Save the date: School of Music holiday concert Dec. 10

Grzegorz Nowak will lead the FIU Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a Dec. 10 holiday concert featuring Handel’s Messiah.

The FIU School of Music will host its holiday concert Friday, Dec. 10, at 7:30 p.m., in the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Concert Hall at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. The FIU Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, directed by Grzegorz Nowak, will perform Handel’s Messiah and other holiday works. Nowak is the principal associate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a new faculty member in the School of Music.

Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center. Photo courtesy Ken Johnson.

As a special treat, the Amernet String Quartet — FIU’s quartet-in-residence — will be sitting with the orchestra, playing alongside the students.

The concert is a benefit with proceeds going toward the creation of the Carlos Piantini Scholarship Fund. Piantini was founding conductor of the FIU Symphony Orchestra.

Ticket information: $10 for students, $15 for FIU faculty/staff, and $25 general admission. To purchase tickets, click here.