FIU Music celebrates the sounds of the season

The FIU School of Music kicked off the holiday season with a special performance of Handel’s Messiah, among other holiday works Dec. 10  in the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Concert Hall.

The FIU Symphony Orchestra and Chorus was directed by Grzegorz Nowak, the principal associate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a new faculty member in the School of Music.

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

Enjoy highlights from the memorable evening in the video below.

Proceeds from the concert benefitted the Carlos Piantini Scholarship Fund. Piantini was founding conductor of the FIU Symphony Orchestra.