Music

The Gingold Chamber Music Festival of Miami offers the fully invested instrumentalist, pre-formed ensembles and composers a unique opportunity to learn from some of the world’s leading pedagogues and touring artists. The program provides private lessons, studio classes, master classes, and an array of student/faculty conversations which contextualize aspects of performance and the business of music. Highlights include concert offerings by Gingold Virtuosi, a unique ensemble comprised of faculty artists preparing and performing alongside selected festival young artist participants as well as a new festival initiative, the Composers Institute, which centers on composition for chamber music ensembles.

Wake up Miami! is PAXy's community project that brings FREE live music and art into people’s everyday lives by presenting a series of concerts/performances at Miami Metrorail/Metromover stations during the morning commute.

Join us for the closing concert of the fifth Frost Chopin Academy and Festival as we wrap up a terrific week of events in proper 19th-century salon fashion. Enjoy a mélange of piano, piano four hands, and vocal works performed by the festivals inspiring teaching artists, hosted by the festival’s artistic director, pianist Kevin Kenner. Tickets are required. General Admission $10, Student Admission $5, Under 18 FREE. To reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/4647iZP

An award-winning educator with over 40 years of leadership in higher education, Shelly Berg is Dean and Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. Named in 2000 by the Los Angeles Times one of three “Educators for the Millennium,” he has written textbooks on Jazz improvision and has appeared as a performer and lecturer throughout the United States, Canada, China, Mexico, Europe, Israel, Japan, Romania, and Venezuela. Shelly Berg is also a Steinway piano artist and multi-Grammy nominated arranger and producer. He brings to the Frost Chopin Academy and Festival an evening of original, arranged, and improvised music. Tickets are required. General Admission $10, Student Admission $5, Under 18 FREE. To reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/443XixJ

An outstanding international musician of our time, Vietnamese - Canadian pianist Dang Thai Son was propelled to the forefront of the musical world in October 1980, when he was awarded the First Prize and Gold Medal at the 10th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. It was also the first time that a top international competition was won by an Asian pianist. He returns to the Frost Chopin Academy and Festival with a program of delightful character pieces by Gabriel Fauré and Frédéric Chopin. Gabriel Fauré - Nocturne in E-flat minor, Op. 33 No. 1 Barcarolle in A minor, Op. 26 No. 1 Fryderyk Chopin – Three Ecossaises, Op. 72 No. 3 Three Waltzes: F minor Op. 70 No.2, A minor Op. Posth., A-flat major Op. 34 No. 1 Four Mazurkas, Op. 24 Rondo a la Mazurka in F major, Op. 5 Tickets are required. General Admission $10, Student Admission $5, Under 18 FREE. To reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/445X0GZ

Every year, the Frost Chopin Academy offers students the opportunity to study with the world’s leading pedagogues. As they work on the music of Chopin and learn from masterclasses, lectures, and guest artist concerts, they will also get the chance to showcase their talent in the program “Rising Stars of the Academy” as we place a spotlight on this year’s selected participants. Tickets are required. General Admission $10, Student Admission $5, Under 18 FREE. To reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/3JgD9wq

Kevin Kenner, has been hailed by The Financial Times as a "player of grace, subtle variety, and strength with a mature grasp of dramatic structure and proportion.” In this program, he takes the audience on a sonic and scenic journey through the nine awe-inspiring movements of Liszt’s Years of Pilgrimage: Switzerland. Franz Liszt – Années de pèlerinage: Suisse, S. 160 General Admission $10, Student Admission $5, Under 18 FREE. To reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/3XgMR7Z

Dmitry Ablogin has been championed by the press as “one of the most brilliant and creative keyboard artists of his generation.” His marked interest in historical pianos led him to Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, where he studied fortepiano and historically informed performance with Jesper Bøje Christensen. A prize winner of numerous competitions, Ablogin brings to the Frost Chopin Academy and Festival a fresh perspective on a beautiful program centered around the Viennese tradition of Classical masters. Opening the concert with two waltzes by Chopin and Schumann’s Forest Scenes, is one of the most promising Polish pianists of the young generation, Kamil Pacholec. A finalist in the most recent Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Pacholec now studies with Kevin Kenner at the Frost School of Music. The Gramophone critic, Jed Distler has claimed that “many established pianists would be happy to claim Pacholec’s effortless fingerwork and idiomatic flair for themselves.” Do not miss this amazing opening concert of the 5th Frost Chopin Festival! Joseph Haydn – Piano Sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI: 20 Ludwig van Beethoven – Rondo in C major, Op. 59 No. 1 Franz Schubert – Impromptus Op. 90, Nos. 2 and 3 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sonata in C major, K. 545

For the first time in Miami and directly from Las Vegas: Donna Summer Experience featuring Rainere Martin as Donna Summer. The show will take you on a mystical journey to the 70s. The combination of a live orchestra with high quality lights and effects will transport the audience to remember and dance the greatest hits of the Queen of Disco music.

Después de un extenso tour que abarcó Estados Unidos , Europa y Dubai, la cantante Albita y el Maestro Chucho Valdes tendrán una presentación única en la ciudad de Miami donde mostrarán un recorrido por ambos repertorios y en exclusiva traerán toda la música del disco que han grabado juntos y cuyo título da nombre también a este especial encuentro, "Masters of our roots" La genialidad del maestro Chucho Valdés y la auténtica voz de Albita sugieren una noche imperdible.