Events: Music Classical
Fantastic Season Finale (Beginner Ensembles)
Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 1:00 PM - English
Join us for this year’s Fantastic Season Finale! Miami Music Project invites the community to join its Children’s Orchestras for two performances on Saturday, May 26, 2018. Nearly 500 musicians representing Little Haiti, Liberty City, Little Havana, and Miami Springs will take the stage and showcase their hard work and talent.
Location
Wertheim Performing Arts Center
10910 Southwest 17th Street,
Miami,
FL
33172
(Map)
Fantastic Season Finale (Intermediate and Advance)
Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 7:00 PM - English
Join us for this year’s Fantastic Season Finale! Miami Music Project invites the community to join its Children’s Orchestras for two performances on Saturday, May 26, 2018. Nearly 500 musicians representing Little Haiti, Liberty City, Little Havana, and Miami Springs will take the stage and showcase their hard work and talent.
Location
Wertheim Performing Arts Center
10910 Southwest 17th Street,
Miami,
FL
33172
(Map)
Miami Music Project Summer Music Camp
Jun 11, 2018 to Jul 7, 2018 - from 9:00 AM to 12:45 PM - English
Miami Music Project’s Summer Music Camp serves as a summer bridge to help ensure that orchestral students continue to grow in their performance abilities through the summer months, as well as provides a cross-community bridge connecting students from different communities to learn and make music in a fun, out-of-school environment.
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Students participate in sectional and orchestra rehearsals, undergo daily repertoire analysis and participate in intensive social development activities. The focus of the Summer Music Camp is to provide comprehensive music education through orchestral participation from very early stages, group lessons, and peer teaching; installing a passion for classical music, teamwork, and a shared commitment to the joy of music making.
- With before care from 8:00 am to 9:00 am and after care from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm.
- End of summer music camp concert will take place on July 5. Confirmed time to be announced.
Eligibility requirements (one of the following must apply):
Any current and/or past Miami Music Project students.
New students with at least 1 full year of experience on string, wind or brass instrument. Audition required.
New Students with NO experience must be between the 5th and 7th grade.
Levels Served:
Beginners, intermediate, and advanced. Ages 6-18.
Location
Citrus Grove Middle School
2153 NW 3rd Street,
Miami,
FL
33137
(Map)
Dang Thai Son, piano
Sunday, Jun 24, 2018 at 7:30 PM - English
Frost Chopin Festival Opening Recital
- Dang Thai Son, piano
- Frank Cooper, moderator
- 1st Prize winner of the Chopin International
Competition in Warsaw opens the Frost Chopin Festival with a recital dedicated
to the music of Paderewski, Liszt, and Chopin, with a special introduction to
the program by Miami’s own eminent scholar Dr. Frank Cooper.
Location
UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Dr,
Coral Gables,
FL
33146
(Map)
Shelly Berg, piano
Monday, Jun 25, 2018 at 7:30 PM - English
Shelly Berg, pianoThe piano masters of the 18th and 19th
centuries were almost all outstanding improvisers. The Frost School of Music’s
own Shelly Berg offers the Festival an homage to these masters in an evening of
improvisations on classical themes.
Location
UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Dr,
Coral Gables,
FL
33146
(Map)
Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń and Margarita Shevchenko, piano
Tuesday, Jun 26, 2018 from 12:00 AM to 7:30 PM - English
- Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń and Margarita
Shevchenko, piano
- Frank Cooper, moderator
- Celebrated pianist, pedagogue and juror
Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń and Chopin Competition prize winner Margarita
Shevchenko offer a joint piano recital dedicated to the music of Chopin. A double treat not to be missed. Introductory remarks will be offered by Dr.
Frank Cooper.
Location
UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Dr,
Coral Gables,
FL
33146
(Map)
Kyung Wha Chung, violin and Kevin Kenner, piano
Thursday, Jun 28, 2018 at 7:30 PM - English
Special Concert
- Kyung Wha Chung, violin
- Kevin Kenner, piano
- Frank Cooper, moderator
In partnership with the Friends of Chamber
Music of Miami, legendary violinist Kyung Wha Chung and pianist Kevin Kenner
offer the Festival an evening of violin-piano duo favorites, including works of
Faure and Franck with supplemental remarks by Dr. Frank Cooper.
Location
UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Dr,
Coral Gables,
FL
33146
(Map)
Festival Lecture I: “Chopin the Voice of the Piano” (FREE)
Friday, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:30 PM - English
Alan Walker, Lecturer
In this first of two fascinating lectures by
one of the world’s most revered music scholars, Alan Walker explores Chopin's
unique approach to the keyboard that shaped the course of history.
Location
UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Dr,
Coral Gables,
FL
33146
(Map)
Stars of the Academy, Concert I (FREE)
Friday, Jun 29, 2018 at 7:30 PM - English
Enjoy the first of two evenings of Chopin’s
piano music performed by the Academy’s talented young students.
Location
UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Dr,
Coral Gables,
FL
33146
(Map)
Festival Lecture II: “Chopin: Fact and Fiction” (FREE)
Saturday, Jun 30, 2018 at 6:00 PM - English
Alan Walker, Lecturer
In this second of the Festival’s lectures, Alan
Walker draws attention to the many fallacies and fictions with which the story
of Chopin’s life has been encumbered.
Location
UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Dr,
Coral Gables,
FL
33146
(Map)
Stars of the Academy, Concert II (FREE)
Saturday, Jun 30, 2018 at 7:30 PM - English
Amernet String Quartet
Join us in the grand finale of the Festival as
more talented pianists of the Academy perform works of Chopin as well as the
winner of the Concerto Audition, who will perform a Chopin Piano Concerto with
members of the illustrious Amernet Quartet in a special arrangement for piano
and strings.
Location
UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Dr,
Coral Gables,
FL
33146
(Map)
