Saturday, September 25th, 2010

German Masterpieces

Join the NFSO for an evening of some of the most beautiful and enduring music ever written for orchestra. Tobias Steymans’ interpretive skills are genius and his performance of the Brahms concerto will likely prove to be one of the season’s highlights!

Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto in D major op. 77
     - Tobias Steymans, Violin
     - Concertmaster of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Germany
     - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 in A minor "Scottish" op. 56

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Madame Butterfly

Soar with one of the most emotionally involving operas ever written as the NFSO brings the romance and pathos of this heart-wrenching tale to life in full concert version sung in Italian with English supertitles. The radiant Maria Ferrante guest stars as the trusting geisha, whose love for an American naval officer ends tragically when Eastern and Western cultures collide.

Giacomo Puccini - Madame Butterfly in concert version
     - Starring Maria Ferrante as Butterfly

Friday, December 10, 2010

A Baroque Christmas

The stellar Northwest Florida Symphony Chorus, under the direction of Lois Van Dam, joins the orchestra to perform a marvelous array of some of the finest seasonal music of the 18th century to ring in the holidays in grande style. The annual carol sing-a-long will also be sure to get you into the holiday spirit!

Friday, February 25, 2011

Stars of Tomorrow

Featuring winners of the prestigious annual NFSO Concerto Competition and the playful classic by Russian composer Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf, to delight and inspire children and adults of all ages.

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor op. 37
     - Julian Toha, piano (2009 NFSO Competition College level winner)
Serge Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf op. 67
     - John Leatherwood, NFSO founding conductor emeritus, narrator

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Prayer, Beauty and Strength

Witness the power of music to move its listeners in countless ways. Beethoven's towering Piano Concerto No. 3 features the dynamic Gold medal pianist Anna Bulkina paired with the Mozart monet Misericordias Domini and the immensely popular and sublime Fauré Requiem combine for an extraordinary concert of contrasts and emotion.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Misericordias Domini, K.222
Gabriel Fauré - Requiem - Op. 48
     - Northwest Florida Symphony Chorus
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37
     - Anna Bulkina, Piano
     - Gold medal winner of the 2009 Wideman Piano Competition