Music

South Florida’s superb, Grammy®-winning vocal ensemble brings its breathtaking complete performance of Handel’s choral masterwork Messiah to the concert stage for the first time since 2004. Led by conductor Patrick Dupré Quigley, this show will benefit Seraphic Fire’s education and music advancement programs.

Dedicated to the African roots music of the Gullah culture of the coastal lowlands and sea islands of Georgia and South Carolina, Ranky Tanky (“get funky” in Gullah patois) has received numerous raves since their debut album “overflowing with authenticity” (Afropop Worldwide) came out in 2017. Powerhouse vocalist Quiana Parler (a 2003 American Idol standout) fronts an accomplished jazz quartet of fellow Charleston musicians and longtime friends, performing gutsy spirituals, blues, songs and more that mark the endurance and beauty of African-American culture.

Featuring outstanding artists, chorus and orchestras interpreting the best moments from the most memorable operas on red-hot renditions of jazz classics and original fusion.

The beloved and acclaimed classical South Florida vocal ensemble performs favorite traditional carols and mystical chants in a concert that brings the spirit of the holiday season to dazzling musical life. “Gorgeous and joyous” (South Florida Classical Review).

A captivating new international musical talent, Nella is a Venezuelan native trained at the Berklee College of Music and a protégé of legendary flamenco artist/producer Javier Limon, who's performed with Latin pop stars Alejandro Sanz, Carlos Vives and Susana Baca. She joins us on her first U.S. tour, bringing her luminous, soulful sound and a mix of original and Venezuelan and Andalusian folk songs from her debut solo album.

Haydn String Quartet #2 in Eb major, Op. 33 "Joke" (1781)
Shostakovich String Quartet #3 in F major, Op. 73 (1946) 

Ensemble Ibis performs the music of Pulitzer Prize winner and 2019 Frost Distinguished Visiting Composer-in-Residence Melinda Wagner. She has been celebrated as an “...eloquent, poetic voice in contemporary music...” by American Record Guide. The Ensemble Ibis plays Wagner’s Four Settings for Soprano and Ensemble. The program includes works by Lansing McLoskey and Chinese composer Tan Dun. 
 

Haydn String Quartet #2 in Eb major, Op. 33 "Joke" (1781)
Shostakovich String Quartet #3 in F major, Op. 73 (1946) 

MTT opens NWS’s Arsht Center series with an exclusive evening featuring works by music’s defining Romantics. Hailed by Time magazine as “the outstanding American violinist of his generation,” Gil Shaham brings captivating lyricism and gypsy flair to Johannes Brahms’ only Violin Concerto with a “transfixing array of finesse and grit” (Orange County Register).