The Florida Orchestra

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21
Sat, Dec 3, 8 pm, Mahaffey Theater

Award-winning Austrian pianist Cornelia Herrmann performs Mozart’s sunny and buoyant Piano Concerto No. 21 on a program with Haydn’s La fedelta premiata overture and Bruckner’s monumental Symphony No. 3.

Celebrate Delius
Sat, Jan 7, 8 pm, Mahaffey Theater

Baritone Leon Williams and The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay join the orchestra to celebrate English composer Frederick Delius with his Sea Drift and Appalachia: Variations on an Old Slave Song. The concert opens with Beethoven’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and closes with Copland’s Lincoln Portrait.

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Suite
Sat, Jan 28, 8 pm, Mahaffey Theater

Lauded by The Toronto Star as “a great pianist,” Markus Groh returns to perform Bartok’s vivacious and highly rhythmic musical roller coaster ride...Piano Concerto No. 2...in a night with Bartok’s Divertimento and the sweeping balletic themes of Tchaikovsky’s famed Swan Lake Suite.

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
Sat, Feb 18, 8 pm, Mahaffey Theater

Hailed as “a gigantic talent” by The Baltimore Sun, Valentina Lisitsa reveals the rapturous beauty and rhapsodic themes of one of the most popular of all romantic concertos, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2...in a night with Nielsen’s Helios Overture and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1.

Voices of Spring
Sat, Mar 17, 8 pm, Mahaffey Theater

Embrace the promise of springtime, the spirit of renewal and the carefree days of warmer weather with Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, “Spring.”