Music

An award-winning educator with over 40 years of leadership in higher education, Shelly Berg is Dean and Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. Named in 2000 by the Los Angeles Times one of three “Educators for the Millennium,” he has written textbooks on Jazz improvision and has appeared as a performer and lecturer throughout the United States, Canada, China, Mexico, Europe, Israel, Japan, Romania, and Venezuela. Shelly Berg is also a Steinway piano artist and multi-Grammy nominated arranger and producer. He brings to the Frost Chopin Academy and Festival an evening of original, arranged, and improvised music. Tickets are required. General Admission $10, Student Admission $5, Under 18 FREE. To reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/443XixJ

An outstanding international musician of our time, Vietnamese - Canadian pianist Dang Thai Son was propelled to the forefront of the musical world in October 1980, when he was awarded the First Prize and Gold Medal at the 10th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. It was also the first time that a top international competition was won by an Asian pianist. He returns to the Frost Chopin Academy and Festival with a program of delightful character pieces by Gabriel Fauré and Frédéric Chopin. Gabriel Fauré - Nocturne in E-flat minor, Op. 33 No. 1 Barcarolle in A minor, Op. 26 No. 1 Fryderyk Chopin – Three Ecossaises, Op. 72 No. 3 Three Waltzes: F minor Op. 70 No.2, A minor Op. Posth., A-flat major Op. 34 No. 1 Four Mazurkas, Op. 24 Rondo a la Mazurka in F major, Op. 5 Tickets are required. General Admission $10, Student Admission $5, Under 18 FREE. To reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/445X0GZ

Every year, the Frost Chopin Academy offers students the opportunity to study with the world’s leading pedagogues. As they work on the music of Chopin and learn from masterclasses, lectures, and guest artist concerts, they will also get the chance to showcase their talent in the program “Rising Stars of the Academy” as we place a spotlight on this year’s selected participants. Tickets are required. General Admission $10, Student Admission $5, Under 18 FREE. To reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/3JgD9wq

Kevin Kenner, has been hailed by The Financial Times as a "player of grace, subtle variety, and strength with a mature grasp of dramatic structure and proportion.” In this program, he takes the audience on a sonic and scenic journey through the nine awe-inspiring movements of Liszt’s Years of Pilgrimage: Switzerland. Franz Liszt – Années de pèlerinage: Suisse, S. 160 General Admission $10, Student Admission $5, Under 18 FREE. To reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/3XgMR7Z

Dmitry Ablogin has been championed by the press as “one of the most brilliant and creative keyboard artists of his generation.” His marked interest in historical pianos led him to Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, where he studied fortepiano and historically informed performance with Jesper Bøje Christensen. A prize winner of numerous competitions, Ablogin brings to the Frost Chopin Academy and Festival a fresh perspective on a beautiful program centered around the Viennese tradition of Classical masters. Opening the concert with two waltzes by Chopin and Schumann’s Forest Scenes, is one of the most promising Polish pianists of the young generation, Kamil Pacholec. A finalist in the most recent Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Pacholec now studies with Kevin Kenner at the Frost School of Music. The Gramophone critic, Jed Distler has claimed that “many established pianists would be happy to claim Pacholec’s effortless fingerwork and idiomatic flair for themselves.” Do not miss this amazing opening concert of the 5th Frost Chopin Festival! Joseph Haydn – Piano Sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI: 20 Ludwig van Beethoven – Rondo in C major, Op. 59 No. 1 Franz Schubert – Impromptus Op. 90, Nos. 2 and 3 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sonata in C major, K. 545

For the first time in Miami and directly from Las Vegas: Donna Summer Experience featuring Rainere Martin as Donna Summer. The show will take you on a mystical journey to the 70s. The combination of a live orchestra with high quality lights and effects will transport the audience to remember and dance the greatest hits of the Queen of Disco music.

Después de un extenso tour que abarcó Estados Unidos , Europa y Dubai, la cantante Albita y el Maestro Chucho Valdes tendrán una presentación única en la ciudad de Miami donde mostrarán un recorrido por ambos repertorios y en exclusiva traerán toda la música del disco que han grabado juntos y cuyo título da nombre también a este especial encuentro, "Masters of our roots" La genialidad del maestro Chucho Valdés y la auténtica voz de Albita sugieren una noche imperdible.

La noche del sábado 26 de Agosto será puro ritmo y melodías con la unión de Negronis Trio y sus invitados de lujo: El gran músico Puertorriqueño, compositor, productor, arreglista, y trompetista Charlie Sepúlveda, quien ha tocado en los escenarios más respetados del mundo. Su cercanía a Dizzy Gillespie, Steve Turre, Tito Puente, Eddie Parmieri y otros grandes del latín jazz han marcado una historia en su carrera. Ha debutado como líder del proyecto The Turnaround, la agrupación con que prácticamente ha forjado una respetable discografía. La voz de Julia Vari nos deleitara con sus interpretaciones, Julia es cantante, pianista, y compositora quien ha grabado en varios idiomas, viene directamente de México... Estos reconocidos artistas que tienen una carrera sólida y demostrada en los escenarios más reconocidos del Jazz y el World Music te harán bailar y vibrar con su ritmo e improvisaciones.

The Colours of Royal Tour. Julian Marley is the son of reggae legend Bob Marley and Barbados-born Lucy Pounder. Born in the London, raised in Jamaica, Julian was steeped in a musical atmosphere and surrounded by the legends of reggae music. Julian 1996 debut album Lion in the Morning launched him into the public eye, leading to International tours with his band The Uprising, and a collaboration with Lauryn Hill on her Grammy-winning album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. He has joined his siblings Stephen, Cedella, Damian, and Kymani on inspired tributes, world tours and musical missions. At the invitation of the Jamaican government, he performed during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, and celebrated alongside Jamaica's Gold medal winner Usain Bolt. Marley’s 2009 album Awake garnered several Grammy nominations and was awarded 2010 ‘Best Album of the Year’ at the International Reggae and World Music Awards. In the same tradition as his father, Julian is a devout Rastafarian whose music is inspired by life and spirituality. And while Julian has built a formidable reputation by transcending musical genres, we can be sure that all future endeavors that the music visionary embarks on will remain spiritual, moral and with a global mission.

Join us as we celebrate Pride Month with a journey through the past 50 years of Pride anthems. Pride Anthems creates a vibrant musical experience that celebrates, inspires and commemorates the legacy and power of the Stonewall Riots. From Donna Summer to Queen, George Michael, Erasure, Madonna, Lady Gaga and many others, these essential songs take us from disco to the present day. The story of the fight for LGBTQ+ equality is linked to this music, which evokes the struggles, heartache and liberation of queer lives then and now. Starring Natalie Joy Johnson, Kevin Smith Kirkwood and Jon-Michael Reese, with musical director Brian J. Nash, Pride Anthems is a show for all ages to come together in song and celebration of the LGBTQ+ community and how far it has come since Stonewall!