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Stefan Sanderling, conductor
Indra Thomas, soprano
Gigi Mitchell-Velasco, mezzo-soprano
Jeffrey Springer, tenor
Dean Elzinga, bass
The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay
Richard Zielinski, artistic & music director

Exploding with drama, moving musical passages and powerful operatic outbursts, you won’t want to miss what has been hailed as Verdi’s greatest opera.  Featuring the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, Stefan Sanderling conducts the combined forces of over 200 voices and musicians to perform one of the most ambitious and lavish sacred works in the entire orchestral repertoire.  

Sat, Mar 7, 8 pm
Progress Energy Center for the Arts - Mahaffey Theater
Sun, Mar 8, 7:30 pm
Ruth Eckerd Hall

Tickets: $19, $29, $40, $50, $65

Pre-Concert Conversation: All Masterworks programs offer a pre-concert talk about the music and the composers in the concert hall beginning one hour prior to curtain.

Sponsors: Progress Energy, SunTrust, Fowler White Boggs
Media sponsors: WUSF, WEDU, Bay News 9, St. Petersburg Times

Alastair Willis, conductor
Aza Torshkoeva, piano
2008 TFO Young Artist Competition winner

MENDELSSOHN: Märchen von der schönen Melusine
ELGAR: Sospiri
GRIEG: Concerto for Piano (1st mvt.)
GLINKA: Russlan and Ludmilla
FINZI: Romance
KHACHATURIAN: Adagio from Spartacus

Thurs, Mar 12, at 11 am
Progress Energy Center for the Arts
Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg

Tickets: $24, $27, $32, $40

At all Coffee Concerts, attendees are offered complimentary coffee and donuts. A pre-concert talk about the music and the composers is held in the concert hall beginning one hour prior to curtain.

Sponsors: Holland America Line, AAA
Media Sponsor: Senior Connection

Doc Severinsen, trumpet & conductor
Gil Gutierrez, guitar
Pedro Cartas, violin
Kevin Thomas, bass
Luis Conte, percussion

Armed with charm, class, witty remarks, a flair for fashion and the soaring sounds of his trumpet, Doc is joined by a virtuoso ensemble from Mexico for a night of fiery pop tunes, gypsy jazz and Latin and Spanish favorites.

Fri, Mar 13, 8 pm
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Ferguson Hall
Sat, Mar 14, 8 pm
Progress Energy Center for the Arts - Mahaffey Theater

Tickets: $19, $29, $40, $50, $65

Sponsor: Raymond James
Media sponsor: WDUV

Thierry Fischer, conductor
Tedi Papavrami, violin

Swiss conductor Thierry Fischer shares center stage with Albanian-born violinist Tedi Papavrami in French composer Henri Dutilleux’s Tree of Dreams.  Brimming with rich imaginative orchestral colors, the program also features Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite evoking the fanciful worlds of Beauty and the Beast, Tom Thumb, Sleeping Beauty and others.  The evening includes Cesar Franck’s hallmark Symphony in D minor.       

RAVEL: Mother Goose
DUTILLEUX: Tree of Dreams
FRANCK: Symphony in D minor 
 
Fri, Mar 20, 8 pm
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Carol Morsani Hall
Sun, Mar 22, 7:30 pm
Ruth Eckerd Hall

Tickets: $19, $29, $40, $50, $65

Pre-Concert Conversation: All Masterworks programs offer a pre-concert talk about the music and the composers in the concert hall beginning one hour prior to curtain.

Sponsor: Progress Energy
Media Sponsor: WUSF, WEDU

Richard Kaufman, conductor

Sure to be a high-energy night of everybody’s favorites by the always amazing John Williams with music from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, E.T., Jaws, Superman, Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone, Hook and more.

Fri, Mar 27, 8 pm
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Ferguson Hall
Sat, Mar 28, 8 pm
Progress Energy Center for the Arts - Mahaffey Theater
Sun, Mar 29, 7:30 pm
Ruth Eckerd Hall

Tickets: $19, $29, $40, $50, $65

Sponsors: Raymond James, McNichols Company 
Media sponsors: WDUV

Stefan Sanderling, conductor

Symphony No. 5 is considered by some critics to be one of Bruckner’s most powerful and passionate declarations of faith. With the music’s massive dimensions, epic sweep and choral-like surges, it implies wordless hosannas and other praises to Bruckner’s  “loving God,” a declarative musical task that had previously and primarily been the domain of the human voice in other composers’ large choral works.     

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 5 
 
Fri, Apr 3, 8 pm, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
                         Carol Morsani Hall

Tickets: $19, $29, $40, $50, $65

Pre-Concert Conversation: All Masterworks programs offer a pre-concert talk about the music and the composers in the concert hall beginning one hour prior to curtain.

Sponsor: Progress Energy
Media Sponsor: WUSF, WEDU

The Florida Orchestra is supported in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs; the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners;  Pinellas County Cultural Affairs Department and the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners; the City of Tampa; the City of St. Petersburg; the City of Clearwater; and the School Districts of Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties.

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The Florida Orchestra presents the 14-concert Progress Energy Masterworks Series and the 8-concert Raymond James Pops Series, both of which are performed in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater.  In addition, the orchestra performs the 6-concert Holland America Line Coffee Concert series at the Progress Energy Center - Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg.
The orchestra’s concert activities also include a selection of special concerts, a variety Pops in the Park concerts performed in parks around
the Tampa Bay area, and a Youth Concerts program reaching approximately 30,000 4th and 5th graders annually.