Music

The Afro Roots World Music festival focuses on celebrating the evolution of African culture in our community. Noted by many to be Miami’s longest-running World Music festival, the event has featured artists from various African countries such as Senegal, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali, and the Republic of Congo, as well as artists from the Caribbean and the Americas. The festival also features a variety of satellite events such as the "Let the Children Have Music and Dance" youth camp, the Kick-Off celebration, and a variety of panels and workshops.This global connection through music has helped the festival evolve into one of Miami’s most culturally-diverse events.

The Rhythm Foundation and the City of Doral present the annual Ritmo Doral, a multinational concert in Downtown Doral Park. This free, family-friendly festival, Ritmo Doral features music and culture from Doral’s sister cities promoting cultural, diplomatic, business and tourism ties. The event will feature food and drink vendors, samplings and activities for kids, and arts offerings.

A collaborative collage featuring a variety of choral ensembles in classical, jazz, operatic, and contemporary styles. Enjoy an evening of heavenly, and a few earthy, harmonies.

Come and party as if it’s 1959 as the Frost Studio Jazz Band presents new arrangements of music from some of the greatest recordings released that year. Take a journey through history-changing albums including Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue, Dave Brubeck’s Time Out, and John Coltrane’s Giant Steps.

3MA is the meeting of three string-instrument virtuosi, emblematic of their countries in Africa, but also of generous artists who share a musical passion, a reciprocal dialogue and a beautiful friendship. In 2006 when the Malian kora magician Ballaké Sissoko, the Moroccan maestro of the oud Driss El Maloumi and the Malagasy prince of valiha Rajery met, they could have stopped like so many others after a bunch of concerts and one final recording. But the miraculous tremor that rose from their instruments when they began playing together still resonates today. Driven by the pleasure of an exceptional musical relationship but also a human one, they have met regularly since, and always joyfully, their reunions always enriching their solo careers.

Grammy-winning composer and trumpeter Brian Lynch joins the stage with three-time Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter, arranger, and bandleader John Daversa for an evening of new works for a large ensemble

Issac Delgado is one of the founders of the band NG La Banda and is a popular salsa and timba performer.

In their first concert of the season, the Frost Saxophone Ensemble welcomes to the stage two virtuosos and Frost faculty artists, pianist Santiago Rodriguez and violinist Charles Castleman. Rodriguez performs George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, while Castleman presents Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major in a unique setting.

Our annual tribute to Italian American Heritage Month, HitWeek presents a selection of current Italian music to US audiences.

Enjoy the world premiere of the wind ensemble version of Disquiet by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, “a potentially significant voice on the American music landscape” (Philadelphia Enquirer). The piece was transcribed by Frost’s Doctoral in Musical Arts conducting student Jeffrey Summers. The concert also features Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for Wind Instruments.