Music

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.

Love can indeed lead to some ridiculous situations, and such is the delightful chaos that unfolds in The Elixir of Love when an ardent youth embarks on drastic measures to capture the heart of his beloved. Nemorino, a naive village lad, finds himself deeply smitten with Adina, a young woman of both independent mind and means. Determined to win her affections, Nemorino resorts to any means necessary. However, weary of his persistent and puppy-like adoration, Adina impulsively agrees to marry Belcore, the swaggering sergeant of the regiment. In desperation, Nemorino seeks the aid of the traveling charlatan Dulcamara, investing both his hope and meager finances in a supposed “love potion.” As Nemorino imbibes the elixir, his confidence surges, captivating nearly everyone in town with his newfound demeanor, including Adina herself. From the uproarious Wedding Duet between Adina and Dulcamara to Nemorino’s poignant “Una furtiva lagrima,” Donizetti’s music resonates deeply, seamlessly blending soulful melodies with comedic charm. Felice Romani’s witty libretto and scenario, cherished for nearly two centuries, set the stage for laughter and love, inviting audiences into a world where the heart’s whimsical follies reign supreme. Sung in Italian with English and Spanish projected translations