Anita Castiglione + Paul Posnak: A Lifetime Making Music
PAUL POSNAK’S international career as a concert pianist and recording artist began as a child prodigy with a full scholarship to the Juilliard Preparatory School of Music at the age of eight. He performs frequently as duo-pianist with his wife, ANITA CASTIGLIONE whose career as a soloist, collaborative pianist, and music educator began with piano studies in Massachusetts at the age of six. She has performed extensively throughout the United States.
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Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson: Born to Make Music
In 2005, JERI LYNNE JOHNSON made history as the first Black woman to win an international conducting prize when she was awarded the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship. Since then she has continued to break barriers in Europe and the US as the first woman and/or African-American woman on the podium for many orchestras and opera companies in the US and Europe. Johnson is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra.
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Michelle Cann: Music In Her Blood
Recognized as a leading interpreter of the piano music of Florence Price, MICHELLE CANN performed the New York City premiere of Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement with The Dream Unfinished Orchestra in July 2016 and the Philadelphia premiere with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin in February 2021.
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Orlando Jacinto Garcia Creates “prohibido”
On Sunday, January 26, 2025 (2 pm) at the New World Center in Miami Beach, the Fellows of the New World Symphony will perform the world premiere of Cuban-American composer Orlando Jacinto García’s “prohibido” for string orchestra, conducted by Aram Demirjian, choreographed by Ariel Rose, with dancers Lucy Nevin and Alexander Kedan.
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Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya
LIDIYA YANKOVSKAYA (b.1986) is a Russian-born conductor and a fiercely committed advocate for Slavic masterpieces and contemporary works on the leading edge of classical music. She has conducted more than 40 world premieres, including 17 operas, and her strength as a visionary collaborator has guided new perspectives on staged and symphonic repertoire.
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