SARASOTA’S LA MUSICA CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

ANNOUNCES 38TH SEASON

Riverview Performing Arts Center

Sunday, February 4 at 5:00pm

Monday, March 11 at 7:00pm

Sarasota Opera House

Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30pm

Saturday, April 13 at 5:00pm

Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30pm

SARASOTA, FL., October 10, 2023 – In her second year as Artistic Director of the acclaimed La Musica Chamber Music Festival, Wu Han has announced an exciting new season of winter concerts and a much anticipated festival in the spring. The following is an overview of season highlights, a chronological concert schedule and ticket information.

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

• A chance to hear Schubert's two monumental piano trios, featuring Artistic Director Wu Han at the piano, cellist David Finckel and violinist Phillip Setzer, both past and present members of the 9-time Grammy-Award winning Emerson String Quartet (Feb. 4, Riverview Performing Arts Center)

• An extraordinary line up of today’s world-renowned performers bring the transformative power of music to Sarasota audiences direct from New York’s Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Guest artists include pianist Juho Pohjonen, violist Paul Neubauer, cellist Nicholas Canellakis, bassist Nina Bernat, flutist Sooyun Kim, oboist James Austin Smith, and hornist Radovan Vlatković. (March 11, Riverview Performing Arts Center)

• A dazzling spring festival featuring a series of not to be missed concerts at the Sarasota Opera House. The magnificent roster of artists come together to present a beautiful selection of works by close to a dozen great composers including Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Arensky, and Foss, Ellis, Kodály, Smetana, Schumann and Mozart. (April 10, 13, 16, Sarasota Opera House)

For comprehensive program information in chronological order, see the buttons below.

TICKETS & INFORMATION

Performances will take place at La Musica’s two venues:

Riverview Performing Arts Center

1 Ram Way (Proctor & Ashton)

Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota Opera House

61 N. Pineapple Street

Sarasota, Florida

Subscription and single tickets may be purchased online or by calling the

box office: 941.347.9656 (9:00am-5:00pm, M-F)

lamusicafestival.org/tickets 

SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Pianist, educator, and cultural entrepreneur Wu Han is the recipient of Music America’s Musician of the Year Award and enjoys a multi-faceted musical life that encompasses performing, recording and artistic direction at the highest levels. Currently artistic co-director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Music@Menlo, she also serves as artistic director for Wolf Trap’s Chamber Music in the Barn series and for Palm Beach’s Society of the Four Arts.

La Musica has established itself as an artistic and critical success and an outstanding American cultural institution. From the beginning, the Festival was notable for bringing audiences into the creative process through open rehearsals, lectures, and other opportunities to meet the musicians. La Musica today fulfills its mission to bring together the finest musicians from around the world to present exciting programs of familiar and seldom-heard chamber music, communicating a joy in performance to enthusiastic audiences.

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Photo credit:

L to R, row 1: Wu Han; Philip Setzer; David Finckel; Sooyun Kim; James Austin Smith; Radovan Vlatković, Paul Neubauer

L to R row, 2: Nicholas Canellakis; Nina Bernat; Juho Pohjonen; Julian Rhee; James Thompson; Danbi Um; Michael Stephen Brown