Music

CHOPIN for ALL: SEASON of WINNERS celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Chopin Piano Competition, this year's laureates are among the nation's finest young pianists. Anthony’s program will feature works by Frédéric Chopin, showcasing the artistry that earned him national acclaim. About Anthony Ratinov At 27, Anthony Ratinov has already made a name for himself as a rising star in the classical music world. A graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied under Robert McDonald, Anthony’s career includes numerous international awards and performances with major orchestras. His competition-winning performances are praised for their technical brilliance and emotional depth. Admission is free. Registration is recommended to secure your seat. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chopin-for-all-season-of-winners-anthony-ratinov-coral-gables-tickets-1207913725469

The 2025 Miami International GuitART Festival presents Gradus Jazz Trio, featuring Lleida brothers: Enrique on piano, Pablo on bass, and Santiago Lleida on drums. The program includes a set of compositions that tries to evoke various “landscapes.” Starting in many cases from traditional and popular Spanish music, these compositions are carefully crafted, and in them the perfect combination of different elements and sound materials is sought. Also included are classic jazz standards. The festival takes place from February 15th through 23rd with daily concerts, master classes, lectures, and Luthiers Expo. 2025 MIGF FESTIVAL PASS is available to attend all festival events at a single reduced price. More info at MIGF website: migf.fiu.edu

The 2025 Miami International GuitART Festival presents virtuoso guitarist Koh Kazama in a solo concert, performing a program of music with works from Baroque to contemporary composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Yuquijiro Yocoh, Heitor VIlla-Lobos, Astor Piazzolla, Benjamin Verdery, Richard Padrón, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. The festival takes place from February 15th through 23rd with daily concerts, master classes, lectures, and Luthiers Expo. 2025 MIGF FESTIVAL PASS is available to attend all festival events at a single reduced price. More info at MIGF website: migf.fiu.edu

The 2025 Miami International GuitART Festival presents the 19th century music specialist and virtuoso guitarist Marco Batttaglia in a solo concert "From Opera to Fantasy," performing a program of works by the 19th century Italian masters on an original 19th Century guitar built by Gennaro Fabricatore in 1811. The festival takes place from February 15th through 23rd with daily concerts, master classes, lectures, and Luthiers Expo. 2025 MIGF FESTIVAL PASS is available to attend all festival events at a single reduced price. More info at MIGF website: migf.fiu.edu

The 2025 Miami International GuitART Festival presents FIU Miami GuitART Orchestra in concert. Directed by guitarist/composer Mesut Özgen, FIUMGO will present an exciting program of music, featuring works from Baroque to modern, as well as jazz and traditional musics from around the world. The festival takes place from February 15th through 23rd with daily concerts, master classes, lectures, and Luthiers Expo. 2025 MIGF FESTIVAL PASS is available to attend all festival events at a single reduced price. More info at MIGF website: migf.fiu.edu

The 2025 Miami International GuitART Festival presents the award-winning virtuoso Turkish guitarist Aysegül Koca in a solo concert, performing works by Giulio Regondi, Isaac Albeniz, Joaquin Turina, Vicente Asencio, Carlo Domeniconi, and Astor Piazzolla. The festival takes place from February 15th through 23rd with daily concerts, master classes, lectures, and Luthiers Expo. 2025 MIGF FESTIVAL PASS is available to attend all festival events at a single reduced price. More info at MIGF website: migf.fiu.edu

The 2025 Miami International GuitART Festival presents one of the world’s foremost fingerstyle guitarists and harp-guitarist Muriel Anderson who is the first woman to have won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship. The festival takes place from February 15th through 23rd with daily concerts, master classes, lectures, and Luthiers Expo. 2025 MIGF FESTIVAL PASS is available to attend all festival events at a single reduced price. More info at MIGF website: migf.fiu.edu

The 2025 Miami International GuitART Festival presents virtuoso Venezuelan guitarist Luis Quintero Santamaria and cuatrist/singer Luciana Kube in concert, performing a program of traditional and classical Latin American music. The festival takes place from February 15th through 23rd with daily concerts, master classes, lectures, and Luthiers Expo. 2025 MIGF FESTIVAL PASS is available to attend all festival events at a single reduced price. More info at MIGF website: migf.fiu.edu

Stéphane Denève, conductor Maria Dueñas, violin Program: BIZET Suite from L'Arlésienne (comp. Denève) LALO Symphonie espagnole DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8 Edouard Lalo’s "Symphonie espagnole" provides the perfect showpiece for Spanish violinist Maria Dueñas, one of today’s most exciting young talents, who makes her Cleveland Orchestra debut in this performance. French maestro Stéphane Denève pairs Lalo’s fiery Spanish rhythms with the Provençal sunshine of Bizet’s L’Arlésienne Suite and the bucolic Bohemia of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, featuring musicians of the New World Symphony side by side with The Cleveland Orchestra.

Kahchun Wong, conductor Sayaka Shoji, violin Program: BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is one of the instrument’s crown jewels, neglected for decades after its composition but happily restored today to its rightful place in the repertoire. Four years after her sensational Cleveland debut, violinist Sayaka Shoji performs this masterwork with The Cleveland Orchestra and conductor Kahchun Wong. Complementing this is Ravel’s exquisite orchestration of Mussorgsky’s "Pictures at an Exhibition," which concludes with one of the grandest themes in music: a stately vision of the Great Gate of Kyiv.