All-Star Lineup for 30th Anniversary of Festival Miami

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Celebrating its 30th Anniversary Season this October, the University of Miami Frost School of Music's acclaimed Festival Miami - Florida's premier live music festival - will present unique programming by a diverse blend of award-winning artists in a variety of genres who showcase their artistic prowess alongside astounding students and faculty artists from the Frost School of Music throughout October 2013. More than 25 concerts and events are organized into four themes: Great Performances, Jazz and Beyond, Music of the Americas, and Creative American Music. The 30th Anniversary Season opens in grand style with seven-time Grammy Award-winning international superstar GLORIA ESTEFAN performing an intimate jazz-influenced program on October 1, 2013. The multi-media concert promises to be a memorable evening of music featuring the singer-songwriter performing standards featured on her upcoming album, The Standards, arranged, orchestrated and co-produced by Grammy-nominated jazz arranger and Dean of the Frost School of Music SHELLY BERG.

Additional Festival Miami highlights include renowned classical virtuosi JOSHUA BELL and EDGAR MEYER who will perform the Florida premiere of MEYER's new Double Concerto for Violin and Double Bass with the FROST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA on October 4. The program will also feature the world premiere of a new concert march by Emmy Award-winning film and television composer JOEL MCNEELY under the auspices of the Abraham Frost Commission, established by Dr. Phillip Frost in honor of his late father. Grammy Award-winning opera sensation HILA PLITMANN will be the guest soloist with the FROST WIND ENSEMBLE under the direction of GARY GREEN, on October 6. Festival Miami's annual free Songwriters Showcase - one of the most anticipated popular events at Festival Miami each year – will feature songs composed and performed by Frost School of Music students enrolled in the Bruce Hornsby Creative American Music program, on October 9. The FROST STUDIO JAZZ BAND performs a high-energy tribute to multi-Grammy winning singer-songwriter BRUCE HORNSBY - a Frost School of Music alumnus - featuring new arrangements of music from throughout his illustrious career, on October 11. South Florida concert-goers will be treated to an unforgettable acoustic evening with multi-Platinum singer-songwriter JOAN OSBORNE as she performs an unforgettable acoustic duo concert on October 10, with pianist Kevin Cotton, featuring her Grammy-nominated breakthrough hit single "One of Us, " which sold over 3 million copies on first release. International salsa singer-songwriter-guitarist LUIS ENRIQUE - who is renowned for his popular hit single "Yo No Sé Mañana" - will perform his "romantic salsa style" on October 12. The following night, October 13, Festival Miami presents Fiddles on Fire, featuring the return of crossover violin master MARK O'CONNOR, a Festival Miami favorite who brilliantly melds folk, country and classical traditions into distinctive forms. He will be joined by GLENN BASHAM for an extraordinary display of violin virtuosity of epic dimension with fingers flying, toes tapping, and a blaze of excitement as they create an improvisatory mash-up of roaring bluegrass, jazz and country fiddle. Student fiddlers and national champion finalists from the Frost School of Music will also showcase their prodigious talents. The MANHATTAN PIANO TRIO, an electrifying chamber group that has quickly become one of the most exciting and dynamic young ensembles in the U.S., will perform a concert on October 16, featuring compositions by Frost School of Music faculty CHARLES MASON, LANSING MCLOSKEY, and DOROTHY HINDMAN. Grammy-winning conductor and composer JOSÉ SEREBRIER returns to the Festival Miami stage on October 22 and 23 to conduct two programs with the COSTA RICA NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Thirty years ago, Serebrier was the first artistic director of a new "International Music Festival of the Americas, " now known as Festival Miami. DownBeat magazine "Rising Star" jazz vocalist KARRIN ALLYSON will perform with the DownBeat Student Award-winning Frost Jazz Vocal 1 Ensemble (JV1) on October 24; Latin jazz icon ARTURO SANDOVAL will bring his unabashed virtuosic trumpet talents and beautiful ballad playing to Miami on October 26; the Frost School of Music's outstanding faculty, students, and ensembles, including the FROST CHORALE, the FROST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, and tenor soloist TONY BOUTTÉ, will be featured in a spectacular program celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten, one of the 20th century's greatest composers, on October 29. Jazz bassist extraordinaire CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE's trio performs on October 30. A three-time Grammy Award winner, McBride has worked with the best of the very best in jazz, R&B, and pop music. Festival Miami concludes its 2013 season in collaboration with Jazz Roots—A Larry Rosen Jazz Series with Jazz Roots: Pink Panther at 50. This spectacular concert staged on November 1 at the Adrienne Arsht Center celebrates the 50th anniversary of the iconic film, The Pink Panther, and its composer—the musical genius Henry Mancini, who is renowned for his memorable film and television scores. This tribute program features an all-star roster of special guest artists, backed by the University of Miami Frost School of Music's extraordinary HENRY MANCINI INSTITUTE ORCHESTRA. Tickets are available through the Arsht Center Box Office at 305-949-6722 or online at www.arshtcenter.org

For the Festival Miami's 30th Anniversary Season, special artwork has been created by young, up-and-coming Miami artist ALEXANDER MIJARES - who has wowed the local and national art world with his stunning paintings and sculpture – which will be featured on all of the Festival's publications and promotional materials.

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