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WHAT: Latin Grammy Award Winner Nestor Torres will host “Havana Forever: A Cuban Music Love Affair,” as he conducts the FIU Danzon/Charanga Ensemble performing a selection of timeless music from Cuba, as well as Havana inspired original compositions. Throughout the program, Torres will share personal stories about his discovery of music. The concert will [...]
WHAT: The Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University will present “Classically Cuban: Cuban Music in the U.S.,” a concert of music compiled by author and independent scholar Emilio Cueto. The program includes pieces written from 1840 through the 1990s by Cuban composers living in both Cuba and the U.S. [...]
Move expands university’s artistic footprint South Beach soon will be home to studio and gallery space for music, art and architecture students, as FIU’s College of Architecture + The Arts expands its artistic footprint this fall. “This expansion to Lincoln Road puts our students at the center of one of the [...]
WHAT: Renowned pianist Valentina Lisitsa will perform in a benefit concert to raise funds for Operation Helping Hands’ efforts to aid victims of Japan’s earthquake crisis. All proceeds from the event will go directly to help the people of Japan through non-profit organizations working in the affected areas. Funds will [...]
How do you build tradition? At Florida International University, that’s a question being asked–and answered—every day. In the playing field, the classroom and the student center. But nowhere is that question so poignant than in the minds of FIU’s marching band members. It’s a band whose history, and future, resembles [...]
MIAMI – Latin Grammy winner Nestor Torres has joined the faculty of Florida International University this fall as a visiting guest artist and founding director of the FIU School of Music’s first charanga ensemble. Torres will also hold private jazz flute lessons for students in the School of Music. “We [...]
In the midst of the 12th annual New Music Miami International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) Festival Series, FIU music continues to impress the FIU and Miami communities with contemporary music and video art. With only four concerts left in the 2009-2010 season, the festival holds concerts at FIU and [...]
The FIU School of Music presents an Amernet String Quartet concert Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 7:30 p.m., in the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Concert Hall, at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. This concert is the culminating event of a four-day string seminar at FIU. The Amernet String Quartet, [...]
FIU Music proudly presents the CMENC Faculty Spotlight Concert Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, at 8 p.m. in the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Concert Hall. The concert will benefit the FIU Chapter of Collegiate Music Educators National Conference (CMENC) grant “Music in Need,” which was created and administrated by [...]
Second Life will begin offering the course in classical music Spring 2010. Luis Gomez, adjunct music professor in FIU’s School of Music, has been selected to teach a music appreciation online course in the virtual world called Second Life. The course, MUH 1011, will launch Spring 2010. Second Life is a virtual [...]
