The Florida Orchestra

Opening Night: Carmina Burana
Sat, Oct 15, 8 pm, Mahaffey Theater

Mixing monk-like chant, angelic arias, writhing rhythms, raucous lyrics and raw visceral power, Orff’s Carmina Burana is an intoxicating powerhouse of a piece for over 200 instrumentalists and voices on a program with Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio Overture and Haydn’s Symphony No. 100, Military.

Beethoven's Violin Concerto
Sat, Nov 12, 8 pm, Mahaffey Theater

Hailed by The Washington Post as having “talent that’s off the scale,” Stefan Jackiw performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with its glorious blend of beauty, elegance and bravura...in stark contrast to Prokofiev’s elegy to the losses of war in his Symphony No. 6.

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.

Brahms' Symphony No. 4
Sat, Apr 14, 8 pm, Mahaffey Theater

Acclaimed simply as “one of the greats” by the Manchester Evening News, internationally renowned conductor Günther Herbig is joined by Principal Trumpet Robert Smith in Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto on a program with Brahms’ mighty Symphony No. 4.

Rhythms of Cuba
Sat, May 12, 8 pm, Mahaffey Theater

In a Latin flavored program, Music Director of La Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Cuba Enrique Pérez Mesa is joined by Principal Timpanist John Bannon in James Lewis’ Cubanitis for solo timpani and orchestra on a program with Carlos Fariñas’ Penthesilea: Preludio, Guido López-Gavilán’s Ritmotiv, José Pablo Moncayo’s Huapango and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, Classical.