Dawn Upshaw (left) and Maria Schneider. For more than three decades, the folks at the University of Miami have opened the South Florida musical season in expansive style with Festival Miami, presenting a month’s worth of concerts that start in October and last through early November. A couple weeks ago, UM announced much of the […]

The Greater Miami Symphonic Band. Independence Day is a splendid occasion for a good old-fashioned cookout, with hot dogs, hamburgers, corn on the cob, and all the usual patriotic gustatory suspects. But it might be that at some point during the day, you find yourself pretty much done with the eating part of the festivities […]

Michael Rossi. In the summer months, classical music festivals usually take place far from South Florida, often in woodsy places like Aspen, Colo., or Marlboro, Vt. That hasn’t stopped people from trying to get some summer concerts going; the Mainly Mozart Festival just wrapped this past weekend at the Knight Concert Hall to a very […]

Anne Akiko Meyers. Photo by Erik Madigan Heck It’s a one-off recital during a time when South Florida is beginning to swelter and all the snowbirds have gone home, but violinist Anne Akiko Meyers’s appearance this Thursday will include two new pieces of music that she’ll be championing all this year. Meyers, a native of […]

Meagan Brus in “Fairy Tales: Songs of the Dandelion Woman.” Photo by David Ramos Playing through Sunday at the Little Theater on the grounds of the SoBe Institute of the Arts in Miami Beach is an hourlong exploration of the fault line between modernity and madness, served up in operatic style by the institute’s founder, […]

Dane Johansen. Cellist Dane Johansen played Coral Gables last night as a member of the Escher Quartet, joining British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor for a concert of music by composers including Dvořák and Dutilleux. But tonight, he’s in Palm Beach, where the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach is holding a fundraiser for his solo project, […]

Michael Tilson Thomas. Photo by Chris Wahlberg This is the wrap-up weekend for two local orchestras, with the New World Symphony and the Miami Symphony Orchestra ending their seasons in big fashion. The New World offers another in its cycle of symphonies by Gustav Mahler as conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. This time it’s the […]

The Spektral Quartet. The Western world grows more secular every day, but the rhythms of our concert season are still linked to large religious observances, with things generally wrapping up in early spring with the arrival of Passover and Easter. Two choral concerts this week are firmly in sacred Christian territory, and the Master Chorale […]