street
www.nws.edu
Marek Janowski, conductor; Orion Weiss, piano. Brilliant young pianist Orion Weiss takes on Richard Strauss' powerful Burleske in this all-Strauss program.
A Day to Remember (with special guests Of Mice & Men)
Saturday, May 4, 7:30 p.m.
Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater, 1700 Washington Avenue
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A Day to Remember is an American rock band from Ocala, Florida. Founded in 2003 by guitarist Tom Denney and drummer Bobby Scruggs, the band has released four studio albums, 15 singles and 11 music videos. They are mainly known for their unusual amalgamation of metalcore and pop punk as a musical style. The band consists of vocalist Jeremy McKinnon, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Neil Westfall, bassist Josh Woodard, percussion and drummer Alex Shelnutt and lead guitarist Kevin Skaff.
OPEN FRIDAY CONCERT: ALL ROADS LEAD TO WAGNER FREE
Friday, May 10, 8:00 p.m.
SoBe Institute of the Arts, 2100 Washington Avenue
305.674.9220 www.sobearts.org
SoBe Arts celebrates the 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth with Marina Radiushina and Milana Strezeva, pianists performing music by Wagner and composers influenced by him in the 19th & 20th centuries. Join us prior to the concert for ART SPEAKS at 7:00 p.m.: A pre-concert talk about how Wagner's musical ideas influenced everything from movie soundtracks to 20th century experimental music.
Miami Beach Arts in the Parks Presents: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD FREE
Saturday, May 11, 7:00 p.m.
North Shore Park Band Shell, 7275 Collins Avenue
www.mbculture.com
Miami Children's Theater production of the acclaimed Jason Robert Brown song cycle starring 10 high school seniors on their way to Broadway.
A Voice with a Future
Saturday, May 11, 7:00 p.m.
New Word Center, 500 17 Street
305.662.7494 www.miamichildrenschorus.org
A Voice with a Future will feature new works from Haitian-American composer Sydney Guillaume and New York based composer Jim Papoulis. The concert will feature other contemporary multicultural works performed a cappella, with a chamber orchestra – featuring some of Miami’s premier professional instrumentalists – or with a percussion ensemble. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students, seniors, and children.
Cathedral Classics
Sunday, May 12, 4:00 p.m.
Miami Beach Community Church, 1620 Drexel Avenue
www.seraphicfire.org
This concert features favorite choral masterpieces including Gregorio Allegri's haunting Miserere, Randall Thompson's timeless Alleluia, as well as pieces selected by our audience. Concert-goers have had the opportunity to vote for their favorite a cappella choral music over the centuries and now they'll hear it performed by Miami's own GRAMMY-nominated choir. Whether it be Thomas Tallis' If Ye Love Meor Maurice Duruflé's Ubi Caritas, the audience has voted on what we sing!
Music in Beautiful Spaces: Scandinavia Explored
Sunday, May 12, 4:00 p.m.
Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2000 Convention Center Drive
www.sobechamberensemble.org
Scandinavia Explored features guest soprano Anna Hersey, a recent Fullbright fellow, singing songs by Grieg, Frumerie, Nystroem, Alfvén, Peterson-Berger and Rangström, arranged with string quartet accompaniment. The program will include the Grieg String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27 and the Kokkonen String Quartet #3. Wine reception to follow. Online tickets: $20 adults, $10 students and seniors.
Piano in the Parks FREE
Sunday, May 12, 7:00 p.m.
Miami Beach SoundScape, 500 17 Street
www.miamipianocircle.com
Enjoy Classical, Jazz and other piano duos under the stars! Featuring Mia Vassilev, Kristin Camacho, Dionisio Camacha, Jordan Christenson and Jake Shapiro. Come throw down a blanket and enjoy!
Miami International Piano Festival 2013 Discovery Series
May 16-19, 2013
Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road
www.miamipianofest.com
Thursday, May 16, 7:45 p.m.
Nikolay Khozyainov (Russia) Sonatas & Songs
Friday, May 17, 7:45 p.m.
Wolfram Schmitt - Leonardy (Germany) Preludes & Variations
Saturday, May 18, 3:00 p.m. Beloved Chamber Jewels
Prodigies & Masters of Tomorrow: Three Astonishing Prodigies
Simon Porter (Violin), Oliver Aldort (Cello) & Rachel Cheung (Piano)
Saturday, May 18, 7:45 p.m.
Joseph Moog (Germany) A Sheer Variety of Spectacular Works
Sunday, May 19, 3:00 p.m.
Jorge Luis Prats (Cuba) A Spanish Journey
Sunday, May 19, 7:45 p.m. The Enigma of Creativity
An Evening of Music & Painting: Misha Dacic (Pianist) & Vladimir Markovic (Painter)
Raphael
Friday, May 17, 8:15 p.m.
Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater, 1700 Washington Avenue
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Miguel Rafael Martos Sánchez (born May 5, 1943 in Linares, Spain), often simply referred to as Raphael, is a worldwide acclaimed Spanish singer and television, film and theatre actor. A pioneer of modern Spanish music, he is considered a major influence in having opened the door and paving the way to the flood of Spanish singers that follow. His wide-range voice, added to his quality as showman, has entertained and engaged people worldwide for more than five decades.
Next@19th, The Betsy and Art Center/South Florida Present: Accordion Invasion
Saturday, May 18, 6:30 p.m.
The Betsy Hotel, 1440 Ocean Drive
www.nextat19th.org
A band of accordion players will invade the streets of Miami Beach processing from The Betsy on Ocean Drive to Art Center/South Florida on Lincoln Road where they will present a program of music in a variety of genres (especially featuring Klezmer) that showcase the instrument at the Art Center's Project 924. Featured accordionists for the event include local Klezmer favorite Shlomo Geva and renowned "Latin Diva of the Accordion," Maricarmen Vazquez.
Luminosa Project
Saturday, May 18, 7:00 p.m.
The Betsy Hotel, 1440 Ocean Drive
www.artsatstjohns.com
Music from all corners of the world steeped in the veins of jazz, folk, experimental music, poetry and sociopolitical commentary. The subversive classically trained duo of Bolivian soprano Gian-Carla Tisera and Burmese-American pianist A.J. Khaw will perform at the Betsy Hotel.
Quatuor Pour la Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
Friday, May 24, 8:00 p.m.
SoBe Institute of the Arts, 2100 Washington Avenue
305.674.9220 www.sobearts.org
French composer Olivier Messiaen was 31 years old when France entered the war against Germany. He was captured by the German army during World War II in June 1940 and was imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp. While in transit to the prisoner of war camp, Messiaen showed the clarinetist Henri Akoka, also a prisoner, the sketches for what would become Abîme des oiseaux. Two other professional musicians were also among his fellow prisoners(violinist Jean le Boulaire and cellist Étienne Pasquier),and after he managed to obtain some paper and a small pencil from a sympathetic guard, Messiaen wrote a short trio for them; this piece developed into the Quatuor for the same trio with himself at the piano. General Tickets ($10) include free parking, concert and after-concert reception with the artists. VIP Tickets ($25) include the above plus reserved priority seating.
