Music

The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2025 Summer Concert Series concludes with TYREEK MCDOLE. The second time a male vocalist has ever taken the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition first prize! Haitian-American Tyreek McDole is joined with piano, bass, and drums. A splendid evening of captivating singing! “A vocal maturity and masculine sound of Johnny Hartman and Billy Eckstine!” – DownBeat

The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2025 Summer Concert Series continues with KEN PEPLOWSKI. Clarinetist extraordinaire Ken Peplowski brings a sparkling tribute to the original Benny Goodman Trio. Rossano Sportiello (piano) and Kevin Dorn (drums) join for a memorable evening! “Brilliantly entertaining!” – DownBeat

The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2025 Summer Concert Series continues LELAND KO. Leland Ko took home joint, first prize at the prestigious 2024 Naumburg International Cello Competition! With pianist Adria Ye, and a program of Schumann, Mendelssohn, and others, a must-hear concert awaits! “Beauty of sound and subtlety that we don’t often encounter in a cellist of his age!” – Itzhak Perlman

The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2025 Summer Concert Series continues with ANTHONY HERVEY. A Grammy® "Emerging Artist to Know,“ trumpeter Anthony Hervey brings a rich, New-York-style evening of jazz with musical cohorts! “A beautiful trumpet player of the first magnitude!” – Wynton Marsalis

The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2025 Summer Concert Series continues with BRIDGET KIBBEY. Bridget’s great musical instincts transcend the harp. Whether in duo with Kathleen Battle or Dawn Upshaw, or in solo recital, Bridget’s virtuosic and soulful power has audiences cheering! “Remarkable gossamer colorings and improvisatory fervor!” – The New York Times

The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2025 Summer Concert Series opens 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 12 with HOT FIDDLE! Virtuoso violinist Ashley Liberty and brilliant pianist Daniel Strange bring an epic genre-busting ride – from classical and jazz, to fiddle and rock!

If you're going to be a poet, you better be a warrior. Legendary runner Robert 'Raven' Kraft has seen every single Miami Beach sunset, going back five decades. All those sunsets, running 8 (now 5) miles along the beach, never missing a single day. Not during Covid shutdowns, not during hurricanes. And now you know he is also a musician, reveling in goth-country-inflected rock. He credits Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings as his major influences. In 2023, he began working with extraordinary group of musicians (The Dark Shadows) to release new music and play area venues. The evening starts with a set by another Miami Beach native, young singer-songwriter Julia Bhatt. North Beach Social, the FREE monthly night of Third Thursdays music at the Bandshell.

Join Miami Collegium Musicum, Miami’s premier community chamber chorus, for a special evening of choral music to celebrate Mother’s Day. With piano and string quartet accompaniment, Collegium pays tribute to mothers and the nurturing spirit of motherhood through song. The program features works by Johannes Brahms, Elaine Hagenberg, Léo Delibes, Maurice Duruflé, and others.

Don’t miss the grand finale of this season’s CHOPIN for ALL free concerts! Enjoy an afternoon with William Ge, 5th Prize Winner of the 11th National Chopin Piano Competition, and his encore performances in South Florida. Reserve your seats now: https://bit.ly/cfaWilliamGeMay18 Not able to join us in person? For Sunday's Livestream: https://bit.ly/LiveWilliamGeMay18 A four-year Chopin Foundation Scholarship recipient, William is also a winner of the MTNA National Senior Piano Competition and the Jacob Flier International Piano Competitions and has participated in the Frost Chopin Academy, Art of the Piano Festival, Cliburn Junior Festival, and Morningside Music Bridge. This season’s CHOPIN for ALL series celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the National Chopin Piano Competition, bringing audiences the extraordinary artistry of its laureates. Ticket Information Admission is free, and seating is general admission, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is recommended to secure your seat. Chopin Foundation members can request reserved seating by contacting admin@chopin.org or calling 305-868-0624. Granada Church (Coral Gables) Nestled in the picturesque city of Coral Gables, Granada Church is known for its historic charm and serene ambiance. Its intimate setting and outstanding acoustics make it a perfect venue for enjoying the timeless music of Chopin. Parking: Complimentary parking, including accessible spaces, is available in the church’s lot, with additional street parking nearby. All artists, dates, and programs are subject to change without notice.

Join us for the keynote presentation, “Beyond the Archive: The Cabrera-Tarafa Collection of Afro-Cuban Music, circa 1956” by Dr. J. Lorand Matory with comments from Dr. David Font-Navarrete. In the mid-1950s, Lydia Cabrera and Josefina Tarafa recorded hours of Afro-Cuban ritual music in Matanzas and Havana, Cuba. The result was “Música de los cultos africanos en Cuba” (Music of the African Cults in Cuba), a boxed set of phonograph LPs printed in Cuba and distributed privately in a single limited edition circa 1956. The collection consists of 14 LP discs containing over 11 hours of audio recordings, along with liner notes and photos. Given its scope and quality, “Música de los cultos” is arguably the single most robust multimedia archive of Afro-Cuban sacred music traditions in the mid-20th century. It remains unclear in which year the recordings were made, when the discs were pressed, and how many copies of the boxed set were produced, and only a few institutions hold complete physical editions of the original LP boxed set in their repositories. The audio recordings—the only ones Cabrera produced in her long career—are saturated by the musical and linguistic virtuosity of priest-artists for which Cabrera became an archival medium, and the sounds themselves are arguably the pinnacle of her life-long efforts to produce “material for specialists which has not passed through the dangerous filter of interpretation” (2023). The compilation of a new digital edition of “Música de los cultos” is available for the first time as a complete and annotated archival collection at the University Libraries’ Cuban Heritage Collection, which is the official repository of the Lydia Cabrera Papers. The program will conclude with a question and answer session with the audience. This keynote presentation is part of a symposium that explores vital 21st-century insights on a unique document of Afro-Cuban sacred music traditions and offers novel perspectives on the Cabrera Papers’ multifaceted scope and significance. On May 14, a private collaborative research workshop will bring together scholars, priests, and artists for a critical dialogue. This event is co-sponsored by the University of Miami’s Michele Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.