City : Miami, FL
Venue : Stocker Astroscience Center - FIU
Address : 10920 SW 11th St Miami, FL 33174
Time : 7:00 PM

 

The Stocker AstroScience Center presents a Benefit Concert for the Miami International GuitART Festival, featuring guitarists Mesut Ozgen, Celso Cano, Felipe Carvajal, James Webb, and soprano Rebecca Benitez, as well as the FIU Miami Guitar Orchestra. A wide variety of music will be performed from classical, Latin American, Spanish, Turkish, flamenco, and acoustic guitar repertoire. Seats are limited, please RSVP to webbj@fiu.edu. You can also sign up on the Facebook Event Page.

The fundraiser event will start with a reception at the 1st floor exhibition hall in the Stocker AstroScience Center ASTRO 101 at 7pm and the concert will start at 8pm. After the concert, you will have a chance to meet the artists and join tours of the observatory, control room, and visual observing with telescopes, including the wonderful 24" automated telescope if weather permits.

The Miami International GuitART Festival (MIGF) and Composition Competition will be held at the Florida International University School of Music from February 24-28, 2016. The festival will bring world-renowned artists to Miami, led by the great American guitarist and composer Benjamin Verdery, chair of the guitar department at the Yale University School of Music and Artistic Director of both the bi-annual Yale Guitar Extravaganza and 92Y's Art of the Guitar series in New York City. Featured festival artists will be representing the United States, Argentina, Costa Rica, Cuba, Italy, Spain, and Turkey. 

For the complete sponsorship packages and opportunities, please go to migf.org/support-migf