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The theme of music and memory takes center stage in the final Festival Friday. Samuel Barber’s 1953 Summer Music, an evocative portrayal of a balmy outdoor afternoon, was composed with the wind players’ favorite effects in mind. Richard Strauss’s powerful Metamorphosen, featuring 23 unique string parts, delves into a period...
Festival fellows perform movements from their favorite chamber works. This concert includes music by Schubert, Maslanka, Debussy, and more.
The final Artist Showcase of the 2025 Festival opens with Haydn’s lighthearted Divertimento No. 1, written to entertain the court of Esterhazy. Cellist Emmanuel Feldman and New York Philharmonic violist Rebecca Young make their Festival debuts in Joaquín Turina’s 1931 Piano Quartet, a unique mélange of classical form and Spanish...
Music can transport us through time, yet it is forever tied to its moment of creation. The 61st Sarasota Music Festival begins with an epic 300-year musical adventure. Hear the 18th-century tune people whistled in the streets that found its way into Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Trio. Nicolas Namoradze makes his...
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s work for nine players premiered in 1894 and was not heard again until recently. It showcases the composer’s admiration for Dvořák while revealing his distinctive, late-Romantic voice. Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings, composed as his fame was on the rise, solidified his reputation as a master composer. Pianist and...
Join us for a cherished Sarasota Music Festival tradition—a captivating lecture by former SMF Artistic Director Robert Levin!
Composed in 1938, Henri Tomasi’s delightful Concert Champêtre ushers us into the elegant, stately world of 17th- and 18th-century courtly dance music. Icelandic cellist and SMF alum Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir performs the fascinating Bow to String, composed especially for her by her countryman Daniel Bjarnason. Schubert wrote the stormy Rondo for...
Twentieth-century Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos grew up amidst the sounds of the street musicians of Rio de Janeiro. In her Festival debut, the versatile flutist Alex Sopp brings her talents to Villa-Lobos´ popular Assiobio a Játo (The Jet Whistle). Michi Wiancko reflects on her musical experiences with her mother in...
Festival fellows perform movements from their favorite chamber works. This concert includes music by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Dvořák, and more.
Festival faculty and fellows team up for Bach’s joyous Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, one of the great monuments of 18th-century music. Shostakovich dedicated his Piano Trio No. 2 to his dear departed friend Ivan Sollertinsky, harnessing Jewish folk idioms to honor his memory. Mike Block revisits his fascinating Global Music...